What are you currently reading?

Started by Francisco Suárez, December 26, 2012, 09:48:56 PM

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Deirdre

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Quote from: Bernadette on February 29, 2024, 07:39:25 PMGetting ready to start Martin Chuzzlewit. I always skip the American chapters.
This is really excellent. I'm listening to the Derek Jacobi version.
My Lord and my God.

drummerboy

To Love Fasting by Adalbert de Vogüe
- I'll get with the times when the times are worth getting with

"I like grumpy old cusses.  Hope to live long enough to be one" - John Wayne

clau clau

Till we have faces - C.S. Lewis

In Plain Sight (The life and lies of Jimmy Savile) - Dan Davies
Father time has an undefeated record.

But when he's dumb and no more here,
Nineteen hundred years or near,
Clau-Clau-Claudius shall speak clear.
(https://completeandunabridged.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-claudius.html)

Deirdre

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Quote from: clau clau on March 23, 2024, 02:50:27 AMTill we have faces - C.S. Lewis

In Plain Sight (The life and lies of Jimmy Savile) - Dan Davies
I've always meant to read more C.S. Lewis. I've only read the Narnia books, Surprised by Joy, A Grief Observed, and The Screwtape Letters.
My Lord and my God.

Deirdre

The Hound of the Baskervilles, my favorite Sherlock Holmes story.
My Lord and my God.

Deirdre

1Q84, by Haruki Murakami. Hoping to get through it this time.
My Lord and my God.

Deirdre

Laddie, by Gene stratton porter. One of my favorites. I have it on kindle and in hardcover.
My Lord and my God.

KreKre

I just obtained an ebook version of "An Easy Way to become a Saint" by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, on recommendation in another thread by Michael Wilson. So far, I'm some 30 pages in.. It's a very simple book, it takes almost no effort and just a couple of hours, but its simplicity should not mislead you: it contains some profound truths.

I got sold on it completely even in the Foreword, when I read:
QuoteThe treasures of joy and consolation which our Religion offers, the helps and strength it gives are little known. Prayer, instead of being a pleasure, is looked upon as a penance.
I couldn't agree more.
Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!

Deirdre

David Copperfield, read by one of my favorite narrators, Tadhg Hynes. I have nearly all of his solo works from audible.
My Lord and my God.

Lynne

Quote from: KreKre on May 12, 2024, 11:22:44 AMI just obtained an ebook version of "An Easy Way to become a Saint" by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, on recommendation in another thread by Michael Wilson. So far, I'm some 30 pages in.. It's a very simple book, it takes almost no effort and just a couple of hours, but its simplicity should not mislead you: it contains some profound truths.

I got sold on it completely even in the Foreword, when I read:
QuoteThe treasures of joy and consolation which our Religion offers, the helps and strength it gives are little known. Prayer, instead of being a pleasure, is looked upon as a penance.
I couldn't agree more.

I love his little books.
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"