Saturday, June 30, 2012

Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber

This book is about a young woman's journey through life at Oxford and how she met God in the process.  It is a lengthy book, but so worth the time it takes to read it.

It is the story of how Carolyn Weber comes to know God and the reader is given a front row seat to the feelings and thoughts that go along with such a journey.  Throughout the book, you meet her friends and are able to see how the Lord used them in her life to draw her closer to Himself.  It is a very personal account and proves to challenge the reader's own thinking.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  Weber caused me to think, had me wrapped up in her conversation with friends about God, and had me continuing to turn page after page to follow her through her time at Oxford.  She held my attention through the 400+ pages of her memoir, which is no easy task.  She invited me, the reader, into her world with wonderful descriptions of life at Oxford and her interactions with those she crossed paths with.  To see how God used her time there and how he called a woman, who was a self-proclaimed agnostic, to himself made for a great read.  While I may not agree with everything she concluded, I appreciate her story.



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