August 2024 BOTM - Voting

[CBC]

It is time to vote for our August 2024 BOTM. You may vote for up to 2 of the books listed below. You should vote by adding a comment here. If you vote in any other way, your votes may not be counted.

The book(s) with the most votes will be our BOTM. If there is a tie, the moderator uses a random list generator to determine the order and they are all read over however many months. Books that receive fewer than 2 votes will be removed from the Voting List, with those that receive 1 vote being placed at the end of the Nominations List.

Voting will end at approximately 6:00 PM Eastern Time on Friday, May 19.

The Voting List for August is:

Beheading Hydra: A Radical Plan for Christians in an Atheistic Age, by Dwight Longenecker, nominated by John
Never before has humanity existed in a culture that rejects belief in a transcendent power. Previous cultures ― even when rent by bitter disagreements ― shared a common belief that a greater force stood above the material realm. But when one side acknowledges an ultimate source of truth while the other side denies it, debate is dead, and mutual understanding is impossible. So claims Fr. Dwight Longenecker in his most captivating book yet,
Voting History: December 2023: 2; January 2024: 2; February 2024: 6; March 2024: 4; March 2024: 5; June 2024: 5

Could You Not Watch with Me One Hour?: How to Cultivate a Deeper Relationship with the Lord through Eucharistic Adoration by Florian Racine, nominated by Mariangel
Fr. Florian Racine offers us a beautiful formation guide on Eucharistic adoration that will help us to practice it in all its depth, and with a missionary perspective. God has made himself particularly close to mankind in Jesus his Son. The redemptive Incarnation of his Son is how God reconciles mankind with himself. The memorial of the Passover of Christ is therefore at the heart of our relationship with God. In the Blessed Sacrament, the resurrected Jesus is really present and acting; he draws all mankind into his filial relationship with the Father, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Voting History: March 2024: 4; March 2024: 3; June 2024: 7

The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine by Gertrud von le Fort, nominated by Stef
Mary's fiat to God is the pathway to our salvation, as it is inextricably linked with the obedience unto death of Jesus her son. Like the Son's acceptance of the Cross, Mary's acceptance of her maternity symbolizes for all mankind the self-surrender to the Creator required of every human soul. Since any woman's acceptance of motherhood is likewise a yes to God, when womanhood and motherhood are properly understood and appreciated, the nature of the soul's relationship to God is revealed.
Voting History: August 2023 - 4; September 2023 - 4; November 2023 - 6; December 2023 - 6; January 2024: 3; February 2024: 5; March 2024: 3; March 2024: 2; June 2024: 2

Exogenesis by Peco Gaskovski, nominated by Steven R.
Out of the collapse of Old America rises Lantua, a glittering thousand-mile metropolis where drones patrol the sky and AI algorithms reward social behavior. The most compliant citizens enjoy the greatest privileges, the poorest struggle to rise up the echelon system, and criminals are subjected to brain modification. Birthing and genetic quality are controlled through mass embryonic selection, with fetuses grown outside the body in artificial wombs—a technology known as exogenesis. But rebellion is brewing.
Voting History: NONE

Godhead Here in Hiding Whom I Do Adore: Lay Dominicans Reflect on Eucharistic Adoration by Lay Dominicans, nominated by Faith
Others have discovered the secret! That is the impression one gets in reading reflection after reflection of these souls devoted to Eucharistic Adoration. In these pages, we get a privileged glance into what happens in other people’s Holy Hours. We get to peer into the souls of others in their intimate exchanges with Emmanuel, God-with-us, in the Eucharist...
Voting History: NONE

The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord, by Anthony M. Esolen, nominated by Joe
The Hundredfold is a tapestry of hymns, monologues, and short lyrics knit together as one book-length poem in praise of Christ in his startling humanity. Using all the riches of the English poetic tradition—meter, rhyme, music—the poet ponders the mysterious man from Nazareth and the world he came to set on fire with splendor.
Voting History: NONE

Our Lady of the Artilects, by Andrew Gillsmith, nominated by Andrew
World leaders are on edge when reports start coming in of next generation androids having strange, apocalyptic visions of a lady in white. But when an Artilect belonging to the wealthiest man in Africa shows up at Our Lady of Nigeria basilica claiming to be possessed, the stakes are raised.
Voting History: March 2024: 2; June 2024: 2

Pierre Toussaint: A Biography by Arthur Jones, nominated by Kathleen
This richly detailed portrait of Pierre Toussaint, who was born into slavery, became one of the most admired men of his time, and is now a candidate for canonization, reveals both the journey of an extraordinary man and a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century America.
Voting History: NONE

Poor Banished Children: A Novel, by Fiorella De Maria, nominated by Fonch
An explosion is heard off the coast of sixteenth-century England, and a woman washes up on the shore. She is barely alive and does not speak English, but she asks for a priest... in Latin. She has a confession to make and a story to tell, but who is she and where has she come from?
Voting History: March 2024: 4; June 2024: 2

Prison Journal, Volume 1 The Cardinal Makes His Appeal, by George Cardinal Pell, nominated by John
Innocent! That final verdict came after George Cardinal Pell endured a grueling eight years of accusations, investigations, trials, public humiliations, and more than a year of imprisonment after being convicted by an Australian court of a crime he did not commit. Led off to jail in handcuffs, following his sentencing on March 13, 2019, the 78-year-old Australian prelate began what was meant to be six years in jail for "historical sexual assault offenses”. Cardinal Pell endured more than thirteen months in solitary confinement, before the Australian High Court voted 7-0 to overturn his original convictions. His victory over injustice was not just personal, but one for the entire Catholic Church.
Voting History: February 2024: 5; March 2024: 5; March 2024: 4; June 2024: 2

The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, by Michael E. Gaitley, nominated by Manuel
In The Second Greatest Story Ever Told bestselling author Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC, reveals St. John Paul II’s witness for our time. Building on the prophetic voices of Margaret Mary Alacoque, Thérèse of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe, and Faustina Kowalska, The Second Greatest Story Ever Told is more than a historical account of the Great Mercy Pope. This book expounds on the profound connection between Divine Mercy and Marian consecration. It serves as an inspiration for all those who desire to bear witness to the mercy of God, focused on Christ and formed by Mary. Now is the time of mercy. Now is the time to make John Paul’s story your own.
Voting History: NONE

Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind, by Anthony M. Esolen, nominated by John
Unreal City: a zany cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be.
And it's no fantasy. It's where we live. "We dwell in Unreal City. We believe in un-being."
Voting History: NONE

Vipers' Tangle by François Mauriac, nominated by Susan
Vipers’ Tangle tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family. Louis writes a journal to explain to them—and to himself—why his soul has been deformed, why his heart seems like a foul nest of twisted serpents. Mauriac’s novel masterfully explores the corruption caused by pride, avarice, and hatred, and its opposite—the divine grace that remains available to each of us until the very moment of our deaths.
Voting History: March 2024: 3; March 2024: 3; June 2024: 3

Voyage to Alpha Centauri, Michael D. O'Brien, nominated by Fonch
Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city," is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage--and its destination--will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon.
Voting History: ; June 2024: 2

Wheat that Springeth Green by J.F. Powers, nominated by Steven R.
Wheat That Springeth Green , J. F. Powers's beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life. Its hero, Joe Hackett, is a high school track star who sets out to be a saint. But seminary life and priestly apprenticeship soon damp his ardor, and by the time he has been given a parish of his own he has traded in his hair shirt for the consolations of baseball and beer. Meanwhile Joe's higher-ups are pressing for an increase in profits from the collection plate, suburban Inglenook's biggest business wants to launch its new line of missiles with a blessing, and not all that far away, in Vietnam, a war is going on. Joe wants to duck and cover, but in the end, almost in spite of himself, he is condemned to do something right.
Voting History: NONE

[Mariangel]

Could you not watch with me one hour?

Prison Journal

[Maggie]

The Eternal Woman

Exogenesis

[Barbara]

Could You Not Watch With Me....

[Sebastian]

I would like to vote for:
The Second Greatest Story Ever Told

Small request, could we vote a bit earlier? Many of the books on the list are hard to source for me in Austria and it often takes at least a month to ship them to me. So, if we could vote maybe 2-3 months in advance that would help massively!

Also, please select more books from Louis de Wohl for the list I thoroughly enjoy the current one. :)

[Lou]

Voyage to Alpha Centauri
Reminds me of Vonnegut, and that's a good thing.

[Lou]

Pierre Toussaint: A Biography
Fascinating how a slave became hair stylist to high society New Yorkers.

[Fiorella]

Poor Banished Children

[Rinstinkt]

1. Sex and the unreal city by Anthony M Esolen

[Ann]

Pierre Toussaint: A Biography

Poor Banished Children:

[Jill]

The Eternal Woman
Godhead Here in Hiding


I'd appreciate more conversation as members are reading a book, not only after they've finished it.

[Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs]

Prison Journal;
Vipers' Tangle

[JT]

Beheading Hydra

[Tania]

Voyage to Alpha Centauri, Michael D. O'Brien,

The Second Greatest Story Ever Told

[Julie]

Could you not watch with me

[Tonya]

Poor Banished Children or Godhead here in hiding.

[Melanie]

Could you not watch with me


Poor banished children

[Jaron]

Poor Banished Children

[Sherri]

Beheading Hydra: A Radical Plan for Christians in an Atheistic Age

[Kristi]

Prison Journal

Eternal Woman

[John]

Sebastian wrote: "I would like to vote for:
The Second Greatest Story Ever Told

Small request, could we vote a bit earlier? Many of the books on the list are hard to source for me in Austria and it often takes at l..."

Hi Sebastian, I've suggested a way in which we could accomplish this to Manuel and will start a discussion in the Atrium in the next day or so.

Also, please feel free to nominate the additional Louis de Wahl books you would like to read - he has written quite a few.

[DeeDee]

Pierre Toussaint

[Richard]

Viper’s Tangle
Beheading Hydra

[Manuel]

Our Lady of the Artilects
Could you not watch with me one hour?

[Fonch]

Poor banished children by Fiorella de Maria and The hundredfold songs for the Lord by Anthony Esolen.

[Steven R.]

Exogenesis by Peco Gaskovski
Wheat that Springeth Green by J.F. Powers

[Maggie]

Started volunteering for adoration, so I vote for "Could You Not Watch with Me for One Hour?"

[Mike]

CBC wrote: "It is time to vote for our August 2024 BOTM. You may vote for up to 2 of the books listed below. You should vote by adding a comment here. If you vote in any other way, your votes may not be counte..."

Selfishly i am voting for Could You Not Watch with Me One Hour?: How to Cultivate a Deeper Relationship with the Lord through Eucharistic Adoration

[John]

I will vote for Poor Banished Children and Sex and the Unreal City.

[Katherine]

I'd like to vote for:
Poor Banished Children: A Novel, by Fiorella De Maria
The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, by Michael E. Gaitley

[Asunción]

Could you not watch with me one hour?

[Jane]

1. Beheading Hydra
2. Could you not watch


Thanks

[John]

Voting is closed. Results will be posted shortly.