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« Reply #980 on: November 03, 2011, 10:41:PM » |
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On Being and Essence, by St Thomas Aquinas.
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« Reply #981 on: November 03, 2011, 10:52:PM » |
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Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
I'm also reading that, and am enjoying it so far. I'm about ready to tear my hair out at the moment. I was looking forward to finishing the book tonight, but when I got to the end, something was wrong. Nothing had been resolved -- it just sort of ... stopped. I now realize that I have a defective copy of the book, and that the last 30 or 40 pages are missing. And I will not have a chance to get to a bookstore any time in the next few days. So now I'm going to have to wait a week or two to read the rest of the book. Aaargh! All may not be lost. I was able to download an ebook version, which has all the pages (I checked). Now, if I can get that loaded onto my ebook-reader (I have the Sony one), I will be able to take it with me this weekend (I am going to Oshkosh to direct a chess tournament) and finish it. Yay! |
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« Reply #982 on: November 03, 2011, 10:55:PM » |
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Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
I'm also reading that, and am enjoying it so far. I'm about ready to tear my hair out at the moment. I was looking forward to finishing the book tonight, but when I got to the end, something was wrong. Nothing had been resolved -- it just sort of ... stopped. I now realize that I have a defective copy of the book, and that the last 30 or 40 pages are missing. And I will not have a chance to get to a bookstore any time in the next few days. So now I'm going to have to wait a week or two to read the rest of the book. Aaargh! All may not be lost. I was able to download an ebook version, which has all the pages (I checked). Now, if I can get that loaded onto my ebook-reader (I have the Sony one), I will be able to take it with me this weekend (I am going to Oshkosh to direct a chess tournament) and finish it. Yay! Calibre is a great software for that. On Wisconsin! |
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« Reply #983 on: November 04, 2011, 06:04:PM » |
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Sonderling: The Franz Jaegerstatter Story UNABRIDGED by James F. Sinnott Narrated by Adams Morgan (audio book) http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B002V8L6UWPublisher's Summary As a child, young Franz saw his father go off to fight in the Great War. As a young man, Franz and his young wife, Fani, dare to begin a family under the shadow of Hitler's Germany. While the New Order closes in around their Austrian homeland, Catholic students are recruited to help hunt out Jews. At the same time, Franz's trusted parish priest, Father Otto - risking his own incarceration - hopes that the Catholic Church will speak out and tell Austrians what to do in the face of Hitler's rise to power.
The conflict created by Hitler's oppression of Catholics; the Vatican's fear of Hitler's own enemy, Soviet atheistic communism; and Franz's concern for and indebtedness to the priests who helped to raise him take him through an odyssey of intrigue, resistance, and survival during the dark years of World War II.
©1998 James P. Sinnott; (P)1999 Blackstone Audio Inc. In June 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic exhortation declaring Jägerstätter a martyr. On 26 October 2007, he was beatified in a ceremony held by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins at the New Cathedral in Linz. His feast day is the day of his christening, May 21. Hagiography from the Vatican web site: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20071026_jagerstatter_en.htmlWikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tterI thoroughly enjoyed and was inspired by the book. On of the priests who was very intwined in the story has been declared "Venerable Servant of God", but I can't remember which one (a disadvantage of audio books; it is difficult to go back to "look up" a quick fact). Amazingly neither Amazon nor Barnes and Noble have the book available in hard copy. |
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« Reply #984 on: November 13, 2011, 07:59:AM » |
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"Signs of Life" by Scott Hahn
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"It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry"
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« Reply #985 on: November 14, 2011, 08:46:PM » |
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The Whole Truth About Fatima: The Third Secret by Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite (1985)
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« Reply #986 on: November 16, 2011, 03:28:AM » |
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re-reading True Devotion to Mary.
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It is my solemn and firmly held belief that the Cristeros were an entirely unjustified group of egomaniacal sociopaths and that Mexico would be a far better place today had they simply purchased Xbox360 consoles and lived out their ridiculous fantasies via an imaginary fantasy gaming realm Forget your lust for the rich man's gold/ All that you need, is in your soul/ And you can do this, oh baby, if you try/ All that I want for you my son/ Is to be satisfied All that we are is a picture in a mirror, with fancy shoes to grace our feet. All that there is, is a slow road to freedom; Heaven above and the devil beneath. We're all in this thing together, walking a line between faith and fear, this life won't last forever - when you cry I taste the salt in your tears. |
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« Reply #987 on: November 17, 2011, 07:39:AM » |
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Just finished American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I feel empty inside. Oh man.
I don't think I can do any spiritual reading now for a while. I'd better bring myself slowly back to the human condition with some light hearted aesthetic literature.
So, I think I'll settle down tonight with The Collected Short Stories of Oscar Wilde.
Update: Oh, Oscar, you break my heart. :\
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« Reply #988 on: November 18, 2011, 09:35:PM » |
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Oh boy I can see the controversy here but I am reading right now my 1950 edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf along with Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Jack London's Call of the Wild.
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« Reply #989 on: November 18, 2011, 10:59:PM » |
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Everyman Today Call Rome by Charles Coulombe.
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