I have been on something of a spy novel kick of late. Daniel Silva, Robert Ludlum, etc. It’s fun and fluffy reading, which frankly I need after a hard day of homeschool, but not very filling.

Then I read this review from John Piper. And it was indeed a very good book. While I wasn’t as frantic as Pastor Piper in my reading (Kinda gross about that sweat, I hope it wasn’t a library book.) I did spend precious hours at my parent’s house reading when I could have been . . . not. It’s the first Christian fiction book I’ve read and thoroughly liked in a long time.

I also was recommended this novel in a round about way. I saw it at my brother’s house when we were visiting and his wife said that he said it was a “really good book.” (“My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.”) Anyway, something in the way she said it convinced me of his enthusiasm, so I checked it out.

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I need to reread it. One of the themes is misperception and how we misperceive those we know and love and those we know and ought to love and those we love, but perhaps don’t know. Is it really a theme? I don’t know, maybe Ms. Robinson would be perterbed by my presumption. But I do not want to misperceive, so I need to reread the book. And you should read it, too. It is a really good book.