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I’m reading the Bible! 😃

I never have read it fully before, but I am gonna! 😃

I reached part with Moses Already 🙂
 
Voyage of the Damned by Gordon Thomas.
It’s about 900+ Jews allowed to leave Nazi Germany in 1939 on a passenger liner to Cuba. When they get there Cuba refuses to take them – and nobody, including the US wants them either.

It’s quite interesting. The captain does his best to reassure his passengers and provide the same experience he would to anyone else on a luxury liner but some of the crew are fanatical Nazis.

PS - the book was also made into a movie.
 
Just finished “Christ the Lord:the Road to Cana” by Anne Rice. Just started “Fall of Giants” by Ken Follett.
 
Gideon’s Spies by Gordon Thomas, about Mossad. Some fascinating parts about JPII
 
I just finished reading “The Sound and the Furry” by Spencer Quinn, just loved it. Its a mystery series narrated by a dog, Chet. Also in the religious area reading Search and Rescue by Patrick Madrid.
 
G.K. Chesterton wrote some great fiction.

The Father Brown Omnibus ( Fifty clever mysteries solved by the idomnable, chubby, little, brilliant Father Brown.). The Club of Queer Trades, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, A Man Called Thursday, The Flying Inn, The Ball and the Cross, The Floating Admiral.

Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ( the only book he ever wrote, describes his enlistment on a four masted sailing ship out of Boston to regain his health. It is the true story of the voyage around Cape Horn and adventures trading on the coast of California and the return two years later, 1834.

Horatio Hornblower series by Admiral C.S. Forester, a great adventure series for boys, girls too.

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I just finished reading “The War on Men,” by Suzanne Venker.

I had it on my Kindle and had started it but then got sidetracked, and just finished it the other day.

In many ways her observations might be said to be common-sense, except that much of common sense has taken a severe hit over the past few decades. The book does not so much elucidate a war on men as outline how many aspects of the feminist movement have been detrimental to women, to relationships, to marriage and families. If there’s a war, she would like to declare a cease-fire, and allow us to acknowledge that men and women are indeed equal, and indeed different and complementary.
 
I’m about to start 7 Secrets of the Eucharist by Vinny Flynn. If it is as powerful as the DVD I saw of it, I’m in for a treat.
 
Right now I’m reading the Republican War on Science. A bit one sided to be sure.
 
I’m reading several books right now.
  1. Nature and Motion in the Middle Ages by James A Weisheipl O.P.
  2. From a Realist Point of View by William A. Wallace O.P.
  3. God and the Cosmologists by Stanley L. Jaki, O.S.B.
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