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A review by mellthatcher
Between the Dark and the Daylight: Embracing the Contradictions of Life by Joan Chittister
4.0
I actually really enjoyed reading this book. Every night I would curl up in bed and read a couple chapters. Joan had a good way of writing that made it easy to understand and enjoy even though it wasn’t a fiction book, which is usually what I read. Sometimes the chapter was actually perfect to read after what went on during the day. Her writing did get a tad repetitive and I feel her analogies sometimes made it harder to understand, such as the chapter “The Place of Tsunamis in the Ocean of Life.” I feel that that chapter just did not really get to a point and I think Joan just expected you to understand where she was going with it, and I don’t think I did. Joan Chittister did leave a lot to interpretation for you and did not just spell some things out for you.
However, there were a lot of times while I was reading that I just thought “Yes!” and wanted to shove the book at someone else so they would get the point too. I actually wanted to write down so many quotes, which made it hard because then I was writing more than I was reading. I hate to mark books, or else I would have just underlined the sentences. But again, then I’d be underlining every other sentence.
Joan Chittister did have a lot of great points in the book. Like I said, I was writing down so many quotes. This is a book that I would recommend to many people, because it’s easy to read and has a lot of good things that people really should read. It’s not a deep book, and each chapter is only a couple pages. So really it’s up to you how much this book speaks to you.
I received this book from Blogging For Books.
“Frustration lies in what we decide we have a right to demand out of life rather than in concern of what life demands of us.”
However, there were a lot of times while I was reading that I just thought “Yes!” and wanted to shove the book at someone else so they would get the point too. I actually wanted to write down so many quotes, which made it hard because then I was writing more than I was reading. I hate to mark books, or else I would have just underlined the sentences. But again, then I’d be underlining every other sentence.
Joan Chittister did have a lot of great points in the book. Like I said, I was writing down so many quotes. This is a book that I would recommend to many people, because it’s easy to read and has a lot of good things that people really should read. It’s not a deep book, and each chapter is only a couple pages. So really it’s up to you how much this book speaks to you.
I received this book from Blogging For Books.
“Frustration lies in what we decide we have a right to demand out of life rather than in concern of what life demands of us.”