Tag: Book Recommendations
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books to celebrate Pride Month
Happy Pride Month! Of course, we read LGBTQ+ authors and stories all year long, but we celebrate extra in June. These are some of the books I’ve enjoyed by LGBTQ+ authors and/or with LGBTQ+ representation. For reviews, check out my profile on Goodreads or StoryGraph. Affiliate disclaimer: This post includes affiliate links (via Amazon Affiliates). This means that…
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unfiltered: dropping the inner commentary
“Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. …Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you…
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unsayable: a lament for our neighbors
“…we have to learn how to say what is unsayable. We tell a story about violence to make sense of it, and the story returns to the public realm where grieving is possible. …naming the violence and grieving loss in community is how the hole turns into a wound that can heal.”—See No Stranger by…
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2024 in books!
2024 was another year of beautiful, brilliant books! As always, many that I read were library books and/or audiobooks and/or Kindle books, but I rounded up some that I own as physical copies for the book stack pictures in this post. Below are my favorite nonfiction, fiction, and poetry books for the year with brief…
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contemplative book recommendations
Over and over, people I meet with in spiritual direction have said how much they love the readings I share in our sessions. The words of these gifted writers and prophets help us begin with a centering moment as we transition to a more contemplative space. They give me words of blessing to speak over…
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books for women’s history month
Happy Women’s History Month!🎉 These are some amazing books by/for/about women. We #ReadWomen all year long, but we celebrate extra in March🙌🏻 1. Pushout by Monique W. Morris 2. All About Love by bell hooks 3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 4. Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith 5. The Body is Not an Apology…
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Books Read in 2023: The Complete List
My complete list of books read in 2023! I feel compelled to share it because there were too many good ones to include in my best of 2023 list. I intentionally read more fiction this year but also spent too much time finishing books I wasn’t into. My 2024 goal is to DNF more books…
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favorite books of 2023
It’s time for my favorite post of the year!! These are my favorite reads from 2023. I know it’s a long list, but I couldn’t seem to cut it down. Search #loconnor_faves on Instagram for reviews of these and for favorites from previous years. This was another year of amazing books! I focused on reading…