yarn along:: october, 2024: my prison memoir era
Well, not exclusively prison memoirs; there are also concentration camps, gulags, nuclear holocaust survivors... I occasionally take a deep dive into a realm of books. Lately, I've turned again and again to stories of dissidents, prisoners, and saints who have spent time in concentration camps or Gulags or suffered immensely at the hands of others. It began last year with A Song for Nagasaki and continued with the biography of Fr. Roman Braga , which I read with my book group, and led me to the audiobook version of The Hiding Place . Then I remembered the two books we have about Mother Maria Skobtsova , and just finished the second . Now, three more books have fallen in my lap (actually, they were delivered by our postal worker): Patriot: A Memoir , Notes from Underground , and Notes from a Dead House. Fr. G and I were fortunate to hear Yulia Navalnaya speak at a dinner the other night ; her quiet strength and determination reverberated even louder than her beautiful wor
