Tuesday, April 4, 2017

The Queue

Savagely disappointed by the lackluster Iron Fist television series on Netflix, I decided to revisit the glory days of the Immortal Iron Fist comic book. Rather than climb up into my mom & dad's attic to dig through my old boxes of comics, I find it more convenient to borrow collections from the library; these collections also contained stories that were never part of my library of individual issues. Immortal Weapons is a collection of one-shots based on characters, the eponymous Immortal Weapons of the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven, introduced in The Immortal Iron Fist.

A number of spiritual books have recently been added to the queue, reflected in a fifty-per-cent expansion of what had been the shrinking list of the "Presently."

Recently
Mark Waid & Chris Samnee, et al., Daredevil: The Autobiography of Matt Murdock
various writers & artists, Immortal Weapons
Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker, & David Aja, et al., The Immortal Iron Fist: The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven
Matt Fraction & various writers & artists, The Immortal Iron Fist: The Book of the Iron Fist

Currently
Pope Francis, Amoris Lætitia (The Joy of Love)
Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

Presently
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations ***interrupted***
Hilaire Belloc, How the Reformation Happened
Richard Price, Clockers
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor
Scott & Kimberly Hahn, Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Sherry A. Weddell, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
William E. Simon Jr., Great Catholic Parishes: How Four Essential Practices Make Them Thrive
Mike Aquilina, Understanding the Mass: 100 Questions, 100 Answers
Bishop Robert Barron, Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture

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