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Bonaventure

#300
April 01, 2014, 08:19:04 PM
The man who saw through Heaven, Wilbur Daniel Steele.
"If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."

zork

#301
April 01, 2014, 10:46:10 PM
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.

red solo cup

#302
April 02, 2014, 05:37:07 AM
The Pope and Mussolini by David Kertzer
non impediti ratione cogitationis

Francisco Suárez

#303
April 06, 2014, 10:11:27 AM
Right and Reason by Fr. Austin Fagothey S.J.

Bernadette

#304
April 06, 2014, 10:35:52 AM Last Edit: April 07, 2014, 09:42:56 AM by Bernadette
I've just finished My Prison Life by Jabez Spencer Balfour, about his time in prison from 1896-1906 for some kind of investment fraud. I find Victorian/Edwardian social hostory fascinating. 

Oh, and The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley. Never read it before.
My Lord and my God.

Kaesekopf

#305
April 09, 2014, 03:22:03 PM
I am slowly working on two books, Getting Things Done by David Allen and The Three Greatest Prayers, a summary of sorts of Aquinas's sermons of the Apostle's Creed, Our Father, and Hail Mary (as the Ave existed back then).
Wie dein Sonntag, so dein Sterbetag.

I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side.  ~Treebeard, LOTR

Jesus son of David, have mercy on me.

Lynne

#306
April 09, 2014, 05:07:10 PM
I just finished "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by G.C. Chesterton (on Librivox).

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In conclusion, I can leave you with no better advice than that given after every sermon by Msgr Vincent Giammarino, who was pastor of St Michael's Church in Atlantic City in the 1950s:

    "My dear good people: Do what you have to do, When you're supposed to do it, The best way you can do it,   For the Love of God. Amen"

red solo cup

#307
April 24, 2014, 09:04:40 AM
Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
non impediti ratione cogitationis

Clare

#308
April 27, 2014, 01:21:53 PM
The Great Divorce, CS Lewis.
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zork

#309
April 27, 2014, 01:25:18 PM
Just finished Dr. Sleep by Stephen King. Now reading The Wheel of Time book 2: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.

Pheo

#310
April 27, 2014, 06:09:10 PM
Quote from: vakarian on April 27, 2014, 01:25:18 PMNow reading The Wheel of Time book 2: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

Think this series is worth reading?  It's quite the time investment...but it sounds interesting.

I'm just starting The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson so long books don't put me off at all.
Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.

verenaerin

#311
April 27, 2014, 06:15:57 PM Last Edit: April 27, 2014, 07:11:11 PM by verenaerin
A biography on St. Lydwine. Great book, as soon as I am finished I will post a short write up on it.

zork

#312
April 27, 2014, 06:57:53 PM
Quote from: Pheo on April 27, 2014, 06:09:10 PM
Quote from: vakarian on April 27, 2014, 01:25:18 PMNow reading The Wheel of Time book 2: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

Think this series is worth reading?  It's quite the time investment...but it sounds interesting.

I'm just starting The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson so long books don't put me off at all.

Well, I had read that books 1-5 were great, 6-8 not so much, 9-11 were ok, and the last 3 (by Sanderson) were great. Book 1 was a page-turner, so I read it quickly in spite of being a slow reader.

So, I'd say yes, it's worth reading.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.

Michael Wilson

#313
April 27, 2014, 09:12:36 PM
Quote from: vakarian on April 27, 2014, 06:57:53 PM
Quote from: Pheo on April 27, 2014, 06:09:10 PM
Quote from: vakarian on April 27, 2014, 01:25:18 PMNow reading The Wheel of Time book 2: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

Think this series is worth reading?  It's quite the time investment...but it sounds interesting.

I'm just starting The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson so long books don't put me off at all.

Well, I had read that books 1-5 were great, 6-8 not so much, 9-11 were ok, and the last 3 (by Sanderson) were great. Book 1 was a page-turner, so I read it quickly in spite of being a slow reader.

So, I'd say yes, it's worth reading.
I agree with your assesment. I liked the series, there is a lot of character development and a multitude of characters and plot lines (I kept a page marker with the names of the people and notes of who they were, as I would lose track and many of the names sounded alike). I hated the ending.
"The World Must Conform to Our Lord and not He to it." Rev. Dennis Fahey CSSP

"My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progess; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: But he who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit." Cardinal Pie of Potiers

maryslittlegarden

#314
April 28, 2014, 06:01:11 AM
Lord of the World
For a Child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace
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