My friend is reading this one🤔.
My friend is reading this one🤔.
“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well... for there is a force of love moving through the universe that holds us fast and will never let us go.”
“You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
Set in 1414, this is a really interesting short novel about the imagined intersection of the medieval lives of Margery Kempe ( who published the first ever autobiography) and Julian of Norwich - who wrote the earliest surviving book in English written by a woman.
Fascinating from the historical perspective! I‘m not religious so some of the medieval shenanigans around religious rules and expectations make my eyes roll a bit- but an interesting read.
A 15th century copy of Margery Kempe‘s manuscript fell out of a cupboard in an old country house when someone was looking for a ping pong ball. Because we all have 15thC manuscripts in the cupboard.
5 ⭐️s
Sectioned into three parts, we follow Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe as they journey through life and eventually meet. This novella is nothing short of genius, depicting these two women as they try to know God without access to the Bible and how they deal with all the issues within the Catholic Church. Poetic, raw, beautiful. It will leave you asking questions but still feeling answered.
Thanks Heather @Pageturner1 for the tag. The obvious one is reading, but also leading circle time, being wrong, listening, spotlighting others, teaching, apologies, phonics, mothering and logic/brain teaser puzzles. @Eggs
If you haven‘t played consider yourself tagged.
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Mediaeval Mystics of England edited by Eric Colledge
📖 Building the “Goodly Fellowship of Faith“: A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah, 1867-1996 by Frederick Quinn [signed by the author]
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