If you had $25 to spend

[stargirl3:16]

Ok, so I have a $25 gift card for Barnes and Noble. I want to get some books, and so far I want Dark Night of the Soul (only $2.50!) but I don't know what else to get.

Any suggestions?

[Sojourner]

I'm going to buy "Eldest" tomorrow. I read "Eragon" and really liked it.

[stargirl3:16]

I'm going for any religious books, nonfiction if I can help it.

[Iacobus]

:cough: Textbooks :cough:

[stargirl3:16]

:cough: Already have them :cough:

[dUSt]

Get "Triumph: The Power and The Glory of the Catholic Church".

[thessalonian]

Do you have Augustine's Confessions? They should.

[Aloysius]

give me the money, I'd know what to do with it

it's a little more than $25, but you should get "How the Catholic Church built Western Civilization"

I liked that better than Triumph.

[Fides_et_Ratio]

oh boy... $25... I'd be sooo happy! lol.

my recommendations: (well over $25, but you can pick and choose)

"Salt of the Earth" by Joseph Ratzinger/Peter Seewald
"Life of Christ" by Fulton Sheen
"The Everlasting Man" by GK Chesterton
"God is Near Us"/"Called to Communion"/"Feast of Faith"/"Spirit of the Liturgy"/ anything else by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
"Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma" Ludwig Ott
"Love and Responsibility" by Karol Wojtyla (/Pope JPII)
"The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas A Kempis

... I think I'll stop there.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='dUSt' date='Aug 22 2005, 03:59 PM']Get "Triumph: The Power and The Glory of the Catholic Church".
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That's a good book. I got it and read it over Christmas last year. Fascinating.

[IcePrincessKRS]

cookbooks

[Sojourner]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' date='Aug 22 2005, 04:38 PM']cookbooks
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That's a good idea too ... "Joy of Cooking" is one of the best cookbooks you can buy. Great recipes, very detailed. Love it.

[FlyLikeABird]

Oh my where would I start?!?! Only 25 dollars? That's just sad, I usually go and spend at least twice that much when I get into a book store. Last pleasure trip was about 75 dollars. I bought my textbooks today, well some of them. rang in around 150. I would want religious books, music books or fantasy and sci fi.

[CD2008]

[quote name='Aloysius' date='Aug 22 2005, 04:01 PM']give me the money, I'd know what to do with it

it's a little more than $25, but you should get "How the Catholic Church built Western Civilization"

I liked that better than Triumph.
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i recently bought that at B&N, i barely started it, but it looks fantasic!
I'd check it out.

-Chris

[Aloysius]

my favorite part was when we almost had a monastic industrial revolution, but then Henry VIII squelched it!

oops... uh... that was a spoiler.

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Aug 22 2005, 05:45 PM']That's a good idea too ... "Joy of Cooking" is one of the best cookbooks you can buy. Great recipes, very detailed. Love it.
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ME TOO!!!! I love that book, one of my sisters in law gave it to me the first Christmas I spent with Matt's family. Another good one is The Complete Step By Step Cooking Class Cookbook---but its no longer in print so you have to try and find a copy used, try Ebay (it was originally sold for almost 60 bucks, you can usually find it on Ebay for under 10). I've found a couple copies there (my mom and sisters want copies, too, so far we 3 oldest and married girls have our own copies).

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[stargirl3:16]

[Christie_M]

Get a book about a saint if they have one. I'm reading "The Story of a Soul" it's about St. Therese of Lesuix.

but I don't go to a store, I go to the library.

[FlyLikeABird]

Libraries are useful are they not? I like going to the library, I've managed to borrow a number of movies too.

But for keeping books, the best way is to get gifts from people. I have a friend who is passing on a number to me once I'm moved.

[stargirl3:16]