Re: What book are you reading? #4

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I just finished I Am Malala and intend to start The Kindness Diaries next.
 
Station Eleven – sorry forget author’s name
Charlie Chaplin A Brief Biography by Peter Ackroyd
 
“L’Intelligence de la liturgie” by Paul De Clerck
“When Paris Went Dark” by Ronal C. Rosbottom (about life in Paris during the German occupation)
 
I am reading: ‘I Am With You Always’ by Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel for my Lenten reading and "Father Elijah, An Apocalypse by Michael D. O’Brien for fun.
 
Just finished There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson. About to start his Genesis.
 
Currently reading The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith and The Gospel according to Matthew
 
Potter said:
Map of Betrayal, by Ha Jin; it’s the story of an American woman who finds out that her father, a Chinese immigrant, was a top spy for Mao during the Cold War.

After that will be Politics at the Human Scale, a history of decentralization in the US.

Is anyone doing the 2015 Reading Challenge? It’s a kind of literary scavenger hunt, with 50 categories of books to read this year. There are numerous groups on facebook about it already - -I’m in one called the “2015 Dumbledore is Dead and Prim Doesn’t Feel Too Well Challenge”.

Here is the list:
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That sounds fun.
 
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Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, by H.W. Crocker.
This is a super interesting look at the history of the church, not dry at all but fascinating,. Recommended for anyone who’s ever wondered what happened between the gospels and the twentieth century.
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This was really good. I read it several years ago.
 
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Can I be honest and say that the books are really boring compared to the movies? Not that I’m giving up on them. I’m at the part where they first meet the resurrected Gandalf.
 
A Song for Nagasaki by Fr. Paul Glynn
This is a biography of Japanese professor of radiology and convert to Catholicism, Takashi Nagai. He was a survivor of the atomic bomb (but tragically lost his wife), and he dedicated his remaining years to helping other survivors. He died in 1951 at the age of 43 from leukemia, likely due to overexposure to radiation. He currently has the title “Servant of God” in the Catholic Church.

Fr. Glynn’s biography of Dr. Nagai is quite a compelling read.
 
Just finished Selma 1965 by Chuck Fager. I’ve met the author a few times, but read the book because of the anniversary looming.

Next is…Here Comes Everybody, maybe.
 
While swearing before God and my buddy Tim that I would NEVER read another Stephen King book again after reading the epilogue to the final book in the Dark Tower series, in a moment of great weakness after a 2-week drought of needing a good book to read, I grabbed *The Wind Through The Keyhole *from the library. Based upon the title I thought maybe King came to his sense and rewrote that horrendous epilogue as a whole book. Unfortunately that is not the case.
 
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While swearing before God and my buddy Tim that I would NEVER read another Stephen King book again after reading the epilogue to the final book in the Dark Tower series, in a moment of great weakness after a 2-week drought of needing a good book to read, I grabbed *The Wind Through The Keyhole *from the library. Based upon the title I thought maybe King came to his sense and rewrote that horrendous epilogue as a whole book. Unfortunately that is not the case.
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Not having ever read anything by Stephen King, would any Stephen King fans out there care to recommend their favorite?
 
Finished The Hunt for Red October, now I’m reading Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy.
 
I just finished Selma 1965, both the second and third editions – I’m still contemplating my next read. It may be What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. I have Consuming the Word on interlibrary loan…
 
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