Kathryn (Kmarie) - , reviewed on 9/22/2007 + 529 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

Rarely do I read a book as quickly as I tore through this one. It took me four days (actually, four nights in bed) to read this book, which is extremely rare for me. Since, as a child and early teen, I longed to be a nun myself, I found this book to be compelling and intensely interesting. This book gives a very personal glimpse inside the convent of cloistered nuns in the early â60's â a turbulent time within society and within the Church. I was very glad that there was an epilogue that told of her life forty years later, and how she lives her life now.

I found the writing to be lacking at times â she writes as she probably speaks, and sometimes I can't follow her though process. However, this is a book NOT to be missed, regardless of your religious orientation.

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