The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant is a very earthy book. It’s also a very, well, female book. It’s all about menstration and childbirthing and I’m not sure why any man would care to read this one. It’s not a bad book… there were some elements that I like. It’s the story of Dinah, and through her the story of Leah and Rachel and Jacob and Joseph. I liked the younger Dinah years, before things got, well, complicated. I liked that Diamant spun out a viable and interesting story to compliment the account in the Bible. I didn’t particularly like the whole pagan Mother Earth Goddess thing, but I suppose if you’re writing a book about Biblical times, the whole Mother Earth Goddess thing is going to come up. I also didn’t (and this is my Mormon theology coming out) particularly like her treatment of Jacob and Joseph. It wasn’t a great book, but it didn’t really suck either.