What are you currently reading?

[red solo cup]

Step 2: Keep nose in air.

[Prayerful]

The Ottoman Endgame, Sean McMeekin. It's the Ottoman Empire and the Great War.

[LausTibiChriste]

The Ottoman Endgame, Sean McMeekin. It's the Ottoman Empire and the Great War.

Sounds interesting. How is it?

[Christina_S]

Just a few chapters left in The Almost Nearly Perfect People.

[Prayerful]

The Ottoman Endgame, Sean McMeekin. It's the Ottoman Empire and the Great War.

Sounds interesting. How is it?

Very interesting. It shows how the Ottomans and then Turks seemed through luck or the unscrupulous skill of certain leaders, and the stupidity of opponents to come back from the dead again and again. Yet Enver Pasha's lunacy of trying to conquer Turkic central Asia (taking advantage of the fall of the Russian Empire which seemed close to defeating the Ottomans) while there were barely the troops to defend Syria or even Rumelia and Istanbul, finished the Empire. It also covers the Armenian Genocide well. There were Armenians rebelling in collusion with Russia, but initial prudential deportations escalated wildly into something murderous. I'm now into the chapters on how Mustapha Kemal, the Ataturk gave the Turks a measure of dignity (at a well known cost though).

[misericonfit]

Self-explanatory.  I'm actually surprised we don't have this thread yet. 

I'm currently reading...

The Cure D'Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney, by Abbe Francois Trochu

Lord of Chaos: Book 6 of the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan.

Wheel of Time vol. 1 - The Eye of the World, same author. Trochu's Life of St John Vianney is a good example of a thoroughly fascinating 600-page biography.

There are a good few books I would love to read, that may, perhaps, not yet exist - at least not in English: such as a detailed study of the Vulgate and its strengths and weaknesses.

[red solo cup]

Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene. Not what I expected. Still a good read though.

[red solo cup]

The Guillotine and the Cross by William Carroll.

[alicewyf]

2/3 of the way through God Or Nothing by Cardinal Sarah. Lots to chew on so I'm going slow. Same with Elisabeth Leseur's diary. My husband and I are taking turns reading aloud to the kids from an anthology of short stories entitled Easter Stories at night. I think that's it for now. I have a stack about a foot high on my bedside table but those are the only ones that have been cracked as of yet.

[zork]

Lenten reading: The Spiritual Combat by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli (1990, TAN)

[Prayerful]

2/3 of the way through God Or Nothing by Cardinal Sarah. Lots to chew on so I'm going slow. Same with Elisabeth Leseur's diary. My husband and I are taking turns reading aloud to the kids from an anthology of short stories entitled Easter Stories at night. I think that's it for now. I have a stack about a foot high on my bedside table but those are the only ones that have been cracked as of yet.

The Indult Parish (usually I hear Mass there) book stall has ordered more copies of Cardinal Sarah's book. I hope a Kindle sample is about.

I'm reading now The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History Peter H Wilson. He parses it thematically, from Reichstag, Electors, Chancellery, Religious Policy and so on.

[Kaesekopf]

Just finished "island of the world".

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[Bernadette]

Finished The Collected Letters of Saint Teresa of Avila, and finished linking the footnotes in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila (someone scanned their copies and uploaded them to Archive.org  ) to make them more kindle-friendly, so I guess that counts as reading. Still haven't found the story of the partridges (which I think is bunk, since St. Teresa specifically restricted the eating of meat in all of her foundations to medical necessity, so there's no way the whole community would have been feasting on them).

[piabee]

A Tale of Two Cities.

[Spooky]

I just re-discovered Agatha Christie, so I'm on a AG binge. Currently on "Ordeal by Innocence"