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The sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

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Emilio Sandoz is a Jesuit priest. He has just arrived back to Earth after having been on a journey to another planet to make contact with aliens. He is a broken man. The things he has been through have left him shaken to his core, and they have shaken his faith in God. We find out these things gradually. The story is told backwards in that it starts with the return of Sandoz to Earth. Only later, as Sandoz himself starts to come to terms with what has happened to him, do we get the details of his journey. There […]

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5/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

FINALLY posting my Children of God Review.

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

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Last year, I read The Sparrow for CBR7, and it totally wrecked me. I’m not even kidding, I finished the book huddled up in bed, surrounded by Kleenex. It was beautiful and damaging and raw all at once. I had heard there was a sequel, but just did not feel quite up to it at the time. Thanks to faintingviolet’s cheerleading, I decided I would be ready to read the sequel in 2016. And I am glad that I read it this year. Faintingviolet’s and Halbs’s reviews are full of insight. I’m still struggling to put together my full review, […]

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8/26/2016 's CBR8 Review No:93 |

Mary Doria Russell Always Makes Me THINK

Children of God (The Sparrow #2) by Mary Doria Russell

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I read The Sparrow last year and was absolutely gutted by the story of Father Emilio Sandoz and the crew of the first mission to Rakhat. Having decided to work my way through Mary Doria Russell’s works, I knew that I would eventually read its sequel, Children of God. However, I knew very little about it, other than that it continued Emilio’s story.  Bonnie also read The Sparrow for Cannonball Read 7, and we had talked about reading Children of Men together this year. In our Book Club discussion of Doomsday Book, bonnie compared Father Roche to Father Sandoz, which […]

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8/7/2016 's CBR8 Review No:47 |

A crushing crisis of faith.

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

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There are points in a person’s life when a book crushes her very core, and she is left reeling. There are moments when a book’s impact is felt too-closely based on an event or circumstance in a person’s life. In my life, The Book Thief fits that former category, a book that left me curled up in fetal position around a box of Kleenex, sobbing until I couldn’t breathe. The latter kind of book is The Fault in Our Stars, which I read for CBR5 a mere few weeks after my friend K was diagnosed with a Stage 3 malignant […]

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7/15/2015 's CBR7 Review No:133 |

“the sparrow still falls”

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

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Many moons ago I read Dreamers of the Day for CBR4. I loved the prose, and marveled at the rich character development even if my review isn’t as effusive (the book has grown on me over time). The author, Mary Doria Russell, has received positive reviews over the course of the many Cannonball Reads, so I decided that I wanted to jump back in with this author. I put The Sparrow on my library request list, and when the email came in that it was ready I picked it up and eventually got around to reading it, without reminding myself […]

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1/14/2015 's CBR7 Review No:4 |

The cutest dachshund I’ve ever read about

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

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“All men dream,” Colonel Lawrence wrote, “but not equally. Those who dream by night wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” (245) Mary Doria Russell is one of my favorite authors. The unique thing about her, though, is that I’m always surprised that I like her books. They are invariably genres or subjects I don’t have much interest in but eventually try anyway. And I usually end up loving them. Although I had more trouble […]

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2/24/2014 's CBR6 Review No:12 |


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