I wanted to take a moment to commend a post over at my good friend Jamie’s site, “Why Christians Should Read More Fiction”–for those of you Christians. I believe what he has to say is important and worth a few moments of your time:

To describe stories, I would borrow the words of Leif Enger, author of Peace Like a River, about miracles: stories are like the “swing of a sword.” They’re not gentle, though they may seem so. They slip under your ribs like a shiv, right into your heart, without your realizing it. It reminds me of the scene in The Village where Joaquin Phoenix’s Lucius Hunt looks down to find Noah Percy’s (Adrien Brody) knife in his gut. And a story keeps coming back, just like Noah, to give you the knife again. Without you even realizing it.