--- In literatecatholicsunite@yahoogroups.com, blaargh_42 <no_reply@...> wrote:
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I probably need glasses to get back to my bookwormy self. Text resizing on web
pages has spoiled me.
Hand-held electronic readers like the Kindle allow you to resize text, too.
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Hey, is anyone reading anything interesting? I am so delighted at its being summer again that I hardly know what to start reading. The sad thing is that I...
... Yes, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2002) by Philip Jenkins. After reading Patrick Buchanan's The Death...
Happened to find, for one dollar, a copy of "Images of Jesus" by Alfred McBride, O. Praem., at the aptly misnamed Antiquarian Books of Downtown Crossing,...
"At Play in the Fields of the Lord" by Peter Matthiessen. If you are interested in life in Amazonia -- which I am -- you'll LOVE this book. It is the best...
Congratulations on finishing all of Percy's novels! I just finished Brian Tierney's _The Idea of Natural Rights_ in which he traces the development of...
I just finished SILENCE by Shusaku Endo and highly recommend it. The author's portrayal of life in 17th Century Japan and the perils that faced Catholic...
... I finally checked SPIRIT OF CATHOlICISM out of the library, so it looks like I'll get a chance to read it. What's cool is that on my way out of the...
... I'm reading "A COOKS TOUR In search of the perfect meal" by Anthony Bourdain, Jeffery Kluger's "Journey Beyond Selene, Remarkable expeditions past our moon...
Okay, here's some random notes about summer reading and all. Brendan asked me about Charles' Williams' WAR IN HEAVEN some time ago. If I could sum the book up...
... I'm interested in the link, but I have no idea what link you're talking about! Just finished Soloviev's _Law Politics and Morality_, which ends with a...
... He he. How can you be interested in it if you don't know what it is? I guess I wasn't clear. I meant to ask whether anyone wanted me to post a link to...
... with a reflection on "Supermen" <<< Does it include reflections on The FLASH, GREEN LANTERN, and WONDER WOMAN as well? Brendan Far too plebian to hang out...
Help! I'm writing an article and I can't seem to find the origin of the phrase "The Ends don't justify the Means". It has been a truisim in all my basic...
... in ... but I ... Aristotle? ... luck. ... I think the phrase is just a negation of Machiavelli's dictum, but I don't know if Machiavelli simply reversed...
Thanks Kevin! I'l l run through the Pauline letters tonight. Till then I hope everyone enjoys this. http://www.coldfury.com/Entries/00000163.html Be sure to...
Anyone got any really good summer reading lined up? I am finishing up a reread of Dorothy Sayers' _Gaudy Night_ right now. (Very good book, by the way, but I...
... I'm reading Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich, who had interesting views of death and of the appropriation of health and autonomy by various societal forces,...
... I recommend "The Life you Save May be Your Own"...the biography of Walker Percy, Merton, Day, Flannery O'Conner all intertwined. Just GREAT... Armando...
Jim Kalb's The Tyranny of Liberalism looks good. It's a work of political theory, not talk radio librul-bashing. Kalb converted to Catholicism a few years back...
... I probably need glasses to get back to my bookwormy self. Text resizing on web pages has spoiled me. Hand-held electronic readers like the Kindle allow you...
Hi Andrew, I've already told Tony and David they're not helping my budget any with their lists. But now I'm going to have some down time this summer and I ...
My contemporary mystery BLEEDER is due out in August from Sophia Institute Press. I'd appreciate the title being added to your summer reading list, Kamilla :-)...