Let’s start off with a little disclaimer
I am in no way
affiliated with any book company or store, author or publishing house in anyway. I am just a book lover who
wants to share her musings and great reading finds with everyone I can-because
reading is SO good for you! I am not an experienced book critic or anything
like that, I studied Health Science and Family Relations in college. None of
the Authors of any of the books I will discuss know I exist. This is just like
a book group -only I do most all the talking- but feel free to comment about
the books mentioned (nicely please).
Now that we have that behind us, I will dive
right in:
Gifts From the Sea was recommended to me by a
friend, it’s a short read but wow. I think its going on my “gotta have it
someday” amazon wish list because it’s the kind to reread a every few years at
least.
I had never read any of Anne Lindenburg’s
writing before. As it turns out I was missing out, she artfully explains
everything so well. With a deep but understandable tone, she relates life
stages to sea shells. All of the deep struggles that young mothers (mothers of
any age I guess, I am just young) have she manages to articulate, which if you
ask me is a feat in and of itself.
In chapter 3 she discusses how women have so many
things pulling them in directions. She aptly describes it, lets face it we all
understand. Then she goes further analyzing what to do to create the solace and
peace we all need in life. It’s so well done. "Like the hub of a wheel" we must
be she says. What a perfect metaphor.
I definitely felt the shells where accurate descriptions
and although I am only in the oyster bed I felt the analogy’s where profoundly
true to my life thus far.
Loved it.
It’s the kind of book that tastes like waking
up early and refreshed to a still clean house. There is something so comfortable
and isolated about that kind of morning, you soak in the quietness of it all
and then all day long whenever you take a breath during the chaos you taste the
stillness of that morning. Ahh so refreshing.
Anne describes different stages of life in terms
of different shells. The sunrise, the Oster bed etc. what phase are you
in? Do you think her descriptions where accurate
to your own life?
