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The perils of ordering from Amazon.com…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My copy of Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, <\/em>our next Book Group book, has just arrived. \u00a0In fairness it has journeyed all the way from a bookstore in San Diego, so it is forgiven. \u00a0But it looks a bit too weighty to digest in time for Saturday. \u00a0So:<\/p>\n

The next Dock Book Group is now scheduled for Saturday 2nd April – 2pm at the Premier Inn<\/strong> (thus allowing time for Meeting The Neighbours first – which will\u00a0always be on the first Saturday of the month. Phew, things are getting busy in Dockworld!) This has the extra benefit of allowing one of our regular Bookgroupers, who is herself travelling all the way from the USA, to join us, so that’s kinda neat! \u00a0And meanwhile I’m looking forward to tucking into Merton’s book – it looks great. \u00a0Here’s the evocative back cover description:<\/p>\n

While still in his early twenties, Merton, an intensely active and brilliant young man, found that nothing in his worldly life assuaged a growing restlessness. \u00a0A curiosity about spiritual matters led him first to baptism as a Catholic and ultimately to entry into a Trappist monastery – “the four walls of my new freedom”. \u00a0Here he wrote this extraordinary testament – the unique spiritual document of a man who withdrew from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sounds intriguing? \u00a0If you’re interested in tracking down your own copy, the link is here<\/a>; if you’d like to join us for coffee and chat in the Premier Inn on 2nd April, come on \u00a0ahead – the more the merrier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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