I am reading a wonderful book right now about mothers and daughters by Lisa Graham McMinn. The writer looks at mothering from a different angle than does Sally Clarkson in her parenting books ( Seasons of a Mother’s Heart, The Mission of Motherhood). I find McMinn’s book liberating and challenging and wish I had found [...]
Archive > November 2008
Joy’s Book Review
Joy typed this review of a book she’d read (“The Tinker’s Daughter” by Wendy Lawton). Btw, Fara is Arabic for “joy”. “My name is Fara. I read about a book titled Mary Bunyan. It’s about Mary, a blind girl, who refuses help from her family and friends. She does not change until she realizes that [...]
“Disappearance of Childhood”:Mini-review
“The Disappearance of Childhood” by Neil Postman. Vintage Press. 1982. This is one pessimistic book. Like most pessimistic books, it’s also a thought provoking one. I read Elkind’s “The Hurried Child†some years ago and it spurred me to make some decisions about the way we’d raise (and not raise) our kids. Writing from the [...]