What are you currently reading?

[Bonaventure]

Dogma of Hell made me want to go to confession after turning every page.

This is why I don't read it. What was that someone said about how reading certain things being like pouring acid on an open wound?

That's what a trad priest once told me after I told him my scruples went crazy.

It's weird. I have a big mouth but I'm scrupulous.

[tradne4163]

Dogma of Hell made me want to go to confession after turning every page.

This is why I don't read it. What was that someone said about how reading certain things being like pouring acid on an open wound?

That's what a trad priest once told me after I told him my scruples went crazy.

It's weird. I have a big mouth but I'm scrupulous.

I just figured I'd give it a read. It's been gathering dust for quite a while. There are one or two others I was wanting to read soon, but I figured I'd save them for Lent.

[red solo cup]

Queen Isabella by William Walsh.

[zork]

Wheel of Time 1: Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

[Maximilian]

Wheel of Time 1: Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Oh no, there goes the next few months as you try to plow through 10,000 pages of Rand saving the world. lol Among the various LOtR knock-offs, I found these rather entertaining.

[zork]

Wheel of Time 1: Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Oh no, there goes the next few months as you try to plow through 10,000 pages of Rand saving the world. lol Among the various LOtR knock-offs, I found these rather entertaining.

Nah, it will take me years to plow through this series. It took 2 years to get through combined series of The Belgariad and The Mallorean. Plus, I plan to read other books in between WoT, including Brandon Sanderson's works.

[Bernadette]

I'm really enjoying Volume 1 of The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila. Her turns of phrase are really witty.  I find her letters of spiritual direction to be particularly interesting and helpful. She even wrote to men who asked her for advice in prayer and spiritual matters! And I love how convenient the footnotes are, using the Kindle: you can click on the citation and the footnote pops up for you to read, without even leaving your current page! 

[Lynne]

I'm really enjoying Volume 1 of The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila. Her turns of phrase are really witty.  I find her letters of spiritual direction to be particularly interesting and helpful. She even wrote to men who asked her for advice in prayer and spiritual matters! And I love how convenient the footnotes are, using the Kindle: you can click on the citation and the footnote pops up for you to read, without even leaving your current page! 

Link to purchase please?! 

[Bernadette]

I'm really enjoying Volume 1 of The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila. Her turns of phrase are really witty.  I find her letters of spiritual direction to be particularly interesting and helpful. She even wrote to men who asked her for advice in prayer and spiritual matters! And I love how convenient the footnotes are, using the Kindle: you can click on the citation and the footnote pops up for you to read, without even leaving your current page! 

Link to purchase please?! 

Here are both volumes:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=The+collected+letters+of+st.+teresa+of+avila

What a shame that The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux aren't available for Kindle! I'd be willing to buy them again in order to have those gloriously convenient footnotes!

[Lynne]

I'm really enjoying Volume 1 of The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila. Her turns of phrase are really witty.  I find her letters of spiritual direction to be particularly interesting and helpful. She even wrote to men who asked her for advice in prayer and spiritual matters! And I love how convenient the footnotes are, using the Kindle: you can click on the citation and the footnote pops up for you to read, without even leaving your current page! 

Link to purchase please?! 

Here are both volumes:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=The+collected+letters+of+st.+teresa+of+avila

What a shame that The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux aren't available for Kindle! I'd be willing to buy them again in order to have those gloriously convenient footnotes!

Thank you! I got the sample of Volume 1 just to be sure... (Kindle samples are like crack)

[maryslittlegarden]

[Pheo]

Finally reading Brideshead Revisited.  I hope it redeems itself after this drawn out, effete, gossipy soliloquy by Anthony.

[Clare]

Just starting The Pilgrim's Regress by C.S. Lewis.

[Larry]

I've been in the habit of reading books about the Shroud of Turin lately. Right now I'm reading Verdict on the Shroud by Kenneth Stevenson and Gary Habermas, a book I've read several times in the past(but it's been awhile). I also ordered a bunch of Shroud books used from Amazon for like a penny apiece(all I pay is the shipping), including some that attack the Shroud's authenticity. I already know the answers to their arguments(and I had read at least one of them in an earlier edition in the past), but I still want to read them anyway. The Shroud is a subject that has never ceased to fascinate me ever since a nun in the 6th grade showed me a holy card of the Holy Face. To me, there's no question that the Shroud is the real thing.

[Michael Wilson]

I'm not currently reading this book, I read it last year; its very well written and entertaining; the plot line is  realistic and if anyone is looking for an gripping fiction book, they will like this one; here is what amazon has posted on its  site:

One Second After Mass Market Paperback
by William R. Forstchen
http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765356864/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390065640&sr=1-1&keywords=one+second
In a Norman Rockwell town in North Carolina, where residents rarely lock homes, retired army colonel John Matherson teaches college, raises two daughters, and grieves the loss of his wife to cancer. When phones die and cars inexplicably stall, Grandma's pre-computerized Edsel takes readers to a stunning scene on the car-littered interstate, on which 500 stranded strangers, some with guns, awaken John's New Jersey street-smart instincts to get the family home and load the shotgun. Next morning, some townspeople realize that an electromagnetic pulse weapon has destroyed America's power grid, and they proceed to set survival priorities. John's list includes insulin for his type-one diabetic 12-year-old, candy bars, and sacks of ice. Deaths start with heart attacks and eventually escalate alarmingly. Food becomes scarce, and societal breakdown proceeds with inevitable violence; towns burn, and ex-servicemen recall "Korea in '51" as military action by unlikely people becomes the norm in Forstchen's sad, riveting cautionary tale, the premise of which Newt Gingrich's foreword says is completely possible. --Whitney Scott