Christmas presents
Today Gretchen was going online to order some Dr. Suess books for our nephew Michael. She noticed some books that I had been interested in and that Barnes and Nobles had sent us a 25% off coupon. So she ordered the books for Michael and me.
She ordered for me:
Elie Weisel's Trilogy Night, Dawn, and Day
Wiesel’s trilogy offers meditations on mankind’s attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction.
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short novel Dawn (1961), a young man who has survived the Second World War and settled in Palestine is apprenticed to a Jewish underground movement, where the former victim is commanded to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage. In Day (previously titled The Accident, 1962), Wiesel questions the limits of the spirit and the self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories of the old?
The Sayings Of The Desert Fathers,
translated by Benedicta Ward
This book is a classic of Christian mysticism-the collected words of the 4th century ascetic monks who fled to the desert to discover closeness with God.
