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Could be a book, an article, this thread, something dry, or something very interesting!

Currently re-reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Discovering Grounded Theory by Glaser and Strauss, 1967.

After that:
Doing Grounded Theory: Issues & Discussion, by Glaser, 1998
Constructing Grounded Theory, by Charmaz, 2014
Theoretical Sensitivity: Advances in the Methodology of Grounded Theory, by Glaser, 1978
The Grounded Theory Perspective III: Theoretical Coding, by Glaser, 2005

Goal is to have those read by next May, along with two or three dozen related papers. That's in addition my normal school assignments. (Right now, Organizational Change by Burke, 2011).

I did, though, just finish a fun book called The AItheist by Svigel, 2023.

That list is very...uh....grounded?

Currently reading, for fun, Etienne Gilson's The Christian Philosophy of Saint Augustine and volume 3 of Hudson Strode's biography of Jefferson Davis. Along with other stuff for work. The worky thing I'm probably most enjoying right now is Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange's The Sense of Mystery.

Since the Jack has a to-do list, I'll join in. My next for fun books are volume 6 of Dumas Malone's biography of Thomas Jefferson, The Sage of Monticello; and Fr. Sean Davidson's Saint Mary Magdalene; Prophetess of Eucharistic Love. I might also go for Gilson's book on Saint Bonaventure.

Currently reading "Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist" by Dr. Brant Pitre

He is one of my favorite Catholic Authors and I highly recommend anything he has written.

I've just finished reading for the second time Father Charles Arminjon"s "The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life"

Published in 1881 in French and then translated in 2008 by Susan Conroy (yes EWTN's Susan Conroy) I found this book simply fascinating if for no other reason, and their are many others, the incredible insight or perhaps foresight in to our era of Catholicism. I would suggest this book to any and all interested in great insight in to the Church of the present from the perspective of, I believe a prophet from the 19th century. A wonderful reading.

I've just started a new book, much smaller and less intense but infinitely informative called the "Ancient Order of Melchizedek" by Ken Johnson. I am not a particularly learned man, as i found out very early in my reading to be a Melchizedeken priest you must be a King, a Prophet and a Priest. This now makes, Jesus in the order of Melchizedek, not the order of Levi or Aaron much clearer. The book traces the 10 Melchizedeken priest from Adam to Jesus, and sights the good the bad and the ugly of each (except Jesus of course).

I'm only half way through but I am in hopes, and sure, there is more for me to discern as I continue reading.

It is very easy reading and that puts it right up my alley!

ES

gherkin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:08 pm Since the Jack has a to-do list, I'll join in. My next for fun books are volume 6 of Dumas Malone's biography of Thomas Jefferson, The Sage of Monticello; and Fr. Sean Davidson's Saint Mary Magdalene; Prophetess of Eucharistic Love. I might also go for Gilson's book on Saint Bonaventure.

In some alternate universe, I would have taken classes from you somewhere. In all my years of chatting with you back and forth a little here and there, I've never asked you what you do. I simply cannot imagine you don't teach professionally, and I'm probably one of about three people on this board who doesn't actually know that.

But just so YOU know, I've learned a lot from you over the years. I appreciate you more than you know, and if God allows, I hope to bring some of the classical views I've learned in part from you and this board to the work I want to be doing.

Blessings, good sir.

Just started The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by America's greatest writer Mark Twain. It's my fourth time to read it.

A great book, and most unexpected from the cynical Twain.

Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

Eifelheim, Catholic scifi. It's a genre I'm exploring and after this book I want to start a series about a group of nuns who are space rescuers. I know, that sounds campy, but it's unlike anything I've heard of before!

thejack wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 9:28 pm

gherkin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:08 pm Since the Jack has a to-do list, I'll join in. My next for fun books are volume 6 of Dumas Malone's biography of Thomas Jefferson, The Sage of Monticello; and Fr. Sean Davidson's Saint Mary Magdalene; Prophetess of Eucharistic Love. I might also go for Gilson's book on Saint Bonaventure.

In some alternate universe, I would have taken classes from you somewhere. In all my years of chatting with you back and forth a little here and there, I've never asked you what you do. I simply cannot imagine you don't teach professionally, and I'm probably one of about three people on this board who doesn't actually know that.

But just so YOU know, I've learned a lot from you over the years. I appreciate you more than you know, and if God allows, I hope to bring some of the classical views I've learned in part from you and this board to the work I want to be doing.

Blessings, good sir.

Very kind of you to say. I don't talk openly about what I do for a living because the nature of the board makes it irrelevant, but you're right, I am involved in education. We've occasionally struggled to communicate effectively together, you and I, but I'm still always glad to see you posting. You bring a lot of value.

I reading several different books right now (well, 15) but one that is relevant to this forum is "Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger" by Gary Mitchua, the second expanded and revised edition, not the first edition which I read years ago.

Deacon Arky wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:38 am Currently reading "Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist" by Dr. Brant Pitre

He is one of my favorite Catholic Authors and I highly recommend anything he has written.

I have several of his books listed in my Amazon Wishlist and hope to get around to them soon. (I tend to buy books that I can read with my Kindle app on my iPhone or iPad. There are some generally older books not in digital format that I might still buy.)

p.falk wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:08 pm Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

I very much enjoyed Death Comes for the Archbishop. Every time it mentioned "Las Vegas," I had to remind myself it was a reference to Las Vegas, New Mexico, and not to the city that would pop up in a Nevada desert roughly a half-century later.

Irenaeus wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 11:52 pm

p.falk wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:08 pm Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

I very much enjoyed Death Comes for the Archbishop. Every time it mentioned "Las Vegas," I had to remind myself it was a reference to Las Vegas, New Mexico, and not to the city that would pop up in a Nevada desert roughly a half-century later.

Some interesting similarities between Elizabeth Goudge ("Green Dolphin Street") and Willa Cather ("Death Comes for the Archbishop")... the former an Anglican who writes very lovingly about Catholicism ("Green Dolphin Street") and the other an Episcopalian who writes lovingly about Catholicism ("Death Comes...").

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:09 pm A great book, and most unexpected from the cynical Twain.

As you may know, Twain arranged for Harper's Magazine to serialize this anonymously so that the public would evaluate it without the "baggage" of his reputation as a satirist. Some people think it lacks his customary humor, but this injures the writer - and the truth. As a long-time reader of the American Master, I find his wit in every chapter, every page, every paragraph. His language is unmistakable. I could circle word after word, phrase after phrase, that one could find duplicated in any of his other works.

For hilarity equal to "Jim Blaine and His Grandfather’s Ram," go to Chapter 15/BOOK II IN COURT AND CAMP: "My Exquisite Poem Goes to Smash."

Re-reading The Lord of the Rings, probably the 30th time I've read it.