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Eireann:
I’ve read numerous books over the past 35 years or so, but am going to obtain, " The Way of Divine Love" by Sister Josepha Menendez anyone on here read it ?
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It seems like she pathed the way for the Divine Mercy Revelations.

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Years ago I got a copy of The Way by Jose Escriva, while I do not subscribe to the group that grew up around his teachings I have to say that it was a comforting book.
 
Recently I saw Curt Weldon on CSPAN2 BookTV and bought his book: “Countdown to Terror”. Yesterday, I heard him speak in Congress about how the Defense Intelligence Agency is suppressing release of information developed by Able Danger, a task force that used unclassified information to unearth BOTH the attack on the U.S.S. Cole and the attacks planned by Mohammed Atta on September 11, 2001. In both cases, the information was available well early enough to have prevented both sets of attacks. Seven people have come forward to corroborate Weldon’s statements, but the “Pentagon” has come down hard on the people. Fascinating current “history”.

Interesting, that scenario has been floating around DC for awhile and I’m glad to know that it’s available in book form.
I have a friend who survived (physically) 911 at the the Pentagon and for awhile I went around fuming that if the Pentagon couldn’t protect itself how the heck could we expect it to protect the rest of us!
 
I finished up the Chronicles of Narnia - just in time for the movie and for the CA book discussion!

I’m now on The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
 
I am reading “Triumph: the Power and Glory of the Catholic Church” by H.W. Crocker III. Many thanks to whoever it was on the CAF who recommended the book
 
I’m reading “The agony and the ecstasy” of Irving Stone,also I read bits of “The lives of the artists” by Giorgio Vasari,and I ordered from amazon “Jesucristo iconografia del arte colonial” by Hector Schenone,it is a study of images of Christ during Spanish colonial times.
 
mvinca said:
It Takes a Family by Rick Santorum

It is a refreshing blend of politics and some religion. A little harsh on the other side, but uplifting in all the good that can be done to help the poor.

Just finished it, I’ll probably switch to whatever the book club chooses in November. 🙂
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I’m reading this one too, and it is a model of charity. The faithless liberal elites need EXACTLY this kind of fraternal correction.

Everyone should read it, because it will change your thinking, explain many of today’s serious problems, and contribute to the restoration of Christian civiliation, which may still be possible.
 
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buzzcut:
There isn’t a board for book reports, so I’ll just have to post this in the Water Cooler.

Stalking the Divine

by Kristin Ohlson

One Christmas this Cleveland writer is so bored she decides to go to church. She hasn’t been to Mass for years. She picks out a large downtown church based on ads in the local newspaper. When she gets there, she discovers the existence of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a cloistered order so obscure the city has forgotten about them. After Christmas she keeps going to Mass, and eventually gets to know the nuns. The article she writes appears in the local newspaper and suddenly the city rediscovers its nuns. In fact if you go to their website you can still see that article today: This book tells the story of the author’s growing relationship with the small crowd of parishioners and their cloistered nuns.
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I read that last year - good book! I just finished Why Catholics Can’t Sing - the Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste by Thomas Day.
 
I just ordered Louis Freeh’s book: “My FBI”. I had it from the library, but got sidetracked and decided to order it from Amazon.

[If Karl Keating would open up a book-buying club here at CA, he coulda made a coupla bucks on the deal.]

At the same time I ordered five books about Admiral Canaris, who was Hitler’s intelligence chief. They were cheap because they were old, used books. I did get them from the library, but they were all inter-library loans. And my research project is dragging out. So I decided it would be cheaper to return the library books and buy them. I didn’t tell my wife yet.]

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“Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man” by Vincent Carretta

“Booklist” editorial review:

Olaudah Equiano’s (c. 1745–1797) much anthologized autobiography is one of the earliest by an English-speaking person of African descent. But was it wholly truthful in its self-portrayal? Carretta, a senior fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, provides a masterful, lively and scrupulously researched account that questions central parts of the ex-slave’s narrative, but upholds his view of himself as a self-made man. Carretta points out “compelling but not absolutely conclusive” evidence that Equiano, despite his description of a childhood in Africa and the Middle Passage, was born in South Carolina.
 
Anthony's Mom:
An abridged edition of The Count of Monte Cristo.
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One of my favorites! 👍 I’m reading “Save the Date,” a book talking about the link between spirituality, Christianity, and dating, that we got for my 15-year-old sister-in-law to see if it’s appropriate for her (so far, it seems above her level though).
 
“Brighter Than the Baghdad Sun” subtitle: “Saddam Hussein’s Nuclear Threat to the United States”] by Shyam Bhatia and Daniel McGrory.

Non-fiction. Would be scary if it WAS fiction. But it is a true actual set of events.
 
This thriller called “The Da Vinci Code,” and it’s GREAT!!! I’m learning so much about the Church that I never knew before!!!

Kidding.

KIDDING.

“Across the River and into the Trees,” by Hemmingway. Might be the saddest book I have ever read.
 
The How-To Book of the Mass by Michael Dubruiel.
“Everything you need to know but No One ever Taught You”
Wow…I really can’t believe how much I really didn’t know (great little book)!!!
 
MR. BLUE by Myles Connolly

I came across this little “Catholic” Novella while perusing Amazon. Originally written in 1928 by screenwriter and movie producer Myles Connolly, best known for his work on the film State Of The Union, it is about an anti-Gatsby, St. Francis type. Yes, and the main characters name is Blue. At 110 pages it is a fantastic book.

AJC 👍
 
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