Reviews for My Time with God Vol. 1: 150 Ways to Start Your Own Quiet Time

The average rating for My Time with God Vol. 1: 150 Ways to Start Your Own Quiet Time based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-13 00:00:00 Robert Peluse This book was written several generations ago. When I first read it (more than 40 years ago?) it was a bit dated already, but a basic coming of age plus love interest story, with a lot of tidbits about nature thrown in. Rereading it now, I found myself noticing the cultural differences between now and when it was written. Most noticeable were these: 1. Class stratification. Upper class people were just plain not supposed to even think about marrying those from the lower class, particularly if it was likely that they were bastards or not of good breeding. 2. Good manners and ethics are apparently something that can be inherited, even if you were abandoned as an infant and raised in an orphanage. Good breeding will obviously overcome any "home environment". 3. Clearing a swamp that is home to all kinds of rare animals, birds, insects, trees, etc, is progress, and that is a good thing. Yes, take photos of them first, and collect specimens, but do go ahead and clear the swamp. 4. Shooting an otter so that its pelt could be made into a muff for a gift was a good idea. Nobody even considered whether the recipient might not have preferred to allow the otter to live. So this time instead of paying particular attention to all the tidbits about birds, trees, flowers, etc - I found myself reading it more like an historian or sociologist, and marveling at just how much American culture has changed in the last hundred years.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-21 00:00:00 Tuan Nguyen (Spoiler alert!) I chose this because I absolutely LOVE Laddie (also by the author). This one was okay. I would have given it one more star, but I didn't like the ending. Freckles was an orphan who didn't know his parents and who had a terrible childhood, but he turned into an honest, honorable young man. I didn't like that in the end it was inferred that he could only be such a fine young man if his parents had been rich or of noble birth. And then of course it turns out that he is the son of a Lord. So what! One doesn't have to be rich to be good - in fact I think being rich actually makes it harder to be virtuous and honorable. It wasn't Freckles parentage that made him the man he was, it was his decisions and choices. He chose not to lie and steal. He chose to be a man of his word. He chose to love others. It had nothing to do with being a "lord".