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Posted: Jan 06 2006 at 5:02am | IP Logged Quote mary
a friend of mine wants to read 12 nonfiction books this year and asked me to select 3 of them for her. i would like to recommend a good biography about pope jp2. my friend is episcopalian but i don't think she would be opposed to reading about such a holy man. i have been reading hsing and child development or gender books in the past year and am not sure my friend would enjoy any of those as her other two suggestions. so, i wondered if any of you had any suggestions for some must read non-fiction? thanks!
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Posted: Jan 06 2006 at 6:03am | IP Logged Quote Mary G
The best book about the Pope would have to be Weigel's Witness to Hope -- it's a hefty book but well worth the time to read. It would give a great grounding in where the Pope was coming from and what he did.

Any of Chesterton's books would also be great reads -- he wrote biographies and essays that are wonderful reading (yet deep, too!)

Hope this helps.


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witness to hope is the book i had in mind. Chesterton is a great suggestion! would you recommend something? and any ideas for the 3rd book?
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Posted: Jan 06 2006 at 7:14am | IP Logged Quote Mary G
Mary (what a great name! )

Here's some Chesterton suggestions:
Everlasting Man
Orthodoxy
St. Thomas Aquinas - The Dumb Ox
St. Francis of Assisi
What's Wrong with the World

For the third book? Alice von Hildrebrand's The Privilege of Being a Woman is supposed to be really good. The 3 Kings are putting this in my stocking so I haven't read it yet. I've also got in mind to read Gladys Hunt's Honey for a Woman's Heart -- which is a book about reading books!

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mary wrote:
i would like to recommend a good biography about pope jp2. my friend is episcopalian but i don't think she would be opposed to reading about such a holy man.


Definitely Mary.....I think everyone who wants to know history will have to read about him; he was one of the most influential people of the century. Very good choice. I don't know if your friend likes travel adventures, but I recommend Lost in the Amazon because the author is a Christian and he chronicles his growth in personal holiness as he utterly fails in every goal he set for his trip. Also, none of the cussing you would expect from a story of 5 guys lost in the wilderness.

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