Friday, August 11, 2017

Books I'm Currently Reading

A # indicates a book read for the first time
A * indicates a book started today
Books are listed by author (or series creator)

"My Daily Spiritual Companion"
by Marci Alborghetti
daily devotional reading for 2017
I liked the book I used last year better

"Smart Women: The Search for America's
Historic All-Woman Study Clubs" # 

by Ann Dodds Costello
[nonfiction]
(Google book)

"Ministering Angels  *
A Study of Nineteenth-Century
Evangelical Writing  for Children"
by Margaret Nancy Cutt
[nonfiction]

"Of Irish Ways" # 
by Mary Murray Delaney
[nonfiction]

"Mildred Keith" 
by Martha Finley
[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant), historical, 1830s]
(free online book)

"The Gospel According To John" 
current Bible book

"The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ" #
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
[Catholic spirituality]
(Kindle book]

"The Book of Catholic Jokes" 
by Fr. Gregory Sakowicz and Deacon Tom Sheridan
[nonfiction, humor (obviously!)]
one or two pages a night


Also:
Daily readings in the Liturgy of the Hours
Nightly bedtime Gospel reading
I choose a favorite passage every night

Finished today:

"Worst Room in The School"
by Lois Baker Muehl


Set Aside to Take Up Later:


"Essays,
First and Second Series"
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Leaves of Grass" 
by Walt Whitman

Encouraging news about EWTN's Fr. Anthony

Fr. Anthony hopes to be back on the air in the near future.  Oh, HOW I'm praying for that to happen! https://franciscanmissionaries.c...