What book are you reading? #3

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utah_rose said:
Actually I think I liked “It” better only because I’m a pre-Boomer and could identify with the characters. I checked both on Amazon and the Kindle Versions are both $8.99. Michael O’Brien’s books are also very good. I"m presently reading The Sojourners, and previously read “Father Elijah” which was very good.

Stephen King’s new one 11-23-63 is superb but I think it’s about $12.99. on Kindle. I borrowed it from the library, but in the future when the price goes down I want to re-read it so probably will download it later on.
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11/22/63 is up next (well in the next two or three books) for me to read. I’m a bit of a JFK nut. I read everything I can get my hands on about the guy. It all fascinates me. I realize King’s book is fiction, but I’m still intrigued. I’m glad to hear a good review.
 
For devotional – The Bible and Bert Ghezzi’s Voices of the Saints.

For personal reasing – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
 
I just recently started reading the Last Disciple by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer. It intrigued me because it’s supposedly another take on the tribulation (and kind of an answer to The Left Behind series). One chapter in and already I’m fond of it. 🙂 We’ll see how I feel when I’m done.
 
Slowly making my through “Pierced By a Sword” by Bud Macfarlane, about 3 quarters through, it’s pretty good.

I’m also reading “Yes or No: Straight Answers to Tough Questions About Christianity” by Peter Kreeft which is written as an interesting dialogue between two characters, Chris the Christian and Sal the Seeker.

I also got my Kindle recently and began reading “The Moonlit Mind” an e-book by Dean Koontz.
 
Currently reading “The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy” by David Hoffman.

Fascinating so far, especially the part about the Soviet’s illicit germ warfare program to engineer things like smallpox, anthrax, and plague to be even more deadly. Interesting portrait of Reagan so far (I’m up to about 1983) - much more positive than you would expect, considering I heard the author interviewed on NPR. Reagan comes across as quite the idealist, even visionary, and more in control than he usually gets credit for, yet a bit naive about how paranoid the Soviet leadership really was.

Also reading “Becoming Who You Are: Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton and Other Saints”, by James Martin, SJ, which is good so far, even if Thomas Merton isn’t a saint, the author credits “Seven Storey Mountain” with helping him find his own vocation to religious life.
 
Bobby_Jim said:
Currently reading “The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy” by David Hoffman.

Fascinating so far, especially the part about the Soviet’s illicit germ warfare program to engineer things like smallpox, anthrax, and plague to be even more deadly. Interesting portrait of Reagan so far (I’m up to about 1983) - much more positive than you would expect, considering I heard the author interviewed on NPR. Reagan comes across as quite the idealist, even visionary, and more in control than he usually gets credit for, yet a bit naive about how paranoid the Soviet leadership really was.
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I read the WIRED article on which that was based - the Dead Hand system is very scary, especially if it is still in place.

If you like that, you might also check out “Red Star Rogue” by Kenneth R. Sewell, a non-fiction book that advances the possibility that the Soviet K-129 submarine that sank off the coast of Hawaii in 1968 (and was later salvaged by Howard Hughes’ Glomar Explorer ship) sank after an aborted attempt to launch a nuclear missile at Pearl Harbor in an plot to start a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and China, whom the Soviets wanted to blame. Sewell has some pretty good evidence for this as a rogue operation by a high-ranking Politburo member with the aid of the KGB. An inadequate attempt to work around the failsafe technology in the missiles caused the destruction of the sub. Sewell claims that evidence recovered by the CIA using the Glomar Explorer was provided to the Chinese by Nixon, which led to the thawing of relations between those two countries, and the realignment of strategic forces.

I don’t know if his scenario is correct, but it makes for some interesting reading.
 
I just finished up Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

Now I’m starting, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. It’s the February book for my online book club.
 
CatholicFireman said:
An Exorcist Tells His Story by Fr. Gabriel Amorth.
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Greetings CatholicFireman,

A great book. And might I suggest to follow up with the second book, More stories from an exorcist or something similar to that title by him.

Happy reading.

God Bless.
Anathama Sit
 
Anathama_Sit said:
Greetings CatholicFireman,

A great book. And might I suggest to follow up with the second book, More stories from an exorcist or something similar to that title by him.

Happy reading.

God Bless.
Anathama Sit
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Thanks. I believe the second book is An Exorcist: More Stories.

God Bless.
 
LukeSr., thank you very kindly for explaining “The Demonologist” by: Gerald Daniel Brittle once again. I do recall you telling me about this book in your previous posts on page. 10, posts #140, #142, #147, and #150. I didn’t mean scary as in Stephen King scary or Hollywood movie effect scary but it scares a person in the right direction.

Can you (or anyone) suggest reading material (besides websites) where Saints, Blesseds, Venerables, and Servant of Gods were shown Purgatory or/and Hell?

I know the three Shepherd children (seers) were shown visions of purgatory and hell.

St. Faustina was shown a vision of purgarory and hell.

Servant of God, Maria Bolognesi, was once possessed by the devil but by an Exorcism was absolved.

Would you happen to know of any other Saints, Blesseds, Venerables, or Servant of God who happened to be possessed and were released from this horrible bondage by an Exorcism?

By the way, LukeSr. I have a book called “The Secret of the Rosary” by: St. Louis de Montfort and a booklet called “The Secret of Mary” by: St. Louis de Montfort both which I received for a Donation to a Marian Shrine my family and I attend in the summertime or on the Feast Day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

I know I stated before I had trouble reading or getting into, “The Experience of being Called” by: Br. Gerlac O’Loughlin, OCSO. Well, for the life of me I just couldn’t get into this book and for awhile I put it on the side only to discover one of the dogs had an “accident” on this book and I had to toss it out…I feel really bad for doing so. :o

I am currently/almost finished reading “The Quilt of life” by: Mary Tatem

marytatem.com/

Actually, this thread is a great reminder that I do need to get back in the habit of reading books again.

God bless,

goforgoal
 
I am currently in the middle of the Book of Joshua in the Navarre Study Bible series and am also reading Early Dominicans - Selected Writings from the Classics in Western Spirituality series.
 
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