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maryslittlegarden

#15
May 08, 2017, 01:20:08 PM
Count of Monte Cristo
Lord of the Rings
The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Timeline by Michael Crichton

Really could do about a ten page list here.
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

Bernadette

#16
May 08, 2017, 04:40:39 PM
Quote from: Lynne on May 07, 2017, 12:38:30 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on May 07, 2017, 05:39:23 AM
Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter is definitely on the list. I just love that book. So home-y. :) And A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, for the same reason. I love the sort of slice-of-life books, that give you all the details about how the characters live.

You might like Shadows on the Rock then too by Willa Cather. It follows the residents of Quebec City, particularly a twelve-year old girl name Cecile in the late 1600's.
I've been reading this today, after getting it from the library. It's good! :) I'd only read Cather's Pioneer books, before now, and had no idea that she wrote anything so Catholic.
My Lord and my God.

Lynne

#17
May 08, 2017, 05:51:10 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on May 08, 2017, 04:40:39 PM
Quote from: Lynne on May 07, 2017, 12:38:30 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on May 07, 2017, 05:39:23 AM
Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter is definitely on the list. I just love that book. So home-y. :) And A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, for the same reason. I love the sort of slice-of-life books, that give you all the details about how the characters live.

You might like Shadows on the Rock then too by Willa Cather. It follows the residents of Quebec City, particularly a twelve-year old girl name Cecile in the late 1600's.
I've been reading this today, after getting it from the library. It's good! :) I'd only read Cather's Pioneer books, before now, and had no idea that she wrote anything so Catholic.

I'm glad you're enjoying it.  :D I got the Audible version and they did a great job. I'm of French Canadian descent so I found it interesting. I visited Quebec City many(!) years ago...
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"

Jacafamala

#18
May 08, 2017, 06:31:13 PM
Quote from: Lynne on May 08, 2017, 11:59:35 AM
Quote from: Jacafamala on May 08, 2017, 11:44:06 AM
1. My Missal
2. Dantes Infernal
3. Milton's Paradise Lost
Okay, bonus one here why not: Baltimore Catechism

Did you mean Dante's Divine Comedy? The book is so much more than just The Inferno.  :)
Right. Inferno's pretty cool, though.
"I shall die with weapons in my hands."
-St Therese of Lisieux

dymphna17

#19
May 09, 2017, 05:40:11 AM
My list is:

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr, I Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Anything written by Taylor Caldwell - The Listener, Grandmother and the Priests, Captain and the Kings, etc
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I adore Thee O Christ, and I bless Thee, because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph save souls!

Of course I wear jeans, "The tornadoes can make dresses immodest." RSC

"Don't waste time in your life trying to get even with your enemies. The grave is a tremendous equalizer. Six weeks after you all are dead, you'll look pretty much the same. Let the Lord take care of those whom you think have harmed you. All you have to do is love and forgive. Try to forget and leave all else to the Master."– Mother Angelica

Gardener

#20
May 09, 2017, 06:15:32 AM
Quote from: dymphna17 on May 09, 2017, 05:40:11 AM
My list is:

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr, I Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Anything written by Taylor Caldwell - The Listener, Grandmother and the Priests, Captain and the Kings, etc

Solzhenitsyn is the only Russian I can read without hoping for the quick death of a Stalinist firing squad. When I read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, I wasn't sure if I started to enjoy it by page 500 something or simply went nuts.
"If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother." - St. Maximilian Kolbe

dymphna17

#21
May 09, 2017, 06:36:53 AM
Quote from: Gardener on May 09, 2017, 06:15:32 AM
Quote from: dymphna17 on May 09, 2017, 05:40:11 AM
My list is:

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr, I Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Anything written by Taylor Caldwell - The Listener, Grandmother and the Priests, Captain and the Kings, etc

Solzhenitsyn is the only Russian I can read without hoping for the quick death of a Stalinist firing squad. When I read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, I wasn't sure if I started to enjoy it by page 500 something or simply went nuts.

I can definitely agree with you there.  The only thing I've ever liked, other than Solzhenitsyn was a children's book of short stories by Tolstoy I came across in the library.  Haven't been able to find it since.  However, inspired by that children's book, I tried some of his other works and like you thought I went nuts and almost quit reading books because of it.  There is a book of Dostoevsky's short stories that isn't bad, but other than that I've stayed out of Russia for reading.  One of the joys of getting out of school was that I could decide to quit reading nonsense.   :lol:
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I adore Thee O Christ, and I bless Thee, because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph save souls!

Of course I wear jeans, "The tornadoes can make dresses immodest." RSC

"Don't waste time in your life trying to get even with your enemies. The grave is a tremendous equalizer. Six weeks after you all are dead, you'll look pretty much the same. Let the Lord take care of those whom you think have harmed you. All you have to do is love and forgive. Try to forget and leave all else to the Master."– Mother Angelica

Graham

#22
May 09, 2017, 07:08:36 AM
Something by Dostoevsky would be in my top 10. They call it "literary realism" but there's this constant, convoluted impingement of the absurd, the tragic, the unbelievable and the supernatural. I suppose it's the Russian mind. I like it though.

clau clau

#23
May 22, 2017, 08:09:05 AM
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Gap in the Curtain - John Buchan
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
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)

Michael Wilson

#24
May 22, 2017, 08:16:34 AM
Quote from: dymphna17 on May 09, 2017, 05:40:11 AM
My list is:

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr, I Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Anything written by Taylor Caldwell - The Listener, Grandmother and the Priests, Captain and the Kings, etc
I went through my "Taylor Caldwell period" after watching "The Captain and the Kings" miniseries on t.v. I enjoyed her books for a while, but grew tired of her style.
I also enjoyed the first "Gulag" book; but again was worn down by the end of the second book; too depressing.
My own all time favorites:
The Lord of the Rings
Gone with the wind
Soul of the Apostolate
"The World Must Conform to Our Lord and not He to it." Rev. Dennis Fahey CSSP

"My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progess; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: But he who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit." Cardinal Pie of Potiers

Matto

#25
May 22, 2017, 09:00:22 AM Last Edit: May 22, 2017, 09:19:01 AM by Matto
My favorite religious books that are not in the Bible are:
The Cure D'Ars by Abbe Francois Trochu
Sermons of the Cure of Ars
The Life of St Gemma Galgani by Fr. Germanus

My favorite secular books were:
The Brothers Karavazov by Dostoyevsky
Hadji Murad by Tolstoy
King Lear by Shakespeare of course

Edit: my favorite secular books was wrong. Replace Hadji Murad with the Iliad by Homer. I forgot about that.
I Love Watching Butterflies . . ..

martin88nyc

#26
May 24, 2017, 10:32:17 PM
Stoker's DRACULA
"These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world." John 16:33

dymphna17

#27
May 24, 2017, 10:53:12 PM Last Edit: May 24, 2017, 11:07:33 PM by dymphna17
Quote from: martin88nyc on May 24, 2017, 10:32:17 PM
Stoker's DRACULA

Edited - I put this in the wrong thread.  Sorry.   :-[

I've never read Dracula, but it's on my book bucket list.   :lol:
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I adore Thee O Christ, and I bless Thee, because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph save souls!

Of course I wear jeans, "The tornadoes can make dresses immodest." RSC

"Don't waste time in your life trying to get even with your enemies. The grave is a tremendous equalizer. Six weeks after you all are dead, you'll look pretty much the same. Let the Lord take care of those whom you think have harmed you. All you have to do is love and forgive. Try to forget and leave all else to the Master."– Mother Angelica

martin88nyc

#28
May 25, 2017, 10:15:32 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on May 24, 2017, 10:53:12 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on May 24, 2017, 10:32:17 PM
Stoker's DRACULA

Edited - I put this in the wrong thread.  Sorry.   :-[

I've never read Dracula, but it's on my book bucket list.   :lol:
Oh trust me this book is better than chocolate covered cherries.
"These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world." John 16:33

Carleendiane

#29
May 25, 2017, 10:31:18 PM
Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward,
Day the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Gulag Archipelago
To board the struggle bus: no whining, board with a smile, a fake one will be found out and put off at next stop, no maps, no directions, going only one way, one destination. Follow all rules and you will arrive. Drop off at pearly gate. Bring nothing.
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