{"id":34198,"date":"2025-08-16T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34198"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:40:56","slug":"book-report-brighter-days-to-come-by-salesian-missions-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/16\/book-report-brighter-days-to-come-by-salesian-missions-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Brighter Days to Come<\/i> by Salesian Missions (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/brighterdaystocome.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This is a relatively recent (2020) hardback from the Salesian Missions collection of poems which I just bought in (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/good-book-hunting-saturday-may-3-2025-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">May 2025<\/a>, so just three months ago).  Since I&#8217;ve gotten through my stack of <em>Poetry<\/em> magazines (and, finally, the complete works of Keats), I brought it up into the bedroom for the poetry nightcap.<\/p>\n<p>And, gentle reader, you know I like <em>Ideals<\/em> magazine, and that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re getting in a collection like this.  Poetry about seasons and about the relationship with God&#8211;moreso in this collection, as it&#8217;s produced by a Catholic organization as a fundraiser&#8211;but I get that in the grandma poetry chapbooks I also accumulate.  These collections and <em>Ideals<\/em> are generally a cut above the self-published chapbooks (my own included?).  It seems we get some overlap between the two, poets whose work appears in both (Grace E. Easley?  Steven Michael Schumacher?)&#8211;but maybe I just read enough of these little collections that the names are just familiar only from Salesian publications.<\/p>\n<p>So I enjoyed it as a light bit of a snack before bed, a ritual that winds me down for sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The back flap had a long list of 128-page collections like this and regularly published pocket-sized books which I thought might be a checklist I could use to see how well my collection is going.  But it might not be a comprehensive list&#8211;books I have <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=book+report+salesian\" target=\"_new\">reported on<\/a> from the 20th century do not appear to be represented.  Is it possible that they&#8217;ve published so many this century that they didn&#8217;t even have room for decades&#8217; worth from last century?  I guess someone knows, but not me.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I recommend them.  Perhaps I should send them some money as well to get the freshest works.  It&#8217;s odd; subscribing to <em>First Things<\/em> and <em>The New Oxford Review<\/em> and, briefly, <em>Touchstone<\/em> have gotten me onto a lot of Catholic mailing lists, but not Salesian Missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a relatively recent (2020) hardback from the Salesian Missions collection of poems which I just bought in (May 2025, so just three months ago). Since I&#8217;ve gotten through my stack of Poetry magazines (and, finally, the complete works of Keats), I brought it up into the bedroom for the poetry nightcap. And, gentle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34199,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34198\/revisions\/34199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}