Right now, I'm reading The Man Who Was Thursday over again for a project I'm working on. But I'm one of those multi-task readers who is also reading a book on St. Paul, a recently-published novel by a friend, and a yet-to-be-published novel by another friend.
What are YOU reading?
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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No Chesterton right now, though I recently bought Orthodoxy for a friend. Reading the Chronicles of Narnia and about to start the Brothers Karamazov! I want to pick up The Dumb Ox and read more Father Brown stories.
ReplyDeleteSubversive Orthodoxy by Robert Inchausti. I recently spoke in Seattle and one of my sponsors actually called afterwards to tell me he was going to send me this book. It's subtitled Outlaws, Revolutionaries and other Christians in Disguise. It's about people like GKC, CS Lewis, Dorothy Day, and some 20 others in terms of their battle against modernity. So far, it's quite good, though he could have paid more attention to Mr. Chesterton . . .
ReplyDeleteAlso reading Back to Virtue by Peter Kreeft.
I'm in the middle of "What's Wrong with the World" and almost done with "Brothers Karamazov."
ReplyDeleteSounds interesting, Mr. Zach. I'll have to check it out.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading Ninety-Three, by Victor Hugo, but took a breather to re-read Nightmare Abbey, by Thomas Love Peacock -- a hilarious send-up of gothic fiction and the excesses of Romanticism.
No Chesterton per se, but certainly a book very much about Chesterton. And book I came to know through this blog! The Universe and Mr. Chesterton by Randall Paine.
ReplyDeleteThe Universe and Mr. Chesterton Reviewed by J. Peterson in Gilbert magazine
I just began "Another Sort of Learning" by James Schall. I can't praise it enough!
ReplyDeleteYes, Fr. Schall's book is terrific. I met him at one of the Conferences a few years ago and told him how much I like it. And of course the book points you to so many other books you'll want to read -- enough to keep you busy for months.
ReplyDeleteI'm also reading "Brothers Karamazov" (almost finished). What an incredible book!
ReplyDeleteThat "Subversive Orthodoxy" book sounds interesting.
I'm a Schall fanboy myself, and am currently reading The Order of Things. It comes highly recommended from a guy named Dale Ahlquist. His blurb on the back of the book is so .... "Dale":
ReplyDelete"Here is a book about everything, the subject which just happens to be the most neglected in our narrow-minded, short-sighted world. Fr. Schall takes on heaven and hell and everything in between. And his clear-thinking sparkles in his clear-writing. A painless and praiseworthy way to sweep out any confusion and muddled ideas that may be lurking in your head." - D.A.
Joe
And of course the book points you to so many other books you'll want to read -- enough to keep you busy for months.
ReplyDeletemonths? I will be buried in unfinished books because of ASoL.
I'm almost halfway through "The Everlasting Man".
ReplyDeleteNext up for me will be either GK's Collected Works Vol. 4 or 5.
A re-read of "What's Wrong With the World" (especially appropriate for an election year), "The Life of Teresa of Jesus" by herself, "Strangers and Sojourners" by Michael O'Brien, and "Come, Creator Spirit: Meditations on the Veni Creator" by Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap.
ReplyDeleteI SHOULD be digging into the opus of Flannery O'Connor for the purpose of a scholarship essay, but all in good time.
Oh! And how could I have forgotten... Joe Pearce's "Quest for Shakespeare"!
ReplyDeleteRight now, I'm MAINLY reading "The Servile State" by Hilaire Belloc. I too find it hard NOT to read several books at once ^__^; Sooo, I'm also skimming "A History of the United States" by Cecil Chesterton (Thank you again for helping me~!), "The Party System" by Hilaire Belloc and Cecil Chesterton, and "The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat.
ReplyDeleteThe next book I read by Chesterton will be "The Outline of Sanity". The last book I read was "Eugenics and Other Evils" during Christmas. It's hard not to reread Chesterton. Seriously. Which is why I rarely read more books from him.
I'm reading "Tremendous Trifles"
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