Dear Catholic Writers Guild,

We’re trying READING on for size this month. Instead of Rounding-Up your favorite blog posts, we asked for your thoughts about what you’re reading. Here are a few gems from your fellow Guild members:

Carolyn Astfalk reviewed a fast-paced dystopian trilogy that addresses the supernatural reality of good and evil and a Christian romance in which the hero is obsessed by demons. Not your typical love story! I’m handing her review to my teen daughter, and this should give us a lot to talk about! I would have utterly ignored these books but for her truly interesting reviews.

I think we actually need one another’s help broadening our reading, and this would be new territory for me. But dystopia isn’t news to Theresa Linden, who wrote for the Guild blog this month about why Catholics should be interested in this strange-sounding space. Carolyn Astfalk’s own book is reviewed by fellow Guildie Don Mulcare.

I got so excited about Matthew Crawford’s new book that I have recommended it at every opportunity.

Also for the Guild, Don Mulcare, Teresa Frailey, Nancy Ward, Theresa Linden and I (Charlotte Ostermann) wrote reviews of books for a range of ages and interests.

Please, please, please READ, and please let me have links to your November book reviews or posts by December 7 for the next issue of Writers Read.

With heartfelt thanks to all who do still read, and who share their thoughts for our edification

Charlotte