I love to read... love, love, love it. But somewhere between running a business, being a wife and mommy and all the other day to day stuff,... reading was more of a wish than a reality in the last year or so.
Having a baby always changes that for me. In the quiet of the night or around the time of afternoon naps, I can always find time for a good book.
Matt knows this of course, so he got me a Kindle for Christmas and I take that thing with me everywhere!! But even better, I hooked up with a great site for bloggers & readers alike, called BookSneeze. Free books for writing honest reviews - nothing wrong with that!
I recently had the opportunity to read Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul by John Eldredge & Stasi Eldredge and today I am posting my thoughts on this book.
After hearing many wonderful reviews about this book, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul by John Eldredge & Stasi Eldredge, I was excited to get my hands on a copy! My excitement was short lived as I was quickly disappointed that it did not live up to all of the hype. The general goal of this book is to encourage and teach women how to set their heart free. Through the demands of life, women seem to lose sight of their childhood desires to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a grand adventure, and to unveil beauty and the authors of this book try to encourage women back to a place of accepting that they were created in the image of God.
In the first few chapters, I thought that maybe this book could go somewhere, but sadly after that I felt as though the authors, John Eldredge & Stasi Eldredge, became a little repetitive and in between the main points was a lot of fluff. My other issue with this book was that I had expected it to be much more biblical in nature and that it would use scripture to support its ideas, but the use of scripture paled in comparison to the use of movie references and when scripture was used, it was not always used in its proper context.
Overall, this book took a long time to get through and in the end, I felt like I had gotten very little out of it.
