cold tangerines

This is what's currently sitting on my nightstand. It's a wonderful, witty, conversational, emotional book. Like lots of coffee dates with your best girlfriend. It's honest and funny and strikes really close to home for me. A friend from church RAKed me with it {that's Random Act of Kindness}, and while I can't give one to each of you, I'm happy to introduce you.

Get a copy. It will make your life better. I promise.

I'm going to plagiarize Shauna Niequist's (the author) website here:

Cold Tangerines is a collection of stories that celebrates extraordinary moments hidden in our everyday lives. It is about God, and about life, and about the thousands of daily ways that an awareness of God changes and infuses everything. It is about spiritual life, and about all of the things we have called non-spiritual that may be spiritual after all. It is the snapshot of a young woman making peace with herself and her life, and trying to craft a life that captures the energy and exuberance we long for in the midst of fear and regret and envy we all carry with us. It is both a voice of challenging and a song of comfort, calling us upward to the best possible life, and giving us room to breathe, to rest, to break down, and to break through. Cold Tangerines offers bright and varied glimpses of hope and redemption, in and among the heartbreak and boredom and broken glass.