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I just finished “Nights In Rodanthe” and have started Matthew Kelly’s “The Rhythm Of Life”

Kathy
 
Katie,
How did you like “Nights”? Isn’t there a movie coming out with the same title or is out? Did you see it?

Blessings,
 
I’m half way through the last Stephanie Meyer’s book, Breaking Dawn. Yea, my kids talked me into reading the series and seeing the movie, too.:o
 
Sam_Maloney said:
Scanning through quickly, thrilled to find another Dickens reader, hope you are enjoying.
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I started reading classics again a few years ago. I’ve gone through about 10 of his novels so far. I look forward to finishing up remainder!
 
I’m reading two right now. One is for a Classics Challenge on another site, and I need to write a review. This one is Middlemarch by George Eliot.

And ‘for fun’ and a little change of pace, a 20th century classic by Walter M. Miller, Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz. Re-reading this in preparation for reading Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman.
 
mom4truth said:
Katie,
How did you like “Nights”? Isn’t there a movie coming out with the same title or is out? Did you see it?

Blessings,
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I loved the book. I believe the movie is the same but I haven’t seen it. The book reminded me of Robert Waller’s “Bridges Of Madison County”…and one of my favorite movie lines… “This kind of love comes but once in a lifetime”…oh yeah… to hear those words.

Kathy
 
Currently juggling several books including Jim Butcher’s “Codex Alera Book 2: Academ’s Fury” (a high fantasy in the order of J.R.R. Tolkien, except that it’s set in a fantastical Roman Empire-like world, with people taming elemental beings called Furies to work with them), “Wolfsbane and Mistletoe”, a collection of werewolf stories set at Christmastime; and – shudder! – “Twilight” by Stephanie Meyers. If I’m going to critique the dang thing as sternly as I do, I should give it another shot (except that Bella Swan makes me at my most socially inept look as gracious as a Jane Austen heroine >.< ).
 
Currently juggling several now myself:

I am sporadically reading Without Roots by Marcello Pera and Our Holy Father.

I was loaned The Way of St. Francis several weeks ago from the local Secular Franciscan chapter’s library but am now just starting to read it – and it needs to be finished by this Saturday evening since another lady is asking to read it.

I was reading The Life of St. Gemma Galgani in the evenings before bed for the second time, and may continue as such.

I’m having a hard time trying to figure out if I want to read Kazantzakis’s Saint Francis next or Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I feel like I should be studying up on all the Franciscan material that I can since I am about to enter the orientation process for the Secular Franciscans, but I also am kind of tired of reading religious material all the time. I haven’t been very well-rounded in my reading in some months now.
 
I’m currently reading James Rollins’ The Last Oracle. Fun brain candy.
 
I am now reading American Exorcism by Michael Cuneo. It is a survey of the phenomenon of exorcism in America from the 60’s through the early 2000’s due to cultural and media presentations such as The Exorcist by Blatty and Hostage to the Devil by Martin
 
I’m reading Stephen King’s Duma Key.
I hope to read King’s six volume The Dark Tower.
Has anyone on board read the Dark Tower?
 
tgm21234 said:
I’m reading Stephen King’s Duma Key.
I hope to read King’s six volume The Dark Tower.
Has anyone on board read the Dark Tower?
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I read the first four books. I enjoyed the first three but hated the fourth book, though one of my co-workers enjoyed it. This same co-worker disliked the seventh and final book. In her words, to go through the whole series the ending is a bit of a disappointment. However, in defense of most series, it’s hard to tie up six (or however many) books in one final book.
 
I’ve got a chem final on Saturday so I’m reading that book A LOT lately. I’ve also started The First Patient by Michael Palmer.
 
Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird and before that, The Outsiders by SE Hinton

😃
 
Sam_Maloney said:
Scanning through quickly, thrilled to find another Dickens reader, hope you are enjoying.
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Of the general period, I have a book somewhere titled, “The Golden Dog” or, “Le Chien d’Or”. It’s about 125 years old and is a romance of the time of Louis XIV, set in Ontario Canada. Really neat perspective of geography and society of the time. I’ll read it again if I find it. Currently am borrowing and reading John Adams by David McCullough, it is a superb historical piece of the Revolutionary War times, give or take a decade or two. Wonderful reading, Principle and Integrity abound! Colmcille:thumbsup:
 
Just finished *We *by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Started Childhoods End by Sir Arthur C. Clarke

After that:

At the Mountain of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

God bless
 
Ooh-- Childhood’s End! Read it more than 30 years ago, still remember it well.

One of Clark’s most thoughtful and challenging.
 
Sam_Maloney said:
Ooh-- Childhood’s End! Read it more than 30 years ago, still remember it well.

One of Clark’s most thoughtful and challenging.
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That’s science fiction, right?:confused: I used to read a lot of Clarke’s, Asimov’s and Pohl Andersons writing in the Analog and other Sci-fi magazines in the 60’s and 70’s. I, Robot was memorable, as was The Foundation Trilogy.🙂
 
The next book I’m going to read is by a Catholic author named L.D. Anderson, titled "The Order of the Beloved.
I haven’t read a negative review about this book yet.
Check out Amazon.com
 
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