Re: What book are you reading? #4

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jeannetherese said:
Re-reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh- a personal favorite.
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Saturated with beauty, that one…and often funny.
“Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn’t touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him.’
‘Why did she do that?’
“Well, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that’s not really the point of the story.”
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Potter said:
Saturated with beauty, that one…and often funny.
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The book is perfect. The writing is exquisite. Sentences, paragraphs, chapters are so beautifully crafted, symmetries within symmetries. Attending to the workings of grace, it becomes that, to which it attends. As art, literature, psychology, philosophy, it is lovely.
I long for a new generation of authors with faith and education who might bring forth works of that caliber.
 
Potter said:
I saw that at the library but have devoted April to nothing but English literature. Is it set in the old extended universe, or does it try to fit the Admiral into the Force Awakens cin-canon?

As for me, I am reading a history of the KJV’s formation and impact on English.
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It’s the new canon. Takes place before Season 3 of Star Wars: Rebels, and establishes how he came to join the Empire. The first two chapters, as a matter of fact, are basically the same as the old story (the old Expanded Universe) with a couple of differences here and there.
 
“The Lost City of the Monkey God”, by Doug Preston, a true life archeological adventure.
 
Witching You Were Here (Wicked Witches of the Midwest Book 3) by Amanda M. Lee
 
LRThunder said:
It’s the new canon. Takes place before Season 3 of Star Wars: Rebels, and establishes how he came to join the Empire. The first two chapters, as a matter of fact, are basically the same as the old story (the old Expanded Universe) with a couple of differences here and there.
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Ah, well. Figures. I’ll still look into it.

I’m reading The Armada, a history of the Spanish attempt to invade England in response to Elizabeth supporting rebellion against the Hapsburg empire and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
 
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest

The Yuuzhan Vong have offered the galaxy a deal: they will stop their conquest if the galaxy turns over the Jedi to them. Now, Anakin Solo must race to the Jedi academy to help protect them.
 
Thomas Merton, Peacemaker, by John Dear.

In his writings, Fr. John Dear tends to view everything through the lens of nonviolence, and I am challenged by than a few of his conclusions and proposals, but quite possibly that is what our world needs to hear now (and sadly, again and again).
 
LRThunder said:
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
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One of his more unusual legal ones, if I remember – that’s the one where the jury consultant runs afoul of someone just as Machiavellian as he, I think? Has to do with a cigarette trial in the book, but the movie altered things a bit.

I’ve finished that history of 1066 and am resuming Spain in the Southwest.
 
cthulhubryan said:
I, Michael Bennet by James Patterson
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The Zen Gun, by Barrington Bayley, a relatively unknown and neglected science fiction genius and master. Highly recommended for SF aficionados. He ranks right up there with the very best of the best. Completely killer and completely fun; extremely intelligent and extremely immersive. Science fiction has always been the literature of bright, creative people; and you know who you are. SF fans please seek out this man’s paperback potboilers at used bookstores. 👍
 
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