About this title: As in her bestselling "Amazing Grace," Norris demystifies a spiritual concept, exploring acedia--or soul-weariness--through the geography of her life as a writer; her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness; and her keen interest in the monastic tradition.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Date Published: 2008-09-16
ISBN-13:9781594489969ISBN:1594489963
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
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Description: Fine in Very Good + jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A photo of this book is available. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.95. Previous owner's signature in book front, on blank page (Glena). 336 pages. NO tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Several pages show highlighting (light yellow). Does NOT interfere with reading. IF NOT for the highlighting, I would have rated this book as Fine Condition. The Barnes & Noble Review Of the seven deadly sins, some ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date Published: 2008-09-16
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2008-09-16
ISBN-13:9780143143710ISBN:0143143719
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781594489969ISBN:1594489963
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Memoir. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author The author had been having trouble with feeling great apathy for most of her life until she came upon the writings of a fourth-century monk about acedia. This is the story of her journey. This book is in fine condition and so is the dust jacket. The author has signed on the title page. The dust jacket is not price clipped and is in new clear protective covering. read more
"Norris says in the introduction to this book that she's been working on it for a long, long time, gathering materials, reading, and writing. I suspect that what she was waiting for - consciously or intuitively - was an organizing structure. She never found it.
"Acedia & Me" is full of lots of wisdom and reflection on the spiritual problem of depression/apathy/boredom/distraction, as well as a smattering of wonderful quotes and stories from church literature that has been largely forgotten by the church, and stories about her husband's illnesses, and her own battles with depression (etc.) and quotes from modern authors about society's ills, and... anything else that managed to fall into her file marked "Acedia" over the years.
The problem is that it's barely organized at all. And at 327 pages, it's an awful lot of unorganized notes and thoughts. Some things repeat almost verbatim; often variations on the same theme are twenty pages apart. It gets kind of hard to keep plugging through after the first hundred pages or so; while new stuff does turn up now and then, maintaining a sense of progression through the book is almost impossible.
There is an awful lot of great stuff here. Norris has diagnosed a problem in society and written some excellent words of insight and reflection about it.
Too bad she never found that organizing structure."
"In this book, Norris explores Acedia which is apathy and spiritual boredom (in medieval times it became sloth). She talks about her own struggle with it, mines the Spiritual wisdom of desert monks and Benedictines, and distinguishes it from the psychological illness, Depression.
The sustained criticism of this book is that Norris rambles a bunch. But there is much that is thoughtful, reflective and wise. This book will likely make it on my re-read list as there are things in here I want to come back to."
"I have read previous works by Kathleen Norris including "Cloister Walk" and "Dakota" both about her experiences as a frequent visitor to a monastic community in North Dakota. I have enjoyed her thoughtful contemplative insights. This book explores the theme of spiritual acedia, which is a term that comes from early Christian monastic writing and means something like spiritual sloth.The book also relates her husband's depression and illnesses. She looks at the overlap between the spiritual and the psychological and learns that acedia is an affliction that has plagued her since adolescence. This book was heavy going but contains gems every few paragraphs that made it worthwhile for me. I read it over a period of several months.Ultimately, Norris was tryng to understand her new state of widowhod and dealing with her grief. I found the intellectualization stifling but still respectd her sincerity."
"I discovered poet Kathleen Norris as the author of a picture book about Benedict and Scholastica and illustrated by Tomie dePaola, at the Benedictine monastery near where I live. An Oblate herself, she is also a spiritual writer. Here she writes about acedia -- which was described by Evagrius in the 4th century as one of the eight bad thoughts and eventually morphed into sloth -- although that's not really it. This is one you'll need to take slowly, to see what happens when you get sick of it all -- until you finally don't care about any of it. I don't want to rush it - but I'll have to get it back to the library at some point - or buy it. My husband and I take turns reading each night."
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