Love Warrior
A Memoir
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نقد و بررسی
July 4, 2016
In this able, spiritual memoir, New York Times bestselling author Melton (Carry On, Warrior) inspires with her evolution from her alcoholic, bulimic, and promiscuous past, to today, when she feels on top of the world. When she becomes pregnant with her first child, she decides she’s sick of living a half-dead life and stops drinking. She marries the father of her child and moves forward unsteadily until she finds her husband deep into porn and involved in one-night stands. She takes this as a cue to become a person that she can respect. She kicks her husband out, starts talking to God, goes into therapy, and practices yoga. In these activities she finds a series of insights that allow her to transform her life. Spiritual development is idiosyncratic, and Melton struggles to translate her experience into something universal. “You are love,” she tells herself, and she’s ecstatic at this discovery while the reader is floundering. But she writes well enough to create moments of accessible beauty. Women will want to reread passages that describe a return to intimacy with her similarly evolving husband and the speech she gives her young daughters about how sexiness is self-knowledge and self-respect, not stilettos and short skirts.
Author-narrator Glennon Doyle Melton's heartfelt performance underscores the brutal honesty of the story of her ongoing journey to accepting love--of self, of family, and of God. At first, Melton's youthful-sounding voice seems to belie her rocky start, which included an eating disorder in high school and a later alcohol problem, but soon the power of her truths takes center stage. In a clear and expressive delivery, Melton bravely shares her struggles with learning how to live authentically while embracing her missteps and deep uncertainties. Though Melton's challenges may seem to be uniquely hers, the desire to be free of addictions, to be a strong and present parent and partner, to find spiritual peace, and to be comfortable in one's own skin is universal. C.B.L. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award � AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
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