The Queue: Book Club Special

I highly enjoyed the "A Defence of…" essays in G. K. Chesterton's The Defendant. Even though none of The Popish Plot's fellow Catholic YouTubers joined our book club (several of the Catholic mommy YouTubers are conducting a KonMari collab), I've very glad we read & discussed The Defendant. We have two more episodes to film & three more to post, plus the already filmed bonus episode, "A Defence of the Maginot Line." I pray there is much, much more Chesterton in my future, though I do still prefer the more polemical style of Chesterton's friend & collaborator, Hilaire Belloc.

Mere Christianity has improved considerably since the preface. Woot! Miss Mozart hates it & I am curious to find out why.

Recently
C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant

Currently
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Devotionally
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Perpetually
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations ***suspended***

Presently
Steve Weidenkopf, Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church
Tim Gray & Jeff Cavins, Walking with God: A Journey through the Bible
Diane Moczar, Converts and Kingdoms: How the Church Converted the Pagan West—and How We Can Do It Again
Sherry A. Weddell, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
Curtis Martin, Making Missionary Disciples
Dynamic Catholic Ambassadors, Why I Love Being Catholic
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
Jennifer Fulwiler, Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It
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