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Book Review: Lying Awake

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How are you? I’m writing to you on this chilly October night to tell you about this book I read for my LA 230 class. It is entitled Lying Awake by Mark Salzman and just letting you know now (disclaimer alert!), it’s about nuns. The story overall is about this nun named Sister John of the Cross who used to be a TV writer with an unlucky childhood involving an alcoholic mother but had decided to devote her life to being a Carmelite nun instead. The life of a Carmelite nun revolves around the church calendar not a regular calendar, so it begins with Easter and the rest of the year leads up to Easter. To give you some background on these nuns, it all started with this lady named Teresa of Avila. I had read an article about her story. She lived
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