Are you a bookworm?

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Hi Deconswife !

I too enjoy fiction about the middle ages. However, I find few writers write about that era. I have read almost all the Brother Cadfel mysteries. Many of the books about that time really romances in costume. Later historical eras like the Victorian and Edwardian have their own contempory authors like Charles Dickens, Jane Austin and Mark Twain and Nathanial Hawthorne. Can you list some other authors.
 
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Hi Deconswife !

I too enjoy fiction about the middle ages. However, I find few writers write about that era. I have read almost all the Brother Cadfel mysteries. Many of the books about that time really romances in costume. Later historical eras like the Victorian and Edwardian have their own contempory authors like Charles Dickens, Jane Austin and Mark Twain and Nathanial Hawthorne. Can you list some other authors.
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I am not certain. Are you looking for writers from the 1800’s? A very good but underrated writer was Wilkie Collins. He wrote the first ever mystery novel-Moonstone. He also wrote about an interracial marriage in Armadale. Armadale was interesting because the red headed wife was depicted as the bad guy while her half black, half white husband was a noble, good guy. Wilkie Collins was a friend of Dickens. So Armadale was written in the mid to late 1800s! I bought Armadale from Amazon in case you are interested. It is a much easier read then Dickens.
 
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savone:
He and his classmates would say, “We are, too!” miningjournal.net/ :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:
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Woops!!! The above link is about a kids reading program at Ishpeming, MI. The website for The Mining Journal is changed daily. So, after Monday the 23rd, it will likely be changed. :o
 
Barbara Ann:
Hi Deconswife !

I too enjoy fiction about the middle ages. However, I find few writers write about that era.
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Here are some that you might want to check out that I enjoy. The period of time they cover ranges from the 10th - 14th century. Kate Sedly (Roger the Chapman set in the 1400’s) P.C. Doherty (he writes historical novels based in England of the 1300’s and also has a series based on the Canterbury Tales), Margaret Frazer (Sister Fervisse solves mysteries is England of the 1300s), Edward Marston (Ralph Delchard solves mysteries in 11th century England while compiling the Domesday Book) and if you like Brother Cadfael you might like Peter Tremayne - his main character is a nun Sister Fidelma who solves mysteries set in the time period just before the middle ages.
 
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coralewisjr:
Wow! You sound like Matilda in the movie with the same title. I always identified with Matilda because I felt like her sometimes. It would be so fun to read the whole library and skip to adult books when you’re done with the children’s books!

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
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i guess i grew up in a different time, different place. 1950 . they didn’t have childrens sections any book was safe for kids to read.
there were so many books that i couldn’t have read them in a lifetime. in the summer vacation, i did fishing and reading out in the back yard, in a hamock and, this was in a very small town in massachusetts. we had three cops, one for each precinct. there were no drugs.
 
I have packed 5 boxes of books in my car for my move and have 1 more box to go. I try to read a couple of hours a day.

PF
 
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coralewisjr:
Wow. I used to read self-help, too. Variety in genres is great when you’re a bookworm!
I’ve found that I can put the book down when I get too tired to read. Then I just have to gather the energy to put the bookmark in the book and move it so I won’t sleep on it, and turn off the reading light.

my mother my Confidence,
Corinne
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no commercials! you can sleep 8 hours and continue where you left off
 
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puzzleannie:
in 3 moves in the past ten years I have given away 175 cartons of books to libraries, historical societies, schools etc. since many were specialized topics. I have been readings since I was 4 - we had a bunch of children’s classics and I went through them all before I started 1st grade. I used to read 4-5 books a week, literature, mysteries, history mainly. I don’t know what happened but now I read only one book at a time, and it takes a week or more. I no longer spend my paycheck at B&N or fill up my back seat with library books. I have become more selective.besides lectio divina with daily lectionary, I work on one spiritual book at time, and it can take weeks. When I read something else I am extremely selective, usually classics or reliable writers, including children’s. most modern trade fiction and stuff in Best Short Stories is such garbage I have given up on it.

just finished Out of the Silent Planet trilogy by CS Lewis, and will begin Kirstin Lavrensdatter when next I get the urge to read.
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out of the silent planet series is very thological, believe it or not.
have you read “mere christianity” “the problem of pain” “miracles”? i don’t see how cs lewis deviates from christian catholic teaching. but some say so.
 
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savone:
I’ve been wondering. There’s the “Dummies” series: “Computers for Dummies,” “Gardening for Dummies,” and so on. Is there a “Catholicism for Dummies”? I think it would help me a lot! http://bestsmileys.com/darwin/2.gif
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I don’t know if someone answered this already but yes, there is a Catholicism for Dummies. BOoks a million carries it.
 
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deb1:
I don’t know if someone answered this already but yes, there is a Catholicism for Dummies. BOoks a million carries it.
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deb1

Thanks. In part, I asked this in jest. However, the next time in my favorite bookstore, I’ll give it a look.
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deb1:
I don’t know if someone answered this already but yes, there is a Catholicism for Dummies. BOoks a million carries it.
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The black and yellow “Catholicism for Dummies” is from a good source. However, the bright orange and white “The Idiot’s Guide to Catholicism” is full of errors. Avoid that one at all costs!

Debbie
 
Books, hehehe, 🤓

I just moved recently and sold everything but my two bookcases of theology, they are just to heavy to move. Mostly church fathers and my bible collection.
 
i love to read, and am constantly on the look-out for new (good) books to read!
 
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coralewisjr:
I’m a full-fledged bookworm. I’m usually reading at least two books at once. I’ve started to read so many books that I don’t know when I’ll have time to read the book about babies that Mom gave me before I birth Baby.

Here are my favorite genres:
historical fiction (Nazi Holocaust, other wars)
mystery
non-fiction (there is so much to learn!), especially when it’s Catholic

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
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I seem to have about six on the go at any one time.​

 
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