Average Rating: 9.0Erika: 8.5 - Liked character development, author involved the readers, didn't rush the parts.
Dija: 9.0 - Too much blood and baby deliveries and pregnancies. Easy to read; Dinah and her relationships with her moms...liked this. She is happy that she didn't live in those times.
Tina: 7.0 - (pg. 67) Thought it was hard to read...right before the juicy part! It was gross - a lot of parts, interested to get to the rest of it.
Sara: 9.5 - Excellent job of giving a beautiful story - completely engrossed in the story. A story you couldn't put down...Dinah was an excellent narrator - strange to read about Polygamy and the dynamics.
Rebecca: 8.5 - Book is all about birthing and the experience. Despite all of that, the book was good - these parts were necessary for the story and shows how pregnancy consumes a community and the women. Liked how the story was told by Dinah made her link the Bible stories to this story.
Anne: 10 - Loved it...thought initially it would be hard to read. Easily could connect the people. Liked the stories and history told in the Red Tent, bond between the women. Dinah's story was tragic and contained a lot of dynamic.
Dana: 10 - Loved it...the relationship of sisterhood between Dinah's mother was very interesting. The relationships and history of Dinah and Brother Joseph reminds me of my relationship my my brother Benno.
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COMMENTS FROM BECKY
(IN IRAQ)
Great Book, now one of my top 3, to also include: The Devil in the White City and My Sister's Keeper. I give this book a 9.5. I am not sure what I am saving my 10s for, but I am sure some day I will find out.
First, I found this book oddly paralleling the last book about mother's, daughters, the woman's struggle, the woman's place and rituals within the culture. They even both have festivals when the woman who have married out of the families come back to be with their native families. I am so glad our worth today is not based soley on the number of sons we have.The interesting difference though were the subtle male characteristics. Jacob did not come across as brutle and distant as the fathers and husbands in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
I also learned a lot about history. I know this is fiction, but it's based largely on the Bible. I also read Genesis 34, which is definately written from the man's point of view. I liked the story Diamant created around Dinah and found it so intriguing. I also found it so cool the reference to Ur. That's where I am. It exists, and it's where Abraham "Abram" lived. I am so glad we read this book when I was here.
I am cautious not to reveal too much since bookclub isn't until January. Although I will say after reading this book, it makes Jacob having 4 wives more acceptable, than the way it's described in the Bible.
This was a book that I thought about all day. I wanted to get back to my trailer and read. It was great because it put me in a different world.
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