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A review by bookwomble
Through an Addict's Looking-Glass by Waithera Sebatindira
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
I found Sebatindra's meditations on addiction and recovery moving, interesting and challenging, and for those parts I'd have rated it 4, possibly 5, stars. The sections on Christianity dragged for me, due, no doubt, to my atheism. As a person with a culturally christian (I need to use a small 'c' for that) upbringing, I know that many of my values derive from that tradition and, while I can find useful meaning and guidance in religious texts, I also find that I don't need a belief in a transcendant spiritual being for that.
Anyway, I appreciate that Sebatindra being a person with religious faith understands their experience intimately through a relationship with God, and that other readers will find these sections central rather than peripheral to their reading.
Overall, I am glad I received this as part of my subscription to Hajar Press, and even if I personally found it something of a curate's egg (if I can be forgiven the expression), it's enlightening to be confronted by my own attitudes and assumptions towards those who hold strong religious beliefs, and that's something I will reflect upon further.
Anyway, I appreciate that Sebatindra being a person with religious faith understands their experience intimately through a relationship with God, and that other readers will find these sections central rather than peripheral to their reading.
Overall, I am glad I received this as part of my subscription to Hajar Press, and even if I personally found it something of a curate's egg (if I can be forgiven the expression), it's enlightening to be confronted by my own attitudes and assumptions towards those who hold strong religious beliefs, and that's something I will reflect upon further.