Reading Schedule

[Kerstin]

I had to re-create the schedule, for I can't find where we posted it before...
We'll be reading 4 Chapters for each week

Week 1: Sep. 26 - Oct 2nd: Introduction - Ch. 3
Week 2: Oct. 3rd - 9: Chapters 4 - 7
Week 3: Oct. 10 - 16: Chapters 8 - 11
Week 4: Oct. 17 - 23: Chapters 12 - 15
Week 5: Oct. 24 - 30: Chapters 16-19
Week 6: Oct. 31st - Nov. 6: Chapters 20 - Afterword

Discussion will start Oct. 3rd.

[Frances]

Thank you, Kerstin. You are so well organized.

[Manny]

Kerstin wrote: "I had to re-create the schedule, for I can't find where we posted it before...."

Yes that was the schedule. I think it might be on the nominations page for this read. I also think I sent it out as a PM to the entire book club. I'm looking forward to this read, :)

[Kerstin]

So far the book seems to be easy to read but conveying a lot of information. I would suggest you look in Wikipedia at the architectural details described in chapter 1 of the Church of Gesù and St. Mary Major. Most of them you will find pictured.

[Manny]

I just read the Introduction, and not only is it easy to read, but quite pleasurable. Lev's prose moves quite nicely, and is precise and charming. I give her good marks for her prose. I think the read is going to be both insightful and enjoyable.

[Manny]

Elizabeth Lev is on YouTube in a number of talks. I found this TED talk on the Vatican Museums is very interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssl00...

[Galicius]

Manny wrote: "Elizabeth Lev is on YouTube in a number of talks. I found this TED talk on the Vatican Museums is very interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssl00..."

That is an enlightening TED talk despite its frantic delivery. Perhaps it will help me in better understanding what a pagan Egyptian obelisk is doing in the center of St. Peter Square.

[Manny]

I just looked that up Galicius. Apparently it marks the spot where St. Peter died. Here’s everything you may want to know about that Obelisk:
https://www.voxmundi.eu/secrets-vatic....

[Celia]

Very much looking forward to discussing this book. It is a GEM.

[Catherine]

I wasn’t sure I would finish this book but am so glad I did. Very inspiring and illuminating to a difficult time in Catholic history. Didn’t realize Lev is the daughter of Mary Ann Glendon.