Re: What book are you reading? #4

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Just finished A Sense of Life, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who is best known as the author of the gorgeous, timeless The Little Prince, and Night Flight. It’s quite a lively book, and I recommend it.

From the back cover:

These collected short pieces by Saint-Exupéry are not simply scraps from the bottom of the barrel of his big books. They have an immediate spontaneous quality sometimes lacking in more studied finished works. More like sparks struck off the flint of his active day-to-day life. Vivid and fascinating to follow from the rhapsodic descriptions of a pilot in the early heroic days of flying (as distant now as the romance of the railroads or even the troubadours) through his acute reportage of May Day under Stalin, and on to the Spanish Civil War pieces.
 
The Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen and V for Vendetta by Alan Moore.
 
LRThunder said:
Yes, I have. It’s excellent.
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I bought it on sale a few months ago, but have been delaying starting it. I’d wanted to read it for years, since its release, and considering the evil genius that is Palpatine, I fear it will never live up to the hype!

Someone lent one of my Presby coworkers a copy of Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn. I was very excited to see it, so she lent it to me. 😃
 
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark
 
Star Wars: Bloodline

The latest Star Wars novel in the new “canon.” It takes place about 6 years before The Force Awakens. After twenty years of peace, the New Republic starts becoming unstable; the Senate bogged down by partisanship and inaction between the Centrists and the Populists. Leia has to come to terms with her heritage as Darth Vader’s daughter.
 
One Hundred Years Of Modernism: A Genealogy of the Principles of the Second Vatican Council, by Father Dominic Bourmaud
 
Melodeonist said:
I don’t know if you can call it reading exactly, but every morning (if I remember! 😊) I look at the day’s reading from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young. I find it always inspirational. 🙂
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I also have a copy and read it . There is a Jesus Calling for children, I bought for my gran kids…very nice 👍
 
I’m currently reading , just started , Raymond Arroyo’s book Mother Angelica The remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
 
The Ultimate Catholic Quiz: 100 Questions Most Catholics Can’t Answer, by Karl Keating.
 
JimG said:
The Ultimate Catholic Quiz: 100 Questions Most Catholics Can’t Answer, by Karl Keating.
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Oh yeah, that book looked quite interesting.

Anyway, I just started reading The Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas by Étienne Gilson.
 
God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith - Cardinal Robert Sarah

The Apostasy That Wasn’t: The Extraordinary Story of the Unbreakable Early Church - Rod Bennett
 
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen

The Devotion to the Sacred Heart by Fr. Jean Croiset
 
Just finished Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill. I quite liked the writing but am not the biggest fan of short stories, so I will probably read one of her novels next.

Currently reading The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Boswell: A Modern Comedy by Stanley Elkin. Both are very funny so far.
 
 
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