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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

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Birth date: July 27, 1947

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Poetry, Religion & Spirituality

Kathleen Norris's Books

Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life - Kathleen Norris

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography - Kathleen Norris

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith - Kathleen Norris

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present - John McPhee, Anne Carson, Lucy Grealy, David Sedaris, Adam Hochschild, Barbara Kingsolver, Kathleen Norris, David Foster Wallace, Annie Dillard, Amy Tan, Charles Bowden, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Richard Rhodes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Phillip Lopate, Mary Clearman Blew, Sue

The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and "Women's Work" (Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality) - Kathleen Norris

Journey: New And Selected Poems 1969-1999 - Kathleen Norris

The Holy Twins - Kathleen Norris, Tomie dePaola

The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Kathleen Norris

Little Girls in Church - Kathleen Norris

God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent and Easter - Greg Pennoyer, Lauren F. Winner, Kathleen Norris, Richard Rohr

Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day - David Steindl-Rast, Sharon Lebell, Kathleen Norris

Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey through the Hours of the Day - Ph.D. Brother David Steindl-Rast, Sharon Lebell, Kathleen Norris

Wisdom from the Monastery: The Rule of St. Benedict for Everyday Life - Patrick Barry, Kathleen Norris

Reader's Guide Dakota - Kathleen Norris

Great Spirits 1000-2000: The Fifty-Two Christians Who Most Influenced Their Millennium - Selina O'Grady, John Wilkins, Kathleen Norris

Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day - Brother David Steindl-Rast, Sharon Lebell, Kathleen Norris

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The View from a Monastery: The Vowed Live and Its Cast of Many Characters - Benet Tvedten, Br. Benet Tvedten, Kathleen Norris

Reader's Guide Dakota - Kathleen Norris

Falling Off - Kathleen Norris

The Secret of the Marshbanks - Kathleen Norris

Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants - Dennis L. Okholm, Kathleen Norris

The Noonday Demon: A Modern Woman's Struggle With Soulweariness - Kathleen Norris

In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems - Thomas Merton, Lynn R. Szabo, Kathleen Norris

The Virgin of Bennington - Kathleen Norris

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Lynn Horton Books rated it

6 years ago

text The Cloister Walk

(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...

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Tolle Lege!. rated it

8 years ago

text Revelation

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 ...

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Ama's Picture Books rated it

11 years ago

text The Holy Twins

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...

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localcharacter rated it

13 years ago

text Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

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...

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gavingrant rated it

13 years ago

text Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

I loved a couple of the author's other books (Dakota: A Spiritual Geography) but this one I ended up skimming through.

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