Carole J. (PianoLady357) reviewed Atlas Girl: Finding Home in the Last Place I Thought to Look on + 157 more book reviews
Emily T. Wierenga's Atlas Girl is quite different from the type of book I normally read, but I really enjoyed it and found it very inspirational. Emily is a wordsmith who writes in an unusually beautiful lyrical style that I first came to love in her Quilts of Love novel, A Promise in Pieces - prose that at times reads like poetry.
Part spiritual memoir, part relationship story between Emily and her Mum - Atlas Girl is really a journal and a journey, a journey in which Emily Wierenga takes you by the hand and invites you into the broken places in her life. In her struggles with anorexia and disillusionment with organized religion, Emily bares her soul with complete honesty and I grew spiritually right along with her. By the time I finished reading, I felt like Emily had become my friend.
These words by popular speaker and writer, Liz Curtis Higgs, beautifully describe Atlas Girl . . . The best memoirs combine the storytelling elements of a novelsmart pacing, tactile details, people you care aboutwith the deep insights and spiritual takeaway of great nonfiction. Emily Wierenga deftly serves up that rich blend in Atlas Girl, a nonlinear, wholly moving account of her lifes journey so far. Her honesty is raw, real. Her faith is hard-won. And when it finally pours out, her loveoh, her love soars off the page and makes a nest in our hearts. Brilliant and beautiful.
Here are just a few quotes that spoke to me in a profound way . . .
"Funny how the two go together, grief and wonder, kind of like when Jesus died and his murderers realized he was God even as the sky tore."
"How does a girl tell a boy that she is damaged? That their love, no matter how poignant, strong, or special, can't reproduce? And so I told him I didn't want kids and then I starved myself as punishment. For not being the woman he needed me to be. For not knowing who I was apart from my eating disorder."
"You can't become healed, truly healed, unless you revisit the past. Unless you revisit all of those aching, pulsing places and invite God into them."
"The closer we let ourselves get to Jesus, the more we learn the way he sees. We learn the way he loves. And we learn the way he gives. And he never stops giving and we never stop receiving."
Atlas Girl will touch so many people - those who have battled with anorexia or know someone who has, those with a passion for world missions, anyone who has been disappointed or frustrated with organized religion, moms and daughters, and anyone who wants to be inspired by a real-life journey. Recommended to everyone!
Thank you to Revell for providing a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Part spiritual memoir, part relationship story between Emily and her Mum - Atlas Girl is really a journal and a journey, a journey in which Emily Wierenga takes you by the hand and invites you into the broken places in her life. In her struggles with anorexia and disillusionment with organized religion, Emily bares her soul with complete honesty and I grew spiritually right along with her. By the time I finished reading, I felt like Emily had become my friend.
These words by popular speaker and writer, Liz Curtis Higgs, beautifully describe Atlas Girl . . . The best memoirs combine the storytelling elements of a novelsmart pacing, tactile details, people you care aboutwith the deep insights and spiritual takeaway of great nonfiction. Emily Wierenga deftly serves up that rich blend in Atlas Girl, a nonlinear, wholly moving account of her lifes journey so far. Her honesty is raw, real. Her faith is hard-won. And when it finally pours out, her loveoh, her love soars off the page and makes a nest in our hearts. Brilliant and beautiful.
Here are just a few quotes that spoke to me in a profound way . . .
"Funny how the two go together, grief and wonder, kind of like when Jesus died and his murderers realized he was God even as the sky tore."
"How does a girl tell a boy that she is damaged? That their love, no matter how poignant, strong, or special, can't reproduce? And so I told him I didn't want kids and then I starved myself as punishment. For not being the woman he needed me to be. For not knowing who I was apart from my eating disorder."
"You can't become healed, truly healed, unless you revisit the past. Unless you revisit all of those aching, pulsing places and invite God into them."
"The closer we let ourselves get to Jesus, the more we learn the way he sees. We learn the way he loves. And we learn the way he gives. And he never stops giving and we never stop receiving."
Atlas Girl will touch so many people - those who have battled with anorexia or know someone who has, those with a passion for world missions, anyone who has been disappointed or frustrated with organized religion, moms and daughters, and anyone who wants to be inspired by a real-life journey. Recommended to everyone!
Thank you to Revell for providing a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
