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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

2019 Reads, Update #3

Here is my third quarter update on my reads.  You’ve seen the first and second quarters already, but include them again to see my annual reads to date.

Completed First Quarter:
“The Background,” a short story by Saki (H. H. Munro).
“How to Mark a Book,” an essay by Mortimer J. Adler.
“In the Snow,” a short story by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anathea Bell.
“Poldi,” a short story by Carson McCullers.
Book of Jeremiah, a book of the Old Testament, NIV Translation.
"Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine," a short story by James Lee Burke.
Paradisio, 3rd part of the epic poem, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated and annotated by Robert and Jean Hollander.
Paradisio, 3rd part of the epic poem, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated and annotated by Anthony Esolen.

Completed Second Quarter:
The Life of Saint Dominic, a biography by Augusta Theodosia Drane.
The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers, 3rd Edition, a non-fiction work by Mike Aquilina.
"Thunder and Roses" a short story by Theodore Sturgeon.
"A House on the Plains" a short story by E.L. Doctorow.
Book of Jeremiah, a book of the Old Testament, KJV Translation.
Book of Lamentations, a book of the Old Testament, KJV Translation.
Book of Lamentations, a book of the Old Testament, NIV Translation.
The First Letter of John, an epistle from the New Testament, NIV Translation.
The First Letter of John, an epistle from the New Testament, KJV Translation.
The Imitation of Christ, a non-fiction devotional by Thomas à Kempis.
The Second Letter of John, an epistle from the New Testament, NIV Translation.
The Second Letter of John, an epistle from the New Testament, KJV Translation.
The Third Letter of John, an epistle from the New Testament, NIV Translation.
The Third Letter of John, an epistle from the New Testament, KJV Translation.

Completed Third Quarter:
Death Comes for the Archbishop, a novel by Willa Cather.
“Social Error,” a short story Damon Runyan.
In the Image of St. Dominic: Nine Portraits of Dominican Life, a collection of short biographies by Guy Bedouelle, O.P.
Mariette in Ecstasy, a novel by Ron Hansen.
“The Sin of Jesus,” a short story Isaac Babel. 

Completed in October:
Vol 5 of Les Misérables, “Jean Valjean” a novel by Victor Hugo.
“The Worst You Ever Feel,” a short story by Rebecca Makkai.
“The Light of the World,” a short story by Ernest Hemingway.
“The Salvation of the Hearer the Motive of the Preacher,” a discourse by St. John Henry Newman.

Currently Reading:
The Horse and His Boy, a novel from the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis.
How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem, a confessional memoir by Rod Dreher.
Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, an autobiography of Bishop Fulton Sheen.
Pascendi Dominici Gregis, a papal encyclical by Pope Pius X.


As you can see I’ve read three books and two short stories in the third quarter, which technically ended at the end of September.  I’ve included a list of those completed in October, which will eventually be put into “Completed in the Fourth Quarter.”  I included them here because they may have actually been started and partially read in the third quarter.  I know Vol 5 of Les Misérables was mostly read in the third quarter.


I’m hoping to finish the “currently reading” by the end of the year, and read the epistles from Peter, James, and Jude in both the NIV and KJV.  Perhaps I can squeeze in something else too. 

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