Advantages: an 'outsider's' look at religion and spirituality Disadvantages: left with more questions about the convent
...(I don't have my copy of this book with me right now but I'd like to go ahead and review it - hopefully I can add more when I have access to it again).
KristinOhlson stumbled into a Catholic church in downtown Cleveland after seeing an advert in a local paper. This book is the result of her experiences after that point.
The author was brought up catholic but hadn't attended church for some time. On this particular occasion she noticed that at the back of the church, behind a carved wooden screen, were a group of nuns - the 'Poor Clares of perpetual adoration'. She becomes interested in them, as a journalist by trade, and sets out to find out about them and their anachronistic lifestyle, cloistered from the world, permanently. She begins with bemusement that they need persuading to see her because they are too busy. There is also...
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Advantages: A riveting page turner of a read Disadvantages: Not a single one
...Kristin Burns has hoped of becoming a professional photographer, but for the moment works as a nanny for two children whom she cares about very much. The same can not be said for their mother…
As the book begins we meet Kristin as she wakes from a nightmare. In her dream she is outside a hotel taking pictures when she sees four body bags. Something very bad has happened here. As she continues to take photographs (her constant thought is "Don't think, just shoot") she glimpses movement from the corner of her eye.. One of the body bags just moved… She screams for help... and wakes up.
Kristin wakes to a very annoyed knocking at her door. Her visitor is a neighbour who tells he she is sick of being woken every morning by screaming. Kristin is bemused, she is sure she didn't scream, and presumes her neighbour is mistaken.
Once she...
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