pickAndy Waite is a single father of 2 young girls trying to recover years after the death of his wife from a tragedy. He is a professor of biology who every other semester teaches a ‘There is no God‘ class of Darwinism. That same semester Melissa, a student, asks him to advise an independent study on intelligent design. This is a very bookclub book. Lots to unpack and talk about. The ending almost lost me but the author‘s note saved it. A very 👇🏼
Reggie thought provoking pick! 5y
Cinfhen She wrote![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Our Short History: A Novel 5y
Our Short History: A NovelCinfhen Totally stacking 5y
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Reggie @cinfhen read tagged book first. That‘s my favorite of hers. This was good but that one is way better. Also, unless you‘re up for evolution vs. intelligent design, which I ate up because maybe the book tells me I don‘t think about this stuff enough or maybe I‘m greedy and I want it both ways and what‘s wrong with that?(my coworker told me earlier tonight that I can‘t have it both ways) you might want to skip it. Also Lauren Grodstein has notA Friend of the Family 5y
A Friend of the FamilyReggie failed me in writing about flawed men in which I don‘t see the hand of a woman writing him as flawed versus him being an actual realized human being. (edited) 5y
Cinfhen Ok, I‘m going to read the other book first! I don‘t think I‘m up for a philosophical read about evolution 🧡 5y
Suet624 This sounds so good. Gonna go with Friend of the Family first. 5y
Reggie @Suet624 I hope you like it, Sue!! And Our Short History is also pretty good but you‘ll spend the whole time crying. 5y
Suet624 Oh my. 😭😭 5y
Rissreads I've just stacked Our short history. It sounds fantastic! 5y
