Confessions of a Book Hoarder, by Francis X. Maier

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing, Jan. 31, 2024

Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Reading is one of the great joys of life.  By “reading” I mean books.  Printed type on a physical page has stability.  It’s tactile.  In contrast, reading too long on a computer has the same effect as sitting too long in a pink room: First it fatigues, then it agitates, because the electrons on a computer screen allow the eye no rest.  But alas, print has its own awkward problems.  Book lovers (like me) very easily become book hoarders, creatures who buy lots of good books they intend to read but never do, or – even more sacrilegiously – do read them, and then never tell anyone else about them.  I’m looking at a yard-high stack of those right now.

So consider the three excellent books I note below as the beginning of my pre-Lenten penance for not praising them soon enough. …

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