The Bent Twig
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(4,763 Sterne; 19 Bewertungen)
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a Midwestern state university and she is following in his inquisitive footsteps. Canfield writes this in a matter-of-fact manner with Tarkingtonesque good humor. ( Summary by BellonaTimes ) (18 hr 14 min)
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Depressing and Empty
Dagley Family
(2 Sterne)
This is almost a good book/series, but the characters search the whole time for meaning in life, and never find it. God is the only one who can give real meaning to life. Instead they find a little satisfaction in caring about your fellow being more than yourself. But even helping your fellow man materially has no value if you can't also give them hope, lead them to God who alone can bring healing to their souls and meaning to their lives. It also dabbles in witchcraft as a source of comfort for those in mourning, which is something totally wicked that God has forbidden. If only someone would have told the characters that God loved them, that he could forgive their sin and break their chains of addiction, and could offer them a new life. You aren't trapped by addictions passed down to you from past generations, God can wash you clean and help you live a life worthy of him. For we are God's children. The wages of sin are death. But Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin and redeem us!