{"id":11129,"date":"2018-09-28T21:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T01:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11129"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:19:55","slug":"the-pilgrim-of-hate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11129","title":{"rendered":"The Pilgrim of Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pilgrim of Hate<\/a><\/em> (1984) Ellis Peters<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Set in England in 1141<\/p>\n

It’s been four years since the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul brought the bones of Saint Winifred (or so they thought) to Shrewsbury, and the abbey is holding a festival for her, with pilgrims coming to pray for miracles.<\/p>\n

While to the south, the turmoil between King Stephen and Empress Maud has spread, causing violence and fighting and murder as the various vassals vacillate. <\/p>\n

Here in book 10 we get a brief revisiting of the events in the first book, but plenty of new mystery. And of course Cadfael.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen your only resort is confession and penance,\u201d said Hugh lightly. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot until Brother Mark is full-fledged a priest!\u201d … \u201cI\u2019m saving for him,\u201d said Cadfael, \u201call those sins I feel, perhaps mistakenly, to be no sins.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All those sins I feel to be no sins.<\/p>\n

That passage tells you everything about Cadfael–and his faith.<\/p>\n

(P)eople are endlessly mysterious, and I am endlessly curious. A sin to be confessed, no doubt, and well worth a penance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think what gets me in these books are the little bits that come in passing, almost throw away lines, except that they make the secondary characters real and true.<\/p>\n

Brother Anselm, thoughtfully revolving the syllables of the name, and tapping the resultant rhythm on the stone of the bench on which he sat, repeated to himself softly: \u201cRainald Bossard, Rainald Bossard\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is such a lovely passage.<\/p>\n

There was, after all, a great deal of human happiness in the world, even a world so torn and mangled with conflict, cruelty and greed. So it had always been, and always would be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As always the mystery is good, the solution unexpected, and no one is quite evil or irredeemable. <\/p>\n

I do enjoy these stories.<\/p>\n

Publisher: MysteriousPress
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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