The Power and the Glory | 
pickA human story with no heroes, only victims. Greene is at his finest when it comes to writing landscapes and setting a mood. Somehow I can taste the red caked Mexican mud on the characters cracked feet and feel the desperation of their hunger and thirst. A novel that reminds us we are all imperfect and yet all worthy of salvation. Whatever that may mean. 🇲🇽 🙏🏻 ✅
5/5. Marvelous writing. A classic.
pickThis book from the #1001 list follows a “whisky priest“ in Mexico as he runs from persecution. The story is both sad and moving, as the priest struggles with his own conscience and reflects upon his religion and faith.
Finished my 3rd book for #JoyousJanuary and it's also my #BookSpin book for this month!
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pickGreene's storytelling is excellent, his subjects diverse, & he understands the frailties of the human condition. Here in a Mexico state where priests are deemed traitors & face firing squads , an apparently inadequate alcoholic cleric is fleeing from the country when diverted by a call to attend a dying peasant. As we then follow his attempts to evade authority we share his struggles with faith + sin. Interesting from a religious view but sad.
so-soI listened to the audio for this book, and that might have been part of the reason, but I had a really hard time getting into it at the beginning and keeping the characters straight. Once I got further into the priest‘s story, it got better. I appreciated all the shades of gray, rather than characters seen as only good or evil.
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so-so4th book in a row by Graham Greene, not so easy to read and the story doesn‘t flow so easily. I do not know if it was because of the translation. #2020
#gratefulreads Some books I #readinhighschool (called Secondary School in the UK at least if you are my age😬) All these are due a re read 👍
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Some of the books I came home with today from the Half Price Books clearance event at the Sharonville Convention Center near Cincinnati!! #bookhaul #nosuchthingastoomanybooks #usedbooks
bailedChosen at our book club because it‘s ‘a classic‘. Hmmm, not for me.
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
I just come to know Graham Greene. I am convinced, such vigorous written strength. I am only at chapter 3. GooD gracious !
It's been a good number of years since I've read it, but I remember really liking how it portrayed the flawed priest MC's efforts to live a #moral life. The insights from witnessing this internal struggle are much different than novels that end up moralizing- the rich characterization sticks with you. #nuyear @TrishB @Cinfhen
If you are #overpowered by vows you took in a former lifetime, you might become what you promised in spite of yourself. Or at least this is what the whiskey priest in this story finds. 😊 For day 3 of #tuneintonovember .
so-soSomewhere between a 🤘🏻and a so-so. The writing is amazing, as should be expected in a Graham Greene novel, and I didn't know anything about this period in Mexican history. But this is very much an outsider's view of events and local customs. The unnamed priest, although a native Mexican, presents as a white man which I thought was odd. (Does anyone know what is meant to have happened to the Fellows girl? Greene was pretty coy in the ending.)
I've got three by Graham Greene on my #LitsyAtoZ challenge. Half Price Books had several of his titles a couple years ago, so I grabbed them all up! Finally getting around to reading them all 😁
When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
Visiting DC from the West Coast for a long weekend. So many bookstores, so little time. Kramerbooks is a delight and has provided the perfect excuse to pick up one of the few remaining Graham Greene books I have left to read. #getindie
This was an amazing book mail surprise - The Power and the Glory paperback WITH a dust jacket 😍
This was an amazing book mail surprise - The Power and the Glory paperback WITH a dust jacket 😍
pickA fast, fascinating read that (in my opinion) shows the one of the best depictions of faith in a time of hardship. Greene paints an excellent picture of a time in Mexico when one's faith could be a death sentence and the one priest who, for better or worse, continues to serve God despite it all including his own doubts and failings.
I'm about halfway through this and am feeling fairly like warm about it. So far, I've always enjoyed Greene's books but have never been gripped by them...
