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Sacred Hearts
Sacred Hearts | Sarah Dunant
Condemned by sixteenth-century demands for lucrative dowries in order to marry, young Serafina is ripped from an illicit love affair and confined in a Renaissance Italy convent, a situation against which she passionately rebels and reminds the convent's doctor of her own unhappy early years. 200,000 first printing.
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Tineke
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This was my #bookspin for October and I really enjoyed it. I loved the setting: a convent in 1570, Italy. I loved to read about the quiet life that nevertheless was just as scary calculating as a schoolyard.
TBR since December 6th. 2011; 400 pages.
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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EliNeedsMoreShelves
Sacred Hearts | Sarah Dunant
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February's #bookspin winner is Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant. If I get extra ambitious, my #doublespin selection will be Atonement by Ian McEwan. Both have been on my shelves for a loooong time, so I'm excited to get them cleared off!

Thanks to @TheAromaofBooks for this awesome monthly challenge!

TheAromaofBooks These look good, but I'm actually heart-eyeing your Bantam editions of Anne books in the background!! Those are the ones Mom had when I was a kid so the editions I read first. ❤ 5y
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Sacred Hearts | Sarah Dunant
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After all that fantasy I was in the mood for dome historical fiction. Monastic life had always intrigued me a little and in a certain way the structure of it attracts me.

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there is....a kind of comfort to be gained from the passing of time: hour upon hour, day upon day, time falling like thick flakes of snow, the next laid upon the last, again and again, until what has been is gradually covered over, its original shape and color hidden under the blanket of what is now

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