Cupid Is a Procrastinator

Thank you to Netgalley and Harvest House for the ARC! 

Honestly surprised by how much I enjoyed this. Normally I read books on singleness through one squinty eye, ready to be offended at the first sign that the author's take on singleness is that "singleness = waiting for our future husbands" and so forth, but this book isn't like that. It's an honest take on the experience of long-term adult singleness, and Hurley nails down most of the biggest issues that singles face. Best of all, she has a fine turn of phrase, and some sections had me actually chuckling out loud. Although I can't get on board with EVERYTHING she says (when will the day dawn that we ever DO agree entirely with any given author?) I'd say that if you're going to read any recently-published book on singleness, read this one.

Conversational, real and anecdotal.  This is a book on the subject that doesn't pretend to have answers or offer shallow wisdom or steps. Instead, Hurley pulls you up aside her at a camp fire or coffee shop, speaks to her experience and, with the discussion questions included at the back of the book, encourages you to impart your own.  Gentle and lyrical (much like the musicianship so apparent in her  work, this is a patchwork quilt of scripture and experience, renewal and longing.  I am glad Kate has invited us into her safe place: full of music and poems and thoughts and sly little asides. Definitely one of the better books I have read on the Single experience for Christians because it is SO real....