Five Excellent Books, Not Only for Beach Reading

POINTS COVERED

• There is no substitute for the vital connection between the ideas of an author and the mind of a reader.
• According to Mortimer Adler, an author is like the pitcher, and he’s throwing balls at you the catcher-reader with each sentence, each paragraph, each chapter.  To properly engage a pitcher, a catcher can’t crouch there passively because he’ll either get hit by a fastball — or a curveball will miss him altogether.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski. Get a copy here.
• “Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality” by E Michael Jones. Get a copy here.
•  “Sanctity In Other Words” by Dom Hubert Van Zeller. Get a copy here.
•  “Green Dolphin Street” —the 1944 novel by Elizabeth Goudge. Get a copy here.
• “The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future” by Ryder Carroll. Get a copy here.

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Five Books For Beach Reading