A Circle of Quiet
This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.
This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062545039 (0062545035)
ASIN: 62545035
Publish date: January 1st 1984
Publisher: HarperOne
Pages no: 246
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Language,
Religion,
Christian,
Faith,
Biography Memoir,
Spirituality
Series: Crosswicks Journals (#1)
"When will we be able to redeem our shock words? They have been turned to marshmallows. They need violence done to them again; they need to be wrested from banality;saved for the crucial moment. We no longer have anything to cry in time of crisis. We have blunted them so with overuse that they no lo...
It’s funny how some books feel like old friends. It seems I have a lot of them. Madeleine L’Engle‘s first book of her Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet, is such a book. In it the author reveals so much of herself, both good and bad, that I felt I had met someone I could have spent a lovely after...
I’m not sure exactly what to call this book. A memoir? A journal? Thoughts about writing, motherhood, religion, and personhood? I suppose that captures it the best, but it’s an inadequate description. I rushed through it, so I’d like to go back and read it more carefully and mark what I missed befor...
Wonderful, but definitely hard to get into if your not in the right mind-set. Lots of good insight on life; even though there's a lot of common knowledge involved there's still some great gems of advice. I think everyone, from time to time, needs a little reminder on what's important in life, even i...
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