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Open book: Christine Jensen
Posted on 14 Nov 2006
What book are you reading at the moment? Watching the English by Kate Fox, and For What It's Worth
by Simon Guillebaud. The first is a light-hearted anthropological
observation of the English and their idiosycratic behaviour. I thought
I was a mixed bag in terms of my cultural default setting, but it turns
out that if you cut me through, a large chunk would spell 'Blighty'.
The Guilibaud book is like a fruitcake: you need to chew over it, just
can't rush through or you'll get indigestion. All about living a life
that's just utterly, totally and completely God's.
What is the book that has had the biggest impact on you? Boundaries
by Henry Cloud and John Townsend which is fundamentally about people.
How we set boundaries, or fail to, in our relationships with others,
and the consequences of our actions. You know those moments when the
dark clouds part and the sun blazes through? Those 'Aha! now I
see!' moments? This book is chocca-stuffed-full-to-the-edges with them.