Book Review: Here If You Need Me
August 9, 2007
Part of my birthday present involved driving four hours to this bookstore in Vermont. You, like Adam, might think that four hours is a long way to drive for a bookstore, but that only means that you, like Adam, have never been to this bookstore because it is so worth four hours in the car.
Anyway, I spent most of the two and half hours we spent in the bookstore writing down titles for books I wanted to read. You can see them here (along with others), but I did allow myself part of my birthday money to buy a few books. Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup was one of the five books (out of thousands) that won a lucky space in my bag at the end of the day.
It is a short memoir and it reads quickly. At first I thought it was just so-so: definitely an interesting story (a mother of four goes to seminary and becomes a chaplain for Maine search and rescue missions after her husband dies in a car accident - ministry had been his retirement plan), but a bit cliche in the writing. But, 3/4 of the way through either it got better or I stopped noticing. Anyway, I liked it (didn’t love it), but would recommend reading a library copy. She has some interesting thoughts on faith and some profound sentences. All in all, an enjoyable book and, like I said, an incredible story underneath it all.
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