What book are you reading? #2

[peregrinus_WA]

Interesting, Have you read the Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook?

No, but it is not quite the same thing. Penty was a distributist.

 

[peregrinus_WA]

Just finished:

• Post Industrialism by Arthur J. Penty

Continuing on:

• Catholic Controversy by St. Francis De Sales
• The Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation by St. Alphonsus Liguori

Starting on:

• Guilds, Trade And Agriculture (1921) by Arthur J. Penty

 

[bonsaul]

My wife and I are reading Taylor Caldwell’s magnificent biographical novel of St. Luke, her extraordinary “Dear and Glorious Physician.” This is a grand lifetime labor for Caldwell, an exhaustive historical researcher in furtherance of Catholic principles and ideals in this tumultuous contemporary world. Caldwell’s breathtaking narrative of a German married couple, with their infant, who witnessed and were fortified by the presence of the Virgin Mary during their escape from the East Berlin Wall, is entitled, “Miracle in Berlin.” Her abiding faith as a popular and brilliant author is a fortress in this epoch of increasing ignorance iand assault upon liberty.

 

[Chris_LaRock]

I was lucky enough to run into a copy of Bishop Sheen’s book “Life of Christ” at goodwill.

I got it for only$1!

 

[RascalJones]

Right now, I’m reading the ever-so-slightly abridged version of Les Miserables…It’s 300 pages, as compared to the unabridged 1500.

Reading it for a friend’s annual book party, so I didn’t have time to go “whole hog” on it.

 

[peregrinus_WA]

Right now, I’m reading the ever-so-slightly abridged version of Les Miserables…It’s 300 pages, as compared to the unabridged 1500.

Reading it for a friend’s annual book party, so I didn’t have time to go “whole hog” on it.

Sorry, but if you do not read the full version, you ain’t reading it

I sentence you to read the complete works of Tolstoy

 

[Katie1723]

I am just getting started on " Plain And Amish: An Alternative To Modern Pessimism". I am feeding my need to read about the Amish.

Kathy

 

[Dandelion_Wine]

The Snakebite Letters by Peter Kreeft

 

[bradwill911]

Just finished The Faith Explained by Leo Trese (fantastic book) and Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse.

I’m currently reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis again. I read it 9 years ago before my return to the Catholic Church. It’s amazing how different it is to read it today.

Pax Tecum

 

[Colmcille]

Sorry, but if you do not read the full version, you ain’t reading it

I sentence you to read the complete works of Tolstoy

“Elias” by Tolstoy, especially.

 

[Filius99993]

Sorry, but if you do not read the full version, you ain’t reading it

But reading the abridged version is probably the best way to maintain sanity… there’s the one hundred page account of the Battle of Waterloo in the full version that has NOTHING to do with the plot…

I love Victor Hugo, but he was just a tad bit wordy…

Now I have to get back to reading:

The Brothers Karamazov
I, Claudius (again)
Their Eyes Were Watching God

and

Father McBride’s Teen Catechism

 

[cthulhubryan]

No, but it is not quite the same thing. Penty was a distributist.

Ah. Okay, thanks. I will have to read Penty then.

 

[Eggnotz]

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. This should be required reading for everyone who thinks they understand their government.

 

[mojob]

I am reading Scott Hahn’s “A Father Who Keeps His Promises” Very good.

 

[peregrinus_WA]

Just finished:

• Guilds, Trade And Agriculture (1921) by Arthur J. Penty

Continuing on:

• Catholic Controversy by St. Francis De Sales
• The Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation by St. Alphonsus Liguori

Starting on (actually about 1/2 done):

• The Party System by Hilaire Belloc, Cecil Chesterton

 

[kimaz]

Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse and still working on Peace of Soul.

 

[cthulhubryan]

Just started “Why I am not a Muslim” by Ibn Warraq

 

[peregrinus_WA]

Just finished:

• Catholic Controversy by St. Francis De Sales
• The Party System by Hilaire Belloc, Cecil Chesterton

Continuing on:

• The Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation by St. Alphonsus Liguori

Starting on:

• Finding God’s Will for You by St. Francis de Sales
• The Church and the Land by Fr. Vincent McNabb

 

[goforgoal]

God’s Daily Promises-Daily Wisdom from God’s Word.

 

[BJswife]

Tasha, what is acedia, have never heard the term before.

Just finished: Ann Rice’s new one “The Road to Cana” and Dciens’ “Little Dorrit.”

Working on: Alphonsus de Liguori’s “The Passion and The Death of Jesus Christ” and for my continuing (lifelong as a Benedictine Oblate) study of The Rule Of Benedict “Benedicts Way” and “The Language of Silence: The Changing Face of Monastic Solitude.”

Plan to start: something Dickens and something WWII hisotrical.