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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jun 27, 2016 22:51:15 GMT -5
What book should I read next? This could be an ongoing thread.
Can you suggest something you thought was good enough to recommend to someone else?
I am not well-read but I do enjoy reading. To give you an idea, the last three books I finished were Seven Years in Tibet, Bringing Up Girls and Black Robe: The Life of Pierre-Jean De Smet: Missionary, Explorer, and Pioneer.
Many thanks:)
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Post by chestertonian on Jun 28, 2016 8:49:12 GMT -5
War and peace. Great summer reading.
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jun 28, 2016 12:11:51 GMT -5
War and peace. Great summer reading. Hmmmm....That might work. Have you read it? What's the level of pro-revolution propoganda? Oh, and thanks for the suggestion.
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Post by Clotilde on Jun 28, 2016 12:43:15 GMT -5
"Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza"
"New German Cooking: Recipes for Classics Revisited"
"David Copperfield"
"Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America"
"Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent"
"The Indians Called Him "Lolo", Laurence Benedict Palladino, S.J.1837-1927"
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jun 30, 2016 0:36:44 GMT -5
"Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza" "New German Cooking: Recipes for Classics Revisited" "David Copperfield" "Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America" "Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent" "The Indians Called Him "Lolo", Laurence Benedict Palladino, S.J.1837-1927" Thanks!! Some of these sound really interesting.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jul 7, 2016 8:11:20 GMT -5
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Nicolas and Alexandra
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jul 7, 2016 11:37:01 GMT -5
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Nicolas and Alexandra These sound really good.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 0:15:35 GMT -5
I spend every summer with Jane Austen The rest of the year is a free for all. Theodore Dalrymple (IRL Anthony Daniels) has 3 excellent books on contemporary society. _Life at the Bottom_, _Our Culture, What's Left of It_, and _Spoilt Rotten, the Toxic Cult of Sentimentality_ I've not read the last one but the first two have some remarkable insights considering Daniels is an atheist. But of course his atheism is also his biggest flaw... Still and all I think his works are worth a read. Here is one woman's list of 1000 Good Books: www.classical-homeschooling.org/celoop/1000-senior.html The whole 1000 include K-12, the link is only for the higher level. I must admit I never read these when I was in high school. On the spiritual reading side I like St. Francis de Sales and full length biographies of saints. And for fluff I throw in one or two murder mysteries. Every January I plan to improve my reading habits but every year I get side-tracked and end up reading a mish-mash of books rather than my planned list.
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jul 8, 2016 23:19:41 GMT -5
I spend every summer with Jane Austen The rest of the year is a free for all. Theodore Dalrymple (IRL Anthony Daniels) has 3 excellent books on contemporary society. _Life at the Bottom_, _Our Culture, What's Left of It_, and _Spoilt Rotten, the Toxic Cult of Sentimentality_ I've not read the last one but the first two have some remarkable insights considering Daniels is an atheist. But of course his atheism is also his biggest flaw... Still and all I think his works are worth a read. Here is one woman's list of 1000 Good Books: www.classical-homeschooling.org/celoop/1000-senior.html The whole 1000 include K-12, the link is only for the higher level. I must admit I never read these when I was in high school. On the spiritual reading side I like St. Francis de Sales and full length biographies of saints. And for fluff I throw in one or two murder mysteries. Every January I plan to improve my reading habits but every year I get side-tracked and end up reading a mish-mash of books rather than my planned list. Thanks:) These will keep me busy for a while! I am actually going to tackle the suggested books everyone has mentioned, except perhaps War and Peace
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jul 9, 2016 7:38:31 GMT -5
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Nicolas and Alexandra These sound really good. www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Alexandra-Robert-K-Massie/dp/0345438310Nicholas and Alexandra By Robert K Massie Updated post when I remebered the author. This book really changed my mind about Russia and Russians and how important the last Czar was to world events that are still unfolding. Also what a horrible tragedy the murder of this Noble family was...and what dispicable and filthy beasts are atheistic Jews.
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Post by EricH on Jul 15, 2016 10:18:53 GMT -5
This is a long list, but these really deserve to be on it. St. Bernadette Soubirous, by Henri Lasserre by St. Alphonsus Liguori: Sermons, The Glories of Mary, Preparation for Death, The True Spouse of Jesus Christby St. Francis de Sales: Introduction to the Devout Life, Spiritual ConferencesThe Catechism in Examples, by Rev. D. Chisholm ( vol 1) ( vol 2) ( vol 3) ( vol 4) ( vol 5) Sermons of Fr. Francis Hunolt and of St. John Vianney (audio, but too good to omit) St. Anthony Mary Claret, Autobiographyby Fanchon Royer: St. Francis Solanus, Padre Pro (not available online) The Miraculous Medal, by M. Aladel Mystical City of God, by Ven. Mary of Agreda ( vol 1) ( vol 2) ( vol 3) ( vol 4) Letters of Blessed John of Avilaby Rev. Henry James Coleridge: St. Stanislaus Kostka, St. Francis Xavier ( vol 1) ( vol 2) Catechism of the Council of TrentSt. Elizabeth of Hungary, by Count de Montalembert The Spirit of the Cure of Ars, by l'Abbe Monnin Tales of Canon Schmid: Angelica, The Water Pitcher, The Canary Bird, The Carrier Pigeon, and many others (but many online versions have been Protestantized) Works of Orestes A. Brownson (volumes 5-13 and 19-20 in particular) I print downloaded books with a laser printer that prints front and back automatically -- it's decently convenient and economical if you buy toner and paper on sale. Thin books I put in the typical folders with three wire brads to hold the papers (3-hole punched); for thick books I use ACCO pressboard report covers with a wire fastener. You can get these for about $2 each including shipping if you shop around and buy a large quantity.
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Post by EricH on Jul 15, 2016 10:46:04 GMT -5
Just glancing at this list, despite the claim to be Christian it is not much different from what secular people would recommend. Protestantism = secularism and heathenism, as a practical matter, and this list shows it. Here is a list of condemned books & authors, several of whom are on the 1000 "good" books. The causes which have operated to throw the concocting of popular history into the hands of the unorthodox or the worldly-minded, have operated also to render all general, or, as it is not inaptly called, profane, literature uncatholic and heathenish. In no age or country has popular secular literature been truly catholic. The popular literature in what Digby calls the "ages of faith" was unchristian in its substance, and breathed the spirit of Graeco-Roman gentilism, Celtic and Scandinavian superstition, or Arabic and Moorish sensualism. The songs of the Troubadours, the Trouveres, Minnesingers, minstrels, and bards, the ballads of Spain, Armorica, and England, which are sometimes adduced as specimens of Christian literature, were as little Christian in reality as the Arabian Nights Entertainments, the odes of Horace, Pindar, or Anacreon. Not a few of the popular tales of our own day, written by Catholics for the especial instruction of our Catholic youth, are surcharged with carnal Judaism. They feed their amiable little boys and girls with sugar-plums, and reward them with sugar-kisses. They may be passably sound in their didactic chapters, they may contain some wholesome commonplace morality, and abundance of fine sentimentalizing about piety and devotion; but their practical influence on their readers is to enervate their minds, to render their hearts weak and their imaginations morbid, to confine their aspirations to this world, and to induce them to look for an earthly recompense, --- a happy marriage, riches, or worldly distinction. Seldom does the author, or rather authoress, dare propose spiritual consolation here, and eternal life hereafter, as the adequate reward of suffering virtue and patient piety. This all lies in the natural course of things. No matter who creates it, all secular, general, or popular literature, when sundered from sacred letters, is sure to be heathen in its spirit and tendency. It is so when created by a Dante, a Tasso, a Racine, as well as when created by a Boccaccio, a Pulci, an Ariosto, an Alfieri, a Rabelais, a Montaigne, a Voltaire, a Goethe, a Schelling, a Carlyle, or an Emerson. The sincere, the firm, the devout believer, the moment he so far forgets himself as to leave sacred letters and devote himself to profane or secular literature, becomes for the time being practically a heathen. It cannot be otherwise, because the secular sundered from the spiritual, and cultivated by and for itself, although in an inferior sphere, is the very essence and source of heathenism. Our Lord has defined heathenism for us, and shown us that its essence consists precisely in seeking the secular order as an end, or in seeking secular or earthly goods for their own sake. "For after all these things do the heathen seek." Impossible is it then to waive the spiritual, and fallback on the secular, without lapsing into heathenism. Even Digby's pious bishops, whom he praises for having cultivated polite literature in their youth, seldom fail to tell us in their old age that they regret having done so. (from Christianity and Heathenism, Brownson's works vol. 10)
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jul 15, 2016 15:47:42 GMT -5
This is a long list, but these really deserve to be on it. St. Bernadette Soubirous, by Henri Lasserre by St. Alphonsus Liguori: Sermons, The Glories of Mary, Preparation for Death, The True Spouse of Jesus Christby St. Francis de Sales: Introduction to the Devout Life, Spiritual ConferencesThe Catechism in Examples, by Rev. D. Chisholm ( vol 1) ( vol 2) ( vol 3) ( vol 4) ( vol 5) Sermons of Fr. Francis Hunolt and of St. John Vianney (audio, but too good to omit) St. Anthony Mary Claret, Autobiographyby Fanchon Royer: St. Francis Solanus, Padre Pro (not available online) The Miraculous Medal, by M. Aladel Mystical City of God, by Ven. Mary of Agreda ( vol 1) ( vol 2) ( vol 3) ( vol 4) Letters of Blessed John of Avilaby Rev. Henry James Coleridge: St. Stanislaus Kostka, St. Francis Xavier ( vol 1) ( vol 2) Catechism of the Council of TrentSt. Elizabeth of Hungary, by Count de Montalembert The Spirit of the Cure of Ars, by l'Abbe Monnin Tales of Canon Schmid: Angelica, The Water Pitcher, The Canary Bird, The Carrier Pigeon, and many others (but many online versions have been Protestantized) Works of Orestes A. Brownson (volumes 5-13 and 19-20 in particular) I print downloaded books with a laser printer that prints front and back automatically -- it's decently convenient and economical if you buy toner and paper on sale. Thin books I put in the typical folders with three wire brads to hold the papers (3-hole punched); for thick books I use ACCO pressboard report covers with a wire fastener. You can get these for about $2 each including shipping if you shop around and buy a large quantity. Thank you for your list. I will look into a couple of these. I do need to do more spiritual reading. Based on the quote by Mr. Brownson, I think he may be a little out of my intelligence range.
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jul 15, 2016 15:51:22 GMT -5
I read Franz Werfel's The Song of Bernadette and enjoyed it...I will look at yours:)
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Post by jen51 on Jul 15, 2016 21:46:06 GMT -5
Thanks for the list of condemned authors/books, Eric. Strolling through the list I noticed Voltaire. Just yesterday I was learning about him and his final days on earth. A tragic end. Just goes to show that even the most influential philosophers/free thinkers can't toss God aside in their minds as easy as they would have their readers/followers believe.
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