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Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return To The Catholic Church (2012)

by Kaya Oakes(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1593764316 (ISBN13: 9781593764319)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Counterpoint

review 1: Radical Reinvention is a memoir by a Bay Area practicing Catholic with some pretty non-traditional ideas about the church so, yeah, more than one person thought I should read it. Oakes’s writing is clear, her winding path through Catholicism and spiritual struggle are compelling and the balance of personal and philosophical was about right for my tastes. So the question is why didn’t I adore this book? The answer, I think, is that it’s like so many other topical memoirs that cut too close to my life: when I and a writer approach fundamentally the same problem, I get distracted by the ways in which they chose differently than me. When a book tackles something very different from my life I mostly am able to appreciate what these different stories have to teach me. But... more since I’m pretty well along a path that shares a lot in common with Oakes’s I kept getting hung up on our differences, why she didn’t do what I did, how her struggle is not the same as mine. And while I think I would really enjoy talking directly with her and sharing back and forth, this format just didn’t work for me as well as it should have.
review 2: I can't honestly say I 'read' this. I had to skip over so much of it because of the profound profanity and narrow-minded suppositions. There isn't a lot of story value to it and I am truly sorry that some are so bitter and angry.I unfortunately will not add this to my library. I do love a diversity of subjects with true literary value. I won this in a giveaway so I feel consolation that the price of the book was not a personal loss. less

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