2025 Q2 Reading Update

Another 16 books finished over the course of April-June. Four more audiobooks (all histories of sorts), two old favorites, and a few others. Here’s the rundown:

Devotions: The Word in the Wilderness by Malcolm Guite; The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

History: The Byzantine Rite: A Short History by Robert F. Taft; The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson; Thunderstruck by Erik Larson; Fascinating Footnotes from History by Giles Milton; How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman; Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction (other): Safe Church by Andrew Baumann (CAUTION: this one got the heretical nonsense stamp but a friend asked me to read it, so I did); What Does It Mean to be Protestant? by Gavin Ortlund; The Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook (Farmer’s Almanac); Strange New World by Carl Trueman; C.S. Lewis: A Life by Alister McGrath

Fiction: A Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters; Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis; The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

I can provide reviews on request.

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    Fascinating Footnotes sounds interesting. I’ve been reading hard boiled crime fiction from the 1960s, the Parker novels by “Richard Stark,” and The Harlem Detectives series by Chester B Himes. I tried to corrupt our mutual friend, Mr Shank, with the Parker novels, but was too late. There is a new book, The Final Triumph of God. The author, whose name I don’t remember, has recently been a guest for two hour long programs on the YouTube channel, “Anglican Aesthetics,” and I strongly recommend that everyone watch those videos.

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