Completed
First Quarter:
“Leaf
by Niggle,” a short story by J.R.R. Tolkien.
“The
Turkey,” a short story by Flannery O’Connor.
“The
Trouble,” a short story by J. F. Powers.
“Theft,”
a short story by Katherine Ann Porter.
Book
of Baruch, a book of the Old Testament, RSV Translation.
Completed
Second Quarter:
Gospel
of John, a book of the New Testament, RSV Translation.
Introduction
to the Devout Life, a non-fiction work by St. Frances de
Sales.
“The
Blue Hotel,” a short story by Stephan Crane.
“A
Good Man is Hard to Find, a short story by Flannery O’Connor.
Oronooko
or The Royal Slave, a novel by Aphra Behn.
Lord
of the World, a novel by Robert Hugh Benson.
The
Book Of Ezekiel, a book of the Old Testament, KJV and RSV
translations.
Currently Reading:
Last
Post,
the 4th novel of the Parade’s End Tetralogy by Ford Madox Ford.
Dominican
Life: A Commentary on the Rule of St. Augustine,
a non-fiction work by Walter Wagner, O.P.
Catholicism:
A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, a non-fiction work by
Robert Barron.
The
City of God Books 1-10, by Augustine of Hippo, translated
by William Babcock.
I
Am Going: Reflections on the Last Words of Saints,
a non-fiction devotional work by Mary Kathleen Glavich, SND.
Prince
Caspian, a novel from the Chronicles of Narnia series by C.
S. Lewis.
Upcoming Plans:
“God
Rest You Merry Gentleman,” a short story by Ernest Hemingway.
“The
Sea Change,” a short story by Ernest Hemingway.
“A
Matter of Chance,” a short story by Vladimir Nabokov.
“The Manager of ‘The Kremlin,’” a short story
by Evelyn Waugh.
“The
Magic Paint,” a short story by Primo Levi
Brideshead
Revisted, a novel by Evelyn Waugh.
Utopia,
a short novel by St. Thomas More.
Book
of Daniel, a book of the Old Testament,
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While
this is my first update for the year, this is actually my mid-year review. I missed the first quarter update, mainly
because I was really late in getting my initial plans for the year out. Perhaps the output for the year doesn’t seem
like much for half a year’s reading.
Three books—two of them novels—three books from the Bible, and six short
stories.
However,
there are six books that are in progress, and might all be completed by the
next quarter. Several of them are more
than half way. I think the output for
the third quarter will be much more substantial.
Upcoming
will be the Book of Daniel from the Old
Testament and the Book of Revelation
from the New Testament. Both these books
are apocalyptic visions of the end of times.
Having just completed Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World, which is a dystopian Catholic novel envisioning
an end of times scenario, I will be steeped in apocalyptic literature this
year. I will be posting quite a bit on
my reading of Lord of the World. It’s definitely a prophetic novel relevant to
our times.
In
addition, the Catholic Thought book club at Goodreads will be reading Evelyn
Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited next,
and it will add even more to the read list in the third quarter. Perhaps you may want to join us in this
read. It’s a great novel.
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