Today I'm sharing the best book I read in June.
No 5-star reads this month. Of the 10 books I read this month, I had two 4.5-star reads.
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
Very different books! Rather than recommending a sequel, though, I'll choose the other as my Best of the Bunch:
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation was a short but impactful book. Palmer uses some of his personal life experiences — including some vulnerable, less flattering ones — to show why it's critical that we focus more on living as our authentic, unique selves than on pursuing a life that aligns to a prescribed set of morals or a cultural definition of success. Writing from a Quaker perspective, he argues that our deepest vocation is to be the specific person we were created to be. At times he leaned more on metaphor than on practical examples — I think because he only wanted to share examples from his own personal life rather than using anyone else's vulnerable moments — and this made it hard to get a full grasp of what certain ideas would look like in practice, but on the whole this left me with a lot of valuable thoughts to reflect on.
What is the best book you read this month? Let me know in comments, or write your own post and link up below!
Looking back:
One year ago I was reading:
Maurice,
Jada Sly, Artist & Spy, and
One Last Stop
Five years ago I was reading:
In the Woods and
Vanity Fair
Ten years ago I was reading:
The Pillars of the Earth
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