![]() ![]() And I noticed that many of our wonderful contributors also highlighted books they re-read in 2022. ![]() I mention, in my list below, some of the books I’ve revisited. (You can see samples of my shelves on my Twitter feed: here and here and here, for example.) I have sections for certain authors-Aquinas and Augustine, Chesterton and Belloc, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Sheen and Sheed, Newman and Knox, and so forth-and for certain topics: theology, history, spirituality, art, music, Scripture, Christology (one of the largest sections, with six bookcases), soteriology, apologetics, and so forth. More than once, opening yet another box of books, I exclaimed, “Oh…I forgot about that one.” By the middle of the year, some order had been found:įor those who are wondering: No, I haven’t read them all and, no, I did not organize them using the Dewey Decimal System (the very thought makes me shudder). It was, so often, like meeting old friends I’d not visited with for months or years. And, in doing so, I ended up re-reading pages, chapters, and sections from hundreds of them. And the skies are amazing.Īnyhow, I spent many hours during the first half of this year organizing my 28,000 or so books. Still, I cannot hear a freeway, which delights me every day. Admittedly, it’s not really wilderness when you’re a mile from the corner market and there are nearly as many horses in the backyard as deer and turkeys. Almost exactly a year ago, I used this space to tell the tale of moving many books into my newly converted “shoffice” in the wilderness near Elmira, Oregon (pop. ![]()
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