What are you currently reading?

[Prayerful]

Charles D Stanton, Medieval Maritime Warfare.

[red solo cup]

The Mosque of Notre Dame by Elena Chudinova. This is the book that has been advertised on The Remnant. I was disappointed. It was choppy and uneven. How much was due to it's being translated, I don't know, but it made it hard to read. The idea of French Catholics rebelling against their muslim overlords was intriguing but I disagreed with their solution.

[Prayerful]

The Mosque of Notre Dame by Elena Chudinova. This is the book that has been advertised on The Remnant. I was disappointed. It was choppy and uneven. How much was due to it's being translated, I don't know, but it made it hard to read. The idea of French Catholics rebelling against their muslim overlords was intriguing but I disagreed with their solution.

That's a disappointment. I might check reviews. It sounds like something which will get reviews based on whether the reviewers agree with the author, rather than agreeing whether it is good or bad art. Bad translation ruins something, and bad translation can be very formally correct, but it reads badly. Every other Italian written or translated book in English might be perfectly grammatical, but the idiom is wrong. Would it be a spoiler to ask the solution?

[red solo cup]

I think it would. PM on the way.

[Karasu]

Introduction to the Devout Life. Hopefully it will easy my conscience, than I'll stop being a nuisance here.

[Prayerful]

Introduction to the Devout Life. Hopefully it will easy my conscience, than I'll stop being a nuisance here.

I find the stuff interesting. It's an insight into the thought process of a convert. That book is very cheap on the Kindle too.

[maryslittlegarden]

Introduction to the Devout Life. Hopefully it will easy my conscience, than I'll stop being a nuisance here.

It's a really good book.

[Christina_S]

Introduction to the Devout Life. Hopefully it will easy my conscience, than I'll stop being a nuisance here.

What a coincidence! I'm just starting on that one myself.

[Bernadette]

Introduction to the Devout Life. Hopefully it will easy my conscience, than I'll stop being a nuisance here.

I find the stuff interesting. It's an insight into the thought process of a convert. That book is very cheap on the Kindle too.

Also free here: https://archive.org/details/anintroductiont00salegoog

[Bonaventure]

War is a Racket, General Smedley Butler.

[ABlaine]

Still working through War and Peace, in between 'books' of War and Peace I read Stevenson's The New Arabian Nights as well as The Imitation of Christ (no other book makes me realize what an awful Catholic I am like this book, kind of depressing).

I'm VERY slowly working through Ovid's Ars Amatoria and I just ordered Lucian's The Ass with a running commentary.

Lastly, I am getting close to finishing Marvaux's Le Peitit Maître Corrigé (going to see it next friday) and still working on Maupassant's Bel-Ami

I miss college, studying a job was much more fun than working.

[Lynne]

I miss college, studying a job was much more fun than working.

lol Depends on the job. First few years out of college, one is learning the ropes. You'll have fun someday. What field are you in?

[ResRev]

Introduction to the Devout Life. Hopefully it will easy my conscience, than I'll stop being a nuisance here.

What a coincidence! I'm just starting on that one myself.

Reading it right now, too.

[red solo cup]

The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton. I read this about 15-20 years ago before I became Catholic. Thought I would reread it with fresh eyes.
It was like reading a completely different book.

[Habitual_Ritual]

Roger Scruton - Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left. A must read for those that want to understand the motives of progressives in media, culture and academia