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cshel's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
tense
fast-paced
3.75
sabretoothdream's review
2.0
my friend had found this book laying around in his apartment building's basement. picked it up and read it on a whim. thought it was interesting and sent it my way after he was done.
well, there is A LOT packed in that tiny book. fascinating story to say the least. not terribly well written and i wonder just how much was her story is embellished and well, factual. nonetheless, not terrible and a very, very quick read. oh, and the pacing of the story is most amusing to me. seriously, it's like, ""Oh, you know, i rain away from the convent and all and then this theology professor took me in and let me stay for a few months. Turns out he's married to one of my aunts. ANYWHO, he liked me a whole lot and wanted me to stay and be his student for the long haul but I thought otherwise so then he beat me. . ." lulz.
well, there is A LOT packed in that tiny book. fascinating story to say the least. not terribly well written and i wonder just how much was her story is embellished and well, factual. nonetheless, not terrible and a very, very quick read. oh, and the pacing of the story is most amusing to me. seriously, it's like, ""Oh, you know, i rain away from the convent and all and then this theology professor took me in and let me stay for a few months. Turns out he's married to one of my aunts. ANYWHO, he liked me a whole lot and wanted me to stay and be his student for the long haul but I thought otherwise so then he beat me. . ." lulz.
kananineko's review
adventurous
fast-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Colonisation
Moderate: Racism, Slavery, and Injury/Injury detail
moseslh's review
3.0
Definitely worth a read even though I only rated it three stars. Lieutenant Nun is the true story (a memoir) of a nun in 17th century Spain who runs away from the convent dressed as a man, sails to the Americas, and has all kinds of swashbuckling adventures as a businessman and soldier, all the while maintaining the disguise. It's worth a read because it's an incredible story, and it's quite short (I finished it in one afternoon). Besides the fact that the protagonist was originally a female nun, the story is a pretty standard, exaggerated and dramatized, adventure story without too much literary merit, hence the three-star rating. However, it's a lot of fun to read and causes one to question the standard cisnormative historical narratives that erase people like Catalina de Erauso from the picture.