What I'm reading now; what are YOU reading now?

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JoyToTheWhirled said:
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JoyToTheWhirled:
A book by Mother Angelica on suffering and burnout.
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It’s very easy to read, and I have been blessed by it.
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Thank you for the recommendation JoyToTheWhirled! I bought Mother Angelica’s book today and am looking forward to reading it.
 
I’m reading the Catholic Answers Forums 🤔
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Tonight I’ll be reading St. John Chrystostom’s Eulogy on St. Ignatius.

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Now I’m reading “The Once and Future King” by TH White. A modern retelling of the King Arthur legend.

I wasn’t expecting it to be so funny.
 
That dervish video reminds me of a very sweet story I read as a child in an old book of Arabian fairy tales. It was about a dervish who fell ill and was saved and nursed back to health by a monastern of Catholic monks devoted to Our Lady, so when the dervish recovered he would go and spin in front of her icon every day in thanks to her for his recovery.
 
I loved “In This House of Brede”. It would have made a great miniseries.

As for what I’m reading, I was forced to read some books the last couple weeks because my personal laptop broke and I was stuck on some planes with horrible in-flight entertainment options, so I am about 3/4 through volume 1 of Sister Lucia’s Faria memoir, which is fascinating and I plan to read Vol. 2, and halfway through Joanne Mosley’s book on Edith Stein, which is okay but a bit lacking in detail about Edith and her life. I don’t relate all that well to Edith’s love for philosophy or some of her views on women, but she is a fascinating and admirable person just the same.
 
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I have this thing for reading picking up one book, putting it down, and then picking up another one. Rinse and Repeat. Right now I am reading both Mother Teresa’s Come Be My Light and also The Life of Saint Joseph, As manifested by Our Lord, Jesus Christ to maria Cecilia Baij. O.S.B. I literally began both of them this morning, reading the introductions. I am anticipating that they will both have a profound effect on me 🙂
 
I’m reading ‘American Conspiracies’ by Jesse Ventura and Dick Russell.
 
In addition to Mother Angelica’s book on suffering & burnout, I’m reading
Prayer by Pope Benedict XVI. Also going to re-read Jesus of Nazareth.

On order (from Ignatius Press):

The Light Shines on in the Darkness by Fr. Robert Spitzer
Prayer for Beginners by Peter Kreeft
 
If you liked Robert Jordan and Larry Niven, try Sara King. She is an indie author and has some incredible series, some are space (Legend of Zero) and some fantasy like wheel of time style stuff. It’s not always G rated but easy to skip over questionable parts. Also, try Branden Sanderson too. He is very much like Robert Jordan.

At the moment I’m reread I wheel of time and also Uniformit With Gods Will which is great.
 
TigerLily-1 said:
Are St. John Chrystostom’s and other Church Fathers’ and Saints’ writings published online?
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Yes, link below. I’m in Volume 9 of the Nicene Fathers, but I’m reading it on my Kindle, not on the computer.

www.biblestudytools.com

Writings of the Early Church Fathers

The Early Church Fathers is a 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church. This collection is divided into three series, Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Series I, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Series II....
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What a goldmine of writings! You must be doing a lot of reading if you’re on Vol. 9. 😀 📚

It was easy to find St. Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, which I want to read first.

I don’t have a kindle or any device and will have to make do with the computer. It’s really not that much of problem because my old eyes can read things better on the computer.

Thank you!
 
You’re welcome; I’m glad that works for you.

Prior to the Nicene Fathers, there were also the nine volumes of the Ante-Nicene Fathers 😃 The Fathers are my bedtime reading, 20-30 minutes before I turn the light out. I take about three months to get thru a volume, altho the one I’m on now is somewhat slimmer that most; I might be done with it in two months.

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I just ordered To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in the Secular Age, by Bishop Robert Barron, with John Allen. It’s supposed to come first week in November. I enjoyed Bishop (then Father) Barron’s earlier work, Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of Faith, which I read in 2011, and I’m looking forward to his latest book.
 
Hilaire Belloc’s The Road to Rome. I’ve been meaning to read it for years, and I’m finally getting around to it.
 
Would you recommend the wheel of time? I have the first one but have not started yet.

Seeing as you are into those kind if books, maybe the Malazan book of the fallen? Currently I am reading The City by Stella Gemmell. It is okay.

Also the Witcher series is quite cool.
 
MichaelP3 said:
Would you recommend the wheel of time?
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Of the three modern fantasy series with which I a familiar (WoT, Game of Thrones, and Sword of Truth), WoT is by far the least offensive, when viewed thru the lens of Catholic morality. There are some sexual situations, but they are relatively rare and not described in clinical detail. There is no profanity as we know it; that culture has its own curse-words, most having to do with blood, burning and ashes.

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I am reading Killing England by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Duggard.
 
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