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Title: Momma's Enchanted Supper: Stories for the Long Evenings of Advent by Carol Dechant ISBN: 0-8294-1272-7 Publisher: Loyola Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Enchanting stories for holidays and other days
Comment: Momma's Enchanted Supper is an enchanting collection of
stories with thoughtful reflections tying into the Advent readings. Many of these charming tales evoke my childhood summers spent in Iowa. (Any Midwesterner or
churchgoer will chuckle at DeChant's "Perfection Salad at Iowa's Orange Spectrum Buffet.") Blending humor and wisdom, Momma's Enchanted Supper is sure to appeal to all who see the sacred in our life-stories. Makes a great gift for the holidays.

Rating: 5
Summary: Warm, funny stories you'll love!
Comment: Wonderful stories full of humor and heart. Reading about Carol DeChant's family reminded me of all the stories I cherish about my own kin. Funny, insightful and poignant reflections on the sacredness of family provide spiritual sustenance during advent, or anytime.

Rating: 3
Summary: Not sure about this book
Comment: The stories told in this book are all right just as stories, but what do they have to do with Advent? Not much, it seems to me. I have read a lot of Advent meditation books, and most seem better than this. The problem I had with this book was that in the middle of each family story (one for each day in Advent), the author stuck a small Biblical section. This totally destroyed the flow of the family story. It got to the point that I read the Bible story first, and then the family memoir. The family memoirs seemed to have little correlation to the Bible stories they are supposed to illustrate.
The funniest family memoir was the one about when Nikita Khrushchev came to visit their family home. That was a hoot. Otherwise, they seemed kind of quirky and meaningless. If you can get this book out of the library, fine, but I could not really recommend buying this book as an Advent Bible meditation. The unusual title and the reviews caused me to buy it for our Lutheran church library. I would suggest Advent meditation books by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton or Walter Wangerin before I would recommend this one. They seem to offer more meat and deeper more mature, fully-realized, and better thought-out meanings than this one. The stories here don't seem to have a homey-ness that the title implies we will find. I was prepared to like it a lot more than I really did.