Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> "Mathew ten, verse twenty-nine," Vincenzo Guliani said quietly. "'Not one
> Sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it'"
>
> "But the sparrow still falls," Felipe said.
>
> I'm not sure I've got it right, but the book seems to juxtapose the Jewish
> concept of God with the Christian. Ms. Russell wants to discourage the
> idea that God micro-manages humanity, that all the faith and/or good
> works, all the ritual and prayer are pretty much irrelevant.
Russell is of the Jewish faith, if that helps in the analysis. :) Then
again, so was Jesus when he made the statement, right?
She also has never been pregnant. There's something that a character in
that book does while pregnant, and in a book discussion I participated
in sometime before I got pregnant, someone who *had* borne a child or
two pointed out that that rang false, and I remember sometime during my
first pregnancy thinking about it and yeah, *I* might have done it while
not pregnant, but sure as heck not *during* a pregnancy. (Now I've
forgotten what it was, I just remember the reactions. I do that
sometimes -- forget what the detail *was*, but remember the reaction.)
Julia
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