A reader wrote to rave about this book: The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City by Italian journalist Corrado Augias. I’ll put it on the list. Sigh. The long list!

I heard the author of this book – Austerity Britain – on the BBC radio’s Start the Week program a couple of weeks ago – (you can’t download, but you can listen online). The book is 700 pages long, and not available in the US (you can get it through Amazon Canada), but it sounds like a fascinating rethinking of the post-war years in England.

Oh…and you know all those great General Audience talks on the Apostles? Yeah, those? Well, they’re coming out in book form later this summer. Now, if it were only necessary for the editor of this edition to confer with the author in person…..

Here’s our bestseller’s list. I’m impressed that some of you are shelling out 70 bucks for the Corpus Christi book! Better people than I!

What Books People who Read Amy’s Open Book blog and Michael’s Annunciation blog are buying this month.

1. Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI

2. The DVD: Into Great Silence (Two-Disc Set)

3.A Pocket Guide to the Mass (A Pocket Guide to)

4. An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World’s Most Austere Monastic Order

5. The Feast of Corpus Christi

Oh, and I’m interested to see that my hero Richard Russo’s next novel, to be published this fall, is called Bridge of Sighs, and apparently and obviously involves  Venice.

So…what are you reading? Any big summer reading plans?