Re: What book are you reading? #4

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777rak said:
Let me know how that is. I am reading Star Wars Aftermath (Journey to the Force Awakens)
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It’s good so far. It’s setting up the events for Rogue One and establishes how Galen Erso (the main character in the novel, and the main character’s father in Rogue One) interacts with the villain, Orson Krennic.
 
Columbine, David Mullen. Didn’t mean to. I was shelving books at the library today and it caught my eye, especially after I saw the 2009 publication date. The author is arguing against common myths of the day: one, that it was a ‘shooting’. It is more accurate to call it a failed bombing, since two large explosive devices were planted in the lunchroom, with Harris and Kleibold’s intention to use their guns to sweep up survivors. They weren’t part of a ‘trench coat mafia’, weren’t outcast, and – according to Mullen – weren’t targeting anyone in particular, just raging war on humanity for their own reasons. According to Mullen, Harris was a genuine psychopath who kept Kleibold in his wake. Still have half the book to go and a lot to ponder over.

I was in middle school when this happened,but oddly don’t remember the story breaking – only the reaction in my school, with "going columbine’ becoming an expression used as a warning against bullying people, and a few people donning black trench coats to be provocative.
 
Conclave, Robert Harris. Only a hundred pages in…it’s an novel set during a papal conclave.
 
LRThunder said:
Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis I: Before the Storm
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:eek: you are not reading Star Wars “Cannon” novel. Yea I know it is goofy to only read “cannon”. I mean after all this is all science fiction/make believe and some person at Disney decided what is “cannon”🤷. I know I am weird 😛

Anyhow I am not reading Star Wars Life Debt After Math
 
Potter said:
Conclave, Robert Harris. Only a hundred pages in…it’s an novel set during a papal conclave.
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Just finished. Good thriller, but the twist ending is contemptuous. Two words as a spoiler: Pope Joan.
 
777rak said:
:eek: you are not reading Star Wars “Cannon” novel. Yea I know it is goofy to only read “cannon”. I mean after all this is all science fiction/make believe and some person at Disney decided what is “cannon”🤷. I know I am weird 😛

Anyhow I am not reading Star Wars Life Debt After Math
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I read the “canon” novels as they are published, taking a break from the “Legends” novels.
 
Meister Eckhart, From Whom God Hid Nothing; Sermons, Writings & Sayings edited by David O’Neil
 
*The Man Behind the Miracle; The Story of Alfred Boeddeker, O.F.M., *by Madeline Hartman
 
Aachen: The U.S. Army’s Battle for Charlemagne’s City in World War II by Robert W. Baumer.
 
Christians Are Hate-Filed Hypocrites…and Other Lies You’ve Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths from the Secular and Christian Media by Bradley R.E. Wright

A lot of interesting statistics and hopefully not too outdated since it was published in 2010. One point I disagree with the author is his belief the secular media reports negative stories about Christians because it’s shocking and that stuff sells. I’m just not convinced by that argument.
 
La Force du Silence : contre la dictature du bruit by Robert Cardinal Sarah (The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, not yet available in English)

When my brain has had enough of trying to read French, I switch to Epic Food Fight: A Bite-Sized History of Salvation by Fr. Leo Patalinghug.
 
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