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Posted by Dinah on December 17, 2002, at 20:47:58
"God Whispers: Stories of the Soul, Lessons of the Heart" by Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar.
It's an easy read, but it reminded me of some things that I forget too easily. :)
Posted by BeardedLady on December 20, 2002, at 13:47:33
In reply to Re: Book recommendation, posted by Dinah on December 17, 2002, at 20:47:58
I can recommend the following book to folks who are into religious faith, but I'm having a hard time getting through it.
Anne Lamott's new book is "Blue Shoe". I've been a fan, but this one shoves her religion down your throat. It really does. And I asked a friend of mine, who's Catholic, if she wanted to read it when I'm done, and she told me she didn't like Anne Lamott for a reason that her friends think is weird.
Here's the reason: she is boastful about her relationships with black people.
Yes, it's pretty annoying in this book , too. Instead of dating black men or having black friends or going to a black church, she is actually BOASTFUL of these things, as if they were something out of the ordinary and she is somehow better than those who don't go to a black church or whose mother isn't dating a blind black man.
Anyway, I used to like Lamott quite a bit ("Bird by Bird" and "Traveling Mercies" are still excellent), but after reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenidies, author of "The Virgin Suicides", I am spoiled. He is the best writer I've ever read.
Y'all have to read that one.
Whoops! I've been rambling.
Thanks for the recommendation and for the idea of recommending.
beardy
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