So, the main aim of this book is to take stories of actual things nuns did and to try to TikTok them, for lack of a better term, or make them seem cooler, or distilled into more modern anecdotes. I definitely ‘got’ what this book was going for and I can see it appealing to other folks who might be into that sort of thing. I struggled between liking some parts of it but then also just being confused by others. I’m not sure if I am necessarily the audience, which could be another part of the reason why it didn’t ‘stick the landing’ for me. One thing that was really great was the artworks inside, though. The images were cool.

Humorous, informative, a fun tongue-in-cheek little read for people who have an interest in 16th and 17th century convent life. A little disjointed, but not enough to deter any enjoyment from me!

Convent Wisdom by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita was an okay read. It was fine while I was reading it but I don't think that anything really stuck with me after I finished reading it. It's one of the books that I struggle with trying to figure out what the point of it was since some of the connections it makes felt a little far off.

This felt like half memoir half historical non-fiction. It didn't find any of the insights particularly wowing but it was fun to learn more about the nuns. I might have liked a more hard historical non-fiction but this should be fun for most readers.

Maybe this just isn't the book for me, but I really struggled to understand the connections being made in this book. The storytelling felt fragmented and the references felt shallow. I felt like context was missing for most of the pop culture references, but maybe that is just me as well. I wish I had liked this more.