Carol Sheehan

The intrusion of your putting this on my phone without my requesting it.

Revisado: 11-18-24

Hated being waked up in the middle of the night to find this playing. I have my down version of this book, which I love, and am offended by Audible’s new aggressive marketing.

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What a beautiful book!

Revisado: 04-13-24

The book is a profoundly tender engagement of the story of St. Xenia of Petersburg. Beautifully read!

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You have to work a bit at this one

Revisado: 08-14-23

If I treat this as background accompaniment to my routines, I find I have go back and listen again. It’s the opposite of Traitors Purse, which grips you in anxious suspense from the first page. This one slowly develops personalities through what appears to be trivial conversation, while the crime and its causes and perpetrators slowly become evident as the horrendous but logical consequence of the very things—self-interest, triviality, ennui, cynicism—that dominate the culture of the time and place. A brilliant plot in many ways, not gripping till the end, where truth breaks out, so to speak, in response to Campion’s willingness to risk all. And of course Amanda’s courage in hanging in with him to do it.

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Lovely book, beautifully read

Revisado: 02-28-23

This morning, Clean Monday, I continued the Audible from where I’d left off last night, and the story I read turned out to contain surprisingly important spiritual counsel for me. Something I just hadn’t thought of that will make a significant difference in a project I’m working on. It felt as if Fr. Arseny himself might have reached out to me over all the time and space between us. I will take it to my next confession and Lent will go better. Thank you!

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Still my favorite

Revisado: 03-04-22

After 20 or 30 readings I’m still not tired of this one, which has some truly wonderful moments, especially the ending. I might like One Corpse Too Many slightly more, or even Leper of St. Giles, but those are the three I still get excited about listening to—over and over.

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Best book ever!

Revisado: 10-07-21

Beautifully read. I almost feel we don’t need any other books as long as we have this one.

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Great book, mediocre reader

Revisado: 07-08-20

Love the book! Not the reader, who even commits the great sin against Wolfe of mispronouncing a couple of words.

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I always learn something new

Revisado: 10-13-19

I have no idea how many times I’ve listened to this trilogy, but I never get tired of it, and it always seems relevant.

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It’s the very best!

Revisado: 09-24-19

Can’t even count how many times I’ve listened to it. Nothing about it gets old!

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Great story, stunning background detail

Revisado: 05-06-19

I find myself listening to these stories over and over and each time discovering more subtlety and richness of detail In setting and plot that I somehow missed the last time. Pargeter/Peters is a consummately intelligent, skilled, and imaginative storyteller. I even took a strong lesson from one of the abbot’s sermons in this one—and always from Cadfael’s warm, compassionate, and canny presence. I count him among my valued friends.

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