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Best Wishes, Sister B: A Gentle Feel Good Comedy | Fran Smith

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What a charming read! An epistolary novel, the reader discovers the good and the bad in a year at St. Winifreda‘s convent. I laughed out loud a few times and think this would make a wonderful TV series. A great pick for #NunLitQuarterly !

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jlhammar I agree, this would make a great TV series! So glad you enjoyed it. 3d

Suet624 Jeepers! I‘m still on a library waitlist 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3d

Librarybelle @jlhammar I see that this is the first in a series. I may have to add the others to my tbr list! 3d

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Librarybelle @Suet624 It‘s a fast read, so hopefully once it arrives you can read it quickly! 3d

Aimeesue Yes, a series would be great! 3d

Librarybelle @Aimeesue 😁 3d

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Aimeesue

Best Wishes, Sister B: A Gentle Feel Good Comedy | Fran Smith

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An epistolary novel, concerning the Sisters of St.Winifreda and their struggles with a crumbling bell tower, a rat infestation, and a leaking roof with no money to pay for repairs. Through kindness, prayer, ingenuity, good neighbors and some luck, the Sisters build a community while rebuilding their convent. A cheering and uplifting tale.
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Aimeesue @rubyslippersreads @quietjenn @BookishShelly @kspenmoll @Centique @Suet624 @Deblovestoread @Librarybelle @batsy @JamieArc @marleed @Kristin_Reads @singout @PageShifter @jlhammar 2w

Librarybelle Love your photo! 2w

Aimeesue @Librarybelle Who doesn‘t love a clothes-peg nun? 😄 2w

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Librarybelle 😁 2w

marleed You even have a flying-nun habit ♥️ 2w

Deblovestoread Love the nuns! 2w

quietjenn Yay for your pic! 2w

kspenmoll Wonderful review-love your nuns!!! 2w

jlhammar Oh my gosh, those clothes-pegs! 😂 Love it. Wonderful review! 2w

charl08 Always here for the #nunlit. Stacked 2w

Aimeesue @marleed Flying nuns are the best kind, imo! 😂 1w

Aimeesue @Deblovestoread Aren‘t they great? I pulled the image from a Catholic kids website. Who knew there was such a thing? 1w

Aimeesue @quietjenn 🖤🖤🖤 1w

Aimeesue @kspenmoll Thanks! Borrowed the pic, but I do love them. I‘ve made wooden soldier ornaments from this kind of clothes peg, but nuns would be fun to try too! 1w

Aimeesue @jlhammar Aren‘t they great? Thanks! 1w

Aimeesue @charl08 I think I love the #nunlit because a convent is one of the spaces in which women were “allowed” to manage and run things in days of yore. I love seeing how they overcome all the obstacles that are deliberately thrown in their way. 1w

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jlhammar

Best Wishes, Sister B: A Gentle Feel Good Comedy | Fran Smith

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So nice and heartwarming. I‘ll be reaching for the sequel, The Power of Cake, when I next need my spirits lifted.

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kspenmoll I so enjoyed this as well. Such ingenuity! I also thought about the sequel. I loved that the story was told through letters. 2w

Librarybelle I plan to start this later this week! 2w

KathyWheeler I liked it also and got the sequel. I haven‘t started it yet though. 2w

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rubyslippersreads @Librarybelle Me too. 2w

Aimeesue I liked it a lot and also got the sequel. It was a lovely reminder that we CAN build community if we want to. 2w

Kristin_Reads I‘m almost finished with this one and loving it! 1w

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KathyWheeler

Best Wishes, Sister B: A Gentle Feel Good Comedy | Fran Smith

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This light and warm-hearted book was quite the change from The Forever War! The story of a group of nuns trying to save their old convent from being sold is told in a series of letters from Sister Boniface to another nun, Sister Emelda, who is working in South America. It‘s a lovely book and was just what I needed. #NunLitQuarterly

jlhammar Oh good, I could use a lovely read. Excited to get started! Did you see that there is a sequel?

Power of Cake: Further Letters from Sister B

KathyWheeler @jlhammar No, I didn‘t. Thanks! 3w

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Best Wishes, Sister B: A Gentle Feel Good Comedy | Fran Smith

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#NunLitQuarterly 🔔 July 2024 reminder 🔔

Dear Sisters,

Our next pick is the “gentle, funny, feel-good” epistolary novel Best Wishes, Sister B by Fran Smith. Read the book sometime in July, post your review &/or any thoughts along the way and be sure to tag the group.

All are welcome!

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kspenmoll Will do! 1mo

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jlhammar

Best Wishes, Sister B: A Gentle Feel Good Comedy | Fran Smith

#NunLitQuarterly 🔔 July 2024 reminder 🔔

Dear Sisters,

Our next pick is the “gentle, funny, feel-good” epistolary novel Best Wishes, Sister B by Fran Smith. Read the book sometime in July, post your review &/or any thoughts along the way and be sure to tag the group.

All are welcome!

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Librarybelle Thanks for the reminder!! 1mo

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rubyslippersreads Looking forward to this one. 😀 1mo

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Deblovestoread Happily anticipating this read 💜 1mo

kspenmoll I am happy to read this! 1mo

Aimeesue I love an epistolary novel! 🖤 1mo

BethM No idea what this is but the book sounds good! 1mo

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Aimeesue

The Nun | Simonetta Agnello Hornby

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I‘m not Catholic, but I grew up in an area that was VERY Catholic, so I was familiar with the basics of modern day Catholicism. What Agata goes through to avoid being used in the financial plans of her family, and the plotting of the church, is astounding. I enjoyed watching her grow even while cloistered, and learning the many reasons one might become a nun at that time. Well done, though the ending was a bit abrupt for me.
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Librarybelle I‘m enjoying this so far! 3mo

Aimeesue @Librarybelle It‘s so well done! 3mo

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quietjenn I am very far behind, but everyone's comments are making me excited to make time for it. 3mo

batsy Great review! I haven't started and hope to squeeze it in this month. The reviews all make it sound intriguing. 3mo

jlhammar Fantastic review! Agree about the ending. It never fails to shock and sadden me just how little agency women had over their own lives. 3mo

rubyslippersreads @quietjenn Me too. 3mo

Aimeesue @quietjenn It‘s funny, for a novel that has the MC basically trapped in a convent for most of the book, it was very compelling. 3mo

Aimeesue @batsy I enjoyed it very much, hope you do, too! (edited) 3mo

Aimeesue @jlhammar It was just over so fast! 3mo

Aimeesue @rubyslippersreads I hope you like it, 3mo

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marleed

The Nun | Simonetta Agnello Hornby

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I‘m thrilled this book came to my attention through #NunLitQuarterly and soon become immersed in Agata‘s world. I‘ll never make my peace with the power the Catholic Church gives to families of wealth, nor the amount of young girls rehomed to convents - but gosh it makes for an interesting read. I believe this was my first translated novel of 2024! I was also intrigued with Agata‘s 1840 fascination with the P&P Bennet sisters.

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jlhammar I agree, so interesting! Glad you enjoyed it. 3mo

Aimeesue Nice review! I was stunned at the power wealthy families had (have?) within the church. Mind boggling. 3mo

marleed @Aimeesue Unfortunately, have remains the tense, and it‘s true of so many churches, clubs, charities… 3mo

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jlhammar

The Nun | Simonetta Agnello Hornby

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I ended up enjoying our April #NunLitQuarterly pick quite a bit. Rich in historical detail. Lots of inner turmoil for our young heroine. A good deal of drama yet filled with quiet, reflective moments. I think it was meant to be a happy ending, but I was left feeling concerned about how things might play out—hopefully just lots of romance and reading.

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Deblovestoread Definitely how I envisioned the ending. It‘s good to HAE once in awhile 💜 3mo

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Bookwomble

The Earth is Falling | Carmen Pellegrino

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Estella, a defrocked nun turned governess, lives in a decaying house in an abandoned Italian village perpetually threatened by engulfment in a slow landslide. While she is alone of the living, ghosts of the former inhabitants are drawn to her, and they reluctantly relive their sadnesses. There's a nod to Poe's House of Usher in the metaphor of the collapsing structures mirroring Estella's psychological decline.
I learned of Derrida's concept of ⬇️

Bookwomble ... hauntology from another book I'm reading, Weird Walk: that cultural and social ideas can persist after their time and "haunt" the present, and Pellegrino's book seems to be a literary exploration of this.
The relationship between Estella and her charge, Marcello, is interesting and, as with much of the book, tinged with the sadness and regrets of what might have been. ⬇️ 3mo

Bookwomble My finding of this book is an example of the triumph of the bookseller's art over the algorithmic shilling of online content pedlars 😏 3mo

batsy This sounds interesting! And might be of interest to other #NunLitQuarterly members 🙂 @jlhammar 3mo

Bookwomble @batsy It might be of interest to other readers generally, but the “defrocked nun“ aspect is background rather than foreground 🙂 (edited) 3mo

Aimeesue @batsy That was my first thought, too! 3mo

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