Science and Religion: some historical perspectives, John Hedley Brooke
A two-foot stack of neglected issues of Newsweek, AOPA Pilot, Flying, and This Rock. There's probably still an issue or two of Parenting mixed in for some unfathomable reason, too.
"Theology of the Body" Explained, Christopher West and George Weigl. Well, I keep starting it....
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Showing posts with label currently reading. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
Currently reading and recently read....
Current:
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
Recent:
AA-1025, The memoirs of an Anti-Apostle, by Marie Carre
I thought I first saw FP on my parents' bookshelf in the early 1980s, and the title struck me--and with an author named Umberto, it was just exotic enough to hold my interest--but I was too young to read it then, and as it turns out, it was first published in 1988, so I don't know what I thought I saw.
As for AA-1025, it's a collection of autobiographical notes from a communist agent who became a priest in order to subvert the Church. It's an interesting read--I particularly enjoyed #1025's dismay at Vatican II not being as postmodern/secularly materialist in its results as he'd hoped--but the reader reviews at Amazon are almost as interesting. They're divided between folks who ascribe all the "modernizations" that accompanied the Novus Ordo to the likes of #1025, and folks who find the plot too convenient, and the story elements too trite, to be anything but fiction. In the words of one of the few uncategorized reviewers, "True or not, what it claims has actually come true."
*** UPDATE ***
I forgot to ask: Does anyone have any idea why Belbo's home town is only written as ***, and never actually named? Maybe it does in the last hundred pages of the book, but by now I'm skeptical.
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
Recent:
AA-1025, The memoirs of an Anti-Apostle, by Marie Carre
I thought I first saw FP on my parents' bookshelf in the early 1980s, and the title struck me--and with an author named Umberto, it was just exotic enough to hold my interest--but I was too young to read it then, and as it turns out, it was first published in 1988, so I don't know what I thought I saw.
As for AA-1025, it's a collection of autobiographical notes from a communist agent who became a priest in order to subvert the Church. It's an interesting read--I particularly enjoyed #1025's dismay at Vatican II not being as postmodern/secularly materialist in its results as he'd hoped--but the reader reviews at Amazon are almost as interesting. They're divided between folks who ascribe all the "modernizations" that accompanied the Novus Ordo to the likes of #1025, and folks who find the plot too convenient, and the story elements too trite, to be anything but fiction. In the words of one of the few uncategorized reviewers, "True or not, what it claims has actually come true."
*** UPDATE ***
I forgot to ask: Does anyone have any idea why Belbo's home town is only written as ***, and never actually named? Maybe it does in the last hundred pages of the book, but by now I'm skeptical.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Currently reading...
Augustine's Confessions (abridged)
R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness that Comes Before
Christopher West's The Theology of the Body Explained
Joe Dever and John Grant's The Eclipse of the Kai
It's a bit onerous. I'm usually happiest reading one book at a time. Naturally, some of these books are going pret-ty slowly....
R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness that Comes Before
Christopher West's The Theology of the Body Explained
Joe Dever and John Grant's The Eclipse of the Kai
It's a bit onerous. I'm usually happiest reading one book at a time. Naturally, some of these books are going pret-ty slowly....
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Currently reading...
Spiritual Combat Revisited, by Jonathan Robinson/Lorenzo Scupoli. Okay, I'm not so much reading it as putting off reading it. It's a good book, but it's hard for me to go more than half an hour or so without succumbing to a rather dry stretch and dozing off, which I think speaks more to my reading habits than to the writing. Almost every time I pick it up, I find some nugget of wisdom, but I just haven't been able to maintain enough momentum to plow through the whole thing and reap the benefits of taking the book as a whole (or at least larger chunks) instead of piecemeal.
You can find a review of it here.
You can find a review of it here.
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