Book Review: This Life I Live: One Man’s Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever by Rory Feek
Four Stars
“People pass away. It’s part of life. It’s hard and it’s terrible, but it’s gonna happen to all of us.”
An extraordinary story told very well. Feek bares his soul and talks from the heart about his life, which started badly and got worse as he lived it. The conversational tone pulls the reader in as if this was a chat over coffee.
“A different perspective from what I had most of my life. Finally opening my hands and turning my life over to God.”
So many quotable epigrams that I filled four pages of my notebook. The man is a professional writer: it shows.
“The only way this can work is if we are both willing to give everything up for the other person.”
I never heard of Rory Feek or Joey Martin. I’m not a fan of Country and Western music, but the man has a powerful message: admittedly Christian, but without the trappings and jargon of professional religion. He used only one theological word.
“The point where I did everything wrong was just the bigger of a bigger story. Just the setup.”
“I just wanted a little bit of something good, what I got was a lifetime of something great.”
If you read this book, be prepared to be moved, both by the hash Feek made of his own life and to its incredible outcomes. He takes you deeper inside himself than many memoirs and tell-alls. He shares his heart.
“A story that will live long after the man who told it is gone.”
“Her love strengthened my faith.”
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