Wow, what a beautiful book.
Has anyone else read this? What did you think?
Has anyone else read this? What did you think?
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Tue, September 6, 2005 - 11:40 AMI read this a few years ago and fell in love with it. I am very interested in the stories of the women of the Bible and was quite pleased with Diamant's depiction of Dinah.
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Tue, September 6, 2005 - 11:44 AMI'm about half way through. My almost 14yr old daughter already read it. We have been very impressed. I have read the begining to several people and it draws them right in.
Something along the lines of...
To know a woman you must first know her mother, with out flinching.
I love it. My own mother has had her share of issues, and I try to listen carefully to what she has to say.
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Tue, September 6, 2005 - 2:11 PMWonderful book. I just started re-reading it a few days ago!
"A midwife does not fear life..."
I keep a spare copy on hand to lend to friends!
I love the idea of having that month after childbirth of having the people around you feeding you and helping with the other kids- or two months if you have a girl! :)
It's so easy to fall into fantasizing about having a red tent to retreat to on a regular basis... three days of real rest and social time per month, instead of four chore-packed weekends we get now? I'd take it!
Beautiful story.
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Tue, September 6, 2005 - 4:28 PMI love this tribe!! Y'all have ther best descriptions to go along with the recommendations. Another book to add to my growing list. -
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Tue, September 6, 2005 - 5:11 PMI swore when I read it that I would build my own red tent. Let's lobby for that! -
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Wed, September 7, 2005 - 7:25 AMwow. this is one of those books that for a couple years, i saw sitting on my mom's dressing table, and i was entranced by the cover.
then i moved out on my own and had a friend tell me that she'd read this fantastic book called the red tent. i asked her if she would lend it to me, and she said 'just go buy it. i promise, you'll like it so much you'll want to own it.'
good call monica.
i think i can honestly say this is one of my three favourite books...and thats just because i'm leaving room for two more that i can't remember right now, but probably exist. -
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Wed, September 7, 2005 - 11:21 PMYep it made the cut of the books I actually shipped from Alaska to Hawaii where I just moved.
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Thu, September 8, 2005 - 10:12 AMI'm with you on that.
How wonderful would it be to see red tents popping up all over the place?
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Wed, September 7, 2005 - 11:30 PMI read this book when I was pregnant and just loved it. Talk about being a part of a tribe!
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Thu, September 8, 2005 - 9:48 AMYes, I read it a few years back & loved it! Reading everyone's beautiful descriptions here has me feeling a need to re-read it.
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Thu, September 8, 2005 - 5:58 PMI thought it was amazing and gorgeous, not to mention completely enrapturing. I am not someone who is interested in the Bible outside of cultural purposes, however, I found the story and the work and research that it implied...momentous!
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Fri, September 9, 2005 - 6:23 AMJessica - The Red Tent is the story of Dinah, a minor character in Old Testament scripture, who, in the Bible was supposedly raped and her brothers consequently killed the man and the rest of the men of his village. After that tragedy, Dinah is never heard from again (in the Bible). The Red Tent addresses this story from Dinah's point of view and she becomes a fully fleshed out character, along with her 4 "mothers". I enjoy it because, as a Christian, I have often criticized the lack of detail about the lives of women in the Bible. I am intrigued by Anita Diamant's research and the backstory that she has written about Dinah. I wish she would write more books like this.
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Sat, September 10, 2005 - 9:29 PMI absolutely loved this book...it was one of those times where a gorgeous cover caught my attention and then the blurb drew me in.
I'm also polyamorous, so I loved reading about the different wives living together and how they interacted and raised their children. I do wish it was more common in society today...as it was back then.
It's one of the few books that I actually gave to my mom to read, too...usually we have vastly different tastes. ;-) -
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Sun, September 11, 2005 - 8:24 AMwow, ya what an inspiring book. makes you just want to hug your sistas and honnor yourself durring that *special time.
on another note, i was out at Burning Man and one camp had put up an actual red tent for women and it was a Very good space for us to just chill and connect with eachother even if just for a minute.
i also liked how it tied in history with personal women's stories. really well written. -
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Tue, September 20, 2005 - 8:58 PMI just finished this book..
What a wonderful story teller this author is.
I was inspired by this thread, and a few friends reccomendations, I read it in three days. I adore this book.
I heard to not bother reading anything else by her..
"this was her one great work"
Does anyone have a different opinion? -
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Fri, September 23, 2005 - 7:17 AMI recently found this tribe:
theredtent.tribe.net
Thought some of you might be interested. -
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Fri, September 23, 2005 - 10:47 AMSee also *Moon Under Her Feet* if you're into feminist re-interpretations of Biblical tales. Very nice.
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Sat, September 24, 2005 - 2:20 PMmy exgirlfriend left it on my book shelf, now i guess i have to read it -
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Sat, September 24, 2005 - 3:01 PM
And what dod your ex girlfriend doing at your place..
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Sun, September 25, 2005 - 6:12 PMha, nothing with me that's for sure, we got a dog together just before she dumped me, so now she's obligated to let him out when i'm at work. i'm on page 53 now -
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Sun, September 25, 2005 - 9:36 PMthe sheep fuckin' kinda freaked me out, it's definitely femenist. -
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Wed, September 28, 2005 - 2:09 PMThere is one scene where she went to her lover.......and oh my, ........ i thought it was one of the most sensual scenes I'd read.
Didn't turn out too well for that lover, but whoowee, a night like that sounds good.
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Wed, September 28, 2005 - 2:12 PMI really love this book.
It was so well written.
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Searching the tribe, I found this thread
Tue, December 18, 2007 - 9:35 AMSo, you can see my feeling it was hokey is definately a minority opinion. -
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Re: Searching the tribe, I found this thread
Tue, December 18, 2007 - 10:00 AMI too LOVED it. Finished it and immediately gave it to my mom to read. She loved it too, which is in and of itself interesting, cause usually our tastes in reading material is waaaaaaay different. -
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Re: Searching the tribe, I found this thread
Tue, December 18, 2007 - 11:56 AMI adore this book. I've given so many copies to friends it is not even funny. It was actually what prompted me to get my training as a doula.
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Re: Searching the tribe, I found this thread
Tue, December 18, 2007 - 12:28 PM>>So, you can see my feeling it was hokey is definately a minority opinion.<<
*L* Thanks so much for digging this up and having the humility to bring this back as a reference that your opinion is not the popular one. :) To each their own, right?
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Wed, December 19, 2007 - 5:14 PMI would have to say this is my favorite book right now. I have shared it with many friends, and friends mothers. I hope I get it back some day.
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Wed, December 19, 2007 - 8:05 PMI love this book. Read it a couple of years ago and definitely kept it to share with other beautiful women. Besides just a great story, I really appreciated how it took something that is usually at worst a squip factor to most and at least an inconvenience to us. It turned it into something special, treasured, and a time to celebrate being a woman, to "fellowship" if you will with other women... and ultimately feel powerful in our womanly resolve, instincts, and strength. Things the main character needed as she traveled through her life, and things we certainly need today. -
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Wed, December 19, 2007 - 8:07 PMOh dear god, the idea of being with a bunch of other women all pmsing at once...
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Thu, December 20, 2007 - 6:53 AM>>Oh dear god, the idea of being with a bunch of other women all pmsing at once...
YIKES! <<
LMAO- Crypto- you just described my office when I joined seven years ago- now it is being around a bunch of peri-menopausal women all losing their minds.... I think I liked the 'bleeding' years better! :)
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Thu, December 20, 2007 - 8:30 PMSome things from that book really stuck with me. For example: the women being in charge of the whole de-virginizing process rather than virginity being kept as a prize for a man. Very interesting. That made a heck of a lot of sense to me.
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Sat, December 22, 2007 - 4:13 PMLove love love love love this book!
I think it's time for a re-read!
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Sun, January 27, 2008 - 12:26 PMhey, the title sounds intriging to me....what's it about?....travel?...camping?...or something else? let us know, please... -
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Sun, January 27, 2008 - 12:43 PMtry reading the thread maybe?
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Sun, January 27, 2008 - 4:50 PMIt's a dreary little retelling from a feminist (?) view point of the story of Jacob's daughter from the old testament. I can't figure out which is more nonscence, the source material or the warm fuzzy view of menstruation and womanhood put in by Diamant. She writes like a sonofabitch, though, at least until she leaves the bible behind and goes to egypt, when the story runs out of oomph. -
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Mon, January 28, 2008 - 3:30 AMIt's definitely in my top twenty.
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Wed, March 12, 2008 - 6:50 AM
Okay, after hearing about it in this Tribe. I finally read it. It was really powerful, I even cried at the end. I've often said how awful in our society that we have to keep working all the way through our menstration and shove a piece of cotton between our legs and pretend like nothing's out of the ordinary. How nice it would be to get that week off of work every month, to just sit and rest and let our bodies be restored.
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Thu, March 13, 2008 - 10:21 PMI got this book after reading what people had to say about it here too, but I wasn't sure how much/if I would like it. I keep hearing great things about it though! Maybe I'll read it next? Or read it over Spring break? -
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Fri, March 14, 2008 - 9:24 AMI read it in 2 or 3 days - just ripped through it. I really liked it. :) -
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Fri, March 14, 2008 - 10:51 AMIt's damn well written, and goes down easy, even if it is a piece of cheese. -
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Mon, March 17, 2008 - 8:33 PMMmmmmm... cheese.
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Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Mon, March 31, 2008 - 9:39 AMI've read it many many times and I love it more after each reading! I have a soft spot for books about biblical women. Actually any kind of well researched historical fiction about ANY biblical figures. Anne Rice's "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" was phenomenal and has topped my list with "The Red Tent" at close second -
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Mon, March 31, 2008 - 2:30 PMI adore this book! now I have to put the Anne rice book on my list too! oh woe is me! So many books so little time! -
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Tue, April 8, 2008 - 7:07 AMi am in the middle of this book right now. i wasn't sure what i would think about it, because i'm so not into the bible at all... but.. it's so not about that.
have any of you read any of her other books? i'm wondering how they stack up compared to this one....
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