philothea Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 In Progress: Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. Lovely. Prior to that, ermm... Lonely Planet's Guide to Hawai'i, the Big Island. Was for a review but, dang, I want to order some plane tickets right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Spook Country by William Gibson. It was okay. I probably wouldn't read it, again, though he's skillful enough. It just didn't really engage me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 AFter my current book i"m going to read : Chronicles of Wasted Time-autobiography of Malcolm Muggeridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 The next book I'm going to read is my own. I've got to go to a Catholic Women's League book club meeting in 3 weeks, and I hate these things. Someone invariable asks me about something I forget I included, so I'm going to actually read the thing to remind myself of the stuff that's in it. I dread it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Hahaha, Catherine! Next? Hmm. Depends on how Amazon ships, but probably [i]Lamentation[/i] by Ken Scholes. (Another one for review.) I hope I like it since I'm going to a writing retreat with him in a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 About to start Swear to God by Hahn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissyP89 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 About to start Diane Duane's [i]High Wizardry[/i] for the second time. Mmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 i forgot to mention that I'm slowly reading [i][b]Lift Up Your Hearts [/b][/i]by Fulton Sheen. Its all about ego, self, the proper place of pleasure, self discipline,etc. Its great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 My husband and I are reading "Holy Sex" by Popcak together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 Sounds interesting, is it good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 [quote name='Saint Therese' post='1735842' date='Dec 26 2008, 01:28 PM']Sounds interesting, is it good?[/quote] So far it has been great, and really eye opening. Since this is my first relationship, I had a bunch of pre-conceived notions about marriage that turned out to be completely wrong. Society can really skew what our expectations are. For example, I always thought that in a marriage, things were supposed to or would eventually cool, and we hadn't hit that yet. We both thought that was what was destined to happen, and were kind of waiting for the shoe to drop. After reading just the first few chapters, we've discovered that just isn't what happens in a real marriage based on intimacy instead of eroticism. Pope Benedict is so right about how our society is trivializing sex to the point that we are threatening our own existence. One of the things I stress when teaching RCIA is that if people on the street really knew what we had inside our church doors, they would pound them down to get inside. I think that if people living lives of degraded sexuality knew what a true sacramental marriage could give them, the same thing would happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted December 27, 2008 Author Share Posted December 27, 2008 [quote name='CatherineM' post='1735860' date='Dec 26 2008, 03:11 PM']So far it has been great, and really eye opening. Since this is my first relationship, I had a bunch of pre-conceived notions about marriage that turned out to be completely wrong. Society can really skew what our expectations are. For example, I always thought that in a marriage, things were supposed to or would eventually cool, and we hadn't hit that yet. We both thought that was what was destined to happen, and were kind of waiting for the shoe to drop. After reading just the first few chapters, we've discovered that just isn't what happens in a real marriage based on intimacy instead of eroticism. Pope Benedict is so right about how our society is trivializing sex to the point that we are threatening our own existence. One of the things I stress when teaching RCIA is that if people on the street really knew what we had inside our church doors, they would pound them down to get inside. I think that if people living lives of degraded sexuality knew what a true sacramental marriage could give them, the same thing would happen.[/quote] That's awesome! And I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I have this whole next week off, so I am going to read all seven volumes of the Chronicles of Narnia. Never read them before so I cant wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salterrae Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 JM + JT The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. It was short and sweet. Perfect for a project. Don't want to ruin the ending for others, but yea... other than that it was actually quite interesting. Great symbolism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fr. Antony Maria OSB Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I just finished The Book Thief, which was one of the best books I ever read in my life, and am currently reading The Shack, which is really interesting...portrays God in a very different way, so we shall see what I think about it when I'm done. It is a good read so far, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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