Calling all bookworms

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@patricius79 I also read Fr. Calloway’s book No Turning Back. Crazy!! I’m now reading his book Champions of the Rosary. I’m struggling with the rosary, so this book will hopefully help me start a long relationship with it.
 
@thelittlelady speaking of space exploration, my Catholic cousin recommended a book about Jesuit priests who contact another planet. It’s called The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Not my usual genre, but it was interesting.
 
I’ve read a little of Champions of the Rosary. It’s supposed to be the most complete book on the Rosary. To me the key to the Rosary is just calling out like little children to Our Lady Mother for help in contemplating the words and mysteries. Sometimes I don’t feel like praying the Rosary, but that passes because I know it’s one of my legs so to speak. If I don’t pray it, I’m crippling myself and will fall into much more sin. It holds me up like a staff.
 
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I plan to read of much of his stuff as possible, including the Apocalypse series.

The Father Elijah books are great (they may even be part of the Apocalypse series).

Check out The Fool of New York - all I’ll say is that it’s about a guy who is suffering after 9/11. The story is fantastic.
 
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Alice Munro’s short stories are really, really good as well. She has a knack for making the lives and problems of outwardly-seeming people of modest stations in life really gripping.
 
Here is a good one.

‘The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty.’, by Brian Fleming (2008)
 
I just remembered a good book I read based on a true story - Killers of the Flower Moon:
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Martin Scorcese is working on this as his next project. The author is David Grann.

Another good book I read was The Reporter Who Knew Too Much about the death of
Dorothy Kilgallen. The author is Mark William Shaw. She was working on a book about
the assassination of JFK when she was found dead in 1965 at the age of 52.
Dorothy was an investigative reporter, had a radio show with her husband, was a panelist
on the popular What’s My Line game show and wrote a column that appeared in many
newspapers around the country.

Both are excellent books.
 
I have read the first biography. I am interested in the second part, Mother Angelica’s final years, especislly when she became bedridden. I attribute EWTN to my reversion/conversion. Started watching the channel, then the rest followed.
 
Every American should read Whittaker Chambers’ 1952 autobiography Witness.
 
What is that book about? I have never heard of Whittaker Chamber or his
autobiography? Who was he?
 
A friend from church has another biography of Mother Angelica. I don’t remember the
author, but I believe it was written in the 80’s or 90’s. I plan on reading that next.
In the Raymond Arroyo book, I am at the part where she has just begun the Eternal Word Television Network. (I think that is what the T stands for). She was inspired after
visiting a Baptist station in Chicago. Everything else that followed quickly fell into place.
To be honest, I had never heard of Mother Angelica before I became Catholic, but it sounds like she had already made a name for herself through publications, public speaking and she had taped daily shows for TBN which surprised me. I never spent much time watching the Evangelical Christian channels so I had never seen or heard of
her before I began watching EWTN.
 
Whittaker Chambers was a former American Communist, later senior editor at Time Magazine. Testified against former State Department official Alger Hiss, who was tried for perjury. Chambers’ autobiography is one of the great books of the 20th Century.

Whittaker Chambers - Wikipedia

See also: Tanenhaus, Sam (1998). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75145-9.
 
An American communist was once senior editor at TIME magazine? Why am I not
surprised at this news?! I know the name Alger Hiss, but have forgotten the facts
around his case.
 
I would like to do that. But my brain has too many similarities with a pinball machine. Ability to sit still and focus for more than 17 seconds is a challenge. Could you read a book for me this week, please?
 
@USAFwife Have you read the Book.The Mystical City of God

Venerable Sister Mary Jesus Agreda was a 17th Century Spanish nun who received spiritual revelations about Mary and Jesus, both on earth and in heaven, including the creation of the angels and the fall of lucifer and his renegade band of angels. They are presented here for you, in “The Mystical City of God”. While not biblical, these revelations did receive the Imprimatur of The Church in 1949. An Imprimatur (from Latin, “let it be printed”) is an official declaration from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that a literary or similar work is free from error in matters of Catholic doctrine and morals, and hence acceptable reading for faithful Catholics. Below is a partial list of events that you might find interesting reading, if you want to know “the rest of the story”.

 
Robert Graves is an excellent suggestion. His WWI era autobiography Goodbye to All That.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Bye-That-Autobiography-Robert-Graves/dp/0385093306/

George Orwell was always strong: ‘Homage to Catalonia’ about the Spanish Civil War. ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ and ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’ about prewar Britain.

www.amazon.com

George Orwell: books, biography, latest update

Follow George Orwell and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's George Orwell Author Page.
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