Comments on: Review of The Body of This: Stories http://www.reliefjournal.com/2009/10/23/review-of-the-body-of-this-stories/ Christian writing unbound. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:29:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TravisGriffith http://www.reliefjournal.com/2009/10/23/review-of-the-body-of-this-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-11 TravisGriffith Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:43:26 +0000 http://www.reliefjournal.com/?p=145#comment-11 Great review, and congrats Andrew on the book. Great review, and congrats Andrew on the book.

]]> By: Andrew McNabb http://www.reliefjournal.com/2009/10/23/review-of-the-body-of-this-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Andrew McNabb Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:03:17 +0000 http://www.reliefjournal.com/?p=145#comment-10 I must thank Robin for her wonderful review and point out something she wrote that speaks to the dichotomy in "Christian writing." Robin's take: "An elderly man falls while using the restroom and his elderly wife, upon finding him injured and embarrassed, undresses in front of him for the first time. Tender. Human. Perhaps the most exquisite love story I’ve read." A reader, in her comment on the Amazon page for my book, writes of the same story: "Perhaps the story that most disturbed me was the one about the old man who cracks his head open on the bathroom floor. His wife lies down next to him, naked, blood all over the place. I think she wanted to expiate the fact that she had never taken her clothes off for him during their marriage. Fine. Just call the ambulance first." She goes on to lament the realism of the collection. Bravo to Relief for your stated mission of bringing real life to your readers. [And oh yeah, she did call the ambulance first.] Andrew McNabb I must thank Robin for her wonderful review and point out something she wrote that speaks to the dichotomy in “Christian writing.” Robin’s take: “An elderly man falls while using the restroom and his elderly wife, upon finding him injured and embarrassed, undresses in front of him for the first time. Tender. Human. Perhaps the most exquisite love story I’ve read.” A reader, in her comment on the Amazon page for my book, writes of the same story: “Perhaps the story that most disturbed me was the one about the old man who cracks his head open on the bathroom floor. His wife lies down next to him, naked, blood all over the place. I think she wanted to expiate the fact that she had never taken her clothes off for him during their marriage. Fine. Just call the ambulance first.” She goes on to lament the realism of the collection. Bravo to Relief for your stated mission of bringing real life to your readers. [And oh yeah, she did call the ambulance first.]

Andrew McNabb

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