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Summary: The book of Celtic Snippets
Review: "The Celtic Book of Days" By Caitlin Matthews is more of a book of daily factoids than a spirituality and wisdom book. Once this fact is realized you can enjoy reading on a daily basis and seeing if you know that fact or not. If not then you have the fun of finding out more. Once in a while the snippet reads more like a Chinese fortune cookie.
Besides being split up in to daily snippets there is an over all calendar to keep you informed of the seasons, a decent bibliography, and index. This makes a great coffee table conversation book.
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Summary: Not all that I expected.
Review: Contrary to the first reviewers opinion (Nov. 18, 1999), this book is not a devotional text. I think this person has gotten this text confused with "The Celtic Spirit", a devotional text by the same author. As for the "Celtic Book of Days" it is a well laid out calendar. Not quite what I expected, it seems to be lacking depth, and some days don't have very much information or artwork at all. I truly expected more. If you wish to use it as a tabletop calendar, why not? That's what I use if for, but as a study tool there really isn't much there, which is fine as well. The passages mainly consist of brief poems or sayings, quick history reviews of ideas and significance of days. As I said earlier... not what I expected, but not a total disappointment either. Not much more then a starter conversational piece IMHO.
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Summary: Not all that I expected.
Review: Contrary to the first reviewers opinion (Nov. 18, 1999), this book is not a devotional text. I think this person has gotten this text confused with "The Celtic Spirit", a devotional text by the same author. As for the "Celtic Book of Days" it is a well laid out calendar. Not quite what I expected, it seems to be lacking depth, and some days don't have very much information or artwork at all. I truly expected more. If you wish to use it as a tabletop calendar, why not? That's what I use if for, but as a study tool there really isn't much there, which is fine as well. The passages mainly consist of brief poems or sayings, quick history reviews of ideas and significance of days. As I said earlier... not what I expected, but not a total disappointment either. Not much more then a starter conversational piece IMHO.
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Summary: Some good, some bad
Review: I purchased this book and followed the devotionals for a couple of weeks, then read ahead and stopped. I saw that Matthews was falling far too deeply into a modern, New Age sentimentalism that contradicts what I have seen to be Celtic beliefs for me to use it. I don't think this book is sufficiently Celtic to be called such. Some of the poetry and other materials are very good, but I could have done without the eco-politics beyond a certain point, and its lack of recognition of the political issues in the Celtic nations was a significant failure. How can this be Celtic if it doesn't deal with the issues faced by living Celts?
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