What are YOU currently reading? (8)

Rediscover the Saints by Matthew Kelly

Legend of the Galactic Heroes, book 4.

Was first exposed to it via the anime and then I listened to the second and third audio book before realizing that they never did the rest in the series.

Also, I have to support the Galactic Empire all the way and wish the downfall of the corrupt democratic republic.

The Hidden Symmetry of your Birth Date by Jean Haner.

In a nutshell this book is about your personality and how you can best make use of that information to your advantage. It makes you think.

I am on a Sci Fi binge recently. I just finished re-reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) and now I am starting Frank Herbert's classic Dune series. I may consider reading the sequel books (Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson once finished with the six classic books

Just finished reading: Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing and if I could summarize it's message it would be:

Just do it. There is no excuse for not following and seeking to do what is good.

I've just been reading a ton for school. I need a leisure read book. Will read thru this thread, see if there are any that sound like I should read them.

The Silmarillion

A Gentleman of Fortune

I'm on my 12th book so far this year, which is far better than I usually do. I found recently Felix Francis novels which he first started writing with his well known father Dick Francis and has now written several novels of his own

Dark Resurrection - Keepers of the Force
A starwars fan novel based on a couple of fan movies that were done.
You watch the movies on YouTube, just look up Dark Resurrection

I finished Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and finished Frank Herbert's Dune books

I am starting H. P. Lovecraft's novella, At The Mountains Of Madness.

thehehe said:

I'm also on a Tolkien period (but I'm always on a Tolkien period) to prepare myself to Christmas, as each year, I'm reading the Christmas letters he wrote to his children to entertain them.

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Now that would be an interesting read. A few years ago I got hold of a book of letters from Rudyard Kipling to his children. It's lovely to think how fond these very famous writers were of their children.

Still reading LOTR. Also Rogue Lawyer and Queen of the North by Anne O'Brien - a historical fiction book set in mediaeval England.

Gillian

Recently finished Why Jesus? - Ravi Zacharias and I am moving to a book I bought for myself around Christmas, The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn. I have a stack of theological or political books to get through before I pick up my Dragonlance books again.

Return to Order by John Horvat II outlines a main linchpin of our modern way of living:

A Frenetic Nature

To understand this unrestrained undercurrent fully, we must highlight its frenetic nature. We are not speaking about mere intemperance that leads to the simple greed or ambition that has always plagued man throughout history. We also must not mistake frenetic intemperance for the legitimate and energetic practice of business and its risk-taking that leads to true prosperity.
Rather, frenetic intemperance is an explosive expansion of human desires beyond traditional and moral bounds. Its frenetic nature leads those of this undercurrent to resent the very idea of restraint and scorn the spiritual, religious, moral, and cultural values that normally serve to order and temper economic activity. Financial writer Edward Chancellor aptly observes an “anarchic, irreverent, and antihierarchic” spirit whose essence is not simply about greed but “a Utopian yearning for freedom and equality which counterbalances the drab rationalistic materialism of the modern economic system.”
To the degree that frenetic intemperance prevails, its self-destructive character will eventually destroy free markets and moral values. We might say of this unrestrained current what Marshall Berman harshly attributes to an innate dynamism in modern economy which, were it allowed to run completely free, would annihilate “everything that it creates—physical environments, social institutions, metaphysical ideas, artistic visions, moral values—in order to create more, to go on endlessly creating the world anew.”

Son by John Sheasby
It's about having a deeper fellowship with God

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

I'm currently reading The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt. It's very good.

~Bella

Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset. Best book (trilogy actually) I read this year. After that, May is coming and I'll have to follow my routine - every year I read again the Silmarillion on this month.

The 25 Biblical Laws of Success by William Santos
Keep It Moving by Twyla Tharp

~Bella

https://www.amazon.com/Priesthood-Christ-Daniel-P-Cronin/dp/0854397620
We need that on the Archive !!!

Karitas untitled, by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.