The Diary of a Country Priest

This book deserves much more than I can spare at the moment, so I will only say that it is a breath-taking character study, with insights that, to me as a Christian priest, ring true and which are important. There is nothing trivial in these pages. I have read criticism that “nothing happens.” And while that is almost true it is entirely irrelevant. Everything happens; everything that really matters happens in this book. At the end, it arrives at the same conclusion all human stories must arrive at, and it does so with grace and wisdom. This is my new favorite book.