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Suzanne M. Wolfe
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The Confessions of X
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2016
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A Murder By Any Name (An Elizabethan Spy Mystery #1)
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2018
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Unveiling
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2004
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The Course of All Treasons (An Elizabethan Spy Mystery #2)
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Circle of Grace: Praying With--And For--Your Children
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2000
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Bless This House: Prayers for Families and Children
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2004
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Climb High, Climb Far: Inspiration for Life's Challenges from the World's Great Moral Traditions
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1996
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What inspired me to write "The Confessions of X."
The Confessions of X is the story of St. Augustine of Hippo’s concubine told in her own voice. I first came across her in religion class at my English convent school when I was 12. I remember raising my hand and asking Sister Bernadette who this mysterious woman was in Augustine’s "Confessions"—the woman he referred to as "Una", the One. She replied: “No one knows. She is lost to history.” That ph
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Augustine lived from AD354-430. So the time period is late antiquity. In his lifetime, he saw the sack of Rome and the Vandal invasion of Africa Province.
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“I am the living heart of a tree uncovered by the ax, still pliable, still green and full of sap.”
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“A dream-like state enveloped us, days filled with sunlight, the creamy churn of waves as the ship plunged and reared like a mettlesome horse, the flash of silver spray against our faces and, at night, a canopy of white-hot stars in blackness so deep it seemed as if I could stretch out my hand and plunge it wrist-deep into the velvet of it.”
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“A dream-like state enveloped us, days filled with sunlight, the creamy churn of waves as the ship plunged and reared like a mettlesome horse, the flash of silver spray against our faces and, at night, a canopy of white-hot stars in blackness so deep it seemed as if I could stretch out my hand and plunge it wrist-deep into the velvet of it.”
― The Confessions of X
― The Confessions of X
“I am the living heart of a tree uncovered by the ax, still pliable, still green and full of sap.”
― The Confessions of X
― The Confessions of X
“On becoming a mother, I had forever left that solitary state of girlhood behind, and if I sometimes pined to be alone with Augustine as we used to be in our first love, a quick glance at my sleeping son's face soon banished such foolish thoughts. It was as if Augustine and I had been in a beautiful bubble but when my body split open in childbirth, the shimmering membrane broke and we were delivered to the world.”
― The Confessions of X
― The Confessions of X
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Vote here for April's Book of the Month! The book with the most votes will be our Group Read, and the one with the second most votes will be a Buddy Read for the month.
Land of Silence by Tessa Afshar
Wildflowers from Winter by Katie Ganshert
The Confessions of X by Suzanne M. Wolfe
Vendetta by Lisa Harris
Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate by Diana Wallis Taylor
First Light by Bodie Thoene
Michal by Jill Eileen Smith
The Pharaoh's Daughter by Mesu Andrews
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“A dream-like state enveloped us, days filled with sunlight, the creamy churn of waves as the ship plunged and reared like a mettlesome horse, the flash of silver spray against our faces and, at night, a canopy of white-hot stars in blackness so deep it seemed as if I could stretch out my hand and plunge it wrist-deep into the velvet of it.”
― The Confessions of X
― The Confessions of X
“I am the living heart of a tree uncovered by the ax, still pliable, still green and full of sap.”
― The Confessions of X
― The Confessions of X
