"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." – Mary Oliver

April’s Books in 25 Words

Summarising in 25 words what was most noteworthy to me from the books I finished this month.

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy – Jenny Odell

Against the “rhetoric of growth” and the privileging of “producing,” this is a call to take time and space to see as acts of resistance.

The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women’s Work – Kathleen Norris

“Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas” – finding God in the everyday, mundane aspects of being human.