In case anybody here wasn't aware, my weakness is books (especially of the religious/historical and liturgical variety) and I tend to buy way more books than I have the time to read. About a week ago I added to my collection with a new Bible (fourth full Bible that I own, and third distinct translation). It's a Douay-Rheims Bible, adding to the ( Read more... )

There's something intensely satisfying about finishing a book, especially when it's an interesting one that has nevertheless taken you almost a year to read. I really need to devote more time to reading and less to all the internet stupidity that I fill my time with ( Read more... )

I'm thinking that I should probably start reading the books that I have before buying some more books. Unfortunately, my brain doesn't seem to get the message. I just received a few books from Amazon (two books about the Early Church, plus an encyclical from JPII) and bought a few others a couple of weeks ago (something by Eusebius, plus a couple ( Read more... )

Deprived of his insider position, George Weigel slowly loses his mind

Let me start this little rant by admitting that I haven't read Caritas in Veritate, I will read it but it's continuing absence in book form and my recent inability to sit down and read anything might mean that I don't read it for some time. Still, having read both Rerum Novarum ( Read more... )

Stolen from sonria.

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

( My reading habits revealed ahead )

It just keeps getting worse

I was afraid that this might happen when we got news about the closing of the Lansburgh Olsson's. Apparently the book distributors really wanted Olsson's shut down (maybe they prefer faceless national chains like Barnes & Noble), and ultimately they got their wish. This is a victory for bland, generic bookstores and a ( Read more... )

So, I decided to post a bit about my life at the moment after all the convention coverage that I've been hitting you with over the past couple of weeks (sorry about that, maybe I should resurrect the politics-only blog to handle stuff of that sort). We finally got our stuff moved to the new apartment after more than a week of getting stuff out of ( Read more... )

And now local bookstore lovers everywhere shed a tearIt was bad enough when I heard that the Lansburgh Olsson's was closing, now it looks like the whole line of stores might be having some serious problems. Adding to that is the actions of the book companies in trying to force them into liquidation, I guess Penguin Books likes dealing with large ( Read more... )

I keep forgetting to mention that I finally finished reading "The Sickness Unto Death" by Kierkegaard. Yes, that book that has been my nightmare for the past year or two has been vanquished. I find, though, that I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of it. I really don't have a mind for philosophy anymore, and reading this proved that. ( Read more... )

Once again I reach a wall when trying to read this book that I'm trying to read (look at the left column of my journal if you don't know what I'm talking about). I actually got almost halfway through the thing over a weekend back in the middle of July, and haven't even touched it since. Even worse, now that I have my nifty DVD player, not to ( Read more... )