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I used to love reading Gothic Romances before they stopped publishing the genre—and I just got two boxes of them on eBay.

Total brain candy, but such fun! 😃
 
Sorry I can’t recommend it, (too dirty) :“Git -R-Done” by Larry the Cable Guy.
Used to watch him with Jeff Foxworthy & thought the book would be funny…whoa! Way beyond off-color humor.
I picked it up at the library & my 8th Grader started reading it aloud on the way home 😊
Just to warn you.
 
Currently reading Cat’s Eye (for my book group, and am finishing up The Adventures of Maya the Bee.
 
Currently I am reading: " Horse and Buggy Mennonites. Hoofbeats of humility in a modern world"

kathy
 
Last I posted I believe I was on book 2. But I just finished the final (fifth) book in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. I enjoyed them.

I’ll start The Grey King by Susan Cooper tonite - it’s book 4 in the Dark is Rising series.
 
I recently started “Connemara” by Tim Robinson. It is feeding my fascination with Ireland.
Kathy
 
Now reading “The Constant Gardener” by John le Carre. I must say I was not prepared about his writing style since I came from Ludlum/Clancy mindset. :rolleyes:
 
Books I am reading:
The Faith of the Fathers Volume 1 by William A. Jurgens
Apocalypse by Rev. Albert Joseph Mary Shamon
Charity for the Suffering Souls by Rev. John A. Nageleisen
This ones kind of hard for me to read. It’s a good book, but not very captivating for me.
Why do Catholics Genuflect? by Al Kresta

About a month and a half ago I started asking catholics questions and I haven’t been able to stop. So now I read pretty much anything I can get my hands on :hypno: and I go to Mass every Sunday. (I try to go during the week to.) I start RCIA in September. Just think, less than two months ago I would have told you all catholics were pagan, idol worshiping, hell-bound, anti-Christians. 😊 Now I love my new faith and everyone that has been VERY patient with me as I found my way. Unfortunately, the rest of my family still feels the same way that I used to. If you would, please pray for them… and me (I still live @ home with my very baptist anti-catholic parents.):crossrc:
 
I am currently between books but have recently enjoyed the following:
The Man In White - a story about Paul leading up to his ministry - by Johnny Cash - The Man In Black.
Christ The Lord Out Of Egypt - by Anne Rice - very well done - by a wonderful Catholic lady - yeah, the vampire lady has come back to the church.
Where God Was Born - by Bruce Feiler. Same guy with the PBS series Walking the Bible
 
PrayerGirl said:
Books I am reading:
The Faith of the Fathers Volume 1 by William A. Jurgens
Apocalypse by Rev. Albert Joseph Mary Shamon
Charity for the Suffering Souls by Rev. John A. Nageleisen
This ones kind of hard for me to read. It’s a good book, but not very captivating for me.
Why do Catholics Genuflect? by Al Kresta

About a month and a half ago I started asking catholics questions and I haven’t been able to stop. So now I read pretty much anything I can get my hands on :hypno: and I go to Mass every Sunday. (I try to go during the week to.) I start RCIA in September. Just think, less than two months ago I would have told you all catholics were pagan, idol worshiping, hell-bound, anti-Christians. 😊 Now I love my new faith and everyone that has been VERY patient with me as I found my way. Unfortunately, the rest of my family still feels the same way that I used to. If you would, please pray for them… and me (I still live @ home with my very baptist anti-catholic parents.):crossrc:
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Congratulations and best of luck to you! 👍
 
PrayerGirl said:
Books I am reading:
The Faith of the Fathers Volume 1 by William A. Jurgens
Apocalypse by Rev. Albert Joseph Mary Shamon
Charity for the Suffering Souls by Rev. John A. Nageleisen
This ones kind of hard for me to read. It’s a good book, but not very captivating for me.
Why do Catholics Genuflect? by Al Kresta

About a month and a half ago I started asking catholics questions and I haven’t been able to stop. So now I read pretty much anything I can get my hands on :hypno: and I go to Mass every Sunday. (I try to go during the week to.) I start RCIA in September. Just think, less than two months ago I would have told you all catholics were pagan, idol worshiping, hell-bound, anti-Christians. 😊 Now I love my new faith and everyone that has been VERY patient with me as I found my way. Unfortunately, the rest of my family still feels the same way that I used to. If you would, please pray for them… and me (I still live @ home with my very baptist anti-catholic parents.):crossrc:
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Welcome home!! :hug1: I will keep you in my prayers.

And I am currently re-reading The Sight by David Clement Davies. It’s a fantasy about wolves as Watership Down is about rabbits. I’m re-reading in preparation to first-time reading it’s sequel, Fell. And I’m still reading O’Brien’s latest novel, Island of the World. I can’t say the weight of the book is the only reason that it’s taking me so long. (hurts to hold up a hardback that’s long in bed, where I do most of my reading) I usually devour his books like a starving person on Thanksgiving.

And now I have a free book coming, which I am receiving because I agreed to review it, so I’ll have to put the others up while I’m reading that one to devote my entire attention to it.
 
Working on Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith by Scott Hahn (although it’s a slow go, I struggle with his style, he and I must think differently).

Also listening to Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis audiobook for the third or fourth time, always amazes me.

Will flip back to Star Wars fiction after the Hahn book, to ensure my geekiness is split evenly across theologic and secular nerdly pursuits.
 
From the public library, I borrowed *Annals of the Time Patrol *by Poul Anderson, very good vintage science fiction. I’ve renewed it once and may have to again, still only half way through. I guess I’m a slow reader, which is why I prefer to buy books usually.
 
My wonderful discovery of Evelyn Waugh, great English novelist, led to his most famous book, Brideshead Revisited. The first impression was a chronicle of the decadent gentry in World War II England, but it is really about the anguish even upper class Catholics suffer through persecution by polite circles who are usually Episcopalian. It is also about the mysterious workings of God’s Grace in the life of a Catholic family and the main character, a non-Catholic and best friend of the youngest son in deep moral crisis in the troubled family. Many similarities to pressures and problems faced by American Catholics in a mainly Protestant country.
 
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