Bittersweet (by Shauna Niequist)

I very much liked the first book I read by Shauna Niequist, so I put a couple of her other books on my wishlist. I was given ‘Bittersweet’ for Christmas, and just finished reading it. I read a couple of chapters each day over the course of two weeks or so, as there was a lot to think about in each one.

As with the other books I’ve read by this author, the style is something like that of a relaxed autobiography crossed with a personal journal. And the theme of this particular one is that of g...