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    <body><![CDATA[Spent my spare time during my trip to Helena, MT this week rereading Godric. Again, a beautiful book. It is a bit tough sometimes, considering how sinful Buechner makes Godric out to be. But I'm a fan of the kind of reconciliation/grace Godric receives, as well. Life, grace, sin, relationships... al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38273352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has been one of my favorite books for a very long time which I don't want to spoil by saying too much about it.<br/><br/>Here is a story of Heaven and Earth.  With Earth so real you can smell the musty soil, the blood, the pain, the tears. Heaven so near, and so beautiful, that it lights the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61518782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One might think a novel about a saint to be dry. Uh-uh. Godric was a 12th-century spiritual giant born in Norfolk around the time of the Norman invasion (1066, I looked it up). He was a peddler and wanderer, eventually settling into the life of a hermit in northern England. Quirky book, highly unusu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47919162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The language of the book takes about 2 pages to get used to.  That being said, Godric is one of the best books I've read.  Beuchner weaves an incredible story from Godric's point of view; it is well told almost to be point of being lyrical.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a little piece of brilliance.  But be warned - it takes a bit to warm up to Buechner's iambic verse and this one gets better with time (and better when you reread it).  I had to read/reread and discuss this for school and it just kept getting better.  Buechner takes you on a journey with St....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45184879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the fictionalization of the life of Godric, a pirate and thief turned saint. Buechner is at his best here in this bawdy, creative account that reaped him a Pulitzer nomination.<br/><br/>Godric is a sympathetic man but not always good. He instructs his scribe to write his story accordingly,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1445297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to own this (in a different edition), until I gave it to Chris Houser as a birthday present. It is knobbly and great.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[loved it the first time i read it in college, working through it again.  such great thoughts on solitude and the idea of home..]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is hilarious, especially given that it's a about a Catholic Saint who is incredibly crass and rude.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel was entrancing, which I mean literally: the novel is written entirely in iambic, so the prose subtly carries the reader through the narrative. It is the story of Saint Godric of Finchale, a medieval English hermit, and it is narrated by Godric himself. He describes a life that is in few w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3270569">more...</a>]]></body>
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