Surprised by Oxford

I just finished Carolyn Weber's excellent book Surprised by Oxford.

Yes, that's a little take on C.S. Lewis who definitely haunts Oxford to this day. But the book is about a Canadian girl who wins a scholarship to attend Oxford and discovers faith there. The book is a memoir, written beautifully by woman with a DPhil degree in Romantic Literature. It also serves as a great apologetics book by a masterful mind wrestling with becoming a Christian and discovering that she is surrounded by other brilliant minds who love this Jesus.

She arrives in England in the fall of 1994, the same fall that I spent a semester in nearby London (and visited Oxford). Her writing on so many things stirred memories in me, even her comments on the weather. I particularly loved when she wrote about having someone clean her room, a very strange thing for American students. I remember being a little uncomfortable to having someone empty the trash in my room, dust, and bring me clean sheets. (But I got used to it.)

Loved, loved, loved this book.