Lauren Winner's Girl Meets God is probably one of my top ten
favorite books. Something about the book and the time period I read it
resonated with me. The book also began my curiosity and fascination with
Judaism which continued with her follow-up book,
so it has a special place on my shelf.
When I saw that Winner had written a new book I was excited
to get my hands on it and read it, even though I was a little worried about the
topic and subject matter- not about having a crisis of faith, but on writing
about so soon. Ms. Winner is a few years older than me and while I've had my
own crises of faith, I also realize that life for me is still young and so it
was a little hard for me to take this book seriously. Are we going to get a
book after every crisis of faith? Also there wasn’t much spiritual meat in the
book, it honestly felt like whining and complaining about life, the end of the
marriage and such. Its perfect material for a blog, but as a memoir on faith it
fell short for me and I reluctantly abandoned it.
The chapters were very short and seemed somewhat choppy and
it felt like I was just rambling along in Lauren’s head. This type of writing
isn’t uncommon, but for what a deeper subject was it just seemed too much. Perhaps I will give this one another go at
another time. I found that a lot of time spiritual memoirs resonate differently
depending on when they are read.
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I realized that I never got around to writing a review for
Girl Meets God. Again, I’m aware that part of the reason that book had such a
profound impact on me, was because of where I was in my own spiritual journey
at the time. I did find my amazon.com review of her book Mudhouse
Sabbath which I enjoyed immensely. I also found a post
where I mentioned my love of Ms. Winner’s book.
