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I just got through reading a book called All Too Human, The love story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. I am going to start a book on Bobby Kennedy called Bobby Kennedy and His Times. The one I just got through reading is really a great book to read if you are interested in reading about the Kennedy’s.
 
I am about to read St.Augustine’s Confessions. I browsed it in a bookstore, got drawn in…I knew already he was born on my birthday, or rather, I was born on his, so I have always felt a connection there. I hope to learn a lot from him as he would fit right in with our world today; he pursued happiness the wrong way and hurt many people, including his mistress of 14 years and the mother of his child, who got sent away because he needed to make a marriage which would further his career. That was before his conversion.
His life would make a great movie, in the right hands.
 
Confessions of St.Augustine. I’ve been reading it slowly, he uses a lot of words you have to look up in a dictionary to really get the meaning of some of his thoughts. I’m a little past halfway through it. It’s good because he is so intelligent. I put it aside some days because I’m also reading the Bible too. I have an Ignatious Bible by the way, I like it more than the New American Bible. I read both at work too. My small way of Evangelizing. Co-workers that is.
 
The Destructive Generation co authored by P.Collier and David Horowitz. published in 1989. After listening to an indepth interview of Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn on C-span I thought I needed a refresher course in the 1960’s terrorists/radicals. And there is none better then David Horowitz on this subject. Ayers presented himself in this C-span interview as reasonable and plays down murder & his group, the Weatherman. Horowitz, a one time ally of these 1960 radicals, proves otherwise.
 
Mimi said:
Hi all,

This is interesting. My reading list is sure to grow.

I just finished the trilogy by prize-winning author Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavrandsdatter. Undset is a convert to Catholicism, or I should say was, since she is no longer living. The story takes place in the 1300’s in Norway when all Christians in Norway were Catholic. She is such an engaging writer; I don’t usually read novels set in medieval times.

And I am in the last bit of Sacred and Profane by David Weiss, a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang A. Mozart. I got interested in this book after it was recommended by some fellow musicians, one of whom said they actually knew a prof who’d used it as a textbook in a college course it was so factual. Of course, not a lot of dates are given, but it’s not hard to figure out when certain events happen. That man just oozed music! He would be commissioned for one sonata, and then write 3 or 4, just because he wanted to.

I’m also reading a booklet called Roots of the Reformation which is not long, but gives a fairly good history of what the Church was like (a real mess) during the time of Luther’s rebellion and resulting schism.

I’m always on the lookout for a few opinions on Catholic books, since I’m helping build up our parish library. Going to go see Patrick Madrid on Friday who will speak on Moral Relativism. I already have a few of his books.

Peace and happy reading,
Mimi
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Another Norwegian author(ess), Trygve Gulbrannsen (SP?) wrote a wonderful novel in the 1930’s that my father recommended I should read about twenty years ago. It was originally in Norwegian and is titled, “Beyond Sing The Woods”. I read the very engaging translation which did have some church matters in it but did not specify any possible alternative faiths, nor did it mention RC. A great study of good and evil, rural and urban cultures and conflicts, perhaps pre-Reformation times.
As for Luther’s Reformation, “Jerusalem Countdown” points out some very ugly and vilifying anti-Jewish text attributed to Martin Luther. The author, John Hagee seems to bash many different “religious” figures but his ultimate focus seems to be on the threat of militant Islam to civilization via nuclear violence. Churchill, Stalin, many other famous figures are quoted: Nikita Kruschev, perhaps at the launch of Sputnik, “Our rocket has bypassed the moon. It is nearing the sun. we have not discovered God. We have turned out lights in heaven that no man will be able to put on again. We are breaking the yoke of the gospel, the opiate of the masses. Let us go forth, and Christ shall be relegated to mythology.” Unsettling, somewhat compelling, written zealously.*
 
Anabel said:
I am reading ’Arise from Darkness’ by Fr. Benedict Groeschel. A great book, full of wisdom and wit. Basically I needed it at this time of difficulty as it is helping me get my focus back on Christ and how we should cling to Him, trust Him alone and realise that people including those in the Church can and sometimes will let you down in different ways. We can suffer pain at the hands of those around us just as Christ did. It gives you great insights also into the Saints lives and the hardships they endured at the hands of their own people and their own communities in some cases, such as St. Francis and St. John of the Cross. Great reading… God bless you Fr. Benedict. 🙂
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I read this book a few years ago. It is a good book.
 
The Fourth Percy Jackson & the Olympians book: Battle of the Labyrinth. This may eventually lead me to actually reading the copy of “The Odyssey” that I own.
 
I’m reading, “Onward Catholic Soldier - Spiritual Warfare According to Scripture, the Church and the Saints” by John LaBriola.
 
I am reading “The Fourth Secret of Fatima” by Antonio Socci. This book is very interesting. If anyone wants to know the true meaning of The Miracle of the Sun that occurred at Our Lady of Fatima, should read this book. Mr. Socci was an insider at the Vatican. He at one time accepted the Vatican’s claim that the entirety of the 3rd secret was released. After Socci’s investigation of all the evidence, he realized the opposite which was that on June 26, 2000 the 3rd secret was not published in it’s entirety.
 
Just finished that last Percy Jackson book. I’m reading the second book in the His Majesty’s Dragon series by Naomi Novik. This one is hard to put down.
 
At the recommendation of a fellow poster here I am currently reading* Something Wicked This Way Comes *by Ray Bradbury.

Waiting for Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton to arrive in the mail.

God bless
 
Roman_Catholic said:
At the recommendation of a fellow poster here I am currently reading* Something Wicked This Way Comes *by Ray Bradbury.

Waiting for Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton to arrive in the mail.

God bless
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I have that book “Something wicked this way comes” by Ray Bradbury it’s just waiting to be read (ha ha) 😃
 
My friend lent me “The Shadow of the Bear” by Regina Doman the other day. I couldn’t put it down after i started it - finished it in two days. I have the next two sequels lined up to read now! =)
I’m also reading “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” - well, i’ve been in the process of reading it for some time! :rolleyes: My brother lent it to me after i read “The Ladies of Grace Adieu” by the same author - Susanna Clarke. The books are really interesting and very well written - but, for me, they take a lot of getting into. 🤷
 
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