by Mary Shelley This was another book on Joseph Pearce’s "100 Works of Literature Every Catholic Should...
Book Reviews
Book Review: American Pilgrimage
by: Christopher Shannon This is a Catholic history of life in the New World which, as I have learned from...
Book Review: Tremendous Trifles
by: GK Chesterton I went in search of this book after reading a quote attributed to it – “A baby is the...
Book Review: The Way of the Cross
by: Caryll Houselander This probably goes without saying, but this was an excellent book to read for Lent. There is an overview of the Via Crucis and then a chapter dedicated to each...
Book Review: Happy Are You Poor
by Thomas Dubay I follow a Franciscan monk who recommended this book. He said he found it particularly challenging. It intrigued me that a man who has given up everything to live a life in service of God found a book on spiritual poverty...
Book Review: Utopia
by Thomas More I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading this book. I’d read it was a satire and then the guy who wrote the introduction to the version I was reading insisted it wasn’t...
Book Review: The Drama of Atheist Humanism
by Henri De Lubac Henri de Lubac wrote most of this book while living in Nazi occupied France. It traces the roots of the “New Atheism” back to its beginnings starting as far back as...
Book Review: A Lion to Guard Us
by Clyde Robert Bulla Amanda, about 10 I think, and her two younger siblings (8 and 6) were living in the house of their mother’s employer. Their mother was very ill so Amanda was doing what she could as a kitchen girl to earn their keep. Her father had...
Book Review: The Family Under the Bridge
by Natalie Savage Carlson I was hoping for a lovely little story for our Christmas read aloud and boy was I not disappointed. This book was charming, funny and profound but without...
Book Review: The True Meaning of Christmas
by Michael Barber I’m not an expert at Christmas, but it’s a holiday that fascinates me which leads me to read a lot on it. So, maybe I’m a kind of a demi-expert? Suffice it...
Book Review: Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
by: Michael Barber There are a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be saved. Michael Barber takes the reader through 10 chapters of misconceptions and corrects them using scripture, the Catechism and the church fathers. This book is thorough and dense with...
Book Review: The Common Man
by GK Chesterton This book is a collection of about 44 essays on subjects ranging from the common man to necromancy to Elizabeth Barrett Browning to nudism to match making historical figures and how they're getting together may have changed history. Needless to say, I...