What book are you reading? #2

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Andrew1983 said:
Currently I’m reading The History of the Church, Book 8. I’ll be reading the Catechism next.
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I’ve read a similar book entitled “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce Shelley. I also started reading the Shorter and Larger Catechisms of the Westminster Confession last night.
 
“Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. Best sentence yet. “When we can no longer use values as a weapon, what can we use?”. Or something like that. This is my second time around with this one. Plan to re read the rest of her publications eventually.
 
“I believe in Love A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Therese of Lisieux” by: Fr. Jean C. J. d’Elbee.
 
“Angels in Iron” by Nicholas C Prata. Story of the Siege of Malta in 1565, when around 700 Hospitaller Knights and a couple of thousand men at arms, assisted by the populace held off over 40,000 Turks from invading. Gripping stuff, and not a dry history, the author has done it in a narrative style telling a great story. Be warned, his depictions of battle and the privations suffered by the knights are quite graphically detailed. An older teenage boy would LOVE it!
 
KarenElissa said:
Just finished that one, not I’m working on his next one, Collapse.
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I haven’t gotten to that one yet. I did enjoy his *Third Chimpanzee *book. I just took everything that he wrote as theory, which of course it is.

Diamond is a little frustrating though. For instance he talks about evolution and natural selection in one sentence and then in the very next will dismiss certain theories on evolution and natural selection because, to him, they appear to be racist. He can’t have it both ways. If what we are today is based on evolution and natural selection (chance) then you can’t dismiss theory solely because you find them racist. Why would ‘chance’ care about racism? Like nature and natural selection is somehow held by our standard of fairness and equality :confused:

God bless
 
I’m a fan of Mad Men so I’m eagerly awaiting a book in the mail called

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave Us Pearl Harbor

As I wait I’m reading Fireside By Susan Wiggs.

One of my favorite authors is Sarah Addison Allen, she wrote Garden Spells about two sisters who live in North Carolina and who have unique talents, one at hairdressing, the other with food, (she knows what spices and herbs to add to her dishes to get certain results, for example there’s an herb that makes people tell the truth), another one that helps people to see in the dark and so on, there’s an apple tree in their yard but if you eat the apples you’ll know the biggest event that will happen in your life. Her newest book is
The Girl who Chased The Moon, there’s a glossary at the end of the book telling about the different Moons, Harvest Moon for example…

I read for the pure pleasure of it, some of the titles mentioned in this thread are scary to me!
 
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

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OH! I read that one and I was annoyed by my ignorance. I had no idea that parts of England were occupied by the Germans during the second world war…but it’s an excellent book!

I read The Help and loved it, it’s about black domestic servants and their white lady bosses during the sixties, very well done, I loved it so I gave it to a friend who will give it to a friend and so on…in return she gave me Guernsey.
 
Roman_Catholic said:
I haven’t gotten to that one yet. I did enjoy his *Third Chimpanzee *book. I just took everything that he wrote as theory, which of course it is.
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I didn’t like as much as Guns, Germs, and Steel. I haven’t quite decided if it is just because I’m tired of that kind of book, but I don’t think that is all of it. But I can’t exactly put my finger on what I don’t like about it as much. 🤷
 
I’ve reading The Great Heresies by Hillaire Belloc right now. The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed and The Modern Attack are two sections that interest me the most. I know Islam and Mohammed too well. I just wanted to see what Belloc has to say about Islam. His section on the Modern Attack is nothing less than prophetic, when you realize that the deterioration he discusses, deterioration we face in society today, he wrote about back in 1938. It’s a great book and I recommend it to anyone.
 
MugenOne said:
I’ve reading The Great Heresies by Hillaire Belloc right now. The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed and The Modern Attack are two sections that interest me the most. I know Islam and Mohammed too well. I just wanted to see what Belloc has to say about Islam. His section on the Modern Attack is nothing less than prophetic, when you realize that the deterioration he discusses, deterioration we face in society today, he wrote about back in 1938. It’s a great book and I recommend it to anyone.
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I have also read that book, a few years ago. It is excellent, I highly reccomend it as well.
 
MugenOne said:
I’ve reading The Great Heresies by Hillaire Belloc right now. The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed and The Modern Attack are two sections that interest me the most. I know Islam and Mohammed too well. I just wanted to see what Belloc has to say about Islam. His section on the Modern Attack is nothing less than prophetic, when you realize that the deterioration he discusses, deterioration we face in society today, he wrote about back in 1938. It’s a great book and I recommend it to anyone.
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Thanks for that, online version here (if you can bear to read form a computer screen for that long): ewtn.com/library/Doctrine/heresy.HTM
 
Now reading the fifth book in the True Blood series, This one is called Dead as a Doornail. Seriously loving this series right now. I read the first 4 books in just two weeks. I really want to start watching the tv show, but we don’t get HBO, so I’ll just have to rent the dvd’s.
 
I’ve just finished reading Throw Out Fifty Things by Gail Blanke. It really helped me deal with some issues I had swirling around in my head. Definitely brought me closer to Our Lord.

Would recommend it to anyone, who feels they need to spring clean their mind
 
I just started reading “The Confessions” of St. Augustine and I’m enjoying it a lot so far!
 
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