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Yotsugawa Reading Diary

This page will be be updated periodically. The plan is to post final thoughts on each book that I read. Reading is divided into Leisure (reading out of interest in my own time) and Spiritual (reading done in small measures, primarily in the company of the Blessed Sacrament, for the purpose of spiritual edification).
There is so much to read and my shelf is full of unread books. I want to focus on Church history, particularly that of my diocese as it a source of inspiration for me. But I'm in great need of philosophical and theological formation which isn't going to acquire itself.

Sun 3 Mar 2024

Current leisure reading: The Music of the Catholic Church by Alec Robertson; Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
Current academic reading: The Mystery of Jesus Christ by F. Ocáriz et al.; Story of Christianity by Gonzalez
Current spiritual reading: The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander; Short Meditations for Priests by Rev. A. M. Meley C.Ss.R.; The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis.

To read

  • Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
  • ちいさな曲芸師 バーバラ・クーニー著
  • ジャンヌ・ダルク（漫画）
  • Odyssey by Homer
  • Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
  • Daniel Mannix by B. A. Santamaria

Finished since starting this page (Sept. 2020) (most to least recent)

  • Men At Arms by Evelyn Waugh
  • Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre
  • The Early Papacy by Fr Adrian Fortescue
  • Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
  • Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
  • The Way of a Pilgrim (anon. Russian spiritual classic)
  • Civil to Strangers by Barbara Pym
  • Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  • George Pell by Tess Livingstone
  • The Priest's Way to God by Dom Eugene Boylan
  • The Priest is Not His Own by Fulton Sheen
  • Story of a Soul by St Thérèse of Lisieux
  • Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  • Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
  • Confessions by S. Augustine of Hippo
  • Prayer for Beginners by Peter Kreeft