66 Love Letters by Dr. Larry Crabb

What does God's plan look like? Is it a good plan? Does the plan even involve you? What role should the Bible play in my learning about the plan? In his book 66 Lover Letters by Dr. Larry Crabb, the author attempts to give us a few answers to these questions. By taking each book of the Bible and looking at it as a "love letter" and through a series of conversations with God about those letters, Dr. Crabb attempts to help us to understand where it is that we fit into God's plan and just what that plan entails. As a member of the Thomas Nelson BookSneeze (http://booksneeze.com) Book Review Blogging program, I was given a complimentary copy of this book.

This was a very interesting book in that it made the attempt to break each book of the Bible down into bite sized pieces for the reader.  The writing style is conversational, a dialogue between that author and God, that takes the reader into what it is Dr. Crabb feels God is telling him about each of the 66 books by giving us the main thrust of each book. He then expounds on what that means for us as we go about our regular, daily lives. In the end, he ties it all together with an epilogue consisting of 66 paragraphs showing the connection between all the letters. Reading this book, it has began to alter the way I think and maneuver in my relationships with people as well as with God.

I had really only one complaint about this book,and that had to do with the length of it. It is nearly 400 pages (394) of just the letters, sections notes and epilogue. Beyond that there are 17 more pages of prologue and "How this book can speak to you." These are good sections, but they could have been much shorter overall bringing the total page count down to a smaller number. In the end however, I felt that this was a very well written, well thought out and well put together book that I would gladly recommend to people wanting to find a somewhat different take on studying the Bible.