Monica BaldwinBesprekingen
Auteur van I Leap Over the Wall
4 Werken 179 Leden 6 Besprekingen
Besprekingen
I LEAP OVER THE WALL door Monica Baldwin
Gemarkeerd
SeriousGrace | 3 andere besprekingen | May 4, 2020 | 394. I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years in a Convent, by Monica Baldwin (read 19 Nov 1951) I started this book in August, and after completing boot camp in the Navy finished it on 19 Nov 1951. It is a strange and most interesting book. I was most fascinated by the author's references to mystical writers and the means used by contemplatives to advance in holiness. I would like to read St John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, etc. I wonder if I would get anything out of them. All in all this book is more likely to foster vocations than imperil them, I am sure. It is disconnected, discursive as such a book must be if it is to appeal to much of an audience. I would have preferred not such a 'written-down' account of her convent life. But of course again she had her potential readers to consider.
Gemarkeerd
Schmerguls | 3 andere besprekingen | Jan 12, 2009 | 4525. The Called and the Chosen The Diary of Sister Ursula Auberon Enclosed Nun at the Abbaye De La Sainte Croix, Framleghen, by Monica Baldwin (read 12 Jan 2009) I was much impressed by Monica Baldwin's autobniography which I finished reading on Nov 19, 1951, and have never forgotten. When I learned she had written a novel, I knew I had to read it. It draws heavily on her own life. Sister Ursula at 17 enters a convent in Belgium, and the account of her time there is well-told, including her struggles with her vocation, and some of the successes of her life in the convent. She is transferred to a convent in England, and I was hoping the novel would end affirmatively. The book is well-written, and I found it often inspiring.½
Gemarkeerd
Schmerguls | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 12, 2009 | Gemarkeerd
Harrod | 3 andere besprekingen | Dec 5, 2008 | another variation of the nun's story½
Gemarkeerd
lachatte | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 27, 2006 | Gemarkeerd
lachatte | 3 andere besprekingen | Dec 27, 2006 | Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.