logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. An oblate of Assumption Abbey, Norris divides her time between Hawaii and South Dakota. show more

Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. An oblate of Assumption Abbey, Norris divides her time between Hawaii and South Dakota.
show less
Birth date: July 27, 1947
Kathleen Norris's Books
Recently added on shelves
Kathleen Norris's readers
Share this Author
Community Reviews
Lynn Horton Books
Lynn Horton Books rated it 6 years ago
(This book extols a distinctively Christian worldview. Forewarned is forearmed.)I read this every year, in December/January. It focuses me, stripping away some of the materialism that's built up in my life in the previous twelve months. It reminds me of my priorities in dealing with other humans, en...
Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 8 years ago
That's an hour I'll never get back. I could imagine nothing worse than believing the drivel that was in this book to be real and is the inspired work of an all knowing book writer and then spending the years it would take to fully understand the nonsense that spewed out of this book, and then most ...
Ama's Picture Books
Ama's Picture Books rated it 11 years ago
written by Kathleen Norris, illustrated by Tomie dePaola It's called The Holy Twins, but the book is much more about Benedict's life. I wanted more about Scholastica. The book contains interesting stories from Benedict's life. I wanted a little bit more about the order that he founded (amazing tha...
localcharacter
localcharacter rated it 12 years ago
I forget what it was that led me to seek out this book—maybe a mention in Quiet?—but it's certainly unusual for me to read a book with a Christian spiritual message at its core. That's not why I was reading it, of course. What intrigued me was the idea of an examination of acedia as a condition or s...
gavingrant
gavingrant rated it 13 years ago
I loved a couple of the author's other books (Dakota: A Spiritual Geography) but this one I ended up skimming through.
see community reviews
Need help?