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  <title><![CDATA[In This House of Brede]]></title>
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  <default-description>This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman who leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community. In This House of Brede was the basis of a 1975 made-for-television film starring Diana Rigg.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1969</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>In This House of Brede</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rumer Godden]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jun 20 19:08:07 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I re-read this book every year or so. The opening scene where the highly successful businesswoman Philippa is giving away treasured possessions which she will no longer need at Brede abbey, draws you right into this story. The community of Benedictine nuns are a fascinating bunch. Flawed yet likeabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25025398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4380903">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 10 18:37:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 29 06:44:07 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this at least three times before. It's interesting, because I am an atheist, but I find this book fascinating for its characterization of community life, particularly among women. I am interested in the way it explores a &quot;humble&quot; life--a life lived with a purpose other than finan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4380903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1342074">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 21 10:09:55 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 05 18:31:46 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book taught me a lot about cloister life.  After growing up catholic, I wish these nuns were the ones to teach me.  Maybe I would still feel like a catholic today.  The nuns in the community focused on self-improvement and discipline, hard work, everyone had a function, everyone was needed in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1342074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38864661">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 29 08:34:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 29 11:02:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rumer Godden wrote the gripping 1939 novel <em>Black Narcissus</em> about a group of Anglican nuns who attempt to establish a convent school in a former harem palace in the foothills of the Himalayas, the result of which is failure, insanity, and death. Thirty years later Godden returned to the subject of nu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38864661">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26812269">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone, ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 09 19:39:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 09 19:47:48 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book and it is not a subject I was drawn to.  It is about a Benedictine Abbey for women and they are contemplative, only see visitors through a grille once they have taken their vows.  It is peaceful but the group of nuns create their own enviroment.  The main character does not enter th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26812269">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15190468">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 11 17:24:45 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 11 17:29:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  I had feared it would be heavy or require a lot of thought.  It did, in fact, cause me to think a lot, but not to try and figure out what happened or what it meant.  This was a wonderful study of one woman's life in a monestary.  How she decided to enter, the history of her life ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15190468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17468440">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[to those interested in monastic life]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 23 08:16:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written story by Rumer Godden about monastic life.  It is a fictional work but is said to be based upon monastic life at Stanwood Abbey in England.  Godden lived on the property for three years while researching this seemingly curious lifestyle choice.  As a result every word she write...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17468440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5655062">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who wants to escape]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 04 14:10:35 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has profound meaning for me...it's about a group of contemplative nuns. If you've ever gotten sick and tired of living in the mundane world, I highly recommend picking up this book. It shows just how hard nuns work, and how their struggles with each other are no different than the struggle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5655062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48684926">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sonia]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who have a liking for religious orders ]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Carmel College Library]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1972</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 09 07:52:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 09 08:02:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when I was in my teens, all through the Christmas Vacation of 1972. I neglected my studies, but I do not regret it. I reread it many times and it never fails to grip me and the sheer beauty of the book leaves me in tears.<br/>Philippa Talbot enters the Abbey of Brede when she is su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48684926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59776937">
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    <name><![CDATA[Hannahr]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 15 13:48:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 15 14:02:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being raised Baptist, I knew very little about the Catholic faith or Catholic orders, so when I read several positive reviews of Godden's, &quot;In this House of Brede&quot;, I knew I needed to get this book and read for myself to understand a way of life very foreign yet very intriguing to me.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59776937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17617852">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lara]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 12 13:56:29 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 12 13:59:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED this book.  It is such a faithful, warm and real portrayal of women, women who are very easy to connect with, despite their cloistered life.  Rumer G's writing style suited me perfectly.  She slips in dialoge in an interesting way, almost like asides, that made me feel like I was a confidant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17617852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4089771">
    <user id="239204">
    <name><![CDATA[Linda]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 04 19:46:32 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 27 20:34:19 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just loved this. It's a fairly complex novel that interweaves three layers of story: There's the personal journey of Philippa Talbot, a career woman in her forties who enters the cloistered world of a Benedictine monastery; the story of this particular monastery as it buries one abbess and elects ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4089771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59439598">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sharon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 12 14:51:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 12 15:05:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would like to reread this book at a later time.  I enjoyed it, but I was so busy I really didn't get to read it and enjoy it.  I love the story and learning about life in a monastery.  I really liked the nuns and their personalities, but because it took me so long to read the book, it was hard to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59439598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9877407">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 03 08:22:41 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 03 08:26:12 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rumer Godden is a prolific writer who converted to Catholicism as an adult.  She is brilliant at character development and her characters are fully fleshed out and so very interesting.  In this novel, we follow a woman as she discerns her vocation as a nun.  We see her whole life in segments as she ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9877407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4802127">
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    <name><![CDATA[Loren]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 20 06:55:48 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 27 19:52:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being a Benedictine nun is really hard. They have to learn like 50 different masses in Latin and occasionally &quot;punish&quot; themselves using a lash. Their friends only come and visit when they are considering getting abortions, and sometimes the food is terrible. Even so, it has its rewards. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4802127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="794650">
    <user id="36199">
    <name><![CDATA[Amanda]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 19 11:15:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 19 11:19:22 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[In the catalogue of my obsessions, nuns ranks right up there with freak shows and prison, and this book is the best nun book of them all. It's a wealth of knowledge if, like me, you're curious as to the structure of the Benedictine day and year, and it's surprisingly gripping. A well done story all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/794650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2445401">
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my favorite Godden book though I love them all.  She is one of my earliest &quot;adopted&quot; authors whose works I read repeatedly and in as near completion as I can possibly do so -- I will keep searching them out until I've read them all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, in my opinion, a most enchanting book. It is the story of a number of years in the life of Brede Abbey, a fictional English Catholic woman’s monastery, and the nuns who live there. The book opens very simply with Penny Stevens, the juniorest typist in a government office run by a Mrs. Phi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19668907">more...</a>]]></body>
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