Calling all bookworms

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I usually have 5 books going at once. I switch back and forth between them. A couple will finish and a couple new ones begin each week. Audio books are so great for keeping my brain occupied while I do mundane tasks!
 
@francis oh man, I just went down the rabbit hole with that website. I could spend hours on there!
 
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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.
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He was an ardent communist who had a change of heart and became an ardent anti-communist and if I remember correctly presented evidence that Alger Hiss was secretly helping the Soviets; the evidence hinged on a typewriter buried in a pumpkin patch on a farm in Maryland?
 
Wow! Interesting! So he had a conversion experience and a change of heart? What was he while at the magazine - both? So Alger Hiss was a spy?
I will have to put this on my “books to read” list.
 
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Wow! Interesting! So he had a conversion experience and a change of heart? What was he while at the magazine - both? So Alger Hiss was a spy?
I will have to put this on my “books to read” list.
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I don’t know the exact chronology but yes, he had a change of heart. And yes, it is now pretty much established that Alger Hiss was a spy for the Soviets. Mind you, I’m basing what I’m saying here on dim memories of a 1980s PBS drama based on these events and starring the late Edward Herrmann as Hiss (he was also Lorelei’s dad on ‘Gilmore Girls’). Since then I think documents released after the fall of the Soviet Union proved Hiss’s guilt and validated Chambers. Chambers was also a homosexual, incidentally.
 
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The mini-series was called ‘Concealed Enemies’ and it ran in 1984 on the PBS drama showcase ‘American Playhouse’.
 
I will be bookmarking this thread. I just got “Mystical City of God” from Amazon.

For those who would enjoy doing service to others, while reading interesting public domain books, DP: Welcome uses volunteers to turn scanned books into digital ones for Project Gutenberg.
 
I would like to read some of that book.

Father Solanus Casey was a big fan of it…and even had a book club of sorts that focused on the work.
 
Another good book is “With God in Russia”. It’s about an American priest who gets sent to the Siberian labor camps during Soviet era Russia. True story. Very, very good.

Just ignore Father James Martin’s Afterward in the newer edition.
 
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Another good book is “With God in Russia”. It’s about an American priest who gets sent to the Siberian labor camps during Soviet era Russia. True story. Very, very good.

Just ignore Father James Martin’s Afterward in the newer edition.
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I highly recommend all of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s works. I even have a picture of him above my computer desk, as a reminder to confront injustice without fear.
 
For ALL the readers here, if you haven’t had a chance to read Immaculee Ilibagiza’s books, I strongly urge you to read them. There are a few books - I especially recommend Left to Tell, Led by Faith, and The Rosary. Immaculee is a Rwandan refugee who lost her entire family during the 1994 holocaust and only survived by spending three months hiding in a bathroom with several other women. Her story and her faith is incredibly moving, and her witness on the power of the rosary is life-changing.
 
This is one of the best novels I have read in ages. Thoroughly enjoyable!

“The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared”
by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson.
You can get it on Amazon or maybe at your library.
 
I don’t remember that miniseries, but I had a 5 year old at the time and probably didn’t get to watch a lot of TV. The name doesn’t sound familiar, but I bet it was intriguing.
 
This book is phenomenal. I read it in two days, and there’s a movie based off of it - almost word for word.
 
Another book, well, play rather, is “Wit” by Margaret Edson. It follows a woman being treated for cancer which eventually leads to her death. It will bring you to tears.
 
Hmmm…how long is thread going to go. 🤣 Can we just start with Homer and work our way forward?
 
Getting into the older stuff—“Mystical City of God” might be good, but it reminded me of St. Augustine’s “City of God” Never delved into it. Picked it up at my favorite source for free books.
 
It is strange that my library does not offer her books in any digital form. Maybe someday!
 
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