Jumping you ahead to some of his best writing is perhaps the wrong thing to do, but I shall anyway: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2010/09/28/tf-reaching-for-the-cookie-sack/

Maybe you should learn that proselytism is irritating and unwelcome. The more so if you are doing it in such a scattergun way.

I think I like you and your family. I can really see that! You told the story well.

What the actual …? Were your family just not readers?

Have you read Fred Clark’s blog “Slactivist”? He takes apart Left Behind with wit and verve and deep insight, since he grew up in the same culture. It’s truly brilliant stuff.

Terry Pratchett wrote a cat book. That might be good.

I enjoy linguistics and debunking, so I can strongly recommend The Myth of Mars and Venus by Deborah Cameron. (Not a gift, though. I bought it for myself while killing time in a bookshop before a job interview in a nearby pharmaceutical lab. I also bought It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science.)

Holy fucking shit. How did that get published?

David Mitchell has a rant on WILTY about receiving a gift and putting it away somewhere for someone else to deal with after you’re dead.

You know that thing you’ve clearly spent the last five years agonising over before eventually, tentatively, coming to a conclusion after much pondering, reading, research, and deliberation? Here’s an introductory pamphlet on the topic!

The only reasonable response is “fuck off!”

Anne herself has a fair few “teenage goth” vibes at times. I think you might like it.

It sounds insulting to me.