Phyllis Tickle's exquisite memoir Shaping a Life ranges across a sweeping Southern landscape where we see the events--highly dramatic and te...
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Dec 02, 2007
Emily
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This book is definitely on my favorites list. I became interested in it after hearing she was a contributor to the Voice scripture project and that she was the religion editor at Publisher's Weekly (which I love thumbing through.)
The Shaping of A Life was an excellent title for this because it was exactly that. This book blurred the lines somewhere between a memoir and an autobiography, covering roughly the first thirty years of her life (from 1930-1960.) She is incredibly introspect More...
The Shaping of A Life was an excellent title for this because it was exactly that. This book blurred the lines somewhere between a memoir and an autobiography, covering roughly the first thirty years of her life (from 1930-1960.) She is incredibly introspect More...
Feb 12, 2012
Linda
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A beautifully written memoir of a spiritual journey, "The Shaping of a Life" is an academic masterpiece and a portal to the divine.
May 19, 2011
Jennifer
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deeply insightful and spiritual autobiography of an accomplished writer/religious expert from eastern Tennessee.
May 28, 2010
Justin
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I had to give up on this one part-way through. While the author seems very intelligent, her rather intellectual presentation of spiritual matters is generally not what I look for in spiritual biography. Rather, I hope to be spiritually uplifted- the ability of which to do so I found somewhat lacking in this book.
Jan 16, 2012
Kristen
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I really wanted to like this book. And there were moments I really enjoyed. But I did not love it, nor did I find it as engaging as many other spiritual memoirs.
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