by: Elizabeth Janeway This was a pretty good book. I read it aloud to my 4th grader for his history and I...
Book Reviews
Book Review: Confessions (F.J. Sheed translation)
by Saint Augustine of Hippo I’ve tried a couple of translations of this book over the years and I’m not...
Book Review: Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Dr. John Bergsma I got this for Christmas. It was as great as I hoped it would be.Doctor Bergsma is an Old...
Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
by Joseph Pearce This was an excellent book! It was like a mini-literature course taught by a professor that you love. Mr. Pearce starts back in antiquity with Homer and Virgil and works his way up to the 20th century with a truncated, though informative synopsis of...
The Mysteries of Life in Children’s Literature
by Mitchell Kalpagian I loved practically every sentence of this book. To read this book is to be immersed in the world of children and everything that they are – my favorite of all worlds. The author takes us through the mysteries of life wishes luck goodness truth...
Orthodoxy
by GK Chesterton This book was excellent. It was definitely the most approachable of all of Chesterton's nonfiction that I've read so far. It had good flow, was well-organized, had solid arguments and it was very funny. I had so many of the same questions, problems...
Father Marquette and the Great Rivers
by August Derleth In school we are studying the further exploration into North America. Father Marquette was a Jesuit French priest who had dreamt from childhood to bring God to the Indians in the New World. His dream came true and he was sent on mission to New...
Runaway Ralph
by Beverly Cleary I just finished this as a read aloud with my son who hates read alouds. He was completely drawn into the story and even asked me to continue on when our stopping point came at a suspenseful part of the book. He was sad when it was over and wants to...
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D. An excellent and well-cited recounting of how the Catholic Church was integral in preserving and adding to the achievements of Western Civilization. From Catholics helping save important writings and art during the barbarian raids after...
The Passion of the Infant Christ
by Caryll Houselander I first heard of Caryll Houselander when her reflections would pop up at the end of the daily readings in Magnificat. I don't think there has been even one of her reflections that didn't speak to me and escape being torn out and taped into my...
10 Books that Screwed Up the World
And 5 Others That Didn't Help by Benajmin Wiker A Book Review: If you are a busy parent with oatmeal brain but would still like to learn about the string of various philosophies that have gotten us to where we are today in the world, this is the book for you. Dr....
Wild at Heart and The Way of the Wild Heart
by John Eldredge I read these books for research for a book I'm planning on writing. For my purposes, these books served well, though I probably could have gotten away with just reading The Way of the Wild Heart. I needed ideas for male rites of passage and it was...