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mimmyof5
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Anyone have comments on these books:
Graced and Gifted by Kimberly Hahn
The Heart of Motherhood: Finding Holiness in the Catholic Home by Donna Marie Cooper O'Boyle
The Authentic Catholic Woman by Genevieve Kineke
The Domestic Church: Room by Room by Donna Marie Cooper O'Boyle
I'm not looking for anything too heavy or deep but something that can refresh a tired spirit, iykwim....
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mimmyof5 wrote:
The Domestic Church: Room by Room by Donna Marie Cooper O'Boyle
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I just got this one, as well as her other new one. And I love it. 
I'm not done yet but I do plan to write a review on my blog soon.
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Elena Vidal and Chez Ouiz had reviews on their blogs about "The Authentic Catholic Woman".....I'll find them later today.
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I've read Kineke's Authentic Catholic Woman -- I liked it quite a bit (especially how she wove Mother Church and the Sacraments into her thesis). I don't like Christopher West and thought he was an odd choice for doing the foreward -- altho he makes a good point that men and women should understand the role of women in the world.
I think a much better book is Alice vonHildebrand's Privilege of Being a Woman -- a great meditative reading that is not hard but has lots of good to say.
For a non-Catholic (but a Christian view), I also thoroughly enjoyed is Edith Schaeffer's Hidden Art of Homemaking which is written by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay's mother (the one who wrote For the Children's Sake -- which is the book many of us read and got us started on CM in the first place). Edith Schaeffer gives great advice for running a Christian home filled with the good the true and the beautiful.
Hope that helps.
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Here is Elena's Review of The Authentic Catholic Woman:
Tea At Trianon
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Thank you, Suzanne, for asking me to respond! (although I am stunned and amazed that you remembered I wrote a review on it! You must have an incredible memory!  )
Anyway, I did review THE AUTHENTIC CATHOLIC WOMAN last year on my blog. If you're interested, here's the link.
God bless!
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Review about The Domestic Church: Room by Room
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