What are you currently reading?

[Aulef]

Finished 'Introduction the Devout Life' last week.

Restarted 'Treatise on the Love of God'.

Both by Saint Francis de Sales.

[Josephine87]

In This Corner of the World . A manga about a young woman during WWII in Japan.

How did you like this?  Would it be appropriate for a 5th/6th grader?

[Bernadette]

In This Corner of the World . A manga about a young woman during WWII in Japan.

How did you like this?  Would it be appropriate for a 5th/6th grader?

I didn't get very far into this, but I've seen the movie that's based on it. It deals with war and violence, so I'm not sure I'd recommend it to a 5th grader.

[red solo cup]

Blood Sport. The President And His Adversaries by James Stewart. A fairly evenhanded account of Vince Foster and Whitewater.

[clau clau]

Just finished.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Small-Island-Journey-Through/dp/1784161195
-- Bill Bryson

I am not sure I liked the author much *. Some of his observations about Britain's towns
and cities were interesting. He seemed to jump around all over the place though.

Effectively, he visited random places across the 'small island' and criticised most of them
but then concluded that he liked Britain. He seemed to like the posh 'cultured' parts most.
(smells and bells?).

* - He seemed to lose his temper fairly regularly with 'little' people like hotel receptionists
and bus drivers. People like that piss me off.

[red solo cup]

Just finished.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Small-Island-Journey-Through/dp/1784161195
-- Bill Bryson

I am not sure I liked the author much *. Some of his observations about Britain's towns
and cities were interesting. He seemed to jump around all over the place though.

Effectively, he visited random places across the 'small island' and criticised most of them
but then concluded that he liked Britain. He seemed to like the posh 'cultured' parts most.
(smells and bells?).

* - He seemed to lose his temper fairly regularly with 'little' people like hotel receptionists
and bus drivers. People like that piss me off.

Highly recommend his In a Sunburned Country. Hilarious.

[Instaurare omnia]

Just finished.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Small-Island-Journey-Through/dp/1784161195
-- Bill Bryson

I am not sure I liked the author much *. Some of his observations about Britain's towns
and cities were interesting. He seemed to jump around all over the place though.

Effectively, he visited random places across the 'small island' and criticised most of them
but then concluded that he liked Britain. He seemed to like the posh 'cultured' parts most.
(smells and bells?).

* - He seemed to lose his temper fairly regularly with 'little' people like hotel receptionists
and bus drivers. People like that piss me off.

Sounds similar to how he went about The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America. It's very perceptive and evocative and sometimes hilarious, but after a while the condescension gets to be a bit much, and the people he describes sound more like an anthropological vitrine of caricatures.

[Bernadette]

The Count of Monte Cristo, the Robin Buss translation. It's like a completely different book. In a good way.

[Prayerful]

Butler's Lives of Saints is something I try read most days. The Saints selected are interested, a mix of the most notable, but also relatively obscure like SS. Romanus and Lupicinus for today. My great grandfather on my mother's side read it to his children every night.

[Bernadette]

Life of Christ and Biblical Revelations by Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich.

[Bernadette]

The Way of Divine Love. I had to buy this from Kobo since that was the only place I could find it as an ebook. I'm still reading Sr. Josefa's biography.

[red solo cup]

Mussolini's War. Fascist Italy From Triumph To Collapse 1935-1943 by John Gooch

[Bernadette]

Following PRayerful's example, I'm reading Butler's Lives of the Saints. The complete version, all 6,000+ pages of it. 

[maryslittlegarden]

Biography of Michael Collins
https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Collins-Tim-Pat-Coogan/dp/1784753262

[moneil]

"The Breviary Through The Centuries" by Dom Pierre Salmon