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She Needed Me

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This book is about Kim Lindgren and Weaver Wolquist who meet each other outside a St. Paul abortion clinic, Weaver is a 26-year-old "born again christian and Kim is a 23-year-old woman who has no money and is pregnant. Weaver stops her from having the abortion saying that he can help her. As these two become closer they learn of each other's families and the problems within the families. Through all of the things that they went through they somehow seem to find love with one another. This book is unlike any other book I have read before. It mainly deals with two people meeting in odd circumstances helping each other get through their problems, and in the end loving each other. At first I didn't like the book, but as I reading into it further I realized it had a lot of depth to it. It was a very spiritual book in that it dealt with Christian cults and pro -life activists. Out of the whole book the one quote that I liked the most was when Weaver is talking towards the end of the book he says,"Strangers deserve to know only so much, and I have already revealed more than I should have." I like this quote because it is true and it has a lot of meaning to it. He shared everything in his life with a woman he hardly knew to get her through her bad situation. That makes him a great guy for doing that. The books message deals with all sorts of different issues and makes me think of all of the things I need to do to become a better person. The books shows how one's faith can change people's lives and I think that is a wonderful thing to do. This author's style is unusual from any other books that I have read and none have even touched close to the types of things that this writer is writing about. I would not recommend this book for young children or even young teenagers. I think that this book is mainly for adults and maybe young adults due to the subject matter that isd in the book, especially with the abortion issue. Overall I think this book was good. I would recommend it to any of my friends that I thought would like this type of book.

A funny and elegant meditation on the search for faith, love, and self-discipline. We care about Weaver, though he seems a bit brainwashed by his pro-life sect, because he tempers the sincere desire for moral certainties with great humanity. His life is aimless, but he does no harm. He is an astute skeptic when it comes to his religious group. He falls for a "fallen" woman while valiantly struggling to reconcile his ridiculous moral absolutes with fuzzy gray realities. Beautifully written, the book offers no easy answers to moral ambiguities, which is exactly the point.