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Title: Having a mary Heart in a Martha World
Review: Our women's covenant group at a local Methodist church worked with this book for a few months. We found the author's viewpoint to be disappointingly demeaning to women: a very fundamentalist portrayal of women based on their Biblical status vs. contemporary society,and assumptions that we cannot prioritize our lives and work to make room for a relationship with God. The writing style was rather awkward, too: many little personal stories with "forced" linkages with spiritual messages. The last chapter revealed a probable reason for our frustration: the author states she wrote this book at the age of 37 -- too young to have developed mature coping strategies. We would not recommend the book, due to the biases noted above.
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