Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

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Semper Gaudete! : Reading an Entire Gospel in One Sitting

Semper Gaudete! : I'm SO Glad I Can Read This Online!

Semper Gaudete! : A Little Gift?

Semper Gaudete! : One-Member Clubs Revisited

Semper Gaudete! : The Last Bit of Peanut Butter in The Jar

Semper Gaudete! : Winky and the Computer

Semper Gaudete! : Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

Books, (except Sunday books) are grouped by author, and not necessarily in the order read.

"Love God And Do What You Please"

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

adapted by M. J. Huber

[spiritual reading]
a favorite of mine; thank God it wasn't one of the books
lost when I moved!

"Blueberry Muffins"
by Colleen Spiro
[nonfiction]
(Kindle Book)

{Sunday books}

Bible books read this week:

"Judges"
"Jonah"
"Titus"
"Ruth"
"Micah"

"The Gospel According to Matthew"

"The Gospel According to Mark"
"The Gospel According to Luke"

"Girls' Clubs
Their Organization and Management" #
by Helen Josephine Ferris
[nonfiction]
(free online book)
{carried over from last week}

"Elsie's Girlhood"
{carried over from last week}
by Martha Finley
[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant)]


"The Taste of Spruce Gum" #
by Jacqueline Jackson
[children/YA fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
{carried over from last week}

"Papa's Wife"

"Papa's Daughter"

{carrying over into next week}

by Thyra Ferre Bjorn

[fiction, Christian (Protestant) themes]

"Love and Knishes
An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking"
by Sara Kasdan
[nonfiction, Jewish]
(openlibrary.org loan)

Winky and the Computer

Winky's been spending a great deal of time around the computer lately.  If cats could type, he'd probably be on Facebook and Twitter... and he would definitely have a blog.

The Last Bit of Peanut Butter in The Jar

Yesterday, I had just a little bit of peanut butter in a jar. I decided to try an experiment.  I fixed some ramen noodles... without the flavor packet... and then I put the noodles in jar and stirred them up.

Next, they went into a bowl.

Well... it was surprisingly good, and I plan to make it again, only next time I'll spoon the peanut butter onto the noodles.

And I won't wait for the jar to be almost empty.

One-Member Clubs Revisited

Imagine if one actually did found a single-member club.   I think that what would work best would be a card club.  That club would "meet" once a week, and would be dedicated to one of the many games of solitaire!

A Little Gift?

This may contains spoilers for those who haven't read "Papa's Wife," by Thyra Ferre Bjorn [which I'm reading for the umpteenth time!], so I will skip a few spaces.

The book is a mixture of fiction and nonfiction.  Yes, her father really was a Swedish Baptist minister with eight children, and yes, the family came to America when Thyra [fictional name Charlotte] was a teenager, just as they did in the book.

In the book, she was given the nickname "Button" when she was a newborn baby. I wonder if she was called "Button" in real life; I like to  think that she was.

Now for the spoiler.

In real life, Frans August Ferre [Papa] died and was buried in Massachusetts.  In the book, his fictional counterpart dies while he and Maria [Mama] are visiting Sweden for the first time since coming to America.  Deacon Lund, a character in the book, says: "God never makes a mistake.  Pastor Franzon taught us that.  He will sleep now, where he would have wanted to sleep his last sleep-in Swedish soil"

I like to think that having his fictional counterpart "sleep his last sleep... in Swedish soil" was Thyra Ferre Bjorn's little gift to her late, beloved Papa.

I'm SO Glad I Can Read This Online!

 Did the word "Glad" in the title make you think I was talking about one of the "Pollyanna" books?

"Love and Knishes
An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking
New Revised Edition"
by Sara Kasdan
[nonfiction, Jewish]
This book was a favorite of mine for years in the original
edition.  Even without the recipes, the anecdotes are worth
the price of the book.
[Excerpt from my "Books Read In The Past Week" post from July 13th, 2013]

This is another book lost when I moved; I've been able to replace some of them, and will replace others in the future.   There are, however, some books  I've had to consider, for now, as "gone but not forgotten," either because they are no longer available, or because they are no longer affordable.  [I say "for now" because they could very well become available and affordable.]  

"Affordable," of course, means different things to different people.

Okay, I've gone off on a tangent. [I think tangents are fun!]  

I hope to replace the new, revised edition someday, but meanwhile I've borrowed the original from openlibrary.org.

Thank God for books that I can read for free online!