Book Reader’s Blog

I find it hard to summarize my thoughts after finishing reading the book just a while ago.  In my previous post I mentioned that the author found a very natural unobtrusive way of touching important subjects, such as how divorces are treated by the catholic church.  There are of course more:

• balance between male and female in the world; balance between the old (safe, but uneventful) and the new (exciting, but dangerous)
• state-forced fruitlessness of humanitarian help for countries in need
• finding, or re-discovering, a human being in ourselves

I think I will stop here–the last item is the most important one for me.  And certainly, The Witch of Portobello will be among the books I will return to one of these days…