What are YOU currently reading? (7)

[Forgiven828]

What authors do you recommend?


I'm not entirely certain what I would like to do, though I am very interested in possibly getting involved in conservation. I would love, actually, to come to the US to do some sort of internship. I like Archaeology a lot, though the digging is tough when I have to do it!! It's very interesting, a really hands on degree.

In the fantasy genre? or in general?

At one time I was interested in becoming a paleoanthropologist. So I understand the interest in discovering more of our history. Let us know how your essay goes!

God bless!

 

[ohhcuppycakee]

The Bhagavad Gita

 

[darellecourtney]

In the fantasy genre? or in general?

At one time I was interested in becoming a paleoanthropologist. So I understand the interest in discovering more of our history. Let us know how your essay goes!

More fantasy, actually, but I'm not picky. I always like finding new authors to read.

So what is Paleoanthropology? Is it like the study of human origins?

My essay isn't going to badly, just getting on with some reading for it! I've got to write about the effect of lighting in a Museum environment.

 

[craftingtable]

The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins

 

[Nox617]

Cemetery Dance- Douglas Preston

 

[faithchic05]

John Adam- David McCullough

 

[jsimms615]

Fiction
"Deadly Advice" by Roberta Isleib and "Christmas Mourning" by Margaret Maron

non-fiction
"Boundaries in Marriage" by Cloud and Townsend

 

[ChristianLayman]

Eh, I'm kind of reading 5+ books at the moment....

2 Nephi (Book of Mormon)
Antiquities of the Jews (Flavius Josephus)
Imitation of Christ (Thomas A. Kempis)
Doctors of the Church (Pope Benedict XVI)
God's Politics (Jim Wallis)
Against Heretics (St. Irenaeus of Lyons)
Life of Matthew Henry (sort of a preface to his Commentaries on Genesis)
Various Study Bibles to help prepare for my Commentary on Genesis

I really want to get around to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and maybe pull out of Biblical and Christian studies from 200BC-200AD so I can branch out more.

 

[CelticGrace]

I'm reading 3 things at once because I was bouncing all over the place during Thanksgiving lol

Hunger Games
Eragon
Explosive Eighteen

 

[Forgiven828]

Eh, I'm kind of reading 5+ books at the moment....

2 Nephi (Book of Mormon)
Antiquities of the Jews (Flavius Josephus)
Imitation of Christ (Thomas A. Kempis)
Doctors of the Church (Pope Benedict XVI)
God's Politics (Jim Wallis)
Against Heretics (St. Irenaeus of Lyons)
Life of Matthew Henry (sort of a preface to his Commentaries on Genesis)
Various Study Bibles to help prepare for my Commentary on Genesis

I really want to get around to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and maybe pull out of Biblical and Christian studies from 200BC-200AD so I can branch out more.

I'm reading 3 things at once because I was bouncing all over the place during Thanksgiving lol

Hunger Games
Eragon
Explosive Eighteen

lol How do you do that? I have a hard time remembering what I read last in ONE book!

 

[Viren]

Daniel's running formula - Jack Daniels

 

[TwistTim]

lol How do you do that? I have a hard time remembering what I read last in ONE book!

I can not speak for the others who read from multiple books.

I myself read from different books on different topics usually from different genres.

The way I remember all of them is simple, I work a boring job so I have a lot of time to contemplate what I have been reading.
Also I have a touch of A.D.H.L.A.S.T. Attention Defficia-Hey Look A Shinny Thing. As such my mind tends to wander when I focus on only thing for too long, so I feed it different input sources.

Additional thought: The mind is a wonderfully complex computer capable of grand calculations and though processes when feed properly.

 

[Forgiven828]

Also I have a touch of A.D.H.L.A.S.T. Attention Defficia-Hey Look A Shinny Thing.

lol It's been a rough day for me today so I really needed that laugh! Thank you so much!

 

[ChristianLayman]

lol How do you do that? I have a hard time remembering what I read last in ONE book!

Believe me, I bounce around a lot. It really depends on the book too. Imitation of Christ is for spiritual growth and enlightenment, so I can take my time because it's not meant to be read in chunks.

Pope Benedict's Doctors of the Church have really short chapters and the typeface isn't too small, plus it's more of a brief overview of the various major Doctors and thus isn't heavy reading.

Against Heresies however can be quite challenging not simply be St. Irenaeus is going into detail with regards to the various Gnostic heresies of his time as well as refuting them, but because the beliefs of the Gnostics themselves are something of an unintelligible jumble at times, often employing distortions of scripture that's all keyed to a type of numerology that we, in modern Western Civilization, have little to no real exposure to.

God's Politics is written for a 20th/21st century American audience, so it's a bit easier to plow through than say, Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, which is theology and history on levels that some of us might struggle with initially since no one living today really speaks in the way that people did back then.

The Study Bibles are easy in the sense that it's more "To the point" in terms of notes that are designed to get across information in an efficient and easily understandable manner. Also, having read certain books more than others, the more familiarity one has with Scripture, or any reading material for that matter, the easier it is to retain that information.

It is precisely that kind of familiarity that makes it easier to determine why certain theological or historical writings may be false.

From what I've read from the Book of Mormon, it's pretty much set up as a narrative that attempts to convey the historical an theological concepts and ideas that its author intended. Sometimes, reading through can be daunting, but I am thankful that Joseph Smith at least went through the narrative route so the unfamiliar reader can more easily understand the material, unlike the Koran, which is more or less a collection of proverbs and smatterings of history that can leave the reader confused and frustrated at times.

On another note, I've begun to read through some of the Old Testament Apocrypha contained in the Septuagint. The books in question will be 3 & 4 Esdras (considered 1 & 2 Esdras in Protestant and Hebrew naming conventions), the Prayer of Manasseh, and 3 & 4 Maccabees.

 

[dia_liom]

Walking Drum (Louis L'Amour)
Men in Black (Mark Levin, not the one they made a movie out of)
Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)
New Views of the Constitution of the United States (John Taylor)
The Forgotten Man (Amity Shales)
Roots of Obama's Rage (Dinesh D'Souza)
The Way Things Ought to Be (Rush Limbaugh)

 

[CelticGrace]

Also I have a touch of A.D.H.L.A.S.T. Attention Defficia-Hey Look A Shinny Thing.

This is 100% me

As for how I read more than one thing at a time, well, it's probably that ^ I read about 60% of Hunger Games then started on Eragon. I only got a few chapters into that when I started on Explosive Eighteen which is by my favorite author (Janet Evanovich), so I'll finish that one quickly.

 

[jsimms615]

just finished "Christmas Mourning" by Margaret Maron.

 

[Lady Ogopogo]

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Never heard of the title nor the author previously. A friend of mine who was in a book club gave me a ton of books years ago that he no longer wanted. One by one I have picked through the titles to read them.

This time I did something different. I saw the title on the shelf, then pulled the jacket off of it so I would know nothing of the book or author and then began to read it. It has turned out to be a delightful novel beginning with a very intelligent 5 year old English lad who lived in South Africa in the late 1930's and his interaction as an object of bullying by the Boers, his acceptance by native tribes, the experience of the sorrows of the supposed necessity of internment of suspected enemies during WWII, and the puzzlement of Christianity, all, as he grows older.

I only have 100 pages left, but I really am dreading finishing this book. I do not wish it to end.

 

[Forgiven828]

Sounds like a good one.

 

[someguy14]

Just finished reading Padre Pio: Man of Hope.

Excellent book.