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1d ago
The Way of the Cross
CTS Children’s Books
CTS Devotions
Juliette Levivier
Anna Gravier (Illustrations)
Catholic Truth Society
Hardcover
ISBN 9781860823985
ISBN 186082398X
CTS Booklet CH4
Paperback
ISBN 9781784695972
CTS Booklet CH70
As of the reading of this book over the last few years I have read over 385 volumes from the Catholic Truth Society. I stumbled upon them while doing research on an author, and have been hooked ever since. This is the fifteenth Stations or Way of the Cross from the CTS I have read. I try and pray a Stations each day during Lent, and each Friday the rest of ..read more
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1d ago
Jack On A Wire
Hunt For Reacher Book 18 (21)
Diane Capri
August Books
ISBN 9781942633990
eISBN 9781942633983
ASIN B0CKCJNBDZ
This book is another great read in the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series. OA few years ago I have read all of the Jack Reacher stories and all of the Hunt for Jack Reacher stories as well that were available at the time. Since then I have been reading them as they release. The Child brothers are releasing 1 book a year and Capri is releasing two. I am also now reading one of the other approved spin off series, the Reacher Experiment. This will be the 56th Reacher st ..read more
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3d ago
The Naturals
The Naturals Book 1
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 9780316540629
eISBN 9781423181187
ASIN B00CXXEWZG
I picked a copy of this a couple of years ago because my niece was reading it at the time. However, it got lost in the plethora of books on my kindle and I never got around to reading it. This year my youngest, 13, picked it to read in class for school reading and a book report. She has to read the physical copy and read it in class. She debated between this and the Inheritance Games series, both had come highly recommended, but a few other girls ..read more
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4d ago
Saint George: Dragon Slayer
15-Minute Books 613
Jeannie Meekins
Learning Island
eISBN 9781301421985
ASIN B00BZDPOL6
This is the third volume I have read in this series by this author. The first was excellent, the second was meh, this one is in the middle and is a pretty good read. I picked this up to read after reading Mary MacKillop: Australia's First Saint, from the same author in the same series. I enjoyed that first one so much, I picked up the eight volumes in the series about saints. As much as I loved that first one, I found second was a disappointment. Fortunately, this one tur ..read more
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5d ago
My Daily Prayer List April 2024
And How I Found a Way to Pray More
Prayer like physical exercise is something I believe takes practice, discipline and planning. Much as we train the body or the mind we need to train the spirit to grow in prayer.
Several years ago, I used the app/website Coach.me to track some goals. I thought it would be good to use as a tool to pray more. So, I started building goals on it for specific prayers each day. The problem was that over time it became about the streak, and I struggled with that. SO I started creating calendar reminders for the different pra ..read more
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6d ago
Deus Volt
Dinosaur Warfare 3
N.R. LaPoint
Mistcreek Publishing
ISBN 9798854753951
ASIN B0CDJWZG1V
The series had been great from the beginning and each installment takes it to a whole new level. This was the ninth offering from the pen of N. R. LaPoint that I have read. The first was a short story, Azrael, in the anthology Swords and Maidens he edited; the second was, Christmas Evil: A Heavy Metal Holiday Novella. I have just finished alternating titles in this series his Raven Mistcreek series and his few stand-alones. I have one published novel to read to complete those currently in ..read more
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1w ago
Cymbeline
William Shakespeare
Peter Holland (Editor)
The Pelican Shakespeare
Penguin Classics
ISBN 9780140714722
eISBN 9781101667255
ASIN B07MYLB6VD
A few years back I started reading Shakespeare again, as my children were being introduced to it in High school. Then two years ago my son who is now 16 found he had a love for the Bard and for plays, much as I did at that time. We had been sticking to the Oxford School Shakespeare editions as those were the versions they were reading in school. This year we picked up tickets for three Shakespeare plays at The Stratford Festival, including this ..read more
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1w ago
Blessed Miguel Pro
Ann Ball
TAN Books
ISBN 9780895555427
eISBN 9781618901538
ASIN B00DGXBHZK
I read this as part of Father Mark Goring’s Saint Mark’s School of Reading. I picked up the eBook to follow along, as a part time student. It was wonderful reading this with Father Mark’s weekly videos. The description of this book states:
“This is the inspiring story of the famous Father Miguel Pro who was executed in Mexico in 1927 for the crime of being a Catholic priest. This young Jesuit spent most of his short life in the priesthood dodging the Mexican police as he ministered to the undergrou ..read more
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1w ago
The Way of the Cross
According to the Method of St. Alphonsus Liguori
Alfonso María de Liguori
TAN Books
ISBN 9780895553133
eISBN 9781505103052
ASIN B00ZD1VFGE
Back in 2006 a year after I started writing reviews for newspapers and magazines I wrote a couple of posts with quick short reviews of various Stations of the Cross or Way of the Cross versions that I used often. This was one of the volumes covered. Since then I have written longer reviews of several of those Stations, but I had not yet done this one. I actually have three variations on this booklet. I have this specific edition from ..read more
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1w ago
Daily Prayers to Save America:
The Mantle of Mary Project
Fr. John Anthony Boughton CFR
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
Xavier Macfarlane (Editor)
Mary Foundation
ISBN 9780964631694
ASIN B09RN8ZBZY
My first encounter with this prayer book was in the novel Catholic Joe Superhero by Steven S Thomas, in it he mentions in passing a box of green prayer books and a priest recommending that the main character pick up one. I reached out to Steve to find out if it was a specific book and he let me to this volume. You can download a pdf for free from the Mary Foundation site. I choose to pick up the Kindle ..read more