What Are You Reading? Novels?

[the_rev]

Hey all,

I'm hoping to acquire a new novel on my kindle in the next day or so, and so I am trying to find out what some recommended reads are? Are you reading something good right now?

I'm hoping to read something in the fictitious genre.

Thanks.

[PhuturePriest]

The Fault in Our Stars.

 

Read it.

[Nihil Obstat]

I am reading Marcel Lefebvre's Open Letter to Confused Catholics, and Alcuin Reid's Organic Development of the Liturgy. No fiction on the go at the moment, unless you could the thrilling love story between 李友，王朋，白英爱和高文中 in my Chinese textbook.

[Nihil Obstat]

Two of the best books on the liturgy I have ever read are: Laszlo Dobszay's Restoration and Organic Development of the Roman Rite, and Geoffrey Hull's Banished Heart: Origins of Heteropraxis in the Catholic Church. Both changed the way I see the liturgy.

Trojan Horse in the City of God, by Dietrich von Hildebrand is also very excellent.

[Not The Philosopher]

I recently read the first two books in John C. Wright's "Count to the Eschaton" series: Count to A Trillion, and The Hermetic Millenia.

 

They're good reads if you're up for some hard SF with some Catholic undertones (especially in the second book).

[Eowyn]

The Elusive Pimpernal (via Librivox) - the Pimpernal books are a lot of fun.

[OnlySunshine]

Hey all,

I'm hoping to acquire a new novel on my kindle in the next day or so, and so I am trying to find out what some recommended reads are? Are you reading something good right now?

I'm hoping to read something in the fictitious genre.

Thanks.

 

I just got done reading "A Captain's Duty" which was the book that inspired the movie, "Captain Phillips."  It was a very good read but I will warn you that it has some adult language like the "f" word and such towards the end.  It's nothing too over the top, though.  It gives more insight into what actually happened that the movie was unable to provide.

 

Another good book is "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr.  It's from the 90s so I'm not sure if it's available on the Kindle yet or not.  My mom LOVED the book and just bought another copy.  I'm not sure of the content because I haven't read it yet. 

 

ETA: I just checked and both these books are available for the Kindle.  ;)

Edited March 3, 2014 by MaterMisericordiae

[Mary+Immaculate<3]

I'm about to read Dostyevsky's Crime and Punishment for world lit class.

[ChristinaTherese]

I'm reading An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott right now. I love everything she wrote that I've read, although that is a pretty small selection. She takes life as it is and writes about that, which hasn't changed terribly much since when she was writing. (I'd guess Civil War era or so.) She likes old-fashioned values too, which is something I like about her. Other people might accuse it of moralizing.

 

Everything I've read by Diana Wynne Jones has been good, for some simple fantasy.

 

I'm also reading The Lamb's Supper, by Scott Hahn. It talks about Revelation and the Mass together and is very interesting so far. I don't know if it's on Kindle.