There are
plenty of memes that want to know all about your book history and your all-time
greats and your grand ambitions, but let's focus on something more revealing:
the books you're actually reading now, or just read, or are about to read.
Let's call it The Immediate Book Meme.
1. What book are you reading now?
Washington Square by Henry James.
Washington Square by Henry James.
Well, that’s the main one; there
are three others, that I’m bouncing around with. I might as list them too:
Gerard Manly Hopkins: Poems and Prose, Selected and Edited by W. H. Gardner.
Julius Caesar: Life of a Colossus, by Adrian Goldsworthy.
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity, by Prue Shaw.
2. What book did you just finish?
Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain.
3. What do you plan to read next?
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis. For Lent.
4. What book do you keep meaning to finish?
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo.
5. What book do you keep meaning to start?
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. What is your current reading trend?
19th Century American.
Feel free to list your answers here or
link here to your blog.
I love a questionnaire. :)
ReplyDelete1. What book are you reading now? 33 Days to Morning Glory ( a Marion consecration)
2. What book did you just finish? Hostile Witness, a courtroom drama/mystery, R. Forster, and The Life of Saint Lucy, Wyatt North
3. What do you plan to read next? CS Lewis' science fiction trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength). -before Lent
Then during Lent, I want to read He Leadeth Me, by Fr. Walter Cziscek.
4. What book do you keep meaning to finish? The Lord, Romano Guardini
5. What book do you keep meaning to start? Utopia, St. Thomas More
6. What is your current reading trend? Legal/courtroom thrillers
ps. Manny, in my humble opinion, The Imitation of Christ, to me, is not something you can just read through. It has little sections with ultra-deep theological meaning. It's kind of like reading the Bible, a tiny bit every day. But then again, as much as I love reading, I don't take in nearly as much pithy material as you!
Thanks for the Head up on The Imitation of Christ. I really don't know what to expect. All I know is that after the Bible that's been the most read book in history. I looked up The Lord by Guardini and it sounds like it's either fascinating or slow reading. Should I bother?
DeleteI find it hard, but you do better than I with that kind of writing. It is supposed to be a wonderful work, I heard it quoted by a priest in a homily and have wanted to read it.
DeleteWow ... you have a lot of reading to do.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to your comments on The Imitation of Christ. I found it heavy going and can't take too much at a time. It can be read online FREE here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1653
God bless.
So far three people have warned me against it. I wonder if I should take the hint...lol. Well, I going to give it a try.
DeleteNo, no, definitely do read it! We're just saying, small bites, that's all :)
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