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Just finished Murder By Family by Kent Whitaker. A true crime story of a son who tries to get away with the murder of his brother, & mother, and the shooting of his father. This crime happened in Sugarland Tx, 20 minute drive up the road from me.

Also trying to finish Lita: A Less Traveled R. O. A. D.- The Reality Of Amy Dumas. Tells how Lita, a wrestling diva got started in the business and where all her career takes her. Awesome journey. Good book just wish I could finish it already as I need to move onto something else.
 
I recently finished re-reading “I Should Have Seen It Coming When The Rabbit Died,” by Teresa Bloomingdale. It’s a book I had read as a teenager, enjoyed it, and then gave it to my mom, who seemed to have some things in common with Mrs. Bloomingdale. I’d long since forgotten about the book, but recently had a desire to read it again.

When she married, Teresa B. and her husband’s set out to have a dozen kids, but they ended up having only ten in twelve years. It’s a funny and interesting read. They started with a son, Lee, named after her husband, and who was followed in rapid succession by John, Michael, Jim, Mary, Danny, Peggy, Ann, Tim, and Patrick.

Her second career, after motherhood, was as a humorist, first writing columns and articles, then books.

As I re-read this book, it occurred to me that many people brought up in the feminist mold would not only dislike this book, they would hate it. The author is at her best recounting incidents of family life. It is clear, despite the often chaotic events of family life that she retells, that she positively loved every moment of raising those ten kids. Well, most moments, anyway.

The book seems a little dated now, of course. It was published in 1979. It’s out of print, so if you want to read it you’ll have to find it at the used book store.
 
I didn’t plan it this way, but after finishing Teresa Bloomingdale’s book, again, I happened to read “The War on Men,” by Susanne Venker. It’s a rather short and readable book which really is more of a brief and critical history of the feminist movement, the events and personalities of which will surprise no one who lived through it.

The author notes that most of the prominent founding feminists were profoundly unhappy women with unhappy pasts and possibly unhappy marriages. They expected that all other women should be equally as unhappy as them at the very prospect of motherhood and marriage.

Motherhood and femininity to them equaled slavery. Most women weren’t so unhappy, yet the movement through incessant propaganda convinced them that they could never trust marriage or men. The entire enterprise ended up making women less, rather than more happy. These women would have considered Teresa Bloomingdale not only wrongheaded but heretical.
 
JimG said:
I recently finished re-reading “I Should Have Seen It Coming When The Rabbit Died,” by Teresa Bloomingdale. It’s a book I had read as a teenager, enjoyed it, and then gave it to my mom, who seemed to have some things in common with Mrs. Bloomingdale. I’d long since forgotten about the book, but recently had a desire to read it again.

When she married, Teresa B. and her husband’s set out to have a dozen kids, but they ended up having only ten in twelve years. It’s a funny and interesting read. They started with a son, Lee, named after her husband, and who was followed in rapid succession by John, Michael, Jim, Mary, Danny, Peggy, Ann, Tim, and Patrick.

Her second career, after motherhood, was as a humorist, first writing columns and articles, then books.

As I re-read this book, it occurred to me that many people brought up in the feminist mold would not only dislike this book, they would hate it. The author is at her best recounting incidents of family life. It is clear, despite the often chaotic events of family life that she retells, that she positively loved every moment of raising those ten kids. Well, most moments, anyway.

The book seems a little dated now, of course. It was published in 1979. It’s out of print, so if you want to read it you’ll have to find it at the used book store.
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Are you could pass the book along to a CAF Member I’m only joking. :rotfl::extrahappy:

I’ve read four of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books thank goodness for nephew’s. 😃

wimpykid.com/#

Happy reading everyone and God bless,

goforgoal
 
Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic

I just picked it up from my local Catholic Bookstore. So far, it’s quite good.
 
I just finished Insurgent, the second book in the series after Divergent.

It is pretty good. Victoria Roth discusses a “state of mind” she calls “divergent”, that is notable for being both flexible and resistant to control.

She implies that this “state of mind” is the solution to preventing group conflict, or war.

I have not read her Q and A yet, and it will be interesting to see where she takes this in her third book due out in October.

However, for now, I agree with her – that there is a “state of mind” that is flexible, resistant to control, and is likely resistant to conflict.
 
Rereading The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I’ve lost count how many times the books have been read and the movies watched. 🤓
 
AggieCatholic22 said:
Just finished Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers…wow…such an eye opener to how much God loves us and that no matter how bad our life may be He will always be by our side ready to meet us where we are at=)

definitely not for young people…i would say college age and up… its an amazing read!
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That’s a good book.

I’m reading Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
 
“The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking” by Brother Rick Curry, S.J. My goal is to be able to make about 12 types of breads, rolls, and muffins for my family by Christmas. Great recipes, lots of Jesuit history in-between. I’l be working on his book on soup-making as well.
 
Fifty shades of…just kidding. 🙂 I’m reading The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker PhD. A little antiquated but still nice.
 
My Life With The Saints by Father James Martin. Very good reading. Highly recommended.
 
acacia12 said:
“Rome Sweet Home” by Scott and Kimberly Hahn. 👍
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I’ve not read any of Scott Hahn’s books yet. I have his book called, “A Father Who Keeps His Promise”. I wonder if it is as good as I’m hoping it is. Is “Rome Sweet Home”, any good? Please let me know. Thank you so much.
 
Gigglin4God said:
I’ve not read any of Scott Hahn’s books yet. I have his book called, “A Father Who Keeps His Promise”. I wonder if it is as good as I’m hoping it is. Is “Rome Sweet Home”, any good? Please let me know. Thank you so much.
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I liked “Rome Sweet Home” because of the way it was written as a personal journey, with the different routes taken by Scott and Kimberly. It was not so much the aspect of a conversion story that interested me, but the steps along the way.
 
goforgoal said:
Are you could pass the book along to a CAF Member I’m only joking. :rotfl::extrahappy:

I’ve read four of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books thank goodness for nephew’s. 😃

wimpykid.com/#

Happy reading everyone and God bless,

goforgoal
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Oh, I’m always willing to share books; they accumulate too fast anyway. When I tried to find my old copy of “I Should Have Seen It Coming When The Rabbit Died,” it was nowhere to be found, so I got another one from a used book store.
 
I’m reading Manning Up—How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys, by Kay Hymowitz.

It’s not just about the failure of boys to launch into adulthood. The author discerns a new life segment for both sexes, one previously unknown—what she calls preadulthood. First there’s childhood, then adolescence, then college, then—not adulthood–but preadulthood. Why is it taking so long for everyone to grow up, especially men? That’s the question she addresses, along with all the surrounding cultural changes.
 
Dandelion_Wine said:
Sweet! I like the first one because it got it all going. 2-4 were eh. It moves the story along. It’s kind of neat meeting some of the other immortals/elders/et al. because they’re right out of history and mythology. #5 I’m enjoying the most so far. I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts.
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I just finished it and am waiting for the next one from the library, but I’m heading to a conference next week so it’ll be something else next. Thinking about Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah West.
 
JimG said:
I liked “Rome Sweet Home” because of the way it was written as a personal journey, with the different routes taken by Scott and Kimberly. It was not so much the aspect of a conversion story that interested me, but the steps along the way.
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“Rome Sweet Home” was one of the books that got me really interested in investigating Catholicism. That and “Catholicism and Fundamentalism”
 
JimG said:
I liked “Rome Sweet Home” because of the way it was written as a personal journey, with the different routes taken by Scott and Kimberly. It was not so much the aspect of a conversion story that interested me, but the steps along the way.
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Agreed 👍
I am now re-reading “Way To Inner Peace” by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Just love his books 🙂
 
Loneliness and Love by Fr. Vander Kerken
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
 
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