June, Stillness
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Synopsis
An old preacher writes a long letter to his young son, a meditation on grace, mortality and the quiet astonishment of ordinary life. Few books reward slow reading so completely.
Lines we underlined
“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”
“I love the prairie. So often I have seen the dawn come and the light flood over the land.”
From the circle
“I read this in a single weekend and then again, slowly, over a month. The second time was the real reading.”
Aisha
“A book that made me call my father.”
Dev