You need a good summer book to read. Mark Brumley, next.

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living understanding and defending

your Catholic faith. To be a Christian is to be engaged with the Word, the written Word,

and the Word of God in the person of Jesus. Words, words, words. Conversation, that's a great deal

of what Catholic and Christian life is about. Speaking to one another, sharing good news,

it's all part of the Christian faith. So reading is an important part, and also the delight of

reading, the joy of reading. It's a way of sharing communion with a writer and with a community of

other people who also are reading. It's all important stuff in the Christian vision of the world.

And we suddenly kind of put it off to the side. And frankly, we're losing the habit of reading.

And by losing that habit, we're losing some of the habits that make it easier to fully live.

The Christian faith, a faith that is about the Word, is about sharing words, is about delivering

news and is about entering into conversation, even the divine conversation, so to speak.

Mark Brumley is the president of Ignatius Press. He knows an awful lot about books. So we asked him,

give us some suggestions for summer reading. And here's what he had to say.

Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press. Thanks for being with us.

Oh, it's a delight to be with you. So what do you got for this summer for people?

I was going to say on my Facebook page, I recommended sort of kind of offbeat Ignatius Press book.

So I'm going to mention a bloody habit. Oh, yes. I know you like this book. Yeah.

Right. I read it still. Okay. And this is Eleanor Berg-Nickelson. Yeah.

Bloody habit, which is a story about a Dominican priest who has a business card.

And on his business card, it indicates that his vocation or vocation or profession is

as a vampire hunter. Yeah. That's the job to get. Yeah.

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