I have to admit that I found this book quite refreshing and funny. Imagine challenging yourself to not tell a lie for an entire year. Talk about your hard things to do! We tell so many lies, and isn't that how comedians make their living? I was impressed with Phil Callaway and his writing style, not to mention the fact that he actually took the assignment seriously. I found myself sympathizing and seeing myself many times throughout the book. I found myself thinking about all the lies I tell without thinking about it. I think you will find this a delightful book, and it is a moment to just take a deep breath and truly think about your spiritual life. But don't worry. You'll do it with a smile on your face!

I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I was not financially compensated, and all opinions are 100 percent mine.

How would you change if you lived the next year of your life telling, mostly, the truth? That's what Phil Callaway discovered while he was writing "To Be Perfectly Honest" and he takes us along for the ride.

While this book is funny, it's not one of those "I was laughing through the whole things" book. It's more of a "I laughed, I thought about things, I grew" types of books. I enjoyed this book immensely, and admittedly, I did literally laugh out loud at a couple of points. Most of the time though I just nodded and chuckled to myself thinking, "That sounds familiar..."

God calls us to live honestly, but do we really do it? If you want to find out what you could learn, I'd highly suggest you read "To Be Perfectly Honest" and see how lives can be impacted when you live honestly.

Disclaimer: "I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review".

I received Phil Callaway's book To Be Perfectly Honest in the middle of an afternoon on my day off. I put on water to boil pasta for lunch, telling myself that I would read a few pages and see what it was like.

An unknown amount of time later, my dad came into my bedroom and asked if I was trying to humidify the house. My water had almost boiled away and I was many more than a few pages into the book. I finished it later that day, stopping only to drain the pasta (but not to eat it).

I don't usually react audibly to books, I like to be quiet as a general rule, and prefer not to draw attention to myself. I work in a library. I also laughed aloud (rather loudly) for the first time on page ten. It was not the last time. Throughout the course of the book I laughed, cried and read parts aloud to my dog. She seemed to appreciate that.

It would be one thing if this book was only funny. It would be another if it was only (sometimes painfully) honest and vulnerable. It would be yet another if it were only relatable and convicting. It was all of these things. Phil Callaway has managed to write a book that explores honesty while being honest. He wonders, from time to time, if his vow means that he needs (or gets) to be painfully honest with people. For example: should he answer his wife honestly when she asks how he looks in horizontal stripes? Monetary problems come up as well, debts to friends that he has "conveniently forgotten" seem to float into his mind. Sometimes his failures to be completely honest seem to teach him more than being "perfectly honest."

During the course of this book we also get to know certain characters in his life: his wife, kids, fellow churchgoers, friends and kids' friends. Phil manages to craft a plot that we can follow and that held my interest in all these people and what would happen next. In fiction, that's called plotting, in non-fiction, it's called telling a good story.

Even beyond this, Phil, ever the comedian, put in stories that were just, frankly, funny. The book would not have been complete without them.

This book will stick with me, staying around in my home to be looked into again and again. I couldn't put it down. Honest.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review

Great book, with wit, perfect sarcasm and underlying joy. Phil has a tight bond with God and it permeates through the pages and leaks out into my journey. It has made me think what would I do in those situations, and maybe I should try my own truth experiment. Well done!

Phil Callaway never disappoints - he's the perfect author: light, funny but yet always gets the message of Christ across. Really easy read!