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tkdnick
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How about books by Louis de Wohl? He wrote several historical fiction novels about the saints. I think they are great reads!
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puzzleannie
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excellent books I devoured them as a teenager, and I see many are back in print through Ignatius press. I prefer most good children’s books to adult novels anymore, kids got me one-volume Narnia when the movie came out.
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tkdnick
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I really enjoy the Narnia series as well.
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jc-servant
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I’ve been an avid reader since age childhood. It can be hard avoiding the bad stuff. Try reading more non-fiction if you want to avoid smut. There were also lots of good suggestions for clean fiction already given.
I’ve decided to renew my study of languages after many years of wishing that I was fluent in multiple languages. Believe me you can spend as much “spare” time as you have on learning another language or a skill such as playing piano or guitar with books, cds and computer programs. I’m also finally getting back to learning to knit and crochet. I didn’t have the fine motor skills as a child, so I’m giving it another try now. My parish just started a prayer shawl ministry. We knit/crochet and engage in intercessory prayer for the recipient of the shawl at the same time! Very Catholic.
I’ve decided to renew my study of languages after many years of wishing that I was fluent in multiple languages. Believe me you can spend as much “spare” time as you have on learning another language or a skill such as playing piano or guitar with books, cds and computer programs. I’m also finally getting back to learning to knit and crochet. I didn’t have the fine motor skills as a child, so I’m giving it another try now. My parish just started a prayer shawl ministry. We knit/crochet and engage in intercessory prayer for the recipient of the shawl at the same time! Very Catholic.
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Biblioassistant
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I’m an avid reader. I don’t watch TV anymore but I do read a lot. Yes, I read romances. I mostly read regency romances which are not filled with sex. Georgette Heyer is one of the best in that genre. I’m very fond of mysteries and good fantasy and science fiction as well.
I think am pretty good at discerning what is good and what’s not. I have no trouble with putting a book down if I don’t like where it is going. If I didn’t go to a B&N or Borders because they carried some books that were unsavory, I’d never be able to buy books. One time, I worked at a bookstore and whenever I had to shelve books in the New Age section, I’d wear my St. Benedict medal, pray the St. Michael prayer and hope that the books never sold and would have to be returned. (I’ll admit I put all the wicca books on the bottom shelf so they’d be less prominent).
I think am pretty good at discerning what is good and what’s not. I have no trouble with putting a book down if I don’t like where it is going. If I didn’t go to a B&N or Borders because they carried some books that were unsavory, I’d never be able to buy books. One time, I worked at a bookstore and whenever I had to shelve books in the New Age section, I’d wear my St. Benedict medal, pray the St. Michael prayer and hope that the books never sold and would have to be returned. (I’ll admit I put all the wicca books on the bottom shelf so they’d be less prominent).
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Bennie_P
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Did you ever miss shelve a Christian Book in the new age section?
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Biblioassistant
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No. My full time job is at a library and if there’s one thing I know - it’s how to categorize books!! 
The town where I live is full of Baptists and Church of Christ, and the bookstore where I worked (Waldenbooks) had most of the usual popular Protestant writers (LaHaye, Warren, Hagee). I usually had to special order Catholic books
The Barnes and Noble had a better selection of Catholic books though, and I bought a lot of them there.
The town where I live is full of Baptists and Church of Christ, and the bookstore where I worked (Waldenbooks) had most of the usual popular Protestant writers (LaHaye, Warren, Hagee). I usually had to special order Catholic books
The Barnes and Noble had a better selection of Catholic books though, and I bought a lot of them there.
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Cari
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Stock up on catalogues from Catholic homeschool supply companies- Mother of Divine Grace has extensive booklists, and although it stops at the high school level, there are many of the classics listed that I, personally, was never exposed to. For example, don’t you find it SHOCKING that a woman who holds a BA in English from a Big 10 school, and a Masters in Education wasn’t introduced to “The Screwtape Letters” until she was 31?? 
Find catalogues from Catholic publishing companies- Ignatius Press, for example. Should be enough there to keep you busy.
Then, send me a nice long recommended booklist. No mysteries, though. They make me feel stupid because I can never figure out whodunit.
Cheers,
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Find catalogues from Catholic publishing companies- Ignatius Press, for example. Should be enough there to keep you busy.
Then, send me a nice long recommended booklist. No mysteries, though. They make me feel stupid because I can never figure out whodunit.
Cheers,
C
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