What book are you reading? #1

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, “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky because “The Brothers Karamazov” is on my top 10 and I love his works.
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Ooh, I loved The Brothers Karamozov. The Russians really knew how to write a book. I haven’t read Crime and Punishment yet, although it is sitting on my book shelf.
I just finished reading New Moon and have moved on to book #3 of the quartet: Eclipse. I will also be starting Frankenstein soon for my Critical Approaches to Literature class. 🙂
 
Currently reading the following for the stated reasons.
  1. Dracula - My sister has been slowly developing a rather unsettling fetish for, you guessed it, vampires. -_-;; Before, it was Trinity Blood. After that, she started reading Twilight. Now she’s getting immersing herself into the Vampire Knight fandom. I figured if I’m going to understand what’s going on in that crazy head of hers, then reading this book would be a good start. 🤷
  2. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - My way of counterbalancing my sister’s influence with my own. While she’s been turning into a horror/vampire nut, I thought I’d refresh myself on being the medieval fantasy guy that I’ve long been. :o Tolkien’s legacy never fails to amaze me. His trilogy practically set down the very foundations of the medieval fantasy genre. Orcs, dwarves, elves, magic, wizards… you see them all the time in all sorts of cool games (e.g. WoW, Ragnarok Online, Warhammer) 😃
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
Currently reading the following for the stated reasons.
  1. Dracula - My sister has been slowly developing a rather unsettling fetish for, you guessed it, vampires. -_-;; Before, it was Trinity Blood. After that, she started reading Twilight. Now she’s getting immersing herself into the Vampire Knight fandom. I figured if I’m going to understand what’s going on in that crazy head of hers, then reading this book would be a good start. 🤷
  2. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - My way of counterbalancing my sister’s influence with my own. While she’s been turning into a horror/vampire nut, I thought I’d refresh myself on being the medieval fantasy guy that I’ve long been. :o Tolkien’s legacy never fails to amaze me. His trilogy practically set down the very foundations of the medieval fantasy genre. Orcs, dwarves, elves, magic, wizards… you see them all the time in all sorts of cool games (e.g. WoW, Ragnarok Online, Warhammer) 😃
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Hey, I’m re-reading LOTR as well! I am on The Two Towers now.
 
Kitchen Confidential:Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
 
J.R.R. Tolkien and Evelyn Waugh both great Catholic British novelists, devoted their wisdom and creative vision to studying the cataclysm of World War II through the Christian spiritual point of view of diabolical forces rampant at the time, and the role of a truly good person in this conflict of humanity with cosmic evil. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Waugh’s Sword of Honor, two epic trilogies, are both monumental guides for the Christian soul in this dire, enduring era of nihiliist modernism opposed by the people’s traditional faith and love of life.
 
I am reading a book called GETTING TO I DO
It was so good, even though I had only read half, that i am loaning it to my married daughter.
Has anyone read it?
it is about the roles in a marriage, the masculine and feminine and how the feminist movement has made the women want to wear the pants… there fore,… constant head butting in the relationship.
It it interesting.
 
I am about 1/3 of the way thru “The Outsider” by Ann Gabhart

Kathy
 
Halfway through ‘Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee’ by Dee Brown. An incredibe history of the American West, from the Native Americans’ point of view. It’s riveting and heartbreaking, and I don’t know why it’s not required reading in every high school in the country.
 
I just finished reading The Whiteman Scenario. Not heavy reading. Not religious. Just, (for me anyway) some Cold War and SAC nostalgia. The plot is allegedly based on an incident which occurred during the last days of the Nixon adminstration with the nuclear missile alert force.

[The Strategic Air Command motto was “Peace is Our Profession.” On one underground launch control capsule, the SAC emblem and motto had been painted on a blast door. Under the words “Peace is Our Profession”, someone had inscribed, “War is Only a Hobby.”
(This has nothing to do with the book, but it is a true story.)]
 
american way of death revisited - jessica mitford

eucharistic miracles - joann carroll cruz

this is our faith - pennock (for RCIA!!!)
 
Marley and Me…the movie looks good too. But I need to finish the book before I see the movie.
 
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