{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20261010T034321Z-reviewed-full-unique-works","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060656034?tag=bookfrontie00-20","asin":"0060656034","authors":["Thomas Merton"],"book_id":"9780060656034","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/dialogues-with-silence-9780060656034","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780060656034.jpg?v=ecf983f405192c80","description":"Thomas Merton’s most intimate work—a stunning devotional beaming with prayers, poems, and never-before-seen drawings The perfect companion for daily prayer and reflection, this spiritual guide and gift combines Merton’s artistic and contemplative sides, showing readers a different side of this beloved writer and theologian. Grippingly filled with warmth and comfort, Dialogues with Silence is a rich a selection of prayers from throughout Merton’s life—from his journals, letters, poetry, books—accompanied by all 100 of Merton’s rarely seen, delightful Zen-like pen-and-ink drawings. This elegant collection is designed to savored slowly, leaving readers with a profound sense of hope and enlightenment. Vulnerable, inspiring, and unlike any other devotional published, this assortment of spiritual astonishment is the perfect companion to daily prayer, meditation, and reflection in all its glorious forms.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780060656034","publication_date":"20040217","publisher":"HarperCollins","slug":"dialogues-with-silence","subtitle":"Prayers & Drawings","title":"Dialogues With Silence"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"LCO022040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Faith & Inspiration","score":0.7437,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"OCC011020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Prayer & Healing","score":0.7165,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL052010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Christian Prayerbooks","score":0.7085,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"LCO022040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Faith & Inspiration","score":0.7437,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"OCC011020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Prayer & Healing","score":0.7165,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL052010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Christian Prayerbooks","score":0.7085,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BIO018000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Religious Lives","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"LCO022040","confidence_band":"high","label":"Faith & Inspiration","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"OCC011020","confidence_band":"high","label":"Prayer & Healing","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"OCC019000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Inspiration & Personal Growth","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE003000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Inspirational & Religious Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"REL007020","confidence_band":"high","label":"Buddhist Practice & Ritual","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"REL010000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Catholicism","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"REL013000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Religion in the Arts","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Faith & Inspiration","score":0.7437,"slug":"faith-inspiration"},{"label":"Prayer & Healing","score":0.7165,"slug":"prayer-healing"},{"label":"Christian Prayerbooks","score":0.7085,"slug":"christian-prayerbooks"}],"reader_fit":["For readers seeking a companion to daily prayer and reflection"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Thomas Merton","Sue Monk Kidd"],"book_id":"9780811217248","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780811217248.jpg?v=ae20d1c50353d251","score":0.7498,"title":"New Seeds of Contemplation","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780811217248"},{"authors":["Gregory Kramer"],"book_id":"9781590304853","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781590304853.jpg?v=63ad98395825257d","score":0.6706,"title":"Insight Dialogue","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781590304853"},{"authors":["Maggie Robbins","Duffy Robbins"],"book_id":"9780310259916","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780310259916.jpg?v=03bbb5de30df33f4","score":0.6648,"title":"Enjoy the Silence","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780310259916"},{"authors":["Anthony De Mello","J. Francis Stroud"],"book_id":"9780385249379","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780385249379.jpg?v=1f8cccacf316f8d3","score":0.6499,"title":"Awareness","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780385249379"},{"authors":["Pádraig Ó Tuama"],"book_id":"9780802883476","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780802883476.jpg?v=6abf577d1024b72a","score":0.6457,"title":"Being Here","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780802883476"},{"authors":["Stephen Mitchell"],"book_id":"9780060923204","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780060923204.jpg?v=11860f34160fde4f","score":0.6424,"title":"The Enlightened Mind","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780060923204"},{"authors":["Henri J. M. Nouwen"],"book_id":"9780385503891","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780385503891.jpg?v=972806534fef0397","score":0.6417,"title":"A Cry for Mercy","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780385503891"},{"authors":["K.J. Ramsey","author of Honest Advent Scott Erickson","Scott Erickson"],"book_id":"9780310461333","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780310461333.jpg?v=de16c12899832f13","score":0.6394,"title":"The Book of Common Courage","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780310461333"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:a year with thomas merton"],"label":"Year","score":0.8411,"slug":"year"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:dancing in the water of life"],"label":"Life","score":0.0567,"slug":"life"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:spiritual writings"],"label":"Spiritual","score":0.0362,"slug":"spiritual"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:personal writings thomas merton"],"label":"Personal","score":0.0282,"slug":"personal"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Prayer and meditation, Contemplative spirituality, Hope and enlightenment.","Pacing: reflective, voice-and-character forward.","Themes: Year, Life, Spiritual."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.91,"pacing":"reflective","reader_fit":["For readers seeking a companion to daily prayer and reflection"],"themes":["Prayer and meditation","Contemplative spirituality","Hope and enlightenment"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":108,"goodreads_ratings_count":574,"goodreads_reviews_count":57,"quality_score":0.9106}}