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"Follow My Lead:

Responding to God’s Voice in Everyday Encounters"

by Holly Melton

The first few chapters are excellent.
 
Currently reading “The Stand” by Stephen King. It is the first Stephen King book I have ever read…so far…I wish I had more time to read because I can’t put it down 🙂
 
planethunter said:
Currently reading “The Stand” by Stephen King. It is the first Stephen King book I have ever read…so far…I wish I had more time to read because I can’t put it down 🙂
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I read the unabridged version in the summer going into 8th grade. I LOVEEED it! 😃

I just finished Mark Twain’s “Joan of Arc.” Great book! In the near future I’m going to be reading “The Scarlet Letter”, “The Screwtape Letters”, “The Ballad of the White” and “The Song at the Scaffold.” 🙂
 
shawnbm said:
That is simply outstanding! Truly, Don Quijote is one of the major achievements of all of human history.
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I tried reading it in Spanish but the Spanish used by Cervantes is too archaic to understand in some parts now (I am fluent in Spanish). Regardless, I hope to read the English version very soon as well.
 
“The Grizzly Maze” by Nick Jans.

“Palisades Park” by Allan Brennert, reminds me of a bit of “Water for Elephants”, the movie.
 
The Carthaginians by Dexter Hoyos. Very scholarly and therefore dry at times but his discussion on Punic religion was fascinating. I’ve been on an ancient history kick for about a year now.

God bless
 
I just finished Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith by Fr. Robert Barron a couple days ago.

I’m currently reading Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels by Kerry Walters. It provides an interesting insight into the minds of Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine along with other American deist thinkers.
 
Dragonseye and The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. I thought to read some of the later Pern books after a ten year break. 😃 :tiphat:
 
Just got through reading Lizzie Searches For Love Trilogy by Linda Byler. Also trying very hard to finish My Life With The Saints by Father James Martin SJ. 18 chapters and I’m on Chapter 6. smh I don’t think I’ll ever finish this one. Very hard to read.
 
I’m about to start The Age of Voltaire, ninth in Will Durant’s Story of Civilization series. I’m not really looking forward to the slide toward materialism, bloody revolution, and the triumph of the State over everything, but Durant is worth reading…
 
I have read:

May 2014 issue Catholic Digest

June/July/August 2014 issue** Catholic Digest**

May-August 2013 The Shrine of The Holy House of Loreto

May-August 2014 The Shrine of The Holy House of Loreto

**Unlikely Lovers **by: Emily Spencer

Currently reading

**Praying with Saint Paul: Daily Reflections on the Letters of the Apostle Paul **by: Fr. Peter James Cameron

**A Royal Engagement: The Storm Within **by: Trish Morey & **The Reluctant Queen **by: Caitlin Crews

Happy reading and God bless,

goforgoal
 
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition: Player’s Handbook by Wizards of the Coast
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… what? That’s a book too! 😛
 
Mijoy2 said:
Still waiting for the release of Peter Kreeft’s new novel. It was supposed to be released mulitple times by now and the times just keep expiring.

Maybe this is common for book releases?
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If the Peter Kreeft book you are referring to is Socrates Meets Kierkegaard it is ***finally ***out! I **have **my copy on the desk next to me and I am in the process of reading it now. It has reawakened the fascination for Kierkegaard I had when I was studying philosophy in college. I’m also going to work my way through some of Kreeft’s other “Socratic dialogue” reviews of other philosophers.

As for the way the book’s release date kept getting pushed back, no that is not usual, although it (obviously) does happen sometimes. My guess would be that the publisher had a problem develop in the printing or production process. Any release date has to be an estimate, so . . .
 
I finished Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene yesterday. His narrative is mostly very lucid and coherent, except for a couple sections like the quantum erasure experiment where I didn’t understand some things like what exactly tagging a photon means and how the interference pattern is brought back or whatever happens, though I don’t know if that was because of me being inattentive or whether he didn’t explain clearly enough. But I came through with some good basic knowledge of relativity, qm, stuff like Higgs ocean that may be permeating through space, strings and extra dimensions in ‘Calabi-Yau’ shapes, and insights into whether our world may be a three-brane and exotic theories like cyclic brane collision of two branes recreating the universe in cycles of some trillion years and whether our universe may be a 2d hologram. It was all mostly interesting. Anyone have any recommendations for more books with fascinating and weird physics, though I don’t want books that repeat the same thing.

My next book to read will possibly be about intro philosophy. Which makes me curious, on popular forums for philosophy on the web, I’ve noticed once or twice that Peter Kreeft is high on lists of people’s worst philosophers. So I have doubts whether I should read him .
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition: Player’s Handbook by Wizards of the Coast

… what? That’s a book too! 😛
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And a good book it promises to be. 🙂

For myself,* In Enemy Hands*, book eight of the Honor Harrington series. I plan to read the series right through.
After that, maybe, re-read the Sookie Stackhouse series.
I saw True Blood through to the beginning of season five, then later started reading the series by Charlaine Harris. The books are far superior to the TV show.
 
“Sex: What Your Parents Didn’t Tell You,” just reviewed at CatholicMom.com.

Full disclosure: I wrote it. 😛

It’s intended for parents, but some of my beta readers sent their copy along to their college-bound offspring. I think they liked how it echoed what they had taught, or meant to.

The book came out in July, and I’m re-reading it to bone up for speaking engagements. It’s amazed me how the business of book promotion can take my mind off the subject matter, making me rusty in response to questions.
 
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