Just a couple of notes recently received from kind readers who took the time to email and let me know that they appreciated books mentioned here:
At the beginning of the year I prayed for the gift of silence. The year has not been going well at all in respects to this prayer; then I started reading this book.
The book...The Gift of Faith.
And then from a long-time reader, who'd written me with a question I have unfortunately forgotten, but in answer to which I recommended a book: Why Matter Matters: Philosophical and Scriptural Reflecitons on the Sacraments.
...what a great treatise. It's one of those books that makes one revisit everything one holds dear and look at each thing through it like a prism. I've just begun, but chapter one alone is like a prolepsis, a densely packed version of what (I hope) the rest of the book will visit in turn. BTW, I'm realizing what a gnostic I've been for much of my life!
So...here's a bestseller's list for ya:
What Books People who Read Amy's Open Book blog and Michael's Annunciation blog are buying this month.
March 2007 (3/25/07)
1. A Pocket Guide to the Meaning of Life (Peter Kreeft)
2. The Roman Catholic Church: An Illustrated History
3 (tie) Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths
3. (tie)A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction
3. (tie) By Way of Grace: Moving from Faithfulness to Holiness
3. (tie) The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life
1. The Power of the Cross: Meditations for the Lenten Season
2. The How-To Book of the Mass: Everything You Need to Know but No One Ever Taught You
3. The Gift of Faith
4. The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed & Ward Collection
5. Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths
February 2007
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