Recent Reads
Sharing book reviews from a joyful Catholic perspective. By Joan Elizabeth Bauer. My debut novel, THE BICYCLE MESSENGER, is forthcoming August 1, 2025.
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We Must Lay Down Our Lives
I read most of Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy in the early nineties, but I stopped for some reason on the verge of the fall of Atlanta and Sherman’s March to the Sea. Surely life intervened in some way. But perhaps I was afraid to journey...
The "Wagers" of Sin is Death
Last February, I joked that Milwaukee’s snow totals were finally catching up with Louisiana’s. Well, things have gone back to normal—we took our first hit of eight to ten inches on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Most of that snow is still...
The Payoff at the End
For years, I have chosen my books from my husband’s admittedly rarefied shelves. It was in his collection that I first discovered the worn-out volumes of Proust that I consumed over my lunch hour at work in my mid-twenties. This was right a...
Bells are Ringing
I can’t tell you how happy I am that our new Director of Music has reinstituted the handbell choir at our parish! As you may remember, I was crushed when our former director took a new job last spring, prematurely ending our season. And whi...
It's a Secret
Okay, I can tell you some of what I’ve been reading this past month or so:
Brant Pitre’s Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary, for a wonderful explication of the ways Mary fulfills the types and patterns of the Old Testament, always pointin...
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Sharing personal essays on reading, faith, and the writing life from a joyful Catholic perspective. By Joan Elizabeth Bauer, author of THE BICYCLE MESSENGER, a novel (Chrism Press, 2025).
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