[bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted

  • From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 00:52:08 -0500

Hi, Liz!  I've seen this movie, and I've always wanted to read the book.  I
will be waiting for it to be available to read.  Thanks for the hard work!

Jana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz Halperin" <lizzers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 10:05 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] just submitted


> Someone is in for a wonderful first experience, or a rewarding re-read:
> "The Nun's Story" by Kathryn Hulme, 1956. Wonderfully clean scan--I
> spent hours on this one. Long synopsis:
>
> A doctor's daughter in Belgium joins a convent in the late 1920s. This
> story follows her spiritual journey as well as her decade in the Belgian
> Congo, then back to Europe for the start of WW2. Germans occupy Belgium
> and Sister Luke is further tormented by spiritual doubts.  This book is
> beautifully written and became a classic. It was made into a movie with
> Audrey Hepburn.  There is a lot of vocabulary in Latin, Flemish, French,
> and some Kiswhahili. It is a deeply rewarding experience to read this
> book, regardless of one's spiritual or religious grounding.
>
> Liz Halperin
> Seattle, WA
> lizzers@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>


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