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Title: Somewhere More Holy
Author: Tony Woodlief
Narrator: Tony Woodlief
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-02-10
Publisher: Zondervan
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
Stories from a Bewildered Father, Stumbling Husband, Reluctant Handyman, and Prodigal Son
Acclaimed columnist Tony Woodlief pens the poignant and powerful story of his search for meaning in the midst of tragedy. When he and his wife lost their adored little girl, his trust in God turned to bitter anger. As he and his wife struggled to save their marriage and his faith, they discovered that home is more than just rooms and a roof. Home is a place where people are sometimes wounded or betrayed. Home is also where God is strong in the broken places.
Woodlief takes readers through his house, room by room, showing that home is:
Woodliefs heart-touching stories leavened with humor will appeal to a wide audience, especially those trying to reconcile the idea of a loving God in a broken world.
Members Reviews:
Building a home, room-by-room
This is a raw, captivating, and well-crafted book. In Somewhere More Holy, Tony Woodlief walks us through the rooms of his home, using those rooms to explore his own emotions, spirituality, and thoughts on family. By baring his own flaws, doubts, hopes, loves, and struggles, Mr. Woodlief creates a piece of literary nonfiction that is, by turns, both heartbreaking and uplifting. He reminds us of those people and moments that transform houses into homes. And trusting us with the most intimate details of his family's life, he reminds us that, in both good and bad moments, we're never as alone as we imagine. Somewhere More Holy is well worth the read.
Read. This. Book.
I read Tony's stuff on his blog/in the WSJ/etc., so I knew I would like this book. I didn't know that I would love it -- that I would find it profoundly affecting, that my wife would attract the attention of men other than me on the Acela due to how frequently she laughed while reading it, or that I would quickly find myself back on Amazon buying more copies for friends.
Let me put it this way: There are a lot of "how to" books out there on marriage, kids, handyman-hood, etc. I know this because I read them; I read them because I know I need the help. But none of these treatises -- even those with the most rigorous doctrine, simple ten-step programs, and clear writing -- have anything near the power of Tony's book.
This book will grip you (it's got some stories he is brave to tell, as others have said), this book will amaze you (mainly as you realize how well Tony has married), and this book will inspire you to chase after the things that have, through so much suffering, become precious to Tony (marriage, family, home). And it will help you understand -- in a way no amount of theological navel gazing could -- what the apostle Paul meant when he wrote that "suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us" (Rom. 5:3-5).
Oh, and did I mention that the dude can flat-out write?
A courageously written book.
Tony Woodleif bares his soul here, and sometimes that's not pretty. We all benefit from his transparency, though, and our hearts break and are healed again as we read his stories, descriptions and confessions in this poignant and hilarious memoir. A parent of boys myself, I laughed aloud at the all-too-familiar antics of his four sons.