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jediliz said:
Yes it is…that’s how I read it. Its $4.79 🙂

Thanks for the suggestion about Sara’s Key. I’ll go download a sample.

I also have many other ebooks that I need to finish…Crossiong the Tiber, Mass as Heaven on Earth, Hail Holy Queen…should make those my lent reading…
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You sound like me—I have lots of ebooks good for Lenten reading and I go back and forth. One I’m reading now is "The Delorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich.and “The New Jerusalem” by Chesterton–both are free on the Kindle books. The Passion is supposed to be based on the Movie, and its very moving, Another one unfortunately not on Kindle is "Praying the Stations with Mary the Mother of Jesus by Richard Furey. We pray these in our Church and they are very touching.
 
So far I have read, “Deeply in love with Jesus: Simona Tronci” by: Fr. Clemente Pilloni, OFMCap.

A Booklet on Blessed Alberto Marvelli, a booklet on Venerable Anne de Guigne, and I’ve also read other Catholic materials as well such as healing through the intercession of St. Raphael the Archangel and a booklet on healing from the Divine Mercy.

also finished reading " I changed Gods" by: Maria Anne Hirschmann

It is about a young girl name she who was chosen for training to be a Nazi youth leader. Brainwashed, Maria’s god became Adolph Hitler… Italics from The Hansi Ministries website: hansiministries.org/bio.htm

For Lent I am currently reading, “Daily Reflections for Lent: Not by bread alone 2012” by: Robert E. Morneau. Two booklets “From Fear to Love: Lenten Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son” by: Henri J. M. Nouwen and “Daybreaks Daily Reflections for Lent and Easter Week” by: Ron Rolheiser, OMI.

I’m currently reading, “Sula” by: Toni Morrison

Happy reading everyone and God bless,
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I’m reading the diary of Saint Faustina on the Divine Mercy … thank you Saint Faustina for leaving us this beautiful book of inspiration and information for our souls.

This book is written in a style that is inspirational, yet easy to understand … it is a blessing.
 
So I finally gave The Hunger Games a chance. I was very surprised at how good it is. Really hard book to put down actually.
I was afraid to read it because people where compairing it to Twilight, but thankfully it is nothing like Twilight. It is written so much better, and instead of a whimpy female lead it has a strong female figure girls can actually look up to.
 
child_of_God85 said:
So I finally gave The Hunger Games a chance. I was very surprised at how good it is. Really hard book to put down actually.
I was afraid to read it because people where compairing it to Twilight, but thankfully it is nothing like Twilight. It is written so much better, and instead of a whimpy female lead it has a strong female figure girls can actually look up to.
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I just finished “Legion” by Peter Blatty (e kindle book) and it was very good, not like the Exorcist but plenty of discussion of good and evil, very good mystery book too,

I’m still reading "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anna Catherine Emmerich (a Kindle free book). Anna was a mystic, and the scenes of the passion she writes about affects me more than The Stations of the Cross. Supposedly “The Passion of the Christ” was based on this book.

On my secular book readings during Lent, trying to stick to more spiritual reading.
 
I just downloaded Mary Eberstadt’s book “Adam and Eve After the Pill,” to my Kindle and started reading it today. Just on the second chapter, but this is an amazing and readable book about the devastating effects of the sexual revolution. Mostly she just gives the data that has been piling up for decades.

The effects have been bad for men, destructive for women, children, and families, destructive of the culture, destructive of society.

This is really worth reading. It gives a lot of insight on what has happened and is happening to our culture.
 
Just finished reading The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Incredibly deep and a fantastic portrayal of a future Thailand under siege by frightening genetically engineered diseases, xenophobia and global corporations. A must read for everybody, even if you ‘think’ you don’t like science fiction.

Now I’m onto Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie and I’m devouring it. The guy is brilliant at characterisation; they just come off the page.
 
JimG said:
I just downloaded Mary Eberstadt’s book “Adam and Eve After the Pill,” to my Kindle and started reading it today. Just on the second chapter, but this is an amazing and readable book about the devastating effects of the sexual revolution. Mostly she just gives the data that has been piling up for decades.

The effects have been bad for men, destructive for women, children, and families, destructive of the culture, destructive of society.

This is really worth reading. It gives a lot of insight on what has happened and is happening to our culture.
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Sounds interesting. I may have to get that one. So many good books from this particular forum
 
Originally Posted by JimG View Post
I just downloaded Mary Eberstadt’s book “Adam and Eve After the Pill,” to my Kindle and started reading it today. Just on the second chapter, but this is an amazing and readable book about the devastating effects of the sexual revolution. Mostly she just gives the data that has been piling up for decades.

@Bryan…are you reading this yet…does she talk about the link from pill to cancer?

anyone know?
 
LukeSr said:
Originally Posted by JimG View Post
I just downloaded Mary Eberstadt’s book “Adam and Eve After the Pill,” to my Kindle and started reading it today. Just on the second chapter, but this is an amazing and readable book about the devastating effects of the sexual revolution. Mostly she just gives the data that has been piling up for decades.

@Bryan…are you reading this yet…does she talk about the link from pill to cancer?

anyone know?
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I’m still reading War and Peace. I’ll look up “Adam and Eve After the Pill” later.
 
LukeSr said:
Originally Posted by JimG View Post
I just downloaded Mary Eberstadt’s book “Adam and Eve After the Pill,” to my Kindle and started reading it today. Just on the second chapter, but this is an amazing and readable book about the devastating effects of the sexual revolution. Mostly she just gives the data that has been piling up for decades.

@Bryan…are you reading this yet…does she talk about the link from pill to cancer?

anyone know?
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I haven’t finished the book yet, so can’t say for sure. Mostly it is a sociological book about what has happened to the culture after the sexual revolution. So far, I’ve read chapters on how it has affected women, men, families, but I’m only about 25% done. In the early chapter there is a good deal about denial–how, even though the adverse effects have been documented by many over the decades, there is a denial of the obvious by many who wish to “protect” the sexual revolution in some way.
 
For Lenten reading The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew by Donald Senior, C.P.
Just started Hearer of the Word by Karl Rahner
 
*Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor and, Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life *by Fr. James Martin
 
I just finished “The Six Year War” by Brian Reynolds. The book is a historical fiction about child soldiers. It deals with the harsh realities that children face when trained as soldiers. It follows one boy as he is kidnapped and trained to be a soldier, through his life in combat, followed by his time spent in a foster home in his teen years after he is rescued from the life. I felt the book did a really good job of treating this social issue in a way that is genuinely moving and thought provoking.
 
I recently finished Mary Eberhardt’s “Adam & Eve After the Pill—Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution.”

That book turned out to be a goldmine of references to other books and other sources. It contains a lot of sources and dats. As a result I am now reading one of the books she mentions: “Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys,” by Kay Hymowitz.

Both are good sociological studies about developments in historically recent decades. The first details the adverse consequences of the sexual revolution (though not from a moral standpoint,) and the second, despite its title, is not merely a lament about the condition of men, but a study of what has happened in recent decades to delay what might be called the entry into manhood of adolescents.
 


Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Here’s the first paragraph, which is how I was introduced to it through a uni handout, and which made me hire the book:

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus side shows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination - indeed, everything and anything except me.”
 
The Cathcer in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Not a fan of the profanity and some of the sexual stuff, but interested in seeing how it ends.
 
Dandelion_Wine said:
The Cathcer in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Not a fan of the profanity and some of the sexual stuff, but interested in seeing how it ends.
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Aw come on. If you find Catcher In The Rye offensive then you’ve definitely over sensitive. Its one of the quintessential “growing up” novels. You surely can’t be suggesting that you’d rather sacrificed authenticity/realism etc. for the sake of mild language? Posts like this absolutely blow my mind.
 
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