When you have a rebate card about to expire, what are you to do but blow it all on books? Seems like the adult thing to do...
Which should I read first?
I am still not sure if the end of this book is a plot twist or if I just totally missed something. It was a beautiful book right to the end and then I was like WTF. I didn‘t expect the end as it didn‘t seem to fit the rest of the story.
#ReadingResolutions | 20: #PlotTwist
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pickI was completely into this book from the beginning. It was a thoughtful book through the eyes of a woman struggling with the beauty of the traditions in religion and the pull of something more radical in her own spirit. Until the very end. I was ripped out of the contemplative attitude and hit upside the head with a WTF ending.
“...the life we lived was a kind of stage play. We walked around in costume. A flimsy disguise of titles, status, possessions, personality and looks that masked a enormous interior universe.”
“...this dance between the church rulers and the people. This Vatican waltz where everything is smooth, silky, refined. Except that one of the partners is holding a knife to the back of the other. And if the partner tries to take a new step - something different, creative, beautiful - in it goes.”
“That was the whole point of having a church. Of weekly services, sacrament, prayer. It wasn‘t supposed to be about keeping the rules and being rewarded with an eternity of bliss, as if you were a student trying to please a strict or teacher. It was designed to redirect our attention away from the clamoring fears and hopes that could drown out all thought of anything larger.”
“...then he made a quick retreat to the consolation of television, that leaping, seductive, electronic world, a deathless universe.”
Vatican Waltz | 
