Bittersweet

Short Review: This is an excellent collection of essays about how life is both hard and sweet, and that is the way God has intended. There is much here about the pain of life, miscarriages, lost jobs, struggling marriage, etc. But also much that is hopeful, birth, parenting, friendships, gathering of friends around the table. I have seen a couple of reviews that suggested that this book was whiney. I don't think we were reading the same book. Because while Shauna Niequist was honest about pain, the was not a book about the pain, it was a book about joy amidst the pain.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/bittersweet-by-shauna-niequist/