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A Stolen Tongue (2000)

by Sheri Holman(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: So far so very good. If you know me, I suppose the fact that a book about Christian pilgrims in the 15th century as told from the perspective of a priest with a hardcore obsession with relics of Saint Katherine of Alexandria, all trying to get to Sinai by boat and then land, combined with a whodunnit kind of page turner mystery attracted me is not a surprise. The author has a sly kind of writing, and knows how to turn a phrase. Trying to read slow to savor it, but having trouble putting it down. Dense, odd, tough, funny, and clever. So far, it is a most fine $1 book bin score!
review 2: Very good for a first novel -- well written -- but sort of a weird story -- in 1483, a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and then on to Mt Sinai -- too many deaths due to hardship an... mored murder -- a "crazy" woman and her brother, popping up in various places -- maybe the brother is crazy -- relics of Saint Katherine, her bones missing and turning up again -- one relic is her tongue (one was her ear) -- much superstition, many saracens and arabs -- good and bad people -- i know it's not one that I will read again. less

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