Terra Jones

great analysis but needs to better distinguish quotes

Revisado: 02-07-24

it might have helped if there was a separate reader for quotes. I've seen that in other books.

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Good story but a missed opportunity

Revisado: 01-01-21

I like the continued adventures of zelia and her companions but I kind of wish this story had taken an opportunity to address the garbage attitude the imperium has towards aliens. This could have been an opportunity to make a comment about the imperium's racism. Instead the T'au are manipulative villains. We don't see much of T'au society, just a criminal and the overly aggressive military. I like the story though.

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brilliant

Revisado: 12-28-18

Brilliant comedy that skeweres the feckless liberal establishment and the bitter, nihilistic far right. Ends on a hopeful note but ultimately it is up to us to be what needs to change and its not merely electing some Democrats or reforming a system whose purpose is to manage society to keep the 1% powerful.

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This brought me to the faith

Revisado: 10-05-15

Would you listen to Accidental Saints again? Why?

Absolutely, the story was incredibly touching and I see a lot of myself in Nadia and her parishiners. I am a 30 year old teacher who is transitioning male to female. I've been an atheist most of my life but there has always been an absence within me. She and others have shown me that I don't have to be straight or cisgender or perfect to find grace in God. She (among others in my life) showed me that the Rapture was not a mainstream belief, nor is biblically supported, nor were chick tracts, which were my first contact with Christianity growing up. She showed me that there is a different kind of christian than the guys on tv getting poor people to send them money for a private jet. And that when I went to visit a church, I found it was for real, my chains breaking.

So yeah good book.

Who was your favorite character and why?

My favorite moment was when she consoled the family of a victim of suicide, telling them something to the effect of, if love was enough to prevent the suicide, it would have.

Which character – as performed by Nadia Bolz-Weber – was your favorite?

Nadia herself but in particular her story about the George Zimmerman shooting and also the one about making the saint cookies and realizing a feminist who was also a racist is like the struggle between sin and sainthood.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Nobody is perfect but we are all loved by God.

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