Fr. Dwight, who spends an inordinate amount of time upside down, tagged me for the book Meme. There is a long-running radio show in England called 'Desert Island Discs' - a celebrity chooses the ten (or is it eight, I can't remember) records that they would take if stranded on a desert island. Of course, if you are invited on more than once, they will probably change, so the 'Books which have influenced me most' section is really arbitrary - so:
What I am Reading at the Moment:
1. Pope Benedict XVI: A Theological Portrait - Fr. Vincent Twomey
2. Cardinal Manning - Sir Shane Leslie
3. The Window in the Wall - Msgr. Ronald Knox
What I've Recently Read:
1. Gentle Regrets - Roger Scruton
2. Thomas More - Peter Ackroyd
3. Confessions of a Convert - Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson
4. Schall on Chesterton - Fr. James Schall
5. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
6. Catholic Converts - Patrick Allitt
7. Cell - Stephen King
Books which have influenced me most:
The Bible and Shakespeare are already on the Island so...
1. The Lord - Romano Guardini
2. The Life of St. Francis - Thomas of Celano
3. The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton
4. A Time of Gifts/Between the Woods and the Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor
5. Love Unlimited - Barry White (ok, that's a joke)
p.s. - just received an email from the great Fr. George of Park Avenue - his new book is out - go out and buy it immediately!
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10 comments:
Patrick Leigh Fermor's books are a wonderful choice. There is an anthology by his Goddaughter which contains a few bits and pieces about what would be covered in Book 3 if Sir Patrick finishes it before he dies.
ttony - can you tell me its name? I have been waiting for years for Book 3 - but he's over 90!!
It's called "Words of Mercury" (ISBN 978-0719561054) and your mother could order it from Amazon.co.uk for £7.99 (paperback £6.39, but PLF is worth hardback). It's an anthology, and if, like me, you have the complete works, there isn't much that you won't have read: except for "what happened next", and a story recounting an episode during his return to Romania at the height of the Ceausescu regime.
But the anthologising brings familiar things together in an unexpected context. It's a bit like having your bookshelves reordered: you have all the old favourites still, but their juxtaposition will bring out new qualities in them.
Sorry: I pressed Enter too quickly. Artemis Cooper (the Goddaughter) insists that Book 3 is on its way. Max Hastings insists that it will never appear. (Wishful thinking from me: it's written, and will be left in his will to Artemis as a nice little 70 year earner.)
Excellent - thank you! Perhaps Book 3 is the Motu Proprio, not the Postal Order?
Do you mean Fr. Rutler? Amazon says his book doesn't come out until the 26th. I loved his book on St John Vianney.
Swap the postal order for the Motu Proprio, do without the tuckshop for a few days, and desist from saying Harroo.
But hope that PLF produces Book 3 before he dies, or at least before he dies.
My mother talked about the poetry he knew by heart: she was at scool when he was walking, learning exactly the same poetry by heart.
Sorry!.
"Or at least before we die."
That's why the books are so wonderful - truly a lost age, a lost Europe - we are, I'm afraid almost enveloped in a new Dark Age - but the 'cognoscenti' think it's light!
The cognowhosits are so busy imagining light that they don't even notice the real thing's about to dawn.
Ttony: This country needs a bit of harooing, among other things.
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