tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-357900543213693100.post5999279699435060099..comments2024-01-21T11:25:12.140-06:00Comments on Reading Catholic: Screwtape-like Books--A Short ListNancy Piccionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08440982166820769813noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-357900543213693100.post-20488208248422783182010-07-30T14:45:18.087-05:002010-07-30T14:45:18.087-05:00Thanks for linking your excellent review! It look...Thanks for linking your excellent review! It looks a lot different than what I was expecting. I especially like how there is a chapter for each day of Lent; I didn't realize it was set up that way.<br /><br />Your review and the focus on the spiritual significance of small acts reminds me of another one of these kinds of books (though not epistolary, but revealing angels & demons)--This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti. He's evangelical, not Catholic, and I haven't read it since the 1980s, but it might be worth a re-read in this context.Nancy Piccionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08440982166820769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-357900543213693100.post-85684800039093138182010-07-30T14:14:49.315-05:002010-07-30T14:14:49.315-05:00I have read "Screwtape Letters", have a ...I have read "Screwtape Letters", have a copy of "Snakebite Letters", but have never heard of "The Wormwood File". As a young-married man--with, obviously, a wife--that last offering sounds particularly interesting. Thanks for sharing!<br /><br />I've recently read "The Gargoyle Code", and thought it every bit as witty as the original Screwtape tales. Like Kreeft and Forest, Fr. Longenecker modernizes the temptations, and also depicts distinctly Catholic subjects and temptations.<br /><br />You can read my review of the book here:<br />http://www.thinveil.net/2010/02/gargoyle-code-review.htmlBrandon Vogthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01658116461483425280noreply@blogger.com