"Absence of Mind" Marilynne Robinson

Hey!!! I just read in the New York Review of Books that Marilynne Robinson (only my all-time favourite writer) has a new book coming out!! - "in which she applies her astute intellect to science, religion and consciousness."

I loved her warmth and humanity in Gilead and Home (and in Housekeeping,too). I love the thoughtfulness and calm she brings to ideas. I hope this one (non-fiction) is everything I want it to be.

It's wonderful, isn't it, to have a writer who doesn't let you down?

Gilead has more passages that I remember - but I loved both Gilead and Home, and Housekeeping as well. She's a glorious writer

Diana - there you are. I put the 'ell back in religion - just for you

it's a wonderful book.

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It is, isn't it?

"I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle."

*sigh*

And then in Home she says "God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of the holy, so that we can feel and know the presence of the Lord who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love..."

I think that's just glorious stuff.

I don't know your Kansas conflict, but I'm guessing she's researched it well? No mistakes? I love her work - I hope this next one is Wonderful. I'll be shattered if it isn't....