Tower Topics ~ Spring 2004

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A Good Read...

Occasionally in Tower Topics, a member of the Conception Abbey and Conception Seminary College community is asked to recommend a book. This issue’s reader is Amy Schieber.

The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver

“This is an engaging book about a domineering and driven Baptist missionary who takes his family to the Congo to convert the people there to Christianity. The story is told in different chapters from the points of view of his wife and daughters. The book not only tells a powerful story of the tragedy that results from the missionary’s arrogance, but it also presents a picture of the life, politics and brewing unrest of the Congo in the mid-1950s.”

Mrs. Schieber is Conception Seminary College’s director of
administration, and a fan of biographies and historical fiction. “When I get into a book I go into my own world,” she says. “But that can be a drawback. Sometimes I find myself sitting and reading when I should be doing the laundry or emptying the dishwasher. Those things end up on hold until I’m done with my book.”

Poisonwood Bible
Trade paperback:  $12
Hardbound:  $26
 

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