The Givenness of Things: Essays

Short Review: It was a mistake to get this as an audiobook. I should have known better, but I also hate paying twice as much for a kindle book as I do for an audiobook. Robinson is a great writer, but a great writer does not make a great essayist. I agree with her on many political, economics and religious issues. But she has a tone problem in her essays. She advocates Christian charity and grace, but she writes in a way that seems to often forget that in calling for charity and grace, you actually need to speak with charity and grace.

It is not all bad, there really are some good essays here, but the mix of frustrating and brilliant is in the end frustrating.

my full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/the-givenness-of-things-essays-by-marilynne-robinson/