What book are you reading at the moment?

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Some of the stuff I'm currently reading:

Catfantastic (volumes I-V)
Cat Fancy Magazine (just got my latest issue)
Taste of Home magazine (a cooking magazine without all the ads)
Light & Tasty magazine (sister magazine to Taste of Home)
a collection of Edgar Allen Poe stories and poems
a couple of books by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
my coursebook for Shamans, Mystics & Medicine Hunters
my textbook for Ethics in Medicine
Genki (textbook for my Japanese class)
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Isaac Asimov Science Fiction magazine
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov

I'm hoping to read Isaac Asimov's Black Widowers tales when I have the time.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[lexyxander]

The Four Agreements at the moment.

[The Fool]

I'm impressed that Phyllis can read so much at once without getting confused about it all!

[aged hippy]

At the moment it's:

The Afterlife Experiments, by Gary Schwartz,
The Divine Romance, by Paramahansa Yogananda,
and The Last Unicorn, by Peter Beagle.

Regards,

malcolm

[Anzac]

This has to be the most obscure set of lists I have ever seen. There are a lot of very strange books that are going into the depths of the strange and biazzare. What is it with Robert Rankin and Terry Prachett, is there something I am going amiss with all of them?

I'm reading:

The Second Messiah: The Knights Templar, the Tarot and the Truth About the Turin Shroud - Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas (a book that I read when I have time).

The Study of Politics - Duvergar (as it takes an hour and a half journey on the bus and train every morning this takes up most of my time there).

The Castle - Franz Kafka (more a personal thing as I recently got into Kafka after reading Metamorphosis).

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Originally posted by The Fool
I'm impressed that Phyllis can read so much at once without getting confused about it all!

I just love reading. And I'm always confused (or confuzzled or whatever.)

I can't wait for spring semester when I'm [hopefully] going to be taking Ethnicity in modern Russia (an ethnic studies class[hopefully not cancelled {again}]), Astronomy Survey (a relatively easy science class), second semester Japanese (again), and perhaps Straw Weaving (again).

btw, I'm reading Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and rereading Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Vajradhara]

Originally Posted by Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

I just love reading. And I'm always confused (or confuzzled or whatever.)

I can't wait for spring semester when I'm [hopefully] going to be taking Ethnicity in modern Russia (an ethnic studies class[hopefully not cancelled {again}]), Astronomy Survey (a relatively easy science class), second semester Japanese (again), and perhaps Straw Weaving (again).

btw, I'm reading Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and rereading Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

Namaste,

interestingly enough...

my spouses grandparents immigrated from Russia as the Revolution was getting underway. boy... did they have some stories to tell....

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Originally posted by Vajradhara
my spouses grandparents immigrated from Russia as the Revolution was getting underway. boy... did they have some stories to tell....

My paternal grandfather emigrated before the Revolution, but I never got to speak with him about life in Russia back then (my father wasn't speaking to him for most of my growing-up years and he [my dedushka] died before real contact could be reinstated, but that's an off-topic subject. )

Yuri and I have conversed quite a bit, but we haven't gotten into religion. He kinda knows what I am, but not really.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Fern]

I'm reading "Living History" by Hillary Clinton. I bought the book because I am interested in Hillary Clinton. I admire her resolve to keep moving forward in life even after the public harrowing experiences she has faced. She seemed strong to me, so I thought I would get it. I have not been disappointed either. The book reads more like a conversation than a telling of herself.

I am also trying to figure out what to do with 'the rest of my life' and this book has pushed me towards pursuing a life of service - not politics - but service to those less fortunate than myself.

It is an uplifting book. If you are looking for a realistice 'feel good' book where life is hard, but the spirit triumphs, this is a book to read... unless of course you dislike Hillary Clinton to begin with - then, maybe it's not! :-)

Fern

[Postulant]

In the past 4 weeks I've read...
The DaVinci Code--Dan Brown and
Galapagos--Kurt Vonnegut.

At this very moment I am reading
Sula--Toni Morrison

One day I am going to read both...
The Bible from cover to cover and
The missing books of the Bible (which is how I found this site)

[I, Brian]

Hi postulant, and welcome to CR!

I read the Bible from cover to cover - excepting the Psalms. It's such a big read, though, that you need a method - mine was to elave it in the bathroom, so that every time I had to "cover my feet" I would read a chapter or two, and then make notes. Got through it in about 2 years.

Left out the Psalms because in Monty Python's "Holy Grail" they effectively advise against it.

[veritasamat]

I just finished reading "The Humanure Handbook" by Phillip Jenkins, about the pollution and insanity of our modern civilized "sanitation" system. He advocates thermophilic composting of human feces to be used as an hygenic agricultural resource, and also talks about alternative graywater systems. It also speaks somewhat to the spiritual responsibility of keeping our planet clean, and includes fascinating history tidbits about the way different cultures have dealt with the 'end product'. (It turns out the Hunza people in what is now called Pakistan have had it right all along.) It is very eye-opening, humorous and instructive, and I highly recommend it. After reading this book you will never flush a toilet with indifference again.

"You must become the change you wish to see."

[Susma Rio Sep]

I have not read a book or an collection of pages with printed words for many years now.

I admire the binding of books and appreciate the science of printing that goes into them, and also the medium of printing.

Why have I not read books for so many years? Someone should tell me that I never ever read any book at all -- and maybe he's right.

You see, early on I have realized that in written records people do not really say what is really in their minds and hearts, because it is impossible: they don't know what's in their mind and heart. And in many cases they are saying more or less than or different from what they really know or are.

Next, when you try to imagine what they are going to say, you will reach the suspicion, a true one at that, that it's not something you don't already know.

What I enjoy is to walk the streets to look at peoples and things. Where are they going, what are they up to, how long can they go on and on?

And things, the very nail left on the road is an invitation to recall the very first days of the foundry.

Have you read anything new in human history?

See anything new in your neighborhood? What about yourself, even.

Susma Rio Sep

[Zazen]

Im currently reading "The complete I Ching" by Alfred Huang

"CHINA" by Fox Butterfield

"Norse Mythology" John Lindow

I just finished "Beyond Illusion and doubt" by srila prabhupada

Amitabha

[Postulant]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

Hi postulant, and welcome to CR!

I read the Bible from cover to cover - excepting the Psalms. It's such a big read, though, that you need a method - mine was to elave it in the bathroom, so that every time I had to "cover my feet" I would read a chapter or two, and then make notes. Got through it in about 2 years.

Left out the Psalms because in Monty Python's "Holy Grail" they effectively advise against it.

Thanks I, Brian! I like your Bible strategy. I am not familiar with the Monty Python-Psalms angle, but I'm working google for the reference, sounds fascinating.

By the way, I love this site. Wonderful conversations!