This month, I had the privilege of sharing my review of The Great Blue Hills of God with a wider audience as it was originally published on TravelAwaits.com.
This was a special experience as I got to navigate balancing my commitment to writing feeling-focused review with ensuring the piece spoke to an audience that’s interested in travel. Also, it was the first time I reviewed a book that’s about coming closer to the Protestant faith tradition I grew up in.
I’d shied away from this for a long time, for many reasons, but found this book to be an intense, humbling, healing experience.
Among other things, The Great Blue Hills of God encouraged me to reconsider the American South and reinforced the value of home.
Read all the reasons I consider it an excellent vacation (or staycation) read here.
Editor’s Bookshelf is a regular review of soon-to-be-released books that, in the spirit of Iphelia, asks important questions about how the written word—and in some cases, imagery—are used to help readers reconnect with their feelings, themselves, each other, and the world around them.
Iphelia’s editor, Linsey Stevens, answers these questions—chiming in on who will be most captivated by each book’s contents and how it invites readers to return to a heart-centered way of being.
The Great Blue Hills of God by Kreis Beall will be available on February 4, 2020 from Convergent Books. For more on Beall and Blackberry Farm, visit http://www.blackberryfarm.com/about/family/kreis-beall. For more on Iphelia: Awakening the Gift of Feeling, visit our book page.
