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All Things Reconsidered
All Things Reconsidered: How Rethinking What We Know Helps Us Know What We Believe | Knox McCoy
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Popular podcaster and author Knox McCoy offers readers a unique blend of humor, Bible stories, pop culture references, and personal stories that show how asking tough questions and approaching life with a willingness to reconsider ideas can allow them to grow in their faith. What would it mean to really examine what you think you know about yourself and your beliefs? To not just rely on the generic platitudes youve always recited to yourself but to look more deeply into why you think what you think? After exploring how pop culture shaped his life and carved out the foundations of his faith in his debut book, The Wondering Years, Knox McCoy began to think more deeply about those foundations and how they had evolved, changed entirely, or stayed the same. The result of this soul-searching led to a book about the necessity of reexamining our ideas and identities throughout our lives and how we grow as a result. In a look back at his own life and the fundamental convictionsboth secular and spiritualhes pondered over the years, Knox deploys his signature self-deprecation and an academic approach of understanding the absurd, whether discussing the social hierarchy of Sesame Street or the cultural allergy to participation trophies. Along with these voyages into the humorous and the mundane come deeply vulnerable revelations from Knoxs heart as he interrogates his own foundational beliefs. His stories will encourage readers to think about their own convictions and how reconsidering them leads to a deeper understanding of what they believe and why.
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Maria514626
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This book was laugh-out-loud funny (emphasis on loud). The author also tackles big topics with intelligence and realness. There‘s no “This is the way it is and that‘s that.”

The thing that made this unlike other books that work at figuring things out are his stories. They make the reconsidering part more interesting and real.

This is a smart and hilarious read. One of the best of 2020.

#arc #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great review!! 4y
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Maria514626
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This book is so good. So thoughtful. And it makes me laugh out loud. LOUD. #ARC

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Maria514626
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#joyfuljune 28

Just started and I already love it. I love the podcast—#thepopcast—Knox does with Jamie Golden. Snarky and smart and funny.

This is an ARC so the formatting is weird. (The whited-out part is a footnote from the previous page. 🤷‍♀️)

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I‘m not usually a release day book getter but I will always support my favorite podcasters when they write!

Maria514626 Love, love, love Knox and Jamie! 4y
Ang203l @Maria514626 me too! Yay for finding Popcast friends! 4y
Maria514626 @ang2031 I just signed up to be a BFOT just to get The Office recaps. 😁❤️ 4y
Ang203l @Maria514626 yes- welcome to the BFOTS club! 4y
Maria514626 @Ang203l Thanks! I feel very in the know. Especially about Jason Waterfalls. 😂😂😂 4y
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". . . trying to inventory the person you are requires you to reconsider certain aspects of your ideology--not just to reverse engineer how they came to be associated with you but to decide how you are going to proceed going forward" (200).⠀

Knox McCoy's All Things Reconsidered: How Rethinking What We Know Helps Us Know What We Believe is really all about the above quotation. ⬇️

UnabridgedPod To be fair, the humor that permeates the book doesn't appear in that quotation (nor do the ample Hamilton references, one of my own personal favorite elements).

But the concept--that it's difficult but necessary to rethink the ideas and beliefs at the core of our lives and identities--is there nonetheless. Sometimes, McCoy considers that concept in relation to participation trophies. Sometimes, he focuses on choosing baby names. ⬇️
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UnabridgedPod And often, he's thinking about religion and faith. But in all cases, he acknowledges both (1) that it's hard even to begin to rethink and (2) that rethinking is worthwhile.⠀

I read the print version of the book--thanks to Sara for the loan!--and I did miss hearing him read ⬇️
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UnabridgedPod (I listened to the audio version of his first book, The Wondering Years, and his delivery is great, as funny and sarcastic and witty as his contributions to his fabulous podcast The Popcast). Reading the print copy did, however, allow to appreciate the footnotes, which are perfect in providing asides and in highlighting those above-mentioned Hamilton references.⠀⬇️ 5y
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UnabridgedPod If you're looking for a good balance of humor and seriousness, for a book you can dip in and out of (it's structured, in three sections, as a series of essays), or for a book that will make you think about your own life and belief system, All Things Reconsidered would be a great option.⠀

What other humorous nonfiction books would you recommend? Does anyone else listen to The Popcast?
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Maria514626 I love the Popcast. Yay to finding another fan! I save up episodes so I can binge. I don‘t watch The Bachelor but really enjoy those episodes. All hail snark! 😂😂😂 (edited) 4y
UnabridgedPod @Maria514626 That‘s so funny!! I don‘t listen to The Bachelor recaps, but my co-host Sara started watching The Bachelor *because* she wanted to listen to those episodes. 😂 4y
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