The
first quarter is almost over and I haven’t even laid out my reading plans for
the year. Let me quickly outline them.
Like
last year I’m going to remain humble and not get too wrapped up in plans I
cannot fulfill. The long term read selected
for the Catholic Thought Book Club is St. Augustine’s City of God. A long term
read is one in which we select a large book, one that will be too tiresome in
one straight through read, break it up into manageable parts, read a part, go
on to other reads, return to that read for another part, and repeat that until
it is finished. We have already read the
first quarter of City of God,
chapters one through five.
Our
next read will be St, Frances de Sales’ Introduction
to the Devout Life. Beyond that, I
have no idea what will be nominated and selected. All I can estimate is that the book club will
read at least another three books before the year is out.
My
parish book club is reading Bishop Robert Barron’s Catholicism. We will finish
that up in the spring and we will select another book for the fall.
I
would like to read St. Catherine of Siena’s Catholic classic, The Dialogue. I am currently reading and should finish this
year, The Divine Office for Dodos by
Madeline Pecora Nugent to fully understand how to pray the Divine Office.
The
secular books I plan to read will be the fourth book of Ford Madox Ford’s Last Post, which is the fourth book from
his tetralogy, Parade’s End. I have read the other three works, one book
per year. I will finally complete the
series. I plan to read Stendhal’s novel The Red and the Black and D.H. Lawrence’s
novella. I have started and plan to
complete Rod Dreher’s personal memoir, How
Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem.
I
plan to continue to read through the Bible.
The Old Testament books up next are Baruch,
Ezekiel, and Daniel. From the New Testament all I have left is Revelation. I plan to read Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation
in both the King James Version (KJV) and the Revised Standard Version (RSV)
translations. The Book of Baruch is not included in Protestant Bibles. To supplement my understanding of Revelations, I plan to read Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture:
Revelation by Peter S. Williamson.
I
will continue to try to read two short works per month, and read the next novel
in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia
series, Prince Caspian.
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