Changing Habits (Mira)

by Debbie Macomber | Romance |
ISBN: 0778320286 Global Overview for this book
Registered by CdnBlueRose of Steinbach, Manitoba Canada on 7/11/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by CdnBlueRose from Steinbach, Manitoba Canada on Monday, July 11, 2005
From Publishers Weekly
Macomber (Between Friends; Navy Wife) covers familiar emotional ground in an unusual setting, giving readers a glimpse of life in a Minneapolis convent. In the early 1960s, three young women find themselves taking vows: Angelina Marcello, answering what she believes to be God's call; Kathleen O'Shaughnessy, who is following the urging of her devout parents; and Joanna Baird, who is fleeing heartbreak (her fiance arrived home from a tour in Vietnam with a pregnant Vietnamese bride a month before their planned wedding). They initially find fulfillment in service-Joanna as a nurse, Angelina as a home economics teacher, Kathleen as an elementary school teacher-but as the years pass, each confronts a crisis of faith that she cannot resolve within the convent walls. In the early 1970s, they return to secular life to face a society that has changed dramatically in the previous decade, particularly in relations between men and women. The premise is inventive, but the challenges the sisters face-a young student's back-alley abortion, an alcoholic priest, encounters with violent and lascivious men-are predictable, and Macomber gives them stock treatment. The development of the women's friendship occurs off the page, so that it seems jarring when they reminisce like soul mates at a reunion years later, with families in tow. Macomber's historical research about the Second Vatican Council and church politics is seamlessly woven into the story and adds badly needed depth to the novel.

Journal Entry 2 by CdnBlueRose from Steinbach, Manitoba Canada on Sunday, November 13, 2005
Mailing tomorrow to morsecode as a RABCK - ENJOY!

Journal Entry 3 by morsecode from Woonsocket, Rhode Island USA on Sunday, November 20, 2005
This book arrived yesterday.
I really enjoyed The Shop on Blossom Street so I am looking forward to reading this one.
Thanks, Rosie!

Journal Entry 4 by morsecode from Woonsocket, Rhode Island USA on Saturday, February 25, 2006
kzel requested this book as part of the Broadcasting from Mt TBR relay. I finished reading it last night and put it in the post to her this morning.

The book reminded me a bit of Kathryn Hulme's A Nun's Story because of the subject matter: female religious have crises of faith and leaving the convent. Though I think it lacked the depth of Hulme's novel. Whenever I see a book by Debbie Macomber there is a quote on it that says something about her incomparable ability to write about women. Before this I'd only read one of her books, The Shop on Blossom Street. I wanted to read this book was because I enjoyed Blossom Street, however while the books have similar structure (split narrative, focusing on a number of different women) I found this book significantly less absorbing. As a reader I didn't care about the characters in Changing Habits the way I did about those in Blossom Street, it seemed like even their crises of faith were treated only superficially.

Journal Entry 5 by kzel from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Thursday, March 9, 2006
Received yesterday in the mail as part of a relay :D
I look forward to reading it soemtime soon...

Journal Entry 6 by kzel at Melbourne Central New Little Library in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (10/22/2013 UTC) at Melbourne Central New Little Library in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia

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