"Come Be My Light," which is a collection of many of Mother Teresa of Calcutta's letters, with the editor's commentary. This book comes to seem too repetitive after awhile, but gives a very rich understaning of her soul. I am reading and mulling over a few pages at a time
"Honey from the Rock," ed. Roy Schoeman, which is a collection of the accounts of 16 Jews who became Catholics. This book, which I found out about from a favorable review in the "National Catholic Register" last year, is better than I expected.
"Visionaries, Mystics and Stigmatists through the Ages,' by Bob and Penny Lord. This couple has written excellent books on the saints, and perhaps are best known through their appearances on EWTN. The title of this particular book had me think perhaps it was too sensational, but it has excellent accounts on people such as Saint Rose of Lima and Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (the American Indian). I order their books inexpensively as used books from Amazon.com and abe.com.
"Robinson Crusoe," by Daniel Defoe. I decided to read this for relaxing reading after finishing a similar account for young people, "Island of the Blue Dolphins." The same story by a lesser writer would have been boring, but this book shows why he is an important 18th century English author. I just decided to save this book, though, to read on my flights to the Philippines next month to keep the day and a half of flights from becoming tedious.
"The Forgotten Soldier," by Guy Sajer, an engrossing self-account by a German soldier on the Russian front during World War II, which I found in a list of best books.
"Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries," published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Last October and Christmas my wife and myself went to the shire at Guadalupe, trips which got me much more interested in Mexico. I got this book from my library because of the high-quality reproductions found towards the end of this book of the Mexican muralists of the last century, such as Rivera. (Mexican art from other periods doesn't seem important.)
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