The Queue

Twice I've borrowed A Legacy of Spies from the library & twice it has sat unread on my nightstand. Mayhap the third time will be the charm, some time in the Year of Our Lord 2018, when Ordinary Time commences after the Epiphany closes the Christmastide.

I've actually been reading Rome Sweet Home for a week now. Last week, I picked up a copy during my weekly stint in the Perpetual Adoration Chapel & was immediately gripped by the Hahns' engaging writing styles & complementary perspectives; so, once I returned home I bumped my own copy up to the top of the queue. Unlike A Legacy of Spies, Rome Sweet Home has not sat unread on my nightstand.

Beautiful Hope is at the core of this year's "Best Advent Ever" e-mail devotional from the Dynamic Catholic Institute. I believe Perfectly Yourself is this book to be given away at Christmas as part of this year's Book Program, thereafter to be at the core of next year's "Best Lent Ever" e-mail devotional; so, I may well promote it ahead of the oft-delayed Vanished Kingdoms after the holidays.

Also, I've removed Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ from the queue because I aim to start reading it a chapter a day, as a devotional rather than as a book, if that distinction makes sense.

Recently
Gary Chapman with Randy Southern, The 5 Love Languages for Men: Tools for Making a Good Relationship Great
Kevin Lowry, How God Hauled Me Kicking and Screaming into the Catholic Church
Deacon Eugene Hausmann, Catholics Go by the Bible: Biblical Sources of Catholic Theology & Liturgy ***abandoned***

Currently
Scott & Kimberly Hahn, Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
Matthew Kelly & Co., Beautiful Hope: Finding Hope Every Day in a Broken World

Presently
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations ***paused***
Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: Discovering God's Dream for You
Sherry A. Weddell, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
William E. Simon Jr., Great Catholic Parishes: How Four Essential Practices Make Them Thrive
Bishop Robert Barron, Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture
Mike Aquilina, Understanding the Mass: 100 Questions, 100 Answers
Xavier Rynne, Vatican Council II
John W. O'Malley, What Happened at Vatican II
Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love)
Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis (The Sacrament of Charity)
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
William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies