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“Hope is optimism with a broken heart”
I just finished reading Faith, Hope and Carnage, a book of conversations between Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan. I cried many times and absolutely loved it. It deals a lot with grief and religion but also art and the creative process. A really beautiful read.
Sep 15, 2024
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Really powerful and interesting book.
Incredibly strange prose but its really great.
Dec 3, 2024
A tense, slow burning, gripping read.
“It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.”
King Lear meets the climate crisis. Just as stunningly written as Our Wives Under the Sea. I cried when I finished it this morning, mostly at it being over.
Aug 13, 2024
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I’ve read this book before but it is on a course syllabus for me this semester and I’ve already reread it twice- this book is devastating, raw, theologically rich, and has fundamentally changed the way I think about grief. Nicholas Wolterstorff captures something so intimate that reading this feels like an intrusion but in a way that always makes me feel simultaneously more human and more connected to the Divine.
Aug 29, 2024
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Well if I’m gonna get left on delivered I may as well post it here instead where it’ll be appreciated.
(If you guys couldn’t tell I’m experiencing bruh moments and it’s pathetic).
May 13, 2025