Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
A Memoir

I bought this after meeting the author at a book reading. I had really enjoyed her first book and jumped at the chance to meet Kate and hear about her second. This one continues with a similar style, and seems to deepen the message of the first. As a person I found her genuine, funny and completely......more

Rev. Kate's latest book is also my least favorite, which is to say, I think she may need to find some new material, and I am a little raw from the feelings it stirred up. I still love her conversational style, her message of love and acceptance, and the way she embraces her faults. I liked the additi......more

Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #28: A biography, autobiography or memoir If this was classified as a book of essays rather than a memoir, I might have enjoyed it more. As a memoir, it just felt so all-over-the-place. Braestrup is a good writer, but there was no clear through-line, and there di......more

I thoroughly enjoyed Braestrup's first book Here If You Need Me and hoped she would continue with the insightful and beautiful writing. I was not disappointed. Braestrup is a Unitarian Universalist minister/chaplain who works with the Maine warden service. Tragicially, suddenly widowed in 1996 when h......more