What book are you reading? #2

[peregrinus_WA]

Just finished:

• Beyond Capitalism & Socialism: A New Statement of an Old Ideal by Tobias J. Lanz
  Adding:
• Introduction to Moral Theology by William E. May
• Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered by Joseph Pearce (Re-Reading)
  Just some FUN reading for myself

 

[Macbook_Fun]

I just finished Lolita and The Bell Jar, and now I’m onto Slaughter-House Five.

 

[Katie1723]

Just finished:

• Beyond Capitalism & Socialism: A New Statement of an Old Ideal by Tobias J. Lanz
  Adding:
• Introduction to Moral Theology by William E. May
• Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered by Joseph Pearce (Re-Reading)
  Just some FUN reading for myself

Small potatoes my good man
Kathy

 

[peregrinus_WA]

Small potatoes my good man
Kathy

I also have The Sources of Christian Ethics by Servais Pinckaers lying around somewhere

 

[Katie1723]

I also have The Sources of Christian Ethics by Servais Pinckaers lying around somewhere

Well, I just finished “The Virgin Mary & The Theology of The Body” by something or other Calloway

Kathy

 

[Gigglin4God]

I just got through reading Approval Addiction by Joyce Meyer and The 10 Commandments Of Common Sense by Hal Urban. Both are great books. Now I am trying to make up my mind what books to read next. Either it is going to be Joyce Meyer " Reduce Me To Love and Garry Chapmans book “The Five Love Languages” Or it is going to be Straight Talk By Joyce Meyer, " Be Anxious For Nothing" By Joyce Meyer and “Managing Your Emotions Instead Of Your Emotions Managing You”. Just havent figured it out yet.

Has Anyone ever read Catholicism For Dummies?

 

[KarenElissa]

Has Anyone ever read Catholicism For Dummies?

:yup: Yup, it is a good book covering a lot of the basics.

I’m reading “Do Butterflies Bite.” It is just a fun question/answer book on butterflies and moths. I just started volunteering at a butterfly garden so thought I’d read up.

 

[susananne]

The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald

 

[ladylinguist]

Geek Speak: How Life + Mathematics = Love
Well, how could one resist a title like that? It’s a book about how we can understand and quantify bits of every day life via mathematical equations.

 

[ladylinguist]

OK, I lied. I’m reading A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray instead, since I’m in more of a fiction mood at the moment.

 

[Nepenthe]

Well, I just finished Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, Anathem. It’s quite good, and held my interest raptly through about 1,000, count em, pages.

It is a book I would recommend to this forum in general, especially since one of the major themes is the reconciliation of scientific theory and religion, except from a non-theist’s point of view. The narrator is very uncomfortable with theists, and thinks much of their thinking is awfully wooly, and even dangerous, yes - yet he does not discount it entirely. One of his best friends, and his extremely intelligent sister have tendencies towards faith of a sort, however carefully scrutinized, and in several situations, he is surprised at just how intelligent some of the principles of some forms of religion can be.

I think it would be very useful for theists who don’t understand nontheists’ perception of the way the world works, and the entire mindset. In general, it is not a hostile one, save perhaps in self-defense and rarely even then. Also, Stephenson is a pretty funny guy, though he keeps it low-key in this novel.

Here’s a hint - it reads like an oddly inverted version of The Name of the Rose, so that alone might interest many of you.

 

[Dandelion_Wine]

Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card

 

[aurora77]

I’m reading Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card.

 

[OutinChgoburbs]

i read books in bunches, so I am reading right now:

Ted, White and Blue by Ted Nugent.

the revised and updated edition of* 'Scuse While I Kiss The Sky: Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child* by David Henderson.

Italian Grill by Mario Batali.

Though I agree with a bunch of Ted Nugent, I am a bit POd about his idea of what Catholic is. For somebody who goes against the herd, he did not do his research into Catholicism at all and makes some bad pronouncements on it.

'Scuse Me is not all that revised.

Right now, Mario Batali’s leading the pack.

 

[OutinChgoburbs]

We The Living by Ayn Rand

Then you must also read Anthem. If you have not already done so of course…Both books are much shorter than Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead but convey a lot of the same thought.

Opps, I read backwards.

Not all of objectivism is abhorrent. While some parts are in direct conflict with Catholic Faith and Practice, the idea that it is not selfish to be able to keep what belongs to one and use it as one sees fit is a very old idea. Rand distinguishes between choosing to give way what one has, as through charity, and having it taken through force by government.

But I live with a philosopher (married to one in fact, a real neo-aristolean). I get to see the best and the worst of philosophies. I can’t stand Derrida.

 

[ladylinguist]

I just finished A Great and Terrible Beauty (an excellently written YA novel) and am now debating between reading The Bell at Sealy-Head by Patricia McKillip and Twilight by Stephanie Meyers. I’ve read Twilight before, but it can’t hurt to re-familiarize myself with the material since the movie comes out on the 21st.

 

[almeras]

I just finished Crossing the Threshold of Hope (for the second time), and am getting ready to read Jesus of Nazereth.

 

[perfectpeach]

The Revolution by Ron Paul

 

[maria_rose]

I am currently reading A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens.
this is my first attempt at a Dickens Novel. So far so good.

 

[Yellow_Belle]

What is the point of being a Christian? by Timothy Radcliffe, OP