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Katie1723 said:
I am starting Scott Hahn’s “A Father Who Keeps His promises”

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Just got my copy yesterday. I have never really studied scripture/the Bible so I signed up for a Bible study course at salvationhistory.com/studies/courses/online which also uses the book as back up, or v.v.

Other books I am reading are Making Choices by Peter KREEFT, and have delved into Handbook of Christian Apologetics by Peter KREEFT and Ronald K. TACELLI, Render Unto Ceasar by Archbishop? Charles Chaput… Also can’t give up my mystreries, The Old Silent by Margaret Grimes and Assassins of Isis by Paul DOHERTY
 
Katie1723 said:
I am starting Scott Hahn’s “A Father Who Keeps His promises”

Kathy
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Loveday220 said:
Dear and Glorious Physician, by Taylor Caldwell. I’ve read it so many times over the years that my ancient copy (when I bought it, paperbacks were $1.95! :eek: ) is literally falling apart. It’s a fictionalised account of the life of St Luke, with loads of incredibly accurate and realistic 1st century historical detail. It was written a good fifty years ago, I believe, so its style is a little ponderous, but the story of St Luke’s search for the ‘Unknown God,’ that leads him finally to Our Lord, is amazing. And the last chapter is so moving I defy anyone to read it without coming away crying tears of both sorrow and joy.
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I am going to have to re-read that. It has been so many years ago. When I was a youngster, twenties, or so, I was a Taylor Caldwell fan. Excellent author. Other oldie but goodie authors I like and reread are Morris West and Thomas Costain. 50s and 60s, but great stuff. I reread Morris West’s Shoes of the Fisherman not long ago and it sure sounded Vatican II to me, or at least what some clergy think Vatican II was.
 
Not reading, listening to audiobooks of G. K. Chesterton’s books, mostly collections of essays and newspaper columns.

I will say that Eugenics and Other Evils is especially appropriate to our current controversies over birth control, abortion and national health care.
 
FickleFreckled said:
New to this thread, but it looks very interesting…

Right now I’m reading “Nearer, My God” by Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.
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I just found this thread and I wanted to jump in. I am currently starting to read The Bible from cover to cover. I’ve never tried to do that before. I will probably skip over the “begats” (except those in Matthew which I’ve already read.)

I’m also reading Victims of Choice by Kevin Sherlock - it’s about women who have undergone abortions and died as a result.

Also, The Confessions of St. Augustine, The Little Flowers of Saint Francis, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #19, edited by Stephen Jones, the latest Darwin Awards,and last but not least, the new Get Fuzzy.
 
Caramel said:
I just found this thread and I wanted to jump in. I am currently starting to read The Bible from cover to cover. I’ve never tried to do that before. I will probably skip over the “begats” (except those in Matthew which I’ve already read.)
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Tried that except I TRIED to read through the begats and failed. So NEXT time instead of doing it cover to cover, my Lenten promise to myself was at least 1 chapter in the O.T., 1 chapter in the N.T. and 1 Psalm. That way I didn’t get bored in the begats or the Psalms and always had something interesting to read. At that pace (and granted there were nights I was so enthralled w/ the story I read more than just 1 chapter) I think it took me 1 year plus another Lenten season. I seem to recall finishing near Easter the next year. Good luck!
 
Not a religious title in any way but shows so much of how God’s creation actually works. Also a PBS documentary. Reading selections here:

payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/11/19/book-and-pbs-series-recommendation-the-botany-of-desire-by-michael-pollan/

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a selection here:

Domestication
We automatically think of domestication as something we do to another species, but it makes just as much sense to think of it as something certain plants and animals have done to us, a clever evolutionary strategy for advancing their own interests. The species that have spent the last ten thousand years or so figuring out how best to feed, heal, clothe, intoxicate and otherwise delight us have made themselves some of nature’s greatest success stories….

Domesticated species don’t command our respect the way their wild cousins often do. Evolution may reward interdependence, but our thinking selves continue to prize self-reliance. The wolf is somehow more impressive to us than the dog. Yet there are fifty million dogs in America today and only ten thousand wolves. So what does the dog know about getting along in this world that its wild ancestor doesn’t?

The big thing the dog knows about — the subject it has mastered in the ten thousand years it has been evolving at our side — is us: our needs and desires, our emotions and values, all of which it has folded into its genes as part of a sophisticated strategy for survival. If you could read the genome of the dog like a book, you would learn a great deal about who we are and what makes us tick.
 
A Crisis of Saints
The Call to Heroic Faith in an Unheroic World
by George W. Rutler

Some of you might know the author, Fr. George Rutler, from his EWTN series called Christ in the City. Last week, I visited his parish in New York City, The Church of Our Savior. There, the relics of St. Mary Magdalene (from La Sainte Baume, Diocese of Frejus-Toulon, Southern France) were on display. Fr. Rutler said Mass & led a Novena in Honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. After the Rosary & more precious time spent with the relics, I visited the parish bookstore. Lo & behold, there was Fr. Rutler’s latest book…
He’s brilliant!
 
“Game Six,” about the 1975 World Series between Boston and Cincinnati. I’m learning a lot about baseball by reading it.
 
I went to Borders at lunch today, and bought Palin’s new book, Going Rogue. I’m excited…plus it was on sale with my rewards card! 🙂 Anyone reading it?
 
whatevergirl said:
I went to Borders at lunch today, and bought Palin’s new book, Going Rogue. I’m excited…plus it was on sale with my rewards card! 🙂 Anyone reading it?
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*Not yet; just finished R.I.F book from my daughter’s middle school years: Beyond The Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky. Sounded like there was a feud between wealthy families that fueled the Salem mess in 1692. Liars, intimidators and pretenders ruled and wreaked havoc, hanging a lot of innocents. :mad: There are such people still. Avoid the snares! *
 
Colmcille said:
*Not yet; just finished R.I.F book from my daughter’s middle school years: Beyond The Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky. Sounded like there was a feud between wealthy families that fueled the Salem mess in 1692. Liars, intimidators and pretenders ruled and wreaked havoc, hanging a lot of innocents. :mad: There are such people still. Avoid the snares! *
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*That sounds like an interesting read, actually. Thanks for sharing. *
 
whatevergirl said:
I went to Borders at lunch today, and bought Palin’s new book, Going Rogue. I’m excited…plus it was on sale with my rewards card! 🙂 Anyone reading it?
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I will either get it from library, or amazon, or Wallmart.
Tellus what you think.
Are you on FACEBOOK?
 
basenji said:
I just started Caryll Houselander’s Reed of God.
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I strongly recommend ‘This War is the Passion’ by the same author which depicted the suffering endured by the population of Britain during the second World War not so much equal to that of our Lord’s but more in parallel with and offering a sense of purpose. Fabulous insightful woman with incredible empathy and vision.

My theological literary diet is being satisfied by Colm Keane and his ‘Padre Pio’ compendium of observances by followers and witnesses to events during and after the great man’s life.
At the moment my lighter reads are ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and about to re-read ‘A Christmas Carol’. The classicists are the best writers with plotting and enduring characters that are timeless. Austen particularly details the human condition superbly. Magnificent!
 
Reading The Large Hadron Collider by Lyndon Evans. Absolutely remarkable piece of engineering.
 
I’m reading The Amulet of Samarkhad by Jonathan Stroud. It’s the first book in the Bartimaeus Trilogy.
 
Reading: Catholicism and Fundamentalism by Karl Keating

Listening to: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
 
child_of_God85 said:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

I heard about the movie a few months age thats coming out with Viggo Mortensen in it, so I borrowed the book from the library. It’s interesting so far, but a bit disturbing.
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I read ‘Blood Meridian’ and although horrifying, it’s a brilliant depiction of cruelty and evil in its most savage and merciless form.
Personally I thought his finest works were the Border trilogy especially ‘The Crossing’ because of the beautiful descriptions of the Texan and Mexican countryside. The way that he describes human situations with detachment make them even more moving especially when a dog dies during an organised fight and Cole reacts to it. He is a great writer.
 
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