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 Tuesday, January 30, 2007
New Book: Emma's Journal
Hmm, so Dawn ("The Thrill of the Chaste") Eden isn't the only woman penning conversion memoirs about the sexual revolution. A blogger's review of Emma's Journal here. posted by maggie at 3:44 PM | link 
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This is real life lived with eyes wide open. Emma spares neither herself nor her readers the clear vision of her own weaknesses and the evils around her. But she puts it all in the light of faith and the search for love, human and divine.
If you missed out on the '70s and '80s, here's your chance to hear it like it was. If you were there, this is definitely a more honest, vivid, and varied account than most of us could produce.
I got to read this book in prepublication version, and it is excellent: thoughtful and totally honest. Lots of stories of conversion are full of sugar-coating and inevitability. This one has the power of Graham Greene's End of the Affair or Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited because it shows what a person is really thinking as she returns to God from the delusions of the world. Juli is one of the most remarkable people around these days, and it is a pity fewer people know her. I will buy a copy of this book. So should you.
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