Reading Rat - August 2017

Articles, Essays, Reviews

On Being a Lapsed Catholic, by Anthony Burgess, First Things

8 Cities with a Front Row Seat for the 2024 Eclipse, by Jason Heidemann, Travelocity

August, 2017 Newsletter, Goodreads. This turned out to be the last month of Goodreads newsletters.

Author appearances, lectures, conferences

Friday, Sept 15, 3:30pm, Ted Sider, Rutgers, “Equivalence from a Metaphysical Point of View” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Philosophy Department Colloquia, Fall 2017, 175 Curtin Hall

Friday, Sept 22, 3:30pm, Geoff Sayre McCord, University of North Carolina, “On a Better Theory of Morality and a Theory of a Better Morality”, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Philosophy Department Colloquia, Fall 2017, 175 Curtin Hall

September 27 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Wilkie Collins, “House to Let” (1858, written with Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter) and “The Ghost in the Cupboard Room” (1859), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries Great Books Roundtable Discussions, Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, will be the featured speaker at the October 17th annual dinner of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

Reading Log

2017-08-20 (eclipse eve) Moors Resort & Marina, Gilbertsville, Kentucky: The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, by Jacob Bronowsk; New Haven, CT, Yale University Press 1978; 0300024096

Book Log - acquisitions

2017-08-03 All Saints Cathedral, Milwaukee, WI:

The Book of Common Prayer: and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church: Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David: According to the use of The Episcopal Church; New York, NY: The Church Hymnal Corporation 1979

A Hopkins Reader (Gerard Manley Hopkins), Selected and with and Introduction by John Pick; New York, NY: Oxford University Press 1953; ex lib. Father Vojtik, Waukesha, Wis.

2017-08-17 AbeBooks
Robbery under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson, by Evelyn Waugh; London, England: The Catholic Book Club 1940; ex lib. Colleen S. Laurenth, Mt. Calvary, Wis.

2017-08-19 TextbookRush via Amazon
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, by Rod Dreher; New York, NY: Sentinel (Penguin Random House LLC) 2017; 9780735213296