Read With Us: The Winter Announcement Post

The day has come for Bonny, Kym, and I to announce our next choice for the Read With Us group. Without further delay, that book is Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.

This book was published in 2004 and, in keeping with the past few winter books, we have chosen it because it is an older book and considered a modern classic. I read it in 2018, gave it 5 stars, wrote a vague by glowing review . . . and can’t remember a thing about it. Which is all to say, I’m really looking forward to reading it again and refreshing my memory and then discussing it with our group.

Set in the small town of Gilead, Iowa, the novel takes the form of a long letter written by Reverend John Ames to his young son. Ames is an aging preacher, keenly aware that he will not live to see his child grow up, and this letter becomes his attempt to leave behind not just memories, but a moral and emotional inheritance. What unfolds is not a plot-driven story so much as a meditation on faith, grace, forgiveness, love, regret, and what it means to live a good life.

The book is deeply concerned with how we treat one another, how we live alongside our doubts, and how we make peace with the parts of ourselves, and our histories, that trouble us. Sounds rather fitting for the times we are living in now, doesn’t it?

We will be doing promo posts throughout the month of February and our discussion is set for Tuesday, March 17th at 7:00pm EST. I hope you will once again Read With Us.

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Comments (5)

  1. Like you, I have no memories of the story… but I did read it and, likewise, gave it a glowing review. As I said on Bonny’s post, I will be rereading and I am very much looking forward to our discussion!

  3. I don’t think it’s why we chose this book, but it does sound like the perfect book to read in these times.

  4. I’m listening to the audiobook currently — I too read it in the past. It feels vaguely familiar. But these are different times to read it in, I am older and life has changed me, all the reasons to re-read a good book.

  5. I read it several years ago (probably toward the beginning of the pandemic), and I only have vague memories of it. I have a feeling it wasn’t the right time for the book for me, so I’m looking forward to revisiting it. I know I will gain more of an appreciation because of our discussion!

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