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Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
3.0
dark reflective sad slow-paced
Starts well, promising an observant,, unsentimental account of monastic life as experienced by an introspective late entrant. As others have noted, it quickly gets bogged down in gory descriptions of the mouse-plague. Towards the end, the book becomes an assemblage of fragmentary reflections on death, bereavement and loneliness - including anecdotes about suicide, assisted death, martyrdom, etc, that begin to feel gratuitous. The story held a strange fascination that kept me reading to the end but when I got there, I found nothing resolved. A depressing read.
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