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Janet Rich Edwards
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April 2016
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Canticle
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2025
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4 editions
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| This is the best book I’ve read in years. Hard - so hard - and magnificent. The empathy that undergirds Boyne’s unflinching writing must be hard won, the work of a lifetime. We descend with him into the depths of evil and find our own complicity in i ...more | |
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Hello Goedele, and thank you for your question! I'm always excited to get a reader from Flanders (in all my travels with Canticle, I've only found one person who had heard of the beguines, and that was a Belgian who told me you learn about the beguin
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| I loved this book and inhaled it overnight. I will be thinking about this story for a long time. Kathy Sherbrooke really captures how women were silenced in the 1980’s by shaming and how men got away with it (and how we all colluded). Powerful mother ...more | |
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"I can’t form full sentences right now, so here’s my stream of consciousness:
1: women!!! 🥹😭 2: anchoresses are my new hyperfixation, thank you very much 3: I think I liked this book so much *because* I’m not religious. Also, because this book so illum" Read more of this review » |
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"My favorite book of 2026 so far. So beautifully written, I was surprised it was a debut novel! I found myself pausing just to sit with some of the prose. The characters are thoughtfully brought to life, and the storyline is unlike any I’ve read. As a"
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“He looks at her then, her Christ, with his wounded eyes, and she sees what she had not seen before. He is in love. He is in love with her, he is in love with the sparrow and the river, he is in love with the root and trunk and flower of it all, the entire creation, and his fear and his love are inseparable. He has love even for the fear, and it is through the vulnerable door, the portal of fear, the spear in his side that will come tomorrow, that Aleys glimpses, for a fleeting moment, the unutterable vastness of her beloved.”
― Canticle: A Novel
― Canticle: A Novel
“The words and the notes weave a nest, complex and particular, twig and grass and feather, a home in the heart of the music, and she is held fast by their song. Oh, Mama, she thinks, this is the melody you sought.”
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Thank you for sharing that beautiful insight into how the story became an act of seeking for you. The evolution from Aleys's solitary devot ...more
Jan 26, 2026 05:20AM