Re: What book are you reading? #4

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A quick note on the last post before my books.
My only experience with hospice care was in the greater Seattle area. I was caring for a dear friend, who had cancer. He entered into hospice care and stayed home for some time, using palliative meaasures (morphine) for the pain. The hospice people did show him to what constituted a lethal dose of his medication while he was at home and he told me about this.
At some point, he determined that I was overstretching myself with his care and other responsibilities. He spoke to his hospice team and they agreed that it was time for him to enter their facility.
It was lovely, clean quiet peaceful and I visited him daily.
He was a tough old man-his life story is wonderful and humbling- and he did not die as quickly as hospice anticipated.
Our hospice only checks people in generally when they felt hat the person is very close to the end and my friend surprised them with his resilience.
I was accosted on a visit by one of their counselors who asked why I thought he was still alive as they had been sure he would pass away several days earlier and told that I should no longer speak to him, to hold his hand or to be in his line of vision-that human connections were getting in the way of his death.
His water was cut off.
having been through this and having seen him go through this, I am very skeptical about hospice and would look for a Catholic hospice if I had to take this option.

Now for the books!🙂

I am half way through Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Dr. Brant Pitre and a chapter away from wrapping up How the West Was Won by Louis L’Amour. 👍
 
Jeannetherese, I agree with using a Catholic hospice. All hospices are not the same.
 
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I’m reading it a second time. This book made me start looking at the world with a critical eye after I first read it when I was 15. I was going through an existential crisis then and this novel helped me to resolve it. He is one of my favorite Christian writers and I recommend this book to anyone.
 
PS–Here’s a book review.

Excerpt: “It’s a depressing state of affairs, but there’s good news too. Getting our romantic mojo back might be relatively easy, if only we can remember that boys and girls are different. We should also give ourselves permission to enjoy that fact instead of lamenting it. These steps might be tricky at the start for modern readers, but our natural inclinations are supportive of the project. Once we get going, we’ll probably find it’s like running downhill.”
 
Vanished World, about medieval Spain when it was home to Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
 
redbetta said:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I’m reading it a second time. This book made me start looking at the world with a critical eye after I first read it when I was 15. I was going through an existential crisis then and this novel helped me to resolve it. He is one of my favorite Christian writers and I recommend this book to anyone.
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I first read* Crime and Punishment *in 2011, when I was 49. Its never too late to discover great literature!

Now I’m reading The Waters of Siloe, by Thomas Merton.
 
Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church -A 2,000 year History. (H.W. Crocker)

I’m halfway through and cross referencing with History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millenium. (James Hitchcock)

I’m also Re-reading Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box:thumbsup:
 
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz which is a story about some men who escaped from a Soviet labor camp in 1941. The movie, The Way Back, was based on this book.
 
Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead: The Witness of the New Testament by Oscar Cullmann
 
Still working on my Catholic histories. Halfway through with The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (the first of the Narnia series).
 
Too many Mary books to keep track of, and at the same time, bookmarked in various places.
 
Just finished “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” by Walter Benjamin and “Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison” by Lois Lenski
 
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