What are you currently reading?

[red solo cup]

Just finished From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple. The author retraces the footsteps of John Moschos a Byzantine monk who in 587 AD visited
various holy site and monasteries of Eastern Christendom. Moschos wrote a book about his experiences called The Spiritual Meadow. Among the places
visited by Dalrymple were the Fishponds of Abraham in Edessa Turkey. These are ancient and were considered sacred first by pagans then Jews. Then Christians and finally Moslems. The lore of these ponds says that when Abraham smashed the idols, King Nemrut (Nimrod) had a large bonfire kindled and
had Abraham tossed in. But God took pity and turned the fire into water and the wood into fish.
Another spot was the Convent of Seidnay , north of Damascus. Here the Syrian Church has an icon of Notre Dame that muslims believe can cure childlessness. Women who want children sleep on the floor in front of the icon and even eat the burnt wicks of the candles lit there. Who would have thought.
Another place was the Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Saba north of the Dead Sea. Here, with the exception of two weeks in 614 AD when all but a few of
the monks were slaughtered by Persian raiders, Divine Office has been sung every morning for 1,380 years.
All in all this was an excellent read

[Jacob]

Previously I got through The Yellow Admiral and now I'm working through The Hundred Days.  Then just two more and I'm done with Jack and Stephen!  It will be a sad day when i finish 21 though.

[LausTibiChriste]

More Catholic Than the Pope: A Critique of Extreme Traditionalism by Patrick Madrid...because, yenno, I felt I needed more mortification in me life (it's the shittiest critique ever...but that's not too hard to imagine when you're trying to critique Catholicism)

and


The $100 Startup...because to hell to working for The Man.

[Lynne]

More Catholic Than the Pope: A Critique of Extreme Traditionalism by Patrick Madrid...because, yenno, I felt I needed more mortification in me life (it's the shittiest critique ever...but that's not too hard to imagine when you're trying to critique Catholicism)

and


The $100 Startup...because to hell to working for The Man.

"Extreme Traditionalism" - attending the TLM? 

[Jacob]

All the President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein.  I really got sucked in last night and stayed up until after 1am.

[LausTibiChriste]

More Catholic Than the Pope: A Critique of Extreme Traditionalism by Patrick Madrid...because, yenno, I felt I needed more mortification in me life (it's the shittiest critique ever...but that's not too hard to imagine when you're trying to critique Catholicism)

and


The $100 Startup...because to hell to working for The Man.

"Extreme Traditionalism" - attending the TLM? 

Tell me about it. The book is childish, illogical and as unacademic as they come. If they're right than being a Catholic pre 1960 is extremism

[Kaesekopf]

More Catholic Than the Pope: A Critique of Extreme Traditionalism by Patrick Madrid...because, yenno, I felt I needed more mortification in me life (it's the shittiest critique ever...but that's not too hard to imagine when you're trying to critique Catholicism)

and


The $100 Startup...because to hell to working for The Man.

"Extreme Traditionalism" - attending the TLM? 

Tell me about it. The book is childish, illogical and as unacademic as they come. If they're right than being a Catholic pre 1960 is extremism

I paged through it at a store in my FSSP days...

Even then it seemed silly! 

[maryslittlegarden]

I read it a few years ago.... meh. 

[AngloFalcon]

The Scorch Trials (sequel to the Maze Runner). It's relatively entertaining but probably not especially well written. Easy read.

[Jacob]

Before Christmas, my library book was All the President's Men.  Still got that on the table.

At Christmas, I got two Calvin and Hobbes books and another book about a reporter looking for a lost expedition into the Amazon.  I read one of the C&H books.  Very interesting how Watterson talks about his work and why he wouldn't compromise on licensing.

[red solo cup]

The book about the lost expedition. Was that the Lost City of Z?

[Bernadette]

I just finished The Help, by Katherine Stockett (again).

[Chestertonian]

Before Christmas, my library book was All the President's Men.  Still got that on the table.

At Christmas, I got two Calvin and Hobbes books and another book about a reporter looking for a lost expedition into the Amazon.  I read one of the C&H books.  Very interesting how Watterson talks about his work and why he wouldn't compromise on licensing.

i love calvin and hobbes my son has a stuffed hobbes we got him when he q was a baby

[Chestertonian]

More Catholic Than the Pope: A Critique of Extreme Traditionalism by Patrick Madrid...because, yenno, I felt I needed more mortification in me life (it's the shittiest critique ever...but that's not too hard to imagine when you're trying to critique Catholicism)

and


The $100 Startup...because to hell to working for The Man.

"Extreme Traditionalism" - attending the TLM? 

Tell me about it. The book is childish, illogical and as unacademic as they come. If they're right than being a Catholic pre 1960 is extremism

I paged through it at a store in my FSSP days...

Even then it seemed silly! 

you were a seminarian?

[Kaesekopf]

Lol no, just when I attended only FSSP masses.

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