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Article: Bookshelf riches.(Editor's DESK)(Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Widows of Eastwick)(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- February 10, 2009
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I'M ALWAYS INTERESTED in what my friends are reading, and I find that people tend to ask me about what I've been reading. So, to continue that conversation, here are three books that have meant something to me recently.
Kathleen Norris's Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life is a compelling reflection on the sin of acedia. Her descriptions of her marriage and the death of her husband are deeply moving.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, is fiction, but as a critic says on the book jacket, it reads like a fascinating historical report. It records how German forces occupied Guernsey, ...