What are you currently reading?

Bernadette · March 14, 2024, 09:48:14 AM

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.

drummerboy · March 22, 2024, 10:23:13 PM

To Love Fasting by Adalbert de Vogüe

clau clau · March 23, 2024, 02:50:27 AM

Till we have faces - C.S. Lewis

In Plain Sight (The life and lies of Jimmy Savile) - Dan Davies

Bernadette · March 25, 2024, 05:11:36 AM

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.

Bernadette · April 27, 2024, 06:09:37 PM

The Hound of the Baskervilles, my favorite Sherlock Holmes story.

Bernadette · May 05, 2024, 04:29:03 PM

1Q84, by Haruki Murakami. Hoping to get through it this time.

Bernadette · May 11, 2024, 08:11:39 AM

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

KreKre · Reply #2752 - Re: What are you currently reading?

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.