I'll pick it up in a couple of weeks. I owe it to myself, after all doesn't it take place in Grosse Pointe? (my hometown)
Hitting the Hippie stuff pretty hard at the moment Started up Ethics for the New Millenium by the Dalai Lama, after coming down from the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (which appealed to me more than Narnia ever managed to...oh it tried and failed so very hard)
Finished what I listed above. I'm currently reading another Robert Bly poetry anthology: The Soul is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures and a book called The Life You Save May Be Your Own, by Paul Elie, which is about four 20th Century U.S. Catholic writers: Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy. Very interesting, considering it's a group biography of people who have quite a bit in common, but whose lives didn't intersect with each other all that often, at least to the extent that the Beat writers did.
Reading Selected Essays by Fr. Michael Pomazansky. Here's the description from a website: In this collection of sixteen essays Fr. Michael Pomazansky examines and evaluates the errors of modernism which today agitate world-wide Orthodoxy. These humble and gentle, yet penetrating essays lack the angry tone of some writers, and are therefore all the more valuable for today's reader. This volume also contains a short biography of Fr. Michael, who died in 1988 at the age of 100. He graduated from a pre-Revolutionary Russian seminary, and was for many years Professor of Theology at Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, New York.
I have been reading the Harry Potter books. I didn't read the first one but I read year 2 and 3 in less than a week. There is one thing I didn't understand from the prisioner of azkaban though. If someone could answer that would be cool. After Harry and Herminonie let Buckbeak free, what did the executioner and the ministry of majic do, just let it slide? I think I put the book down and skipped a paragraph by accident though. I will be starting the Goblet of Fire tomarrow or sunday. Now I know why my sister says they are addicting. Broccoli Dolores
My son tells me that McNair, the executioner, slams his ax into a tree stump and Cornelius Fudge talks to Hagrid about it, but there isn't really much they could do. The kids just got away with it.
Yup. They never know Harry and Hermione were involved. They assumed that the hippogriff worked free from his rope and flew away. I can't wait for the 6th book. The 5th one left so many questions hanging. Granted, I didn't start reading them until about a year ago, so I guess I just got accustomed to having the next book readily available.
Just plowed through Bringing Down the House, about the MIT students who took Vegas for millions. Told a teacher across the hall about it and he said, there is no way to count cards in Vegas. I told him to read the book. Also, read through Rubicon, a historical fiction bit about a murder in Rome; the two warring factions of Casear and Pompey play major roles in the book. Started off intriguing but then dovetailed near the end.
I've read some interesting stuff online about the possible veracity of the stories in the book. Regardless, it's an incredible read. I'm struggling through . Just can't get too into it, but I have made it halfway and want to finish. With summer and writing, it's hard to get into a groove.
There was a pretty good show about this (or something like this) on the Travel Channel a couple of weeks ago.
Dusted off and read an old College Classic. Machiavelli's The Prince I had forgotten how good that was. I then hit the bestseller's list....... I read The Five People You Meet In Heaven , Seabiscuit and I am currently reading Benjamin Franklin
That silly movie starring Brad Pitt's thighs has made me want to reread the Illiad. I was force fed in 9th grade English and didn't hate it, but I never really got the sense that I got much out of it either. Does anyone have any recommendations among the half dozen or more translations currently in print?
It's been on my list for a while. Might get to it once I finish Brilliant Orange which, given my interest in the material so far, might be very soon.
Finally finished this. It's 800 or so pages, but really fairly quick reading. I've just been busy with a bunch of other random stuff and didn't have much time to sit down with it. Very enjoyable book. For those who have read the first one, I would say this one is heavier on the swashbuckling adventure stuff and lighter on the Natual Philosophy discussions.
I just finished the "DaVinci Code" I liked it a lot but really don't see why it freaked out christians...it's clearly fiction...it was smart & intelligent and I learned things from it. I am looking forward to David Sedaris' new book, should be out on June 1st.
Cutting this one off at the request of los BigSoccer jefes. Continue yakking here: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114396