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Cargando... Search : a memoir with recipes by Dana Louise Potowski (2011 original; edición 2022)por Michelle Huneven
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. If you've ever been on a board/committee or ever worked for a board, you will love this book. I felt like I was a participant and was fully invested in the twists and turns of working with a diverse group toward a "common" end. Will individual wishes take precedence over the task at hand? How will people work (or not) together? What will you learn about yourself? What will be revealed when all is said and done? The first person narrator was a great choice and yes, there are a number of views on religion since the group is selecting a church leader, all of which I enjoyed even though I am not religious. I found the author's choice to write the book as someone else fascinating and effective. Thoroughly enjoyable. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:*Named One the 10 Most Anticipated Fiction Books of 2022 by Kirkus* From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Michelle Huneven, a sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee, told as a memoir with recipes Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Just as sheâ??s finishing the book tour for her latest bestseller, Dana is asked to join the church search committee for a new minister. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she agrees, and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails of the committee and their candidatesâ??and becomes its own media sensation. Dana had good material to work with: the committee is a wide-ranging mix of Unitarian Universalist congregants, and their candidates range from a baker and microbrew master/pastor to a reverend who identifies as both a witch and an environmental warrior. Ultimately, the committee faces a stark choice between two very different paths forward for the congregation. Although she may have been ambivalent about joining the committee, Dana finds that she cares deeply about the fate of this institution and she will fight the entire committee, if necessary, to win the day for her side. This wry and wise tale will speak to anyone who has ever gone searching, and James Beard Awardâ??winning author Michelle Hunevenâ??s food writing and recipes add flavor to the delightful journey. * This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains recipes from th No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Did I know about "the rule of seventeen"? he asked.
I did not.
Seventeen, he said, is how many people it takes to instigate a coup in a church. (Tom Fox, 50)
How do we live in this world where friends disappear for years and years and reappear as if nothing has happened? (119)
Secrets work on me like splinters. I like them out. (123)
"That's what it means to have an open mind: you get to change it when you've missed something. An open mind lets in new evidence." (Adrian, 172)
In such a deluge of spiritual thought, I felt charged, inspired to be better, more generous; I felt dilated to beauty and suffering, and grateful for the slant of sunlight, the different greens of leaves... (180)
"This is why consensus is problematic," I said. "Because the intractable activist faction wears everyone else down." (Dana, 308)
"Rituals are road maps through life's transitions." (Alanna, 328)
"Systems that hazardous shouldn't be so complicated," said Jack. "If there are too many things that can go wrong, several can and probably will g wrong at once and create a scenario that nobody could anticipate." (348) ( )