Review by Himansh -- A Portrait of Mommy by JL Coston
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[Following is a volunteer review of "A Portrait of Mommy" by JL Coston.]
A Portrait of Mommy written by J L Coston is a biography of the author’s mother Ellawese Darden. Her biography is about her struggles and how she overcame them using faith. The book has two-part, the first half guides us through her childhood her relationship with her parents and family. The second half is about her adult life and how she found faith and god as her companion.
Mommy was born in small country town Jacksonville, Georgia on 4th July 1929. She was called Peas by her parents because she was a small and thin child. She experienced infidelity very young because of her mother. Her father was a hard-working man and toiled hard all his life. They had to move to Pennsylvania because of her father shooting a man in the eye. She experienced bully in her school life and eventually had to drop out in tenth grade. Then her mother ran with a man whom her father brought home to stay with them when she was eighteen. She left her father and came back to Georgia to meet her mom living in lumber city. There she found a guy named Luis and fell in love, got a job and started earning. She had to leave Georgia and go back to Pennsylvania when her father got a stroke and eventually died. After some time, she met Jimmy who was in the navy fell in love and married. She started believing in miracles of god when her baby girl Joy got seriously sick and then she started involving herself in church activities and became a faith healer.
The book is a quick read and is about 100 pages long. One of the best things about the book which I liked was its way of writing, it is simple and free-flowing and the language used is very basic English. The book is written in chronological order which has an easy and elegant transition and the chapters are very well connected with each other. I would like to rate this book 4 out of 4 stars and I didn’t find any mistake and it is professionally edited.
The only thing I didn’t like about the book is the excessive use of faith in the curing of diseases. There were a few examples in which someone was scheduled for surgery or choking for breath and she prayed for them and the person was cured. These examples make me cringe as they feel more like fantasies and exaggeration than a real-life incident. Besides this, there are enough good points about the book to make someone like this book.
I believe this book can be read by anyone as it doesn’t have any content that might hurt someone’s sentiments but still if you can’t tolerate religious things even a bit you can avoid reading this one.
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A Portrait of Mommy
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A Portrait of Mommy written by J L Coston is a biography of the author’s mother Ellawese Darden. Her biography is about her struggles and how she overcame them using faith. The book has two-part, the first half guides us through her childhood her relationship with her parents and family. The second half is about her adult life and how she found faith and god as her companion.
Mommy was born in small country town Jacksonville, Georgia on 4th July 1929. She was called Peas by her parents because she was a small and thin child. She experienced infidelity very young because of her mother. Her father was a hard-working man and toiled hard all his life. They had to move to Pennsylvania because of her father shooting a man in the eye. She experienced bully in her school life and eventually had to drop out in tenth grade. Then her mother ran with a man whom her father brought home to stay with them when she was eighteen. She left her father and came back to Georgia to meet her mom living in lumber city. There she found a guy named Luis and fell in love, got a job and started earning. She had to leave Georgia and go back to Pennsylvania when her father got a stroke and eventually died. After some time, she met Jimmy who was in the navy fell in love and married. She started believing in miracles of god when her baby girl Joy got seriously sick and then she started involving herself in church activities and became a faith healer.
The book is a quick read and is about 100 pages long. One of the best things about the book which I liked was its way of writing, it is simple and free-flowing and the language used is very basic English. The book is written in chronological order which has an easy and elegant transition and the chapters are very well connected with each other. I would like to rate this book 4 out of 4 stars and I didn’t find any mistake and it is professionally edited.
The only thing I didn’t like about the book is the excessive use of faith in the curing of diseases. There were a few examples in which someone was scheduled for surgery or choking for breath and she prayed for them and the person was cured. These examples make me cringe as they feel more like fantasies and exaggeration than a real-life incident. Besides this, there are enough good points about the book to make someone like this book.
I believe this book can be read by anyone as it doesn’t have any content that might hurt someone’s sentiments but still if you can’t tolerate religious things even a bit you can avoid reading this one.
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A Portrait of Mommy
View: on Bookshelves |
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