Jennifer Fulwiler posts a list of book recommendations from many Catholic bloggers including myself. The recommendations look quite excellent having read most of them and adding to my wish list the others.
One was for a book I read last month:
Marc Barnes on Love In The Ruins, The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World by Walker Percy:
Because Walker Percy is the man and perhaps the most undervalued Catholic writer of our time. Because everyone needs a little existential crisis. Because Catholics need to balance every book on a Saint with a book on wonderfully pathetic sinner. Because this book will make you laugh.
I certainly agree. While I really love Walker Percy, I found this book especially hysterical.
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Totttallly ditto re WP.
“Lost Among the Cosmos” is one of my favorite books of all time but that one, though funny, didn’t do it for me. I think to really get it you had to be from the South, and at the same era, or at least that’s how it struck me.