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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
Such a great book. Definitely wasn’t expecting it to be about what it was about. Insightful.
This is not at all a book I would have picked up if I hadn't had a friend shove it into my hands. It looks like it would be a mushy Christian self-help book, but it's surprisingly insightful.
This book has a good message (that God is enthralled with our beauty and doesn't want us to be wallflowers) and might be good for women struggling with self esteem issues.
This book meant the world to me when I was in the eight grade. Revisiting it twelve years later has been very interesting. The book is not how I remembered it, and therefore way better than I was expecting. Thomas is a vivid and poignant writer, a good story teller, and persuasively compelling. In rereading it, I was struck by truths I had absorbed and how I had grown and changed. (For instance, I no longer interpret Song of Songs in the way that Thomas does.)
I am wrestling with the book, in a different way. I am wrestling with some of its gender specificity (doesn't everyone like to be fought for and rescued?). But also wrestling with the humanizing language and trying to reconcile it with my theological and philosophical understanding of God.
I am wrestling with the book, in a different way. I am wrestling with some of its gender specificity (doesn't everyone like to be fought for and rescued?). But also wrestling with the humanizing language and trying to reconcile it with my theological and philosophical understanding of God.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Although I no longer believe in the religious message of this book, I liked the idea of beauty in a different sense.