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I’m reading: “True Devotion” To The Blessed Virgin written by St. Louis de Montfort back around the year 1730 and remained hidden or lost during the French Revolution then providentially discovered in 1842…
The book is actually a guide to preparation (32 days) one does prior to the total Consecration to be made to Our Blessed Mother. He explains the devotion to be the perfect way through Mary to achieve unity with Our Lord Jesus Christ.
You may remember our beloved Pope John Paul II famous episcopal motto “Totus Tuus” which is Latin for “Totally Yours” or “I am all yours” was inspired by the teaching of St. Louis and this devotion Those close to John Paul said he read it 5 times due to its spiritual richness. I figured if it’s good enough for John Paul the Great than it’s certainly good enough for me. I made the Consecration on April 1st of this year and it has been life changing… And, I’m on my 6th reading. There may be more…Godspeed
 
Disarming States: The International Movement to Ban Landmines by Kenneth R. Rutherford
 
The Hand of God by Bernard N. Nathanson. He was an abortionist and a founder of NARAL but repented and I think died within the past year. Very good, and I downloaded it from Kindle.

Also for lighter reading “The Dog who Knew too Much” by Spencer Quinn. He has a whole series out —they’re mystery books with a detective and a dog written by the dogs point of view. Very well written and funny, and if you own a dog you’ll love it. Also downloaded this.
 
I am reading “Naked Lunch” by William S. Burroughs. It is a little weird so far, but I am sticking with this American Modernist classic of the Beat movement.
 
Just finished “Under the Dome” by Stephen King.
Starting “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins (book 2 of Hunger Games)
 
cthulhubryan said:
Just finished “Under the Dome” by Stephen King.
Starting “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins (book 2 of Hunger Games)
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I just finished Catching Fire. It a great book.

I’m now reading Mockingjay (3rd book). I can say even so far that I’m glad I bought the books. They’re all great reads.
 
Sorting through some piles of unsorted books, I came across Kate O’Beirne’s book “Women Who Make the World Worse.”
I started to read it and it is interesting, so now it’s on the nightstand.

Also I’m reading a newer book, “Bringing Up Geeks,” by Marybeth Hicks.
 
I have been re-reading, after many years, the two editions of “Music Librarianship, a Practical Guide”, by the fine and affable E.T. Bryant, an English librarian who first wrote the book for publication in 1959, then, after very considerable changes in the world of librarianship (doh, like, computers and digital recording technology!) produced a 2nd edition in 1985. Needless to say, the differences are quite considerable, but, oddly and for the good, much of what is essential in library work with music remainsm though, unfortunately, younger librarians tend not to realise that. I am a retired music librarian, so I dont need to read all this at this stage of life for practical reasons, but it is pleasant to go through again two books that I consulted a lot during my professional life.

Bryants scope is very wide-ranging; he "takes it all in" -- well, almost all! I was a little surprised that he has not so much as mentioned the Vatican cataloguing rules. They had a big impact in continental Europe and in such latin cultures as that of Québec (though they were a bit too early to reflect important changes in music cataloguing that began in the 1940s), where the Vatican rules, because they existed in a French edition (the original having been in Italian), were widely used until the advent of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, editions 1 and 2 (both of which also exist in French), displaced them. That is one of the few examples of real insularity that is evident in Bryants two books. The Vatican rules introduced North American Anglophone concepts in cataloguing to the rest of the world, in a way that few realised then or do now.

I loved and enjoyed my profession. Retirement is not an escape from work that by any means was other, or anything less, than very rewarding. Life just goes on past retirement. I wonder how many other readers have kept tabs on their former life`s work in old age.

Jerry Parker
 
Letters to a Young Catholic by Weigel, Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, and Mastering Chess at Any Age by Wetell (a much more challenging book than it sounds, trust me).
 
Just finished (w/ yellow highlites on many pages) UNBOUND a practical guide to deliverance by Neal Lozano.
 
“Notes from the Underground” by Dosteoevsky which I’ve read at least three times. It’s definitely not soul-nourishing, a lot of it is just morbid and fruitless introspection with moments of the most brilliant and penetrating psychological insight. The book, aptly called notes, is tangential and digressive and there really is no structure or coherence, but that’s what makes it so raw and real. I once heard someone use the term “unadulturated psyche”, and I think that is the best way to describe this book.
 
Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book and Volume 1 of Capital with my great books group. We’re linking to the David Harvey online series as well.
 
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