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Thursday, May 15, 2025

A Book Review: The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Most people know the story:  Set in 1922, Nick Carraway, a young bond salesman who works on Wall Street, moves into a small house next to a ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Book Review: The Diary of a Country Priest, by George Bernanos (1936)

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This is considered one of the best French novels of the 20th century. The unnamed diarist, a young priest filled with zeal, is assigned to a...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Book Review: Holy Moments, by Matthew Kelly

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  Given that the ease of access to social media has enabled reviewers to condemn and reject things they do not understand, I am not shocked ...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Book Review: The Sign of Jonas, by Thomas Merton (1953)

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A man driven to find God, Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk who entered Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky in 1941. This journal recorded his thou...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Book Review: The Women, by Hannah Kristin (2024)

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  I just read Hannah Kristin's novel The Women . It is the story of a young nurse, less than a year out of nursing school, who enlists i...

A Book Review: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), by Truman Capote

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  On first impression, Holly Golightly seems shallow and scatterbrained.  While she says things that are sharp, intelligent, and full of lif...

Reading Habits

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  When I was a child, my mother did not allow me to have comic books.  I had neighborhood friends who read comic books. Their parents bought...
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Stephen M. Bauer
NJ, United States
Catholic catechist, thoughtful, open-minded but with a conservative temperament, a follower not a leader.
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