What are you currently reading?

[Carleendiane]

Not currently, so maybe this doesn't count. But Fr. Hardon had 1 fiction book on his lifetime reading list. It was The Betrothed, but I can't remember the author. Alessandro somebody. I also love the Count of Monte Cristo. Another favorite book was Jeremiah Dentons, When He'll was in Session. Denton is a Catholic who was held in a Vietnam prison camp, the Hanoi Hilton. He served as a U S senator. The book Endurance, another favorite. It was a story of survival in the North Pole in the early 19 hundreds, with photographs. Makes the guy who cut his arm off  when caught between two boulders, seem like a baby. Though surely he wasnt.

[Bernadette]

Alessandro Manzoni?

https://www.amazon.com/Betrothed-I-Promessi-Sposi-ebook/dp/B0030F2T5G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1472258162&sr=1-1&keywords=I+Promessi+Sposi

[Carleendiane]

Alessandro Manzoni?

https://www.amazon.com/Betrothed-I-Promessi-Sposi-ebook/dp/B0030F2T5G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1472258162&sr=1-1&keywords=I+Promessi+Sposi

I believe you are right, my dear little librarian.

[Bernadette]

You might enjoy Fr. Hugh Thwaites' "War Memoirs of an Amateur", available as audio from Proecclesia.com.

Part 1: http://www.proecclesia.com/talk_HTWarMem1.mp3

Part 2: http://www.proecclesia.com/talk_HTWarMem2.mp3

It details his time in a Japanese POW camp during the war. I especially liked the part about the priest who used to come and visit the camp to bring the Sacraments to the prisoners.

[Spera In Deo]

The Human Body in Health and Disease.

ONe of the last 2 classes I need for Nursing Pre-requisites.  Clinicals, here I come!

[Chestertonian]

The Human Body in Health and Disease.

ONe of the last 2 classes I need for Nursing Pre-requisites.  Clinicals, here I come!

do we need an "is nursing worth it" thread to celebrate

[Kaesekopf]

The Human Body in Health and Disease.

ONe of the last 2 classes I need for Nursing Pre-requisites.  Clinicals, here I come!

do we need an "is nursing worth it" thread to celebrate

"They're gonna die anyways, so forget 'em!"



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[Spera In Deo]

The Human Body in Health and Disease.

ONe of the last 2 classes I need for Nursing Pre-requisites.  Clinicals, here I come!

do we need an "is nursing worth it" thread to celebrate

  No.  I have worked in a nursing home for the last 2 & 1/2 years.  I know what I am getting into, the hours, the stress, about what it pays.

Ask any nurse.  They don't do it for the money.  They do it to care for others.  I miss my peeps from my other job.  I love my residents and any nurse worth her salt does too.

They don't last long with all the stresses of the profession if they don't.  I might & oughta shoot some of these kids that go straight from high school to nursing school without ever having worked or volunteered in a clinical setting because nursing is a stable profession with decent money.  Most of those don't make it through, but some do and they make crummy nurses.  You shouldn't be allowed in nursing school without a year as a CNA or hospital or nursing home volunteer.

[LausTibiChriste]

Attempt #28,384 at The Brothers Karamazov. Here's hoping I actually finish it.
Also reading The Spirituality of the Christian East by Tomas Cardinal Spidlik
Also, also reading A Manual of Practical Devotion to St Joseph
And for proper spiritual reading I'm reading Humility of Heart by Bergamo (as recommended by Fr Ripperger)

[red solo cup]

Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life by Eve MacDonald.

[Carleendiane]

Attempt #28,384 at The Brothers Karamazov. Here's hoping I actually finish it.
Also reading The Spirituality of the Christian East by Tomas Cardinal Spidlik
Also, also reading A Manual of Practical Devotion to St Joseph
And for proper spiritual reading I'm reading Humility of Heart by Bergamo (as recommended by Fr Ripperger)

I thought Humility of Heart was by Fr. Catejan.

[Bernadette]

Attempt #28,384 at The Brothers Karamazov. Here's hoping I actually finish it.

I'm telling you right now: spare yourself. I can't remember any other book (among the classics) that made me more disgusted with the baseness of human nature.

[zork]

Attempt #28,384 at The Brothers Karamazov. Here's hoping I actually finish it.

I have owned Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov for years, but haven't yet cracked into them, so props to you, man.

[Bernadette]

Attempt #28,384 at The Brothers Karamazov. Here's hoping I actually finish it.

I have owned Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov for years, but haven't yet cracked into them, so props to you, man.

I have yet to make it through either the Audible or the Kindle edition of War and Peace. The really sad part is, I find myself giving up earlier and earlier each time! 

[Kaesekopf]

Attempt #28,384 at The Brothers Karamazov. Here's hoping I actually finish it.
Also reading The Spirituality of the Christian East by Tomas Cardinal Spidlik
Also, also reading A Manual of Practical Devotion to St Joseph
And for proper spiritual reading I'm reading Humility of Heart by Bergamo (as recommended by Fr Ripperger)

I thought Humility of Heart was by Fr. Catejan.

It is! 

Humility of Heart by Rev. Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo