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Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, And Solves Her Lady Problems (2012)

by Rhoda Janzen(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

145550288X (ISBN13: 9781455502882)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

review 1: I think that Rhoda is a very funny writer, but like her previous book (Mennonite in a Little Black Dress), this starts out strong and very funny, then gets fuzzy. I do like learning about her Mennonite background and family and that seems to be the marketing draw of these books. But across the two books, Rhoda has swung from one extreme to the next: first married to a gay bipolar man and taking a strident pose toward women's rights to an education/career to then seemingly total submission to a big oaf who stomps the heads of chipmunks. How can someone worship God and savagely kill his creations? Come to think of it though, the focus on both books is heavy on submitting to ("not dealing with") the strange behaviors of her mate. I don't think Rhoda has solved her problem... mores at all, and perhaps another book in the series will soon be released with the pendulum swinging in some different direction, but I am unlikely to read it (i.e., I am so offended by the submission to the gun-toting oaf that I won't read any further books). Maybe I am just getting tired of memoirs, but this one seems affected, rushed to print to capitalize on the first best seller.
review 2: The writing was alright and she has a very interesting story but I'm not really into reading religious testimonial type books. Granted that's not wholly what it is but it's a big part of it. On top of that, my own mother passed from cancer and I just don't think I'm ready yet to delve into that. But, if Elizabeth Gilbert had written it, I might have been willing to... I guess the bigger factor for me was just the testimonial angle. Many people I know really enjoyed it. It's just not for me. less

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