What Books are you reading? '04-'06

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A New Eusebius

Diary of St Faustina

(Plus daily readings from Magnificat)
 
“The Usual Suspects” by our good friend, Karl Keating (A.K.A. the unofficial “sequel” to “Catholicism and Fundamentalism.”)

There’s a plug for CA!
 
jimmy said:
Spill it folks. What books are you reading? Religious or non-Religious.

I am currently reading Walter Hilton’s “Scale of Perfection” and Chrysostom’s Homilies on John. I am waiting impatiently for the release of the new Harry Potter book.🤓
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The Senator’s Daughter by the Black daughter of Strom Thurmond.
 
The Seven Storey Mountain by Fr. Thomas Merton. This book changed my life. The story of his “journey home” to the church inspired me to get off my duff and go to confession and get rid of my habitual sins(still working on this!). I have also read parts of St. Augustine’s Confessions, but Merton is a “contemporary voice” and much easier reading than Augustine.

I also have (but haven’t started yet) My Life with the Saints by Fr. James Martin. I am a little uneasy about this book as I believe Fr. Martin was the editor of the Jesuit magazine America who was removed from his position by the Holy Father for the “dicey” content of this magazine.

Currently also reading Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy.
 
The Sharpe Books by Bernard Cornwell. Unfortunately, I’m on the last one…I’ll miss him
 
**Within the last month I have finished the following:

John Adams (can’t remember the author)
London by Edward Rutherfurd
Bounty, The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander

I am currently reading:
1776 by David McCullough
The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd

and when I can find it, I’ll start reading one of the biographies of Benjamin Franklin.

This is a tough one, but I have made a resolution to not buy any more books until I have finished all of the books I currently have. So next on my list:

Chocolate (The history of Chocolate)
The Red Tent
The Lovely Bones
Wuthering Heights
Mrs Claus (? About how Mrs Claus saved Christmas)

There’s more in the stack, but I can’t rembember them all right now.**
 
Hello folks,

I’ve just finished “Padre Pio, the true story” by C. Bernard Ruffin. It was a long and interesting read. The poor man was mobbed by gangs of “pious ladies”. They were the bane of his life!

Before that I read “Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus” by F.J. Croiset. This also was a great read with lots of good advice and insights.

I’m currently reading “The life and revelations of St. Gertrude”. I’ve only read 36 pages and already it promises to be a very good read.

God bless,
Noel.
 
Morning Glory;**This is a tough one said:
I’m trying to do that too, this year. What really bothers me, as a (slightly obsessive/compulsive) booklover, is when some of the brand-new books I’ve bought have already started to yellow, before I can actually get to them, because I keep buying more.
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Currently I’m reading: The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

It’s incredible as far as I’m concerned. Probably the best Sci-Fi book I’ve ever read.
 
I just finished the 8th in the Left Behind series ( yeah, its a load of hogwash, and not written very well, but I like reading em’ anyways). I’m orking on Catholicism for Dummies and A History of God. The first one is good…the second one I’m not so sure about. I’m finding it really hard to get into, but parts have been interesting so far.
 
The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen, 1998 revision

Medieval Sword Fighting by John Clement (re-reading actually)

Chrst the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice (already finished)
 
Dandelion_Wine said:
Currently I’m reading: The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

It’s incredible as far as I’m concerned. Probably the best Sci-Fi book I’ve ever read.
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Re-read that one for the 10th+ time couple of months ago–and despite all the technological developes in the 30 years since it was written, it’s still remarkable–especially since the thing was written and re-written in an age before word processsors (I once listened to Jerry Pournelle talk about the endless re-writes, especially after Robert Heinlein crituqued a draft)
 
Lion_of_Narnia said:
The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen, 1998 revision

Medieval Sword Fighting by John Clement (re-reading actually)

Chrst the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice (already finished)
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Medieval Sword Fighting?! And I thought I was bad reading Boutell’s Heraldry .

I’m reading a book entitled The Stolen Child which is a new telling of the old changling myth. It was recommended to DW who read it and gave it to me. Good stuff for rather dark fantasy.
 
*Witness to Hope *by George Weigel
*Theology of the Body Explained *by Christopher West
 
brotherhrolf said:
Medieval Sword Fighting?! And I thought I was bad reading Boutell’s Heraldry .

I’m reading a book entitled The Stolen Child which is a new telling of the old changling myth. It was recommended to DW who read it and gave it to me. Good stuff for rather dark fantasy.
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Never one shy with his opinions, John Clement the director of the Association of Renaissance Martial Arts (ARMA at www.thearma.org ) has hleped correct many a myth about European swords and sword styles.

Another book I just finished reading, is Haven’s Carnage and Culture which is a great atidote to Jared Diamond’s (*Guns, Germs, & Steel) *geographical determinism/ anti western racism thesis
 
With God in Russia by, Father Walter J Ciszek, S.J.

Subtitled “My twenty-three years as a priest in Soviet prisons and Siberian labor camps”

This book is really something else. I am about one-third of the way through, and it has already been very inspiring, and very humbling. We are so spoiled! Has anybody else here ever read this book?
 
urban-hermit said:
With God in Russia by, Father Walter J Ciszek, S.J.

Subtitled “My twenty-three years as a priest in Soviet prisons and Siberian labor camps”

This book is really something else. I am about one-third of the way through, and it has already been very inspiring, and very humbling. We are so spoiled! Has anybody else here ever read this book?
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I’ll putting this guy on my to-buy list. I recently read a review of his other book, “He leadeth me” and it sounds great. “Left to Tell” by Immaculée Ilibagiza sounds like another good one too!

God bless,
Noel.
 
Almost finished ‘Imitation of Christ’ - all I can say is wow!

Alternating with ‘The Invisible Man’ (HG Wells) for something a little lighter

Before those was a nice one by St Bernard of Clairvaux - ‘On Loving God’

And next will probably be ‘Confessions’ of St Augustine, which I may again alternate with something a wee tad lighter. Maybe Tom Sawyer or something.

Recently discovered audiobooks, which are good for when the old eyes get tired, enables me to do a lot more ‘reading’ when I’m out and about as well 👍
 
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