Acedia & me, A Marriage, Monks and A Writer's Life by Kathleen Norris

I'd never heard of Acedia, so when this book appeared on my book club list, I bought it and dove in. However, this book reads like a term paper. Obviously, the author did some research, and she seemed determine to quote every writer who had ever written anything about the subject. Despite all the research, it was hard to know what acedia really is. The parts of the book that describes her life are mildly interesting, but the rest was torture for me. One of my book club members summed it all up when she said it would have made a nice 75-page book. Unfortunately, it's 250 pages too long. - June