AnneLine Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Last year, Byz started a summer reading competition.... http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/129669-summer-reading-competition/ and then when people wanted one, we did an Advent to Candlemas one as well! http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/132285-advent-to-candlemas-reading-competition-2013-2014/ Several people (Hi, Chrysophlax and CarterMia!) have asked me if we can do the summer one again... and I said it belonged to Byz.... So after being BADGERED, I checked in with him, and Byz is cool with it but can't do it himself this year. SO....we're gonna try it again. Because both people called it a 'summer reading thing' I kinda liked that as the name. We've also learned the hard way to keep it fun, rather than focusing on a competition. AND I learned a lot last time about what not to do, too!!! Rules in the next post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share Posted June 25, 2014 (edited) We are going to see how many books and how many pages we can read between today (June 25) and Midnight September 25th. That gives us 2 months. The deadline will be MIDNIGHT in your time zone. You can count books you are currently reading as of this date, or that you completed during this week (starting Sun June 22)! AND.... People enjoyed having a BONUS for 'challenging books' -- we want to encourage people to try a book they have been putting off because it is too hard, too thick, in a second language -- whatever would challenge you. You can designate ONE BOOK AT A TIME for that designation... and double count those books and pages. Let us know why it is a challenge for you! We want to encourage you!!!! The double counting of CHALLENGE books bonus will be the ONLY way to earn extra points (I learned my lesson last time!) As with the original Summer Reading Competition guidelines from Byz, you need to specify the NAME OF THE BOOK and the AUTHOR, and if you want to count page numbers, the number of pages. If you are listening to an audiobook, that will count -- we will accept the page number count as for a copy of the same book on Amazon. :) Sooooo.... time to put on your reading glasses... or set up your speakers... and pull out a good book!!!!!!!! Edited June 25, 2014 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spem in alium Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) Remember Me, by Penelope Wilcock. (224 pages) :) Edited June 26, 2014 by Spem in alium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Credo in Deum Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I can't wait to put "Go, Dog. Go!" by P.D. Eastman under my belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I'm currently reading The Hobbit, and the fascinating classic The City of God by Saint Augustine. People say it's a hard read, but I'm understanding it quite easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) Coool! GOod to see people reading again! I am reading... Star Trek Volume 1:3 of the the Original Series Scripts (it's LONG)! by James Blish Autobiography of A Hunted Priest by John Gerard, SJ and Last year I got The Boook Thief (author escapes me right now!) AND for my challenge book... vol 1 of the Collected Letters of St. Teresa (I have have to read them and it is like reading her email... wish me luck!) Who else is reading!? Edited June 26, 2014 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spem in alium Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I can't wait to put "Go, Dog. Go!" by P.D. Eastman under my belt. :lol4: I've got four books on the go: The Fatherhood of St Joseph (Joseph Mueller, SJ) - particularly deep, so probably my "challenging" book at the moment. Joseph Most Just: theological questions about St Joseph (Francis L. Filas, SJ., STD) Joseph and Jesus: a theological study of their relationship (Fr Filas, again) Mary and Joseph: their lives and their times (Denis O'Shea) As you can see, there's a common theme among them... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spem in alium Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 and Last year I got The Boook Thief (author escapes me right now!) Markus Zusak. I like him. :) I attended a talk he gave a couple of years ago at a writer's festival and he seemed really down-to-earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spem in alium Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) And you may be interested in this: [youtube]http://youtu.be/A-_8QIdm4hA[/youtube] :) Edited June 26, 2014 by Spem in alium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximillion Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 A Country Child by Alison Uttley 216p. Monastery Without Walls: Daily Life in the Silence. Bruce Davis 196p Started yesterday. Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness. Anthology 224p. Half way through this. Poverty Chastity and Obedience. Mother Mary Francis. Kindle Edition (148 print pages). I think my challenge book will be one of the Philosophy books I started after the end of the last challenge and didn't get far into......will advise of title. I always have several books on the go and a couple I am reading/listening to on my Kindle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Cooool! Sounds like people are getting started / already started without any prompting!!!! HABITS, we have a HABIT going!!!!! Thank you Byz!!!! Glad you are enjoying The City of God, Miles -- do you want to call it your challenge book?????? (It earns you double credit if you finish it... and it's about 1000 pages if I remember correctly!) (I liked it too -- and I liked it much better than The Confessions...) DTA, that HAS to be our motto for this thread..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountrySteve21 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I already started two books For my Lectio the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew( using the Navarre commentary; there amazing!) and the Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude the Great which is fascinating! It has renewed my amazement on how much Our Lord loves. Pax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 So Spem has come up with our first completed book of the summer-- well done! I can't understand WHY books on St. Joseph might be interesting to you. :rolleyes: And thanks for the info on Markus Zusak -- author of The Book Thief! Thank you! Oh... and I just finished Madeleine L'Engle's The Arm of the Starfish again; read it last summer -- but I am part of an email L'Engle Book Discussion List, and they are reading it and talking about it... Still can't decide if I liked it or not... but I got more of the pathos this summer. And learned more about the nature of temptation... and how hard it is to make good choices. I also have a comment about the Star Trek compilation book -- they were written just under 50 years ago now (yowie!) and I was in about 8th grade when the series was on TV for the first time. I remember my mom saying that one of her co-workers had a brother working for NASA (very cool at that time!) and they were quite astonished by some of the things that were being posited on the program that were actually ON the drawing board... and they are things WE take for granted now like communicators (flip phones/cell phones anyone?) and real-time visual communications (Skype????) were just being developed at that point, and some people wondered if 'secrets' weren't being given to the StarTrek writers/prop people. :giggle: And.... both books are a little dated (over 50 years old now), and some of the situations couldn't happen today in the era of emails and cell phones and internet. But those aside, the basic stories hold... . But I found myself wondering.... I wonder what people will make of 'modern' books like The Fault In Our Stars (which many of us read last summer); it seemed cutting edge to us in 2013... but how will IT read in... yikes! 2065???? I guess that ARFink (if he joins us in this thread!) would be the one to tell us what is likely to be the cutting edge stuff in OUR world that will be common place in 50 years.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Welcome, CountrySteve!!!! Those sound really interesting. Did you want to designate one of those (or a different book?) as your 'Challenge' book? Glad we lured you into this thread! @CredoinDeum, Go, Dog, Go! is not the first -- nor last -- piece of children's literature we have enjoyed in the last few summers! Just don't get all philosophical or psychological about it with us, OK? Are you reading those, Max, or have you completed them???? I know there are a few others out there who are reading but have not yet formally 'joined' us -- I'll go ahead and post the current list of readers and completed/books in progress in about 24 hours.... and then update it every few weeks, as we did before. It's fun to be doing this again!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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