A 2nd Helping Of Chicken Soup For The Soul: 101 More Stories To Open The Heart And Rekindle The Spirit (1995) - Plot & Excerpts
This review is also posted on my blog.(view spoiler)[I liked the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book much better.This one had exactly what you would expect from a Chicken Soup book, but with far fewer stories that hit me deep, and far more stories that just SCREAMED of being neurotypical or ableist, and were obviously aimed towards Christians only. The number of God-centered stories was rather disappointing. There ARE other religions besides Christianity, there ARE real mental illnesses that have nothing to do with ‘choosing’ whether or not your thoughts will be negative for the day, and disabled people do NOT exist to be your inspiration. ('I’m not handicapped if I can help someone else’? Really??)The other stories that did not focus on any of those things were, at worst, fine. A select handful of them *did* resound rather deeply and left me thinking. Unfortunately, the bad of the rest kind of made me forget what stories they were and what messages they had.Yeah, I get this was published in the early 90’s. But that was a short enough time ago that I find it difficult to be very lenient about how I choose to rate it.Reading this was part of my plan to read the original Chicken Soup books before I move on to the ones that are specialized, and in my opinion, this one is easily skippable. I will not be looking to add it to my collection, and I won’t be re-reading it. (hide spoiler)]
This book is fantastic so far. I amd on the section< "On Dying" and just read the story(forgot the tital) about when the man who was a Marine went to another Marines house to tell the wife of the soldier that he past away. Puting myself in the position of this man really made me think. How would it feel to wake up everyday and think, "I am going to die today."? Then I thought of how difficult it would be to go to people you have never met before and tell them they will never see their father and husband. How could you tell someones children that they would never see their father again and spend fathers day crying instead of laughing? This book is the kind of book that makes you think. Like, you know how when you are watching reality TV and you are thinking, "I never knew people could be this stupid?"? Well, when you read this book you will be thinking how you never knew people could be this great.
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