What book(s) are you reading?

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The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton: A New Look at the Spiritual Inspiration of His Life, Thought and Writing, by Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M.
 
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

This is quickly becoming one of my favourite books.
 
The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock
 
Spirit, Soul, Body; Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality, by Cyprian Consiglio, OSB, Cam.
 
Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity by Robert Pollin
 
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

I’m on a Russian literature kick. I’ve read The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenov) so far this month. 😂
 
I’m reading two. The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly and World War Z by Max Brooks.
 
I struggled a great deal with Brothers Karamazov…I liked it a lot though. I really liked the discussion in Brothers Karamazov that Alyosha has with the friends of Ilyusha about Ilyusha’s death. It is one of the greatest arguments for Christianity I’ve read…and I struggled thru it though. I would have to reread sections and look at commentary online. It was worth it finally when I got a sense of what Dostoevsky was saying.
 
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The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ

Book by Fleming Rutledge
 
Voting and Faithfulness; Catholic Perspectives on Politics, edited by Nicholas P. Cafardi, Paulist Press, 2020.
 
Just finished The Penultimate Curiosity by A.D.P. Briggs and Roger Wagner after watching on EWTN.
A history of the interplay of Science and Religion…best read of the year for me!
 
I just finished The Brothers Karamazov, which kept me occupied for several weeks! Still mulling it over. That completed my participation in “The Classics Club”, a challenge in which participants read 50 classics in five years. Now to come up with a new list to start it again. For now, though, I’ll continue working on my TBR…I’ll probably read one of my Khaled Hosseini novels, whichever follows Kite Runner.
 
Working up the motivation to start Wheelock’s Latin with it’s accompanying workbook.
 
I’ve been browsing in And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman by Lyle W. Dorsett. Davidman is remembered today as the woman who married C. S. Lewis, but she had a remarkable life and career before she met him. She was a precocious child who read voraciously and published a book of poems and some novels in her twenties and thirties. She declared herself an atheist at age twelve, and in college she joined the Communist Party of the USA and wrote movie reviews for New Masses. All the while, though, she had intimations of God, and in her thirties she renounced atheism and Communism for Christianity. I’ve been fascinated enough by her life to buy a copy of a collection of her letters, Out of My Bone, which I’ve been leafing through at the same time.
 
What was on your old list?
Did you get to Eugene Onegin while reading Russian Lit?
 
Currently reading Catherine of Siena by Sigrid Unset.** (Ignatius Press)
I’ve read other biographies of this saint, but this one is well on its way to favorite status.
 
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