Face on the books

[St Sebastian]

Just curious about the last book you guys read or are reading. Anything interesting?

It has been some time since I last read a book; mostly just reading the Bible and Church documents in the last months.

 

[Colin]

I'm reading this .

 

[Michie]

I've been going through books. Today I have been thumbing through a 1958 Marian Missal.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Just curious about the last book you guys read or are reading. Anything interesting?

It has been some time since I last read a book; mostly just reading the Bible and Church documents in the last months.

Juggling a few but currently reading The Catholic Gentleman: Living Authentic Manhood Today, it just came out recently.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By Ben Macintyre
Illustrated. 358 pp. Crown.

On May 16, 1985, Oleg Gordievsky, the K.G.B.’s top spy in London, opened a telegram from his bosses in Moscow. He read it with growing apprehension. For more than a decade, Gordievsky had been a double agent, turning Soviet secrets over to the British. Now he was being ordered to return home at once. Was this a routine summons? Or had Moscow finally found him out?

 

[anna ~ grace]

Mostly articles, and stuff. Good ones, though!

What We Must do to Get to Heaven

 

[Wolseley]

About the only reading I've been doing lately is right before I go to sleep....usually I read either some Scripture, or a few chapters of this little classic, which I absolutely love:

 

[Wolseley]

But if I'm not quite sleepy, I'll read a chapter of this, which is my latest find. It's pretty good, actually---reminds me of listening to my Dad and my uncle swapping stories on a winter's night: Dad telling about Japanese Zeros on strafing runs in Burma, and Uncle Bernie telling about being shelled by the German artillery at Anzio:

 

[Colin]

This aids Eucharistic Adoration .

I find John Henry Newman's prose to be poetry , and his poetry to be numinous .