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Laddar... Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Lifeav Patricia Hampl
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Hampl helped me recall my feelings of how I could see the advantages of becoming a contemplative, without ever wanting that kind of life for myself. Her journey kept me reading. ( ) Reading a memoir of a seeker of serenity and add to it the seeker is from my hometown, I found intriguing. I enjoyed the stories of her youth and the descriptions of the streets I too had grown up on. But then I got lost. The characters she met along her path were never fully developed...interesting people, but such a shallow glimpse of them. Perhaps that's what Ms. Hampl experienced and was trying to portray...if so, good job, but I found myself counting pages to complete before I could put this book aside. Reading a memoir of a seeker of serenity and add to it the seeker is from my hometown, I found intriguing. I enjoyed the stories of her youth and the descriptions of the streets I too had grown up on. But then I got lost. The characters she met along her path were never fully developed...interesting people, but such a shallow glimpse of them. Perhaps that's what Ms. Hampl experienced and was trying to portray...if so, good job, but I found myself counting pages to complete before I could put this book aside. Reading a memoir of a seeker of serenity and add to it the seeker is from my hometown, I found intriguing. I enjoyed the stories of her youth and the descriptions of the streets I too had grown up on. But then I got lost. The characters she met along her path were never fully developed...interesting people, but such a shallow glimpse of them. Perhaps that's what Ms. Hampl experienced and was trying to portray...if so, good job, but I found myself counting pages to complete before I could put this book aside. Reading a memoir of a seeker of serenity and add to it the seeker is from my hometown, I found intriguing. I enjoyed the stories of her youth and the descriptions of the streets I too had grown up on. But then I got lost. The characters she met along her path were never fully developed...interesting people, but such a shallow glimpse of them. Perhaps that's what Ms. Hampl experienced and was trying to portray...if so, good job, but I found myself counting pages to complete before I could put this book aside. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"A religious cliff-hanger--intimate, compelling, hard to put down." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Eager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hample seeks the "old world" of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics, American Franciscan friars and nuns, and the seekers that fill every charter flight. Inevitably, too, she finds the "old world" right at home, in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her, finally, on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still, virgin moments of silent prayer.... Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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