The Queue

As usual, there is little to report when I'm working my way through Vanished Kingdoms, though in particular my miserable experience working for Friends of the Master has curtailed my reading. The current chapter is stupefyingly dull, concerning one of the erstwhile German statelets, specifically a single castle that was beloved of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom & her consort, Prince Albert, historical personages in whom I have little interest.

I, along with my Popish Plot co-plotters Brother & Mrs. Envy, am reading Why We're Catholic as part of a Catholic YouTubers book club collaboration. The collaboration schedule will conclude before the end of the liturgical year (Saturday, 1 December); so, I need to finish Why We're Catholic by Thanksgiving.

By next weekend, by the centenary of the Armistice on 11 November, I will begin reading Paris 1919.

Recently
Matthew Kelly, The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity: How Modern Culture Is Robbing Billions of People of Happiness
William E. Simon Jr., Great Catholic Parishes: A Living Mosaic—How Four Essential Practices Make Them Thrive
Pope Saint Clement I (A.K.A. Clement of Rome), The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Currently
Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

Presently
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Jennifer Fulwiler, Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It
Sherry A. Weddell, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
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)
Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture
Rosario Carello, Pope Francis Takes the Bus and Other Unexpected Stories
Father Mathias D. Thelen, Biblical Foundations for the Role of Healing in Evangelization
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
John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies
Diane Moczar, Converts and Kingdoms: How the Church Converted the Pagan West—and How We Can Do It Again