Boo Radley

The only book you need to learn the drum kit, laid out in a brilliant and systematic way. Probably the best music book ever.

Read The Principles of Nature, On Being and Essence, and On Kingship.

This edition is taken best with Fr. Coppen S.J.'s “A Brief Text-Book of Mental Philosophy”

A brief summary of The Church's history written by an American Newmanite. Fine for untangling the various periods of church history and getting a sense of each era. Fr. Laux has a great talent for narrative and portraying the complexity of the old world with brevity.

Biographical info on St. Paul is cool. However the spiritual readings that follow are a bit wishy washy, some so much so that I laughed out loud reading them.

Fantastic textbook and plainly worded cathecism, though this edition has many typos.

I found this book laying around at my buddy's place and gave it a read. I started at the second chapter, and was later surprised to find that this was really the only chapter on covid and the vaccine. The others just talk about other health issues caused by our modern environment, and the typical, “your health is your wealth,” style advice, sourced from eastern and ancient practices. If this book expounded more on the political, economic, and social consequences of the pandemic, the title would be more fitting.

Really enjoyed his treatment of the Origin of Man at the end. Even though I'm not sure if I agree with him, his argument for evolution from certain first principles is well done. The state of the question is presented here in a way that is far more productive than the debate over design.

Beautiful English writing and Fisher's letters are presented with love and reverance. However the author's narrative of Fisher's life is difficult to follow and could have been better. If I learned one thing, it's that Fisher celebrated mass with a skull on the altar. I recommend it, but only due to the book being less than 150 pages.

This coupled with, “Brief Text-book of Logic,” are hidden gems of the English speaking Catholic world. The titles don't do justice to the scope of topics covered in each.

Perhaps there is some true and good information in here, but the aggregious historical errors (within chapter two ALONE) and convoluted narratives spoil the bunch.

Conspiracy theorists should really follow the law of parsimony.

Stopped at the beginning of the chapter on affective prayer (pg. 178). All I can say is that this book makes me want to pray.

Chesterton is all over the place, only a few degrees from being a Nick Land style writer. Otherwise he's still a good humored polemicist.