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Title: Plain and Simple : A Journey to the Amish by Sue Bender ISBN: 0-06-250186-0 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 25 October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Insight into a personal journey...
Comment: Sue Bender's book "Plain and Simple" is a refreshing alternative to the usual Self-Help pap that overwhelms the genre. Instead of telling the reader what to do or what to believe, Bender simply spins out the tale of her journey to the Amish and then reveals the metaphor that the journey created for her own life.
This book is not a documentary on the life of the Amish. It is not a psychoanalysis of these people. It is not about which lifestyle is better. It is like reading someone's journal--the entries are personal and intimate. They relate to the author's life and her struggle to find a common ground between the Amish values and the values that her current lifestyle embraces.
I found the book to be very affirming of my own values and very thought provoking. As an artist, I was also interested to read about how her artwork changed as a result of this encounter. I applaud the author for having the courage to follow the "still small voice" and then to write about the questions rather than being tempted to write about the answers!
Rating: 5
Summary: A book to be read over and over for relaxation.
Comment: This book was given to me as a birthday gift by a friend with whom I was in business. Unkowingly, this friend, also named "Sue", gave me the key to relaxation. When things get hectic and chaotic in my life, I read Plain and Simple. From the time I start reading, there is a peace that comes over me and I feel so calm afterwards. The writing seems to put me where Sue was when she was visiting the Amish...the same quiet peace I feel when gazing over miles of farmland dotted with homes with barns and silos - - and no electrical poles! Unfortunately, I am not surrounded by that environment, so reading Plain and Simple brings me there! Having loaned my copy to an elderly friend who was rehabilitating after heart surgery, I waited for her response. She didn't think she could read it since she was having trouble "concentrating on more than a paragraph of anything printed". I left it with her anyway, and at my next visit, she not only thanked me profusely, but told me she was adding it to her book "gift list"! So, I knew then it was not only me who benefited from the peace of the book. My thanks to the author!
Rating: 5
Summary: Oh man, I can't believe I'm reviewing a 20yo book
Comment: I read Plain and Simple when it was first published in 1991. I can't believe it took me this long to review it. Sue Bender, a Berkeley artist and mother of two with grad degrees from both Harvard and Berkeley, just up and left town one day and went east to spent time with the Amish. Not as easy as it sounds, folks, because the Amish are intensely private people who don't routinely welcome outsiders. Somehow, however, Bender managed to convince two families to take her into the folds of their farming communities in Iowa and Ohio. She was transformed - and in this book that reflects the plain and simple lifestyle of the Simple Folk, she explains why and how this transformation occurred and what it means to her now.
Bender had always lived a life of moving from one list item to another, checking things off from the top only to add more at the bottom. The Amish, not unlike the Zen Buddhists, savor and honor each daily task, finding meaning within the most mundane chores. A book as meaningful and beautifully crafted as an Amish quilt, Plain and Simple deserves to be treasured.
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Title: Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home by Sue Bender ISBN: 0062512900 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Stretching Lessons: The Daring that Starts from Within by Sue Bender ISBN: 0062516825 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Amish Women: Lives and Stories by Louise Stoltzfus ISBN: 1561481297 Publisher: Good Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Amish in Their Own Words: Amish Writings from 25 Years of Family Life Magazine by Brad Igou ISBN: 0836191234 Publisher: Herald Press (PA) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Stretching Lessons: The Daring that Starts from Within by Sue Bender ISBN: 0062516833 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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