Comingback Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 I would like to change my challenge book to Thomas Aquinas: Theologian by Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P.!! I finally made it down to my library to see what they had. I have read the intro and really love (and understand it). I am still reading Opening to God and it is wonderful to read and ponder but not exactly a "challenge" read the way this Aquinas book is (like I can read about 15 pages an hour!). Go back to work tomorrow so my count will go down. Also working on a prayer shawl for somebody that I need to get finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggyie Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I am reading War and Peace by Count Leo Tolstoy. It is 1,382 pages long. I have read 1,250. Moscow has been burnt and the French are retreating and consuming horse flesh. I am going to get this book done if it kills me!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 We are Happy to have you with us Maggie -- NEVER too late to join!!!! But.... whooo!!! QUICK, Maggie --- Designate War & Peace as your challenge book -- when you finish it, you can claim DOUBLE PAGES!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) I read War and Peace as an eighth grader... bad idea. I don't remember a thing. :| I also have been stuck with an aversion to Tolstoy ever since -- a pity, since I think I would like him. Anywho, way to go Maggie! Edited December 30, 2013 by Deus_te_Amat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) Yeah, and Maggie, I'm officially designating that for you as an official Challenge Book -- WAR & PEACE by Count Leo Tolstoy :crusader: and :buddies2: Maggie, you said you have been trying and trying and TRYING to finish it... to me it makes the criteria. YOU GO , MAGGIE!!!!! :cheer: :winner: :bible: :cheer: :bible: :winner: :cheer: Edited December 30, 2013 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggyie Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 hahaha thank you!!! I can use all the encouragement I can get!!! I first started reading it 5 years ago and made it half way through and then lost heart... Tolstoy was taking the characters in an entirely wrong direction... ... now I have read past that point and I see he did a 180 degree plot switcheroo and is headed back in the direction I wanted all along! Oooo that trickster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristinaTherese Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) I do read things other than comic books. Really. And I'm not mentioning any until I have a real keyboard to do it with again. But since this is my mom's book and I'm not taking it back to school with me, I'm mentioning it now: The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics, selected and edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly (approx. 330 pages) ETA: It's old stuff: Little Lulu, Little Archie, Melvin Monster, Donald Duck, Denis the Menace, Captain Marvel, The Three Mousekeeters, Supermouse, and more. Great stuff. Edited December 30, 2013 by Christina Thérèse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Finished North and South - 400 pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheresaThoma Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Finished A Little Princess 186 pages. (I also finished my quilt!) Now moving onto An Introduction to the Devout Life, this might have to become another challenge book for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 Will do a count later today to see where we are, but I think we HAVE met the Jan 1st challenge, and are well on the road to Epiphany!!!! And I found this great picture for us, but it won't load!!!! So.... check this link -- you'll know which picture! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tidels.babyjesus I guess Baby Jesus DOES want us to read to Him!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermia Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 "Sometimes God has a Child's Face"-Sr. Mary Rose McGeady 111 pages And I got my book!!! So happy! :dance5: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted January 1, 2014 Author Share Posted January 1, 2014 YAAAAAY! CARTER MIA!!!!!! I hope you like it after all the drama getting it!!! I'm still chunking through the books I had, but I did finish another one that was almost done and looking for a moment of fame! So short a day : the life of Mother Marie-Rose, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, 1811-1849 276 pages! it was a good book. I had started it on a retreat, and was happy to find a used copy. I was educated by the Sisters of the Holy Names, and I like their foundress a lot. It gave me a good perspective of life in their community, and the challenges of founding a community in a mission territory in the early to mid 1800s. Surprisingly modern in terms of their experiences as they started out. It also helped me to see how different they were from our time period... much more of an emphasis on rigid spirituality and physical mortification. BUT it was her way to holiness. She does inspire me, but I think she would probably view God and her own body differently in the early 2000s. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comingback Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Finished: Triskell Tales, by Charles de Lint (a Christmas present!), 538 pages Finding Sanctuary, by Abbot Christopher Jamison, 182 pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not The Philosopher Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 607 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 I've been distracted by fan fiction. I'm not sure if it counts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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