How I Became a Nun (Paperback)

from jasonlf

Great beginning, pretty good ending, much of the middle felt like muddle, but it was short enough that it wasn't a fatal detraction. The narrator is a young boy or a young girl--the book keeps shifting as to which it is, with no logic that I could discern--who is born in the provinces around Buen...

from nosajeel

Great beginning, pretty good ending, much of the middle felt like muddle, but it was short enough that it wasn't a fatal detraction.The narrator is a young boy or a young girl--the book keeps shifting as to which it is, with no logic that I could discern--who is born in the provinces around Bueno...

from pieterpad

An odd little novel. It's easier to say what this novel is not than to say what it is. Lay reviewers have complained at not knowing the sex of the first-person narrator; this seems pointless. The writing is compelling, straightahead, details returning in slightly shifted focus, characters clearly...

from JimElkins

The first two chapters are absolutely excruciating to read: incredibly well managed, funny, weird, tense, well conceived, and utterly bizarre. The narrator is a boy, but then again, he might be a girl: that's strange enough, because the ambiguity is managed offhandedly -- someone refers to the pr...

from jorgearanda

A little novella with a captivating voice and a plot that is full of odd inconsistencies---its narrator (or reality, maybe) can't quite be trusted; it's always a bit off, not quite right, like a portrait that you're not sure but may have blinked just a moment ago.