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1) From the Angel's Blackboard: The Best of Fulton J. Sheen (about 240 pages)

Since beneficient also read this book in February and already described it in her post, I'll only add that I absolutely loved it, and would highly recommend it. It's probably one of the best books (top 5) I have ever read (not written by my favorite author) :-)

2) The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (about 300 pages)

As the title states, it is the collection of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), and I found it very nice and fun to read. :-)

3)Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC 1874-1908 by William Oddie (about 380 pages)

This is a brand new book (published in 2008) that traces Chesterton's "imaginative and spiritual development" up to the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908 (when Chesterton was 34), drawing extensively on much source material (such as unpublished letters and notebooks) that had not been used in earlier major studies of GKC. The person who recommended it to me has over the last 40 years or so read almost everything by or about GKC, and highly recommended this book as a book that needs to be near the top of the list for those who read Chesterton (though it would not be the best as an introduction to Chesterton). After reading it, I was especially impressed by its coverage of the Blatchford controversies, though the entire book was very good.

40Surprised By Joy by C.S. Lewis (about 240 pages)

For the first time in quite a while I got around to reading a book by Lewis, and, of course, it only confirmed in my mind that I need to read him far more often than I do. Reading his spiritual autobiography was very enlightening.

Books read in February: 4
Books read in 2009: 5