What are you currently reading?

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

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red solo cup

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves. This is the English writers account of four years in the trenches during WW I. How he started out believing in King, country and class and became embittered and disillusioned when he realized that his statesmen lied and his generals were incompetent. He became a self described Socialist, admiring Bolsheviks and communism.
non impediti ratione cogitationis

piabee

Meet Mr. Hyphen (And Put Him in His Place)

MilesChristi

Story of a Soul by the Little Flower.

First time, and it is amazing.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

maryslittlegarden

Quote from: MilesChristi on April 28, 2015, 11:50:29 AM
Story of a Soul by the Little Flower.

First time, and it is amazing.

Looooove that book
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

Chestertonian

"I am not much of a Crusader, that is for sure, but at least I am not a Mohamedist!"

LausTibiChriste

Quote from: MilesChristi on April 28, 2015, 11:50:29 AM
Story of a Soul by the Little Flower.

First time, and it is amazing.


St Therese is amazing
Lord Jesus Christ, Son Of God, Have Mercy On Me A Sinner

"Nobody is under any moral obligation of duty or loyalty to a state run by sexual perverts who are trying to destroy public morals."
- MaximGun

"Not trusting your government doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist, it means you're a history buff"

Communism is as American as Apple Pie

Pheo

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

I'm not really messy as it is, but I'm kind of interested in paring down what I have.  So far it's more annoying than anything.  Martha Stewart (or what I imagine her books would be like) meets Eastern "energy" theory.  That's what I get for picking a NYT bestseller.
Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.

Daniel

I'm reading Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence.  That book will change your life.

MundaCorMeum

Quote from: Daniel on April 28, 2015, 06:56:53 PM
I'm reading Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence.  That book will change your life.

Who is the author?

Pheo, sounds like you need to step up your game  ;)

Daniel

Quote from: MundaCorMeum on April 28, 2015, 07:34:34 PM
Quote from: Daniel on April 28, 2015, 06:56:53 PM
I'm reading Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence.  That book will change your life.

Who is the author?

Pheo, sounds like you need to step up your game  ;)
The first part is written by Fr. Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure, S.J. and the second part is written by St. Claude de la Colombière, S.J.  It's published by TAN Books.

I have only read the first few chapters so far, but it really has given me an entirely new perspective on the "problem of evil" and on the divine providence in general.

piabee

Quote from: Pheo on April 28, 2015, 06:19:15 PM
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

So far it's more annoying than anything.

My friend gave me this but I couldn't get through it. The translated voice was so patronizing. Or maybe that's just the Japanese style.

The idea of items "sparking joy" is so materialistic, even as she's trying to detach you from things. Personally, I find joy in options. If I have a dress that fits and is appropriate for work I'm going to wear it, even if I don't love it. I'm probably a borderline hoarder, though.

maryslittlegarden

Quote from: piabee on April 29, 2015, 10:32:15 AM
I'm probably a borderline hoarder, though.

My kind of person.

Although I am trying to get rid of my stash of junk er priceless memorabilia. 
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

piabee


Pheo

Quote from: piabee on April 29, 2015, 10:32:15 AMThe idea of items "sparking joy" is so materialistic, even as she's trying to detach you from things.

That's what bothered me the most too.  Plus I don't "feel" anything when I hold my kettle or a flashlight...or >99% of what I own.  In her system, it would all have to go.

In happier news, it turns out you can return kindle books.  This one is probably going back.  How's that for tidying up?
Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.

red solo cup

Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway.
non impediti ratione cogitationis