Catholic Bible-RSV – December, 2005


Catholic Bible-RSV Paperback – December, 2005
Author: Ignatius Press ID: 0898708346

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This beautiful bible is also available from Ignatius Press in a leather hardcover edition and a flexible bonded leather cover edition. These leather covers feature the same iconography of Christ and the Four Evangelists as the paperback, but beautifully crafted in gold-foil stamping.

Paperback: 845 pagesPublisher: Ignatius Press (December 2005)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0898708346ISBN-13: 978-0898708349 Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #78,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #727 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Bibles #1090 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Bible Study & Reference > Bible Study #18280 in Books > Religion & Spirituality
I am an ardent lover of the RSV bible. It has been my bible of choice for nearly 30 years. With the second Catholic edition, archaic language has been removed, and thus the RSV SCE is an excellent alternative for Catholics to the NAB and NRSV. I give the RSV SCE 5 stars.

I very much like that the designation, "Only Son," has been replaced by "Only Begotten Son" in John’s gospel. This conforms more closely to our Nicene Heritage. I don’t like the translation, "Only Son," as most modern versions have, even though that translation has merit.

The RSV SCE offers some welcome concessions to the Catholic understanding of the text. I mention two: 1) The Angel’s greeting to Mary in Luke 1:28 is rendered as "hail, full of grace,the Lord is with you" rather than "Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!" as in the original RSV. 2) Isaiah 7:14 uses the word "Virgin" rather than "young women" as in the original RSV. This change is legitimate, even though the Hebrew simply has "young woman." The Bible of the ancient Christian community was the Greek Septuagint, which was considered inspired in its own right. The Septuagint uses the word "virgin (parthenos)" in Isaiah 7:14.

One might hope that eventually, the RSV SCE will replace the New American Bible in all Enlish language Catholic liturgies, both here and abroad. Some Churches are already taking advantage of the RSV SCE. The new RSV SCE Lectionary has been approved for use in the Roman Rite by the Antilles Bishops Conference. The new Ukrainian Catholic Divine Liturgy Service provides New Testament quotes from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. The RSV SCE is literal, literary, and reliable.
The Revised Standard Version – Second Catholic Edition (RSV-2CE) is an updated version of the 1966 RSV-Catholic edition. Important changes from the original Catholic edition have been highlighted by some of the reviewers, but they generally fall into either of 2 principles: (i) removing archaisms, such as "morrow", "thees" and "thous", from the much of the text (except the Pater noster), or (ii) adjustments in favour of the Nova Vulgata as requested by Liturgiam authenticam.

The revision had great promise, but unfortunately the second principle was not followed consistently in my opinion. While they changed "cup" to "chalice" in the Last Supper narrative found in the three synoptic Gospels and in St. Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians (11:23-26), it retained "cup" in the other places where the word refers to the cup/chalice of the Eucharist (10:16 and 11:27-28), leaving the reader puzzled as to the difference in terms in these cases. Similarly, while it is laudable that the RSV-2CE made some changes to Sirach to follow the Nova Vulgata, such as the inclusion of 1:5, 1:7 in the main biblical text rather than in the footnotes, it left out many (if not most) of the other unique verses found in the Nova Vulgata that were not translated in the original RSV-CE. It appears that the RSV-2CE is faithful to the second principle only for texts that are used somewhere in the Lectionary; perhaps the editors of the work simply took changes made by Rome to their edition of the RSV Lectionary and pasted them wholesale into the biblical text.
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The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully Paperback – September 1, 2010
Author: Visit ‘s Joan Chittister Page ID: 1933346337

From Publishers Weekly

Well-known in Catholic circles for her willingness to take on anybody-even the pope-in defense of women’s rights, Chittister, now in her 70s, examines how it feels “to be facing that time of life for which there is no career plan.” Clearly, getting older has not diminished the controversial nun, activist, lecturer and author of nearly 40 books on feminism, nonviolence and Benedictine wisdom. This collection of inspirational reflections, “not meant to be read in one sitting, or even in order, but one topic at a time,” abounds in gentle insights and arresting aphorisms: “‘Act your age’ can be useful advice when you’re seventeen; it’s a mistake when you’re seventy-seven.” Beginning each short chapter with a trenchant quotation (“‘It takes a long time,’ Pablo Picasso wrote, ‘to become young'”), she ponders topics such as fear, mystery, forgiveness and legacy. Old age is rich for those who choose to thrive, not wither: “We can recreate ourselves in order to be creative in the world in a different way than the boundaries of our previous life allowed.”
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

“Chittister beautifully downplays regrets and accents the rewards of a mature life.”  —Library Journal, starred review

“This collection of inspirational reflections . . . abounds in gentle insights and arresting aphorisms.”  —Publishers Weekly

“We can all draw strength from Chittister’s essays on regret, nostalgia, and forgiveness. She reminds readers of all generations that aging doesn’t have to be a depressing series of losses.” —School Library Journal

“Perhaps you have to be in the second half of life to know how truthfully and helpfully Joan Chittister speaks. We live in a first-half-of-life culture, which makes this wisdom all the more necessary—and all the more wonderful.”  —Richard Rohr, author, The Naked Now

“A prophetic voice that is desperately needed in our troubled time.”  —Karen Armstrong, author, The Great Transformation

“It’s the best book I have read on the subject of aging, a dazzling work radiant with gems of insight on every page. It will be my spiritual reading in the days ahead.”  —Andrew Greeley, author, The Great Mysteries
“Brims with insight, pluck, verve and courage. . . . It shows us both the joys and the challenges of growing older, and encourages us to discover the deep spiritual meaning that can come with older age.”  —Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking
“An amazing compendium of wisdom not only for people facing aging or providing support, but for everyone who wants to live a spiritually centered and balanced life.”  —Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine

See all Editorial Reviews

Paperback: 222 pagesPublisher: BlueBridge; Fourth Printing edition (September 1, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1933346337ISBN-13: 978-1933346335 Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #5,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #15 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Aging #40 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #47 in Books > Self-Help > Spiritual
When "The Gift of Years" by Joan Chittister made its way to my mailbox for me to review, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Was I really the right person to be reviewing this? After all, I am in my thirties, transitioning from youth to middle age. I’m not quite ready for senior citizen status yet. As it turned out, "The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully" is a wonderful lesson in how to live, regardless of our chronological age.

Chittister, a Benedictine sister, is 70 years old. She suggests that she may actually be too young to write this book because life still has lessons left to offer. She "reserves the right to revise this edition when she is ninety." Chittister views how we life at any age to be a choice. We are each given the gift of today. It is up to us what we do with it. She counters the idea that old age need be a time of isolation and loneliness and uselessness. Rather, it can be a time of great connectedness and joy and purpose. It is a time for looking back, not with the pain of regret for opportunities lost, but with understanding of how the life that has been lived has meaning for who we are right now and what our future holds.

Chittister maintains that senior citizens have so much to offer to the world at large. Their wisdom and their stories and their experience are a great gift. They also have the time to get involved. Without the pressures of a 9-to-5 job or raising a family, they can volunteer more, make more of a difference. They have the chance to do all the things that they always wanted to do that there was never time for before. "Age does not forgive us our responsibility to give the world back to God a bit better than it was because we were here.
"The thing most wrong about this book," Joan Chittister tells us in this vibrant collection of essays on growing old, "is that I may be too young to write it. I am, after all, only seventy." She is, she tells us, among those whom gerontologists call the "young old," those who are sixty-five to seventy-four and may not yet have attained the ripest wisdom.

We are indeed fortunate that Chittister decided not to postpone the writing of The Gift of Years, for it is full of the grace of decades of thought and meditation. It is written not only for those of us who are among the old, but for everyone: we are all growing older, and all of us may eventually undertake the search for meaning and fulfillment that lies at the deepest heart of the aging process.

The Gift of Years is a full basket of rich gifts: forty-plus short essays on the many dimensions of eldering, "its purpose and its challenges, its struggles and its surprises." Each essay begins with words of wisdom from someone who has considered the meaning of growing old, then tells a brief story or an anecdote, offers a reflection, and invites us to participate in a meditation on the burden and blessing of the years.

In "Time," for instance, Chittister quotes Pablo Picasso: "It takes a long time to become young." There is an anecdote about a potter named Thomas, who at eighty had lived long enough "to release the beginner in himself again and again." There are reflections: time ages things; time deepens things; time ripens things. And then there is the meditation.
Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, has written over twenty-five books that map the terrain of the Christian life, with special attention paid to issues of feminism, international justice, the monastics, and reform in the Catholic Church. I’ve especially enjoyed Scarred By Struggle, Transformed By Hope (2003) based upon the Jacob narrative, Listen with the Heart (2003), and Called to Question (2004). In The Gift of Years she writes for a broader audience that is not necessarily Christian or even religious.

Now that she has passed her seventieth birthday, Chittister explores what it means to grow older gracefully. To do this she has written short (3-5 pages each) meditations on forty themes like regret, ageism, adjustment, letting go, sadness, solitude, success, etc. She begins each chapter with a pithy aphorism from a broad range of poets and prophets, both ancient and modern — Plato and Picasso, Browning and Byron, Emily Dickinson and Jung. After the brief meditation, she summarizes the chapter by observing both the "burden" and the "blessing" of the theme under consideration. On the idea of the future, for example, she writes, "The burden of these years is to assume that the future is already over. A blessing of these years is to give another whole meaning to what it is to be alive, to be ourselves, to be full of life. Our own life."

Which is to say that much of my future of growing older is what I intentionally choose to make it. We all face the inexorable biology of the body and the deterioration of our physical condition. But we also enjoy the possibilities of the "eternity of the spirit" and the frame of mind we choose to follow. One can choose to age passively or actively, says Chittister.
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The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully Paperback – September 1, 2010
Author: Visit ‘s Joan Chittister Page ID: 1933346337

From Publishers Weekly

Well-known in Catholic circles for her willingness to take on anybody-even the pope-in defense of women’s rights, Chittister, now in her 70s, examines how it feels “to be facing that time of life for which there is no career plan.” Clearly, getting older has not diminished the controversial nun, activist, lecturer and author of nearly 40 books on feminism, nonviolence and Benedictine wisdom. This collection of inspirational reflections, “not meant to be read in one sitting, or even in order, but one topic at a time,” abounds in gentle insights and arresting aphorisms: “‘Act your age’ can be useful advice when you’re seventeen; it’s a mistake when you’re seventy-seven.” Beginning each short chapter with a trenchant quotation (“‘It takes a long time,’ Pablo Picasso wrote, ‘to become young'”), she ponders topics such as fear, mystery, forgiveness and legacy. Old age is rich for those who choose to thrive, not wither: “We can recreate ourselves in order to be creative in the world in a different way than the boundaries of our previous life allowed.”
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

“Chittister beautifully downplays regrets and accents the rewards of a mature life.”  —Library Journal, starred review

“This collection of inspirational reflections . . . abounds in gentle insights and arresting aphorisms.”  —Publishers Weekly

“We can all draw strength from Chittister’s essays on regret, nostalgia, and forgiveness. She reminds readers of all generations that aging doesn’t have to be a depressing series of losses.” —School Library Journal

“Perhaps you have to be in the second half of life to know how truthfully and helpfully Joan Chittister speaks. We live in a first-half-of-life culture, which makes this wisdom all the more necessary—and all the more wonderful.”  —Richard Rohr, author, The Naked Now

“A prophetic voice that is desperately needed in our troubled time.”  —Karen Armstrong, author, The Great Transformation

“It’s the best book I have read on the subject of aging, a dazzling work radiant with gems of insight on every page. It will be my spiritual reading in the days ahead.”  —Andrew Greeley, author, The Great Mysteries
“Brims with insight, pluck, verve and courage. . . . It shows us both the joys and the challenges of growing older, and encourages us to discover the deep spiritual meaning that can come with older age.”  —Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking
“An amazing compendium of wisdom not only for people facing aging or providing support, but for everyone who wants to live a spiritually centered and balanced life.”  —Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine

See all Editorial Reviews

Paperback: 222 pagesPublisher: BlueBridge; Fourth Printing edition (September 1, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1933346337ISBN-13: 978-1933346335 Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #5,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #15 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Aging #40 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #47 in Books > Self-Help > Spiritual
When "The Gift of Years" by Joan Chittister made its way to my mailbox for me to review, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Was I really the right person to be reviewing this? After all, I am in my thirties, transitioning from youth to middle age. I’m not quite ready for senior citizen status yet. As it turned out, "The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully" is a wonderful lesson in how to live, regardless of our chronological age.

Chittister, a Benedictine sister, is 70 years old. She suggests that she may actually be too young to write this book because life still has lessons left to offer. She "reserves the right to revise this edition when she is ninety." Chittister views how we life at any age to be a choice. We are each given the gift of today. It is up to us what we do with it. She counters the idea that old age need be a time of isolation and loneliness and uselessness. Rather, it can be a time of great connectedness and joy and purpose. It is a time for looking back, not with the pain of regret for opportunities lost, but with understanding of how the life that has been lived has meaning for who we are right now and what our future holds.

Chittister maintains that senior citizens have so much to offer to the world at large. Their wisdom and their stories and their experience are a great gift. They also have the time to get involved. Without the pressures of a 9-to-5 job or raising a family, they can volunteer more, make more of a difference. They have the chance to do all the things that they always wanted to do that there was never time for before. "Age does not forgive us our responsibility to give the world back to God a bit better than it was because we were here.
"The thing most wrong about this book," Joan Chittister tells us in this vibrant collection of essays on growing old, "is that I may be too young to write it. I am, after all, only seventy." She is, she tells us, among those whom gerontologists call the "young old," those who are sixty-five to seventy-four and may not yet have attained the ripest wisdom.

We are indeed fortunate that Chittister decided not to postpone the writing of The Gift of Years, for it is full of the grace of decades of thought and meditation. It is written not only for those of us who are among the old, but for everyone: we are all growing older, and all of us may eventually undertake the search for meaning and fulfillment that lies at the deepest heart of the aging process.

The Gift of Years is a full basket of rich gifts: forty-plus short essays on the many dimensions of eldering, "its purpose and its challenges, its struggles and its surprises." Each essay begins with words of wisdom from someone who has considered the meaning of growing old, then tells a brief story or an anecdote, offers a reflection, and invites us to participate in a meditation on the burden and blessing of the years.

In "Time," for instance, Chittister quotes Pablo Picasso: "It takes a long time to become young." There is an anecdote about a potter named Thomas, who at eighty had lived long enough "to release the beginner in himself again and again." There are reflections: time ages things; time deepens things; time ripens things. And then there is the meditation.
Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, has written over twenty-five books that map the terrain of the Christian life, with special attention paid to issues of feminism, international justice, the monastics, and reform in the Catholic Church. I’ve especially enjoyed Scarred By Struggle, Transformed By Hope (2003) based upon the Jacob narrative, Listen with the Heart (2003), and Called to Question (2004). In The Gift of Years she writes for a broader audience that is not necessarily Christian or even religious.

Now that she has passed her seventieth birthday, Chittister explores what it means to grow older gracefully. To do this she has written short (3-5 pages each) meditations on forty themes like regret, ageism, adjustment, letting go, sadness, solitude, success, etc. She begins each chapter with a pithy aphorism from a broad range of poets and prophets, both ancient and modern — Plato and Picasso, Browning and Byron, Emily Dickinson and Jung. After the brief meditation, she summarizes the chapter by observing both the "burden" and the "blessing" of the theme under consideration. On the idea of the future, for example, she writes, "The burden of these years is to assume that the future is already over. A blessing of these years is to give another whole meaning to what it is to be alive, to be ourselves, to be full of life. Our own life."

Which is to say that much of my future of growing older is what I intentionally choose to make it. We all face the inexorable biology of the body and the deterioration of our physical condition. But we also enjoy the possibilities of the "eternity of the spirit" and the frame of mind we choose to follow. One can choose to age passively or actively, says Chittister.
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The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Hardcover – April 20, 2004
Author: Visit ‘s Mark Sanborn Page ID: 0385513518

Review

The Fred Factor is a powerful, poignant parable of success. It’s about going the extra mile and always doing more than is expected. It is revolutionary, yet simple. It is life changing.”
–Brian Tracy, author of Focal Point and Goals: How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

About the Author

MARK SANBORN is an international known author, motivational speaker, and the president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio for leadership development. He gives nearly one hundred presentations each year on leadership, team building, customer service, and mastering change. Mark and his family live near Denver, Colorado.

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Hardcover: 112 pagesPublisher: Currency; 1st edition (April 20, 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0385513518ISBN-13: 978-0385513517 Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #12,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #19 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Business & Professional Growth #85 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #189 in Books > Business & Money > Business Culture > Motivation & Self-Improvement

This short book focuses on a mailman Mark Sanborn met, a man named Fred. When the author first met Fred, Fred took an effort to get to know his new customer, and find ways to do a better job as a mailman. This book about the value of doing a better job, how to build relationships, and why we should take initiative. In short by going the extra mile we’ll have a better life, and others will benefit.

It is a good book, and a short book. It is well written. The book is entertaining and at the same time makes many good points.

The first of four sections covers how the author met Fred the mailman, and how very quickly the author realized that Fred was a superstar mail carrier. The basics of what a "Fred" is are explored, and then the author mentions sightings of other "Freds."

The second section explains how you can become a Fred. Basically you need to build relationships with others so you know them well enough to then be able to be create, take initiative and make a difference.

The third section gives pointers on how you can help others grow into being Freds. The basic steps are to:

1) Find – how do you recognize a Fred

2) Reward – how should Freds be rewarded

3) Educate – how help people improve their Fredness

4) Demonstrate – model the correct behavior

The final section recounts the value and importance of being a Fred.

This is a book worth reading. It provides a good reminder and motivation to go the extra mile and do a better job.

Ever had a waiter ask, "Somethin’ to drink?" while you look at your menu? How about a hotel clerk that says "Help you" like a question or a secretary who says "may I ask what this is in reference to?" when you try to call someone? The fact is, we hear so many monotone responses so often that "excuse me" "nice to meet you" and "have a nice day" seem to have no meaning at all. But then there’s Fred, the guy who looks you in the eye, goes the extra mile, and adds a personal touch to the service he provides you. In today’s ever-so-competitive markets, you’d think the personal touch approach would be second nature. The thing is, it’s not, and this probably won’t change. Sanborn isn’t trying to teach clever people a shortcut–he’s simply trying to remind us that genuine effort and a personal approach will never go out of style.

What I love about The Fred Factor is that it counters the notion that to succeed in business means somehow abandoning your values. Mark Sanborn makes a case that success in business, or life, for that matter, is a matter of embracing the values of service, caring, and doing the right thing. This is a book that should be standard issue for every employee of every company. Outstanding!
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Author: Visit ‘s Mark Sanborn Page ID: 0385513518

Review

The Fred Factor is a powerful, poignant parable of success. It’s about going the extra mile and always doing more than is expected. It is revolutionary, yet simple. It is life changing.”
–Brian Tracy, author of Focal Point and Goals: How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

About the Author

MARK SANBORN is an international known author, motivational speaker, and the president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio for leadership development. He gives nearly one hundred presentations each year on leadership, team building, customer service, and mastering change. Mark and his family live near Denver, Colorado.

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Hardcover: 112 pagesPublisher: Currency; 1st edition (April 20, 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0385513518ISBN-13: 978-0385513517 Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #12,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #19 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Business & Professional Growth #85 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #189 in Books > Business & Money > Business Culture > Motivation & Self-Improvement

This short book focuses on a mailman Mark Sanborn met, a man named Fred. When the author first met Fred, Fred took an effort to get to know his new customer, and find ways to do a better job as a mailman. This book about the value of doing a better job, how to build relationships, and why we should take initiative. In short by going the extra mile we’ll have a better life, and others will benefit.

It is a good book, and a short book. It is well written. The book is entertaining and at the same time makes many good points.

The first of four sections covers how the author met Fred the mailman, and how very quickly the author realized that Fred was a superstar mail carrier. The basics of what a "Fred" is are explored, and then the author mentions sightings of other "Freds."

The second section explains how you can become a Fred. Basically you need to build relationships with others so you know them well enough to then be able to be create, take initiative and make a difference.

The third section gives pointers on how you can help others grow into being Freds. The basic steps are to:

1) Find – how do you recognize a Fred

2) Reward – how should Freds be rewarded

3) Educate – how help people improve their Fredness

4) Demonstrate – model the correct behavior

The final section recounts the value and importance of being a Fred.

This is a book worth reading. It provides a good reminder and motivation to go the extra mile and do a better job.

Ever had a waiter ask, "Somethin’ to drink?" while you look at your menu? How about a hotel clerk that says "Help you" like a question or a secretary who says "may I ask what this is in reference to?" when you try to call someone? The fact is, we hear so many monotone responses so often that "excuse me" "nice to meet you" and "have a nice day" seem to have no meaning at all. But then there’s Fred, the guy who looks you in the eye, goes the extra mile, and adds a personal touch to the service he provides you. In today’s ever-so-competitive markets, you’d think the personal touch approach would be second nature. The thing is, it’s not, and this probably won’t change. Sanborn isn’t trying to teach clever people a shortcut–he’s simply trying to remind us that genuine effort and a personal approach will never go out of style.

What I love about The Fred Factor is that it counters the notion that to succeed in business means somehow abandoning your values. Mark Sanborn makes a case that success in business, or life, for that matter, is a matter of embracing the values of service, caring, and doing the right thing. This is a book that should be standard issue for every employee of every company. Outstanding!
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“A capturing tale associated with Mann’s arriving of age, the woman family history, the woman artistic affects and selections. It is also a homage towards the south… HOLD Is still thought-provoking which is certainly arresting to look at. “― The particular Washington Write-up

“Sally Mann… contains written a perfect memoir… it can be foremost some sort of literary success, showing Mann to be mainly because ingenious having words mainly because she is having a camera. “― Oprah. possuindo

“[An] incredible book…. domestic plumbing family records, Mann originates tales associated with scandal, murder-suicide and racism, while the spectacular visuals uncover her innovating creative development. The result is mainly because fresh plus startling for a candid. “― Folks

“Mann’s prose-luminous, chatty and smart-together with pictures that detain and provoke-invites readers to carry the digital camera still ready, and in of which space, to assume whole narratives that accompany these types of slices soon enough. “― Los Angeles Situations

“Mann cannot response all the questions this asks very little and sometimes uncertainties her objective and the woman memories, playing with holding even now in the fast-flowing stream, this lady has produced the particular rarest associated with things, an image so legitimate it is unique. “― The Telegraph

“A powerfully shifting, meditative evaluation not just of artist’s lifetime and job but also associated with something considerably more permanent, unexplained and intricate: the Southern region, both in close-up and out of afar…. This woman is a rarity: the flexible artist. “― The particular Richmond Times-Dispatch

“A stirring adventure of a lifetime in photographs…. A powerful self-portrait of artist plus her channel, and of people and panoramas that have supported that skill. “― Garden plus Gun

“[A] crackling, forthright hunt for her lifetime and job…. The vive writing plus remarkable photographs attest to Mann’s relentless pattern of enjoying the world, waiting around for ‘that incubating purity and beauty that happens, occasionally, when all of the parts add up. ‘”― The Cleveland Plain Seller

“A sprawling, keen of a memoir, stretching story into images, personal recollections into past research plus creative representation into important theory. Deftly and courageously written, it can be spacious adequate to accommodate all of the photographer’s uncertainties (as a artist) together with her quite a few certainties (as a mother). “― The Harrisburg Chronicle

“The tone of voice is so distinct and so highly detailed, so all set to admit mistake but also in order to stand up meant for itself…. seldom are our own protagonists and so gosh very admirable. “― S . fransisco Chronicle

“Captivating… The girl writing is idiomatic… funny, rebellious, intellectually useful, and candidly personal…. The very best autobiography produced so far this season. “― Kirkus Testimonials

“Mann’s… memoir is lacking in a monotonous moment-partially because of the beauty of the woman language, plus partially due to her vibrant photographs, and those she dug up through the family attic room. “― The Fuss, scandal, uproar,commotion

“Endlessly engaging and interesting. “― RVANews

“A reckoning with the unreliability of each memory plus photography mainly because ways of protecting the past…. The particular writing is and so engaging plus her intelligence so vibrant that the lengthy ride looks almost way too short. This is obviously a book Mann needed to produce, and the woman passion for any task provides Hold Still much of the exact same exquisite electric power found in the woman photography. “― Get Knoxville

“Startling…. A family history just like no other. “― The big apple Journal associated with Books

“For all of the her understanding as a aesthetic artist, it may surprise you know that Mann is also a particular hell of your writer. Hold Still is usually stark, unsettling and lovely. “― Nashville Location

“Sumptuous…. Mann creates insightfully regarding her forefathers, her good friends and her very own work…. The particular tangled plus arbitrary strings that tether each of us all to what things in this world. “― Barcelone National Write-up

“Instant classic. “― Style

“Mann’s deeply private and unflinchingly honest glare on her household, her photo, and the woman brushes while using the harsh specter of general public condemnation help make Hold Still not only a uncommonly powerful memoir, but in addition an invaluable keen on wisdom. “― Bustle

“If you only reading one guide this year, Hold Still simply by Sally Mann should be that. “― KMUW (NPR)

inch Hold Still may be a wild ride of your memoir. Pasional and futurist. Fiercely lovely. My type of true exciting activities. “― Patti Smith, music performer and Nationwide Book Prime author associated with Just Youngsters

“One would not want to know Sally Mann’s remarkable act as a professional photographer to be embroiled in the woman memoir Hold Still , which takes in upon children history and so rife having jaw-dropping dilemma that it can provide the grist for a number of novels. By using prodigious intelligence and a showing instinct for any exact fine detail that will uncover character or perhaps throw that into problem, Mann goes into the dangerous territory associated with memory, captivated by the persistent dance associated with beauty plus decay. To do so , this manifests inside prose the particular acuity associated with seeing that contains propelled the woman to the major rank of recent artists. “― Andrew Solomon, author associated with Far From the particular Tree plus The Noonday Demon

“Photographer Sally Mann’s guide Hold Still is one of the fantastic portraits for the American Southern region. Written inside her message perfect writing style, it is just a textbook associated with illumination plus desire for anyone that hears the particular siren phone of skill beckoning with them. It’s the southern part of to the calcaneus, hell found on vehicles. Hold Still is a work of art. “― Dab Conroy, creator of The particular Death associated with Santini plus South associated with Broad

“In Hold Still , Sally Mann demonstrates some sort of talent meant for storytelling of which rivals the woman talent meant for photography. The particular book is usually riveting, ravishing — snorkeling deep in family history to obtain the origins associated with art. We couldn’t get my eyes away from it. “― Ann Patchett, author associated with Bel Vibrazione and This can be a Story of your Happy Relationship

“For three decades Sally Mann contains captured pictures that are special, haunting, lovely, disturbing, abgefahren – it may well take a mid-sized thesaurus to carry all the adjectives that have been accustomed to describe both art as well as the artist. Throughout Hold Still , this wraps the woman prose all around her photographs, revealing an excellent talent meant for writing plus a rich genealogy. “― Nicole Grisham, creator of The particular Firm plus Sycamore Line

“Sally Mann’s Hold Still is actually her photographs: forthright, vibrant, loving, reckless, beautiful, close, and for some reason uncanny. It means it’s perhaps just like the woman. ”

― Luc Sante, author associated with Low Lifespan and Wipe out All Your Darlings

“What I want most regarding Sally Mann’s new guide is not the woman ability to produce captivating sentences–she does. It is the honesty plus fearlessness, both of them mixed in concert, compelling the woman to own around her faults, to do not fight her profits, to accept the woman losses (and those of the woman family). Just for this quality only, Hold Still deserves a set place in the particular library of yankee memoir. inch

― John Hendrickson, creator of Hemingway’s Boat: All kinds of things He Adored in Life, plus Lost

“There is never a book such as this. At once some sort of poetics associated with place, a piece of strong history, some sort of bildungsroman, plus an severe inquiry in the big subject matter: love, household, other pets or animals, the nature of ingenuity. It is stylish. It’s also really funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an musician and performer that is skill itself. “― Melissa Holbrook Pierson, creator of The destination You Love is finished

“This spectacular contemporary memoir says like a capturing gothic book, filled with secret, violence, dispute, and, naturally , love in its forms. This can be a literary household album animated by many for the images inside the stories advised. A The southern part of work, also, it is universally attainable, as all Sally Mann’s work is usually, for this reaches strong into the woman ancestral headwaters and the garbled rivers associated with human memories. A sucess. “― Jamie Lee Curtis, actress –This text message refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Audio CD: 1 pagesPublisher: Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio; Unabridged edition (May 12, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1478933178ISBN-13: 978-1478933175 Merchandise Dimensions: your five. 7 a 5. thirdly x 1 ) 5 ins Shipping Bodyweight: 1 . almost eight pounds (View shipping prices and policies) Best Retailers Rank: #536, 008 inside Books (See Top one hundred in Books) #368 in  Books > Books in CD > Biographies as well as Memoirs #945 in  Ebooks > Journal & Memoirs > Disciplines & Novels > Performers, Architects as well as Photographers #5949 in  Ebooks > Journal & Memoirs > Particular Groups > Women

Sally Mann’s “Hold Still” may be a thoroughly wonderful achievement. The girl stories — lush, densely interwoven plus filled with whodunit — occur with an fervor reminiscent of paragraphs from “One Hundred Years associated with Solitude”. Together with along the way, the woman backstage colour commentary for the character (and the characters) of the Southern region could provide “Midnight inside the Garden great & Evil” a good manage for its funds. (Picture some sort of Netflix mini-series titled “The Family of Mann”… ).

While “Hold Still” is nominally a memoir, Sally Mann uses the chance more to assess her life-in-progress than to screen it all twisted up with some sort of bow at the top. Most of the personal chapters works perfectly well mainly because freestanding documents. Some check out family history (inevitably intertwined having Southern history) while others carefully thread their method through Sally’s working method and the woman encounters while using the so-called skill world.

The particular writing themselves is carefully detailed and private — plus spiked all through with wickedly funny information (often with her own expense). But the woman writing is furthermore, above all, smart. Simply put, Sally Mann provides a ton of perceptive firepower to deal with upon various kinds of subject matter. As a whole, it’s ride (! ) through the challenges and benefits of dwelling a rich and assorted life.

It is easily just about the most accomplished memoirs I have actually read–insightful, bright, funny, plus exceptionally well crafted. Before discovering this book That i knew Mann from the techniques surrounding several of her pictures, but a number of pages in this book and am was completely riveted simply by her storytelling skills plus intellectual splendor. Old household photos, characters, and Mann’s own pictures lend feel to an exceptionally crafted memoir. An absolute must-read.

I got to learn of sally’s work through " What Is always: The Life plus Work associated with Sally Mann" documentary. Art work and structures can offer a emotional price only when one’ s air is removed by these kinds of art, if one is inspected for a period of your energy and can rarely think of other things other than what exactly they are witnessing with the creation of the artist. We are in possession of handful of works by Annie liebovitz and even though I go those areas that Ansel has took pictures of time after time, the point that I am inspected year after year considering Ansel’s photographs of the same areas that I go to time after time, that still will not take away the feelings that Ansel offers us through the art again and again, as well as to other people for centuries into the future.

Sally Mann’s work, beauty and way of photography exactly where she enables one to watch images inside black and white plus experience feelings without being there exists just simply an average by itself. All the details of the woman pictures may be a story through the lens in the format exactly where I am inspected in shock, in range of colorful Monochrome images again and again. Watching the woman husband in order to deteriorate yourself in some of those photos usually are as effective as the protect photo associated with her guide where I am able to clearly look, smell, style that multicolored countryside get back blue skies when infact all Sally has done will be to present Mother earth to me simply in monochrome. Bravo, enérgico, bravo.
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