Michael Lewis's prose is irksome in its self-satisfaction, but informative & breezy. My hope is that Flash Boys will be as quick a read as was The Big Short. I'm reading The Church of Mercy alongside, & it is a breathe of fresh air. This! This is the Pope Francis we all love, incisive & affecting in homilies & short speeches, a world away from the tortuous, torturous logic & turgid formalism encyclicals & apostolic exhortations.
Recently
Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Jesus: An Invitation
Dr. John Bergsma, Bible Basics for Catholics: A New Picture of Salvation History
Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Currently
Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy: A Vision for the Church
Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Presently
Rice Broocks, God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertainty
Richard Price, Clockers
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
Hilaire Belloc, How the Reformation Happened
(Rev.) Michael White & Tom Corcoran, Rebuilt: The Story of a Catholic Parish
William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor
Jon Baird with Kevin Costner & Stephen Meyer, The Explorers Guild, Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala
Scott & Kimberly Hahn, Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
(A.K.A. Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War)
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