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I started this book a little skeptical. It seems recently, i have read memoirs of many different people and in the end, they were much the same and often pretty shallow for my liking. I sat with my highlighter and post it stickies and marked the first thing i found interesting on page 15. Not too bad. Then, the next on 54, then 86. Hmm, I was becoming more skeptical--86 pages and "only" 3 significant things to me.
I say "only" because how do you really judge--what if there was only 1 thing--and yet that thing was life changing. Or maybe not life changing, but allowed you to see things in a new light--is that worth $25.00 and a few hours of my time? Yes, usually--and I guess I want more--I didn't want just 3 things in 86 pages. I wanted soul stirring. I wanted awakening. I wanted to be moved.
And I got what I wanted. I quickly started underlining and marking more things. The book seemed to get deeper and deeper and took me right along with it--which I happily went. I am ready for change. I am ready for shifts. I am ready to face things I have avoided. And Dani Shapiro helped me do that. Grappling with those hard questions---somehow writing things I have wondered about or considered for years--and didn't fully articulate to myself.
This book is a gift to me. A gift to my soul. As I read it, it became meditative and sort of a contradiction in that it stirred up so many emotions, so many longings, so many questions, and at the same time delivered me to a place of peace and silence and contemplation and stillness.
I had not known any of the writings of this author prior to reading this book. I didn't even know she was an author until I read it in the book. I received this book through the Amazon Vine program.Read more ›
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94 of 104 people found the following review helpful
I have never written a book review before, but I was so disappointed with this superficial drivel, that I felt compelled to warn people off. Ms. Shapiro bounces between the most shallow aspects, it seems, of Judaism, Buddhism, and Hatha Yoga. It's as though at one point someone told her she could write, and that she was very VERY important. She seems to be neither insightful, charitable, mature, or even interesting. Her version of Buddhism seems to only include the New Age ideas of "May I be safe, may I be pleased, may I have life unfold smoothly, may I be healthy". This is what the great Buddha's enlightenment meant? Judaism seems to comprise a few rituals and amulets, that she misses. Hatha Yoga is accompanied by a rock music tape her screenwriter husband has made.
I have also rarely encountered such a materialistic writer in a spiritual genre. Just what does she even mean by the title "Devotion"? To what, Dani Shapiro?
She doesn't just have lunch with her guru, she does so at a window table in the Time Warner building. She doesn't just live in Brooklyn, she resides in a 4-story Federal townhouse. She doesn't just read a book, she becomes best friends with the author (Steve Cope). She can't just buy a mezuzah, she gets a very expensive one on her vacation in Venice. Her son is not just endangered with bad health as an infant, he has one of the rarest diseases ever recorded (IS).
She makes sure to tell us her Conneticut house has a long (1/4 mile) driveway. She can't just dine with a childhood friend. He's a famous (but unnamed) actor. Her mother doesn't just leave clothing behind, she leaves Gucci and Armani in custom-built white shelves. Her mother also leaves behind valuable antiques that she, poor thing, has to dispose of.Read more ›
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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful
At first blush, Orthodox Judaism, Hindu yoga and Buddhist meditation have little in common. But all three use ritual as a way to order time and space and to explore one's connection to the sacred. In her new memoir, DEVOTION, Dani Shapiro reflects on the role of ritual and religion in her life as she comes to terms with parenthood, middle age, the loss of her own parents and life's anxieties, as well as its potential for peace.
Raised as an Orthodox Jew (whose relatives fell mostly to the "black hat" end of the spectrum), Shapiro felt that little tied her to the Judaism of her youth. She was drawn instead to yoga and meditation, and the myths and rituals of Alcoholics Anonymous. But in her early 40s, watching her son grow up and still mourning the loss of her parents years earlier, she began to drift back toward the familiar rites of Judaism.
For Shapiro, these rituals and chants, prayers and observances are not about religion per se; she is not overly interested in membership or even the notion of God. What she is seeking is a solace and comfort in the midst of uncertainties of day-to-day life, and she hopes to find some in acts of devotion. She refuses to simply accept the rituals and instead examines them for meaning and for how they may fit in her own life. She surrounds herself with teachers who explain that though the answers may not be out there, asking the questions is an important spiritual practice as well.
Shapiro's memoir is especially poignant and insightful as she navigates the tricky waters between religion and spirituality. She identifies as a Jew, but her relationship to Judaism generally and to her own family in particular is fraught with doubt, frustration and disbelief.Read more ›
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