Friday, March 28, 2025

Some Truth About the Abortion Pill



https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/03/27/facts-about-the-danger-of-abortion-pill-regimen/ 

Pax et bonum

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

100 Novels to Read? Well, some of them maybe


Someone posted this list of 100 classics to read before you die - and 25 you don't have to bother reading. I'll indent thee ones I have read. I'll bold the ones I might just read at some point. 

100 Books to Read Before You Die

  1. The Master and Margarita

  2.     Crime and Punishment

  3.     The Brothers Karamazov

  4.     The Idiot

  5. Notes from the Underground

  6.    Anna Karenina

  7.    War and Peace

  8. Middlemarch

  9. Daniel Deronda

  10.    Jane Eyre

  11. Vanity Fair

  12. The Way We Live Now

  13.    Bleak House

  14.    David Copperfield

  15.    Great Expectations

  16. Madame Bovary

  17. The Red and the Black

  18. Far from the Madding Crowd

  19. Tess of the d’Urbervilles

  20. Portrait of a Lady

  21.    The Stranger

  22.    Wuthering Heights

  23. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

  24. The Sound and Fury

  25. Absalom, Absalom!

  26. As I Lay Dying

  27.    Heart of Darkness

  28. Lolita

  29. Pale Fire

  30. The Sun Also Rises

  31. For Whom the Bell Tolls

  32. The Sorrows of Young Werther

  33. Beware of Pity

  34. Chess Story

  35. Doctor Faustus (Mann)

  36. The Magic Mountain

  37. Death in Venice

  38. Swann’s Way

  39. White Noise

  40. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  41.    The Catcher in the Rye

  42. Franny and Zooey

  43.    The Great Gatsby

  44. Tender is the Night

  45.    East of Eden

  46.    Grapes of Wrath

  47. American Pastoral

  48. Portnoy’s Complaint

  49.    Darkness at Noon

  50.    Brideshead Revisited

  51. The Picture of Dorian Gray

  52. The Age of Innocence

  53. The House of Mirth

  54.    Ethan Frome

  55.    Brave New World

  56.    1984

  57.    Animal Farm

  58. The Bell Jar

  59. Dead Souls

  60. The Count of Monte Cristo

  61. Gone With the Wind

  62. A Clockwork Orange

  63. Of Human Bondage

  64.    Slaughterhouse-Five

  65. The Forsyte Saga

  66. Their Eyes Were Watching God

  67.    Pride and Prejudice

  68.    Emma

  69.    The Metamorphosis

  70.    Moby Dick

  71.    A Separate Peace

  72.    Fahrenheit 451

  73. Woman in White

  74. The New York Trilogy

  75. Catch-22

  76.    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  77.    To Kill a Mockingbird

  78.    The Little Prince

  79. The Adventures of Augie March

  80. Ulysses

  81. Don Quixote

  82. The Decameron

  83.    The Screwtape Letters

  84. All Quiet on the Western Front

  85. Dracula

  86.    Les Misérables

  87. Doctor Zhivago

  88.    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  89. Siddhartha

  90. A Room with a View

  91.    Night

  92.    Frankenstein

  93. In Cold Blood

  94. One Hundred Years of Solitude

  95. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  96. The Immoralist

  97. The Golovlyov Family

  98. Stoner

  99. Life and Fate

  100. Ficciones

25 Classic Novels You Can Skip

  1. Giovanni’s Room1

  2.    The Handmaid’s Tale

  3. Mansfield Park

  4. Père Goriot

  5. North and South

  6. Three Lives

  7. Mrs. Dalloway

  8.    To the Lighthouse2

  9. Beloved

  10. Song of Solomon

  11. Sula3

  12. The Crying of Lot 49

  13. The Awakening

  14. Walden

  15. Candide

  16. The Alchemist

  17. Finnegans Wake

  18. The Yellow Wallpaper

  19. Play It As It Lays

  20. The Turn of the Screw

  21. Never Let Me Go

  22. The Rainbow

  23.    Babbitt

  24. Blood Meridian

  25. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Okay, I've read 37 from the "good" list. Some of the other books - the bolded ones -  are ones I might read. But there are some I have no desire to read. I don't like Hemingway or Faulkner, for example.  

Pax et bonum