Reading List Update
It’s time for a Reading List update and, thanks to my vacation and several long plane rides, I have much progress to report…
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Reading List Update
Desert Fathers: The Devil Loves Dusty Bibles
A hermit said, “the prophets wrote books. Our predecessors came after them, and worked hard at them, and then their successors memorized them. But this generation copies them onto papyrus and parchment and leaves them unused on the window-ledge.
– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V
Reading List Update
Last year I didn’t complete my Reading List and so to encourage me to finish it this year I’m going to post an update on the 1st of every month with my progress.
Tea, reading and other important topics…
Here are some statistics from 2003 conducted by The Jenkins Group:
• One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
Shocking, right? I mention these statistics because I am currently picking out the books I’m going to read in 2013, drawing heavily from the Best Catholic Books of All-Time list posted by Brandon Vogt:
I’ll be posting my 2013 Reading List in a week or two. So what books do you plan to read next year?
Update on “Twelve for 2012″…
I was reading Jennifer Fulwiler’s blog entry The Mystery of the Catholic Book Buyer and it prompted me to write another update for my Twelve for 2012…
Here are the finished books:
The Church and the New Media – Brandon Vogt
I’m Not Being Fed! – Jeff Cavins
The Passion of Jesus Christ – John Piper
Father Brown of the Church of Rome – G.K Chesterton
The Story of Christianity – Justo Gonzalez
How To Listen When God Is Speaking – Mitch Pacwa, SJ
Godless Delusion – Patrick Madrid & Kenneth Hensley
Here are the bonus books/documents I’ve read which were not on the list:
The One Thing – Matthew Kelly
Pillar of Fire and Truth – Catholic Answers
Quitter – Jon Acuff
The meaning of Vocation – Pope John Paul II
Orientalium Ecclesiarum – Second Vatican Council
Deus Caritas Est – Pope Benedict XVI
I am currently reading:
Jesus of Nazareth – Pope Benedict XVI
Vatican II: The Crisis And The Promise – Alan Schreck (I’m reading this for the course I’m doing)
The books still to read:
Rediscover Catholicism – Matthew Kelly
Jesus Among Other Gods – Ravi Zacharias
Philosophy For Dummies – Thomas Morris
The Path of Life – Cyprian Smith OSB
Update on “Twelve for 2012″…
At the beginning of the year I posted my Twelve for 2012, the twelve books I was going to read this year. I thought I’d post an update on how I’m doing with the list.
Here are the books on the list which I finished:
The Church and the New Media
– Brandon Vogt
I’m Not Being Fed!
– Jeff Cavins
The Passion of Jesus Christ
– John Piper
Father Brown of the Church of Rome
– G.K Chesterton
The Story of Christianity
– Justo Gonzalez
I suppose that it’s no surprise that I was unable to restrict myself to my initial reading list! Yes, that’s right, I’ve been naughty and read some books that weren’t on the list:
The One Thing
– Matthew Kelly
Pillar of Fire and Truth
– Catholic Answers
Quitter
– Jon Acuff
I am currently reading:
How To Listen When God Is Speaking
– Mitch Pacwa, SJ
…and here are the books which I still have yet to read:
Rediscover Catholicism – Matthew Kelly
Godless Delusion – Patrick Madrid & Kenneth Hensley
The Path of Life – Cyprian Smith OSB
Jesus of Nazareth – Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus Among Other Gods – Ravi Zacharias
Philosophy For Dummies – Thomas Morris
So I have six books to read in five months. This means that I have to read at least one book each month until the end of the year. Fortunately, the books on the list which I’ve already read are generally the longer ones. All the remaining books to read, with the exception of Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth, are reasonably short.