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Most of these will go to the 4th floor library that serves the patients and staff of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (abbreviated BACH) - I have not had any JEs yet but am still holding out hope.
Most of these will go to the 4th floor library that serves the patients and staff of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (abbreviated BACH) - I have not had any JEs yet but am still holding out hope.
Brought this home with me last year when I retired as it came back to me eventually after I put in the library. So I eventually got around to reading it.
Gilbert definitely writes well, but her style here is irritating. This is both an exploration of marriage in different cultures and across history, but it's also a memoir of her relationship with Felipe (who was also in [book:Eat, Pray, Love|19501]) and the travails undergone to maintain that relationship, which mostly is whining about how American bureaucracy basically forces them to get married. Her incessant whining about what they had to go through to get married is annoying and self-serving. She travels throughout Southeast Asia and along the way asks about marriage in various lands and cultures. Some of the info about marriage was interesting but the memoir kept getting in the way.
Quotes / info I found interesting:
Asking a Mongolian throat singer what their songs were about: "Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse."
About early European (from early Christian era to 10th century) marriage: At a time when banks and laws and governments were still enormously unstable, marriage became the single most important business arrangement most people would ever make in their lives...Great wealthy families stabilized their fortunes through marriages much the same way that great multinational corporations today stabilize their fortunes through careful mergers and acquisitions.
About marriage laws in the 1200s-1500s: ...the legal notion of coverture - that is, the belief that a woman's individual civil existence is erased the moment she marries. Under this system, a wife effectively becomes "covered" by her husband and no longer has any legal rights of her own, nor can she hold any personal property...as late as the nineteenth century, the British judges Lord William Blackstone was still defending the essence of coverture in his courtroom...The very being of the woman is suspended during marriage...Coverture, then, [becomes]...a "twicing" of the man, wherein his powers doubled and his wife's evaporated completely.
We share our houses with Time, who ticks alongside us as we work at our daily lives, reminding us of our ultimate destination.
The emergency that always gets you in the end is the one you didn't prepare for.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and to be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on the miraculous.
On a study in elderly American women comparing childless women with women who had children: ...show no pattern of special misery or joy in one group or the other. But here's what the researchers did discover that makes elderly women miserable across the board: poverty and poor health. Whether you have children or not, then, the prescription seems clear: Save your money, floss your teeth, were your seatbelt, and keep fit - and you'll be a perfectly happy old bird someday.
Gilbert definitely writes well, but her style here is irritating. This is both an exploration of marriage in different cultures and across history, but it's also a memoir of her relationship with Felipe (who was also in [book:Eat, Pray, Love|19501]) and the travails undergone to maintain that relationship, which mostly is whining about how American bureaucracy basically forces them to get married. Her incessant whining about what they had to go through to get married is annoying and self-serving. She travels throughout Southeast Asia and along the way asks about marriage in various lands and cultures. Some of the info about marriage was interesting but the memoir kept getting in the way.
Quotes / info I found interesting:
Asking a Mongolian throat singer what their songs were about: "Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse."
About early European (from early Christian era to 10th century) marriage: At a time when banks and laws and governments were still enormously unstable, marriage became the single most important business arrangement most people would ever make in their lives...Great wealthy families stabilized their fortunes through marriages much the same way that great multinational corporations today stabilize their fortunes through careful mergers and acquisitions.
About marriage laws in the 1200s-1500s: ...the legal notion of coverture - that is, the belief that a woman's individual civil existence is erased the moment she marries. Under this system, a wife effectively becomes "covered" by her husband and no longer has any legal rights of her own, nor can she hold any personal property...as late as the nineteenth century, the British judges Lord William Blackstone was still defending the essence of coverture in his courtroom...The very being of the woman is suspended during marriage...Coverture, then, [becomes]...a "twicing" of the man, wherein his powers doubled and his wife's evaporated completely.
We share our houses with Time, who ticks alongside us as we work at our daily lives, reminding us of our ultimate destination.
The emergency that always gets you in the end is the one you didn't prepare for.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and to be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on the miraculous.
On a study in elderly American women comparing childless women with women who had children: ...show no pattern of special misery or joy in one group or the other. But here's what the researchers did discover that makes elderly women miserable across the board: poverty and poor health. Whether you have children or not, then, the prescription seems clear: Save your money, floss your teeth, were your seatbelt, and keep fit - and you'll be a perfectly happy old bird someday.
Given to a friend at Binding Moments book club - for release at her LFL
