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Stone Yard Devotional
by

Charlotte Wood (欧宝娱乐 Author)

Paula Mota's review

Mar 22, 2025

it was amazing

bookshelves: 濒颈迟别谤补迟耻谤补-补耻蝉迟谤谩濒颈补, nuns-gone-wild

Being here feels somehow like childhood, the hours are so long and there is so much waiting, staring into space. Absolutely nothing is asked of me, nothing expected.

Mais um livro para uma feliz - ou infeliz - minoria. Review depois da releitura.

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Reading Progress

January 10, 2025 – Started Reading

January 10, 2025 – Shelved

January 10, 2025 –

10.0% "Every email, meeting, press release, conference, protest. Every minuscule action after waking means slurping up resources, expelling waste, destroying habitat, causing ruptures of some other kind. Whereas staying still, suspended in time like these women [nuns], does the opposite."

January 12, 2025 –

15.0% "White things in this (my) room: (...) cotton waffle-weave blanket bringing comfort when the bed is made and sharply tucked, evoking the brisk practical kindness of mothers or nurses. Lists like this show how much one really does have, on those days one falls into thinking of life - bedroom, relationships, intelectual life, spirit - as empty."

January 21, 2025 –

25.0% "Now, when I drive to and from town, I pass the school on the hill and I remember all these people -the headmaster and his hopeless advice, Sister Marian and her injured womb, poor, hysterical Mrs Teixeira. I never had an ounce of respect for any of them. And here I am, recalling my adolescent cruelty, and feeling sorry."

January 21, 2025 –

50.0% "As I grew older I was confused as to why martyrdom was never called 'murder'. But it was at 10 years old that I became confused about the nature of forgiveness and atonement, and the conditions under which they could each take place."

January 22, 2025 –

60.0% "Every funeral I ever attended in a city finished in cremation. In our town there was no option but burial, so I never knew until adulthood that many see this as a particularly Catholic, particularly goulish practice. My friends who grew up in cities found it grossly morbid, to bury a body rather than burn it. (...) We want death done with, vanished like smoke into the air."

January 24, 2025 –

80.0% "鈥淚t's been my observation over many years that those who most powerfully resist convention quite peaceably accept the state of being reviled.鈥�"

January 27, 2025 –

99.0% "[Pela originalidade, "Orbital", o vencedor, 茅 melhor, mas este 茅 que 茅 o meu tipo de livro!]"

March 22, 2025 – Finished Reading