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January 2002
by Peter Pauper Press Inc,US
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Spiral-bound, 160 pages
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088088262X
(isbn13: 9780880882620)
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I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name in...more
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This is one of those books that really will change your life, and it's one that absolutely should.
Lindberg (the wife of Charles Lindberg) explores the necessity of not only looking inward, but of focusing on one's development in order to fully live as a person, a woman, a mother, and a wife. She is especially potent when discussing the necessity of occasional moments of solitude in order to realign one's priorities and give freedom to creative expression, rather than running oneself...more
Lindberg (the wife of Charles Lindberg) explores the necessity of not only looking inward, but of focusing on one's development in order to fully live as a person, a woman, a mother, and a wife. She is especially potent when discussing the necessity of occasional moments of solitude in order to realign one's priorities and give freedom to creative expression, rather than running oneself...more
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Read in January, 2007
I absolutely LOVE this book!! I highly highly recommend it. It is the perfect gift to give a friend/sister/mother or to buy for yourself to read and re-read. It is also a really quick read which is a nice little bonus. If you want a really professional review read Lucy's. (I really think Lucy should become a book critic). But here's what I thought about it...this was my second time reading the book. The first time I read it I was around 18 and getting ready to leave for college. My mom had read ...more
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Read in January, 2008
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Eugene Peterson
I love walking around a bookstore and picking up five or six books of varying genres that catch my eye, sitting down and skimming. If I'm interested I may read a chapter or two, a dozen poems, maybe even ponder buying it before I put them all back on the shelf. This was number four in a stack of nine that I picked up today at Borders. After skimming the introduction, I flipped to the first chapter... forty-five minutes later I had left the store to get a pen from my car and had picked up three n...more
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Read in May, 2008
I remember reading this at BYU for a class and having to do a paper on it. I remember wondering what all the hoopla was about it... it just didn't do all that much for me. But now, some 30+ years later, it had a whole new meaning for me as I truly understood and felt exactly what she was expressing...
It is amazing that though this book was written over 50 years ago, so many of her observations still ring true today, and I found myself marking up page after page. Perhaps the most I got from...more
It is amazing that though this book was written over 50 years ago, so many of her observations still ring true today, and I found myself marking up page after page. Perhaps the most I got from...more
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Read in July, 2008
Okay, my favorite part of this book was the afterwards, wherein Ms. Lindbergh acknowledges just how dated the book's appraisal of feminism was (the book was written in 1955, so you can't blame her for what she didn't know was right around the corner - still, her somewhat negative appraisal bugged me and I was relieved that she acknowledged its problems). She also hints at how difficult it is to follow her type of super-zen advice in real life.
I hate to say it, because so many women j...more
I hate to say it, because so many women j...more
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Read in August, 2008
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Therese, Lisa, Michelle, Tara, Shawna, Kristy, Amy, Lacey, Diane, Brigitte, Faith, Andrea, Holli
What a little gem of a book! I've had this one sitting on my shelf for at least 8 years. I can't remember if I recieved it for a graduation gift from college or grad school. For some reason I picked it up this weekend and I'm so glad I did. It was a very soothing read. What struck me is the book was written in 1955, yet the thinking is quite progressive. The author speaks of what women need to do to make sure they don't lose themselves in daily life. There's talk of taking time for yourself...more
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recommends it for: Every woman
recommends it for: Every woman
In Anne Morrow Lindburg's book A Gift From The Sea, she describes her insights into the complexity of womanhood and life as she discovered them in a brief vacation by the sea.
She helps us see ways to reconcile our most deeply personal needs with obligations to family, friends, lovers, and work, ways to separate loneliness from replenishing solitude, and ways to find solace in the simplest of daily tasks.
It is a book that has brought me peace many times when I have felt af...more
She helps us see ways to reconcile our most deeply personal needs with obligations to family, friends, lovers, and work, ways to separate loneliness from replenishing solitude, and ways to find solace in the simplest of daily tasks.
It is a book that has brought me peace many times when I have felt af...more
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Read in January, 1976
I'm sure I read Gift from the Sea at least 30 years ago and have probably bought and given away as many as thirty copies over the years. Gift from the Sea is one of those books that speaks to a person differently through different stages of one's life. I love it and think every woman should read it. I have since read other books (memoirs, diaries, letter of sorts) by Anne M. Lindbergh and have enjoyed them very much. I was happy to come across the 50th anniversary edition as a gift to myself...more
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Read in November, 2008
Not Donne or Yeats, but so nice to read in an afternoon the wisdom of an adventurous (she flew with her famous husband all over the world) and intentional woman who lived to be ninety. She uses each of five chapters to compare the forms of sea shells to the stages of life and suggests without preaching what is most needed during them. Finding solitude, simplifying and being ones own self even as walking alongside others ("communication becomes communion and one is nourished as one never i...more
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Read in April, 2008
I may be the only person on mother earth that thinks this book is over-rated. I've read it twice now and I just don't get what everyone thinks is so amazing about it. Lindbergh does bring up some interesting ideas that are worth thinking about, but she loses me with the sea shells. I agree with Becca in that, if i want to read something thought provoking with the potential to change my life, i'll read the conference talks in the ensign.
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This book on the author's ruminations of the challenges facing American women is just as applicable today as when it was written 50 years ago. It provided some excellent insights on how torn we often feel over our various roles while trying to remain whole and centered. However, it lacked solutions. I would love to discuss this book at a book club.
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Read in January, 1990
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women who have suffered
This small, thin volume was written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of Charles Lindbergh, after the kidnapping and death of their child. She had gone to Captiva Island in Florida to heal, and this book is divided into chapters, each of which is named for a shell. It could be classified under "inspirational", and it certainly is, but in a way that doesn't deny grief or sorrow. I have little patience with "feel good" books, and I admire Lindbergh's courage, her willingness N...more
I'm embarrassed to say this - but my mom gave this book to me for Christmas years the year I got married and I just found it this week cleaning out Posey's closet. She carried it around for years as her special book.
I'm finding it very insightful and I wish I was sitting on a beach alone reading it.
I'm finding it very insightful and I wish I was sitting on a beach alone reading it.
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Read in August, 2008
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Sandrarecommends it for: Everyone
This small book of great and simple wisdom has spoken to hundreds of thousands of readers. With an inimitable combination of unselfcouscious grace and transparent clarity, Anne Morrow Lindbergh has given moving and memorable form to the problems that beset the human heart.
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Read in January, 2008
This shows how change is an inevitable part of life and that the temptation to try to stay in one stage, perhaps the honeymoon stage of a marriage, is to miss out on the journey.
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I'm not actually reading this, it just sits on the bedside table.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh crafted this classic of lyrical meditations while on a private beach retreat on Florida's Captiva island, away from family and work. The book remains as fresh and meaningful today as when it first came out over a half century ago. Though most known as the wife of famous aviator, Anne was very accomplished in her own right as the first licensed woman glider pilot int the US, the author of 13 books, including Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead, in which she shared her pain at the kid...more
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I found Anne Morrow Lindbergh's thoughts on the passage into middle-age to be insightful. Here is a quote from her book, Gift from the Sea:
"Many people never climb above the plateau of forty-to-fifty. The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as sign of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly,...more
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Read in September, 2008
I believe this book was mentioned in The Poisonwood Bible, which is why I took the time to read it. It was ok. I did like the comparisons she made from the different shells to life, but felt that it was dated. She does admit this in the "re-opened" section at the end of the book. Some true statements I found in this book are:
pg.39: "Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher f...more
pg.39: "Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher f...more
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