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A review by mimiathereader
Amish Celebrations: Four Novellas by Beth Wiseman
5.0
I was listening to this book on audio and kept saying to myself that these are such good stories! I still agree with the statement.
This book is a collection of four novellas (that I kept thinking would be shorter than they actually were which was completely fine by me!) about Amish women. Besides being Amish and women, they didn't have that much in common. Two were almost-16-year-old twin sisters (from The Gift of Sisters), another two were engaged and faced some problems of a very difering nature leading to the wedding (A New Beginning and A Perfect Plan) and the last one was a married young mom of five (A Christmas Miracle). They all faced different struggles and surpassed them.
But what really made me not wanting to stop listening and all of them such good stories is that they were stories about real people. The stories had Amish characters (and some non-Amish too) but they could have been about anyone. Sisters that loved each other but were angry and sometimes envious of each other. A bride-to-be wondering if she chose the right path. A overwhelmed mother that struggled with everything life asked of her and that had never learnt how to run a household. We know these struggles, we know these people, sometimes we are like them.
I also liked that the characters were in situations that make you wonder: what would I have done in this situation? What if that was me? And even some more deeper questions: what does it mean to love someone? How do we know we are following God's will and not our own?
Other random things I enjoyed: The existence of a character with a severe mental disability (not a main character but still good to see one somewhere), families loving each other even if they sometimes were not perfect, babies!, the narrator and, certainly, other things that I can't remeber right now.
This was a very good surprise because good stories are hard to find!
I received a copy of this book via NetGaley and Zondervan. All opinions are my own.
This book is a collection of four novellas (that I kept thinking would be shorter than they actually were which was completely fine by me!) about Amish women. Besides being Amish and women, they didn't have that much in common. Two were almost-16-year-old twin sisters (from The Gift of Sisters), another two were engaged and faced some problems of a very difering nature leading to the wedding (A New Beginning and A Perfect Plan) and the last one was a married young mom of five (A Christmas Miracle). They all faced different struggles and surpassed them.
But what really made me not wanting to stop listening and all of them such good stories is that they were stories about real people. The stories had Amish characters (and some non-Amish too) but they could have been about anyone. Sisters that loved each other but were angry and sometimes envious of each other. A bride-to-be wondering if she chose the right path. A overwhelmed mother that struggled with everything life asked of her and that had never learnt how to run a household. We know these struggles, we know these people, sometimes we are like them.
I also liked that the characters were in situations that make you wonder: what would I have done in this situation? What if that was me? And even some more deeper questions: what does it mean to love someone? How do we know we are following God's will and not our own?
Other random things I enjoyed: The existence of a character with a severe mental disability (not a main character but still good to see one somewhere), families loving each other even if they sometimes were not perfect, babies!, the narrator and, certainly, other things that I can't remeber right now.
This was a very good surprise because good stories are hard to find!
I received a copy of this book via NetGaley and Zondervan. All opinions are my own.