Some of the flagged passages have to do with Father Ralph’s beauty and sexuality (or speculation about it). If you like historical sweeping family sagas you’ll want to read it.Īs you can see in the picture to the right, I flagged a lot of passages. (Speaking of Pat, I distinctly remember it was her copy of Stephen King’s The Stand that I read way back when.)ĭoes The Thorn Birds need much of an introduction? In addition to being a story of forbidden love, it is also a sweeping chronicle of three generations of the Cleary family’s trials and tribulations and the changes Australia went through from approximately 1915-1969. Pat and I now live in different parts of the country but I think it’s high time I get Pat’s book back to her. I have no idea how the book came to be on my shelves. The copy I read belongs to my Mom’s friend Marge’s sister Pat who inscribed the date “4/78” under her name on the inside page. I was raised Lutheran but the entire family beyond my Mom, sister, and me were Catholic, so I understood the appeal of the forbidden nature of the story, but as a tomboy I had zero interest in romance. All I knew was that it was a love story between a priest and a women. When the book and TV mini-series were smash hits in the US I was about eleven or twelve. I did it! I finally read The Thorn Birds! Although I can’t say this book has been on my TBR list for a long time, I’ve often wondered about this story for decades.
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