What are YOU currently reading? (8)

[gerbilwoman]

Our Autistic Lives: Personal Accounts from Autistic Adults Around the World Aged 20 to 70+

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I'm leaning towards starting this next.

 

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[abandonentropy]

I've recently gotten back into reading. I've read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Clockwork Orange, and I'm currently reading Neuromancer. I've enjoyed all of them with Neuromancer being my favourite so far.

 

[godisagardener]

I just finished Agatha Christie's What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (Miss Marple) and am about to start Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot). I'm on a mystery jag. Also slowly reading John MacArthur's One Faithful Life.

 

[RoBo1988]

All of my life, I have never been a big fan of fiction. I read "A Tale of Two Cities" in high school (required) enyjoyed it, but have never been able to get the gumption to read novels otherwise. I have "The Picture of Dorian Gray" , Atlas Shrugged, that I have started, and even " A Pilgrims Progress" but always set them aside for non fiction.

Right now I'm reading; "Go and Sin No More" by Michael Brown, "A Celebration of Discipline" by Richard Foster, and still reading EM Bounds' collection of prayer books on Kindle.

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I am reading this now.

 

[Fervent]

The Confessions by Augustine
Developing Emotionally Mature Leaders by Aubrey Malphurs
Commentary on the New Testtament Use of the Old Testameny
Revelation

 

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[Learning always]

I am currently reading a book about Judge Dee's cases.
By the way, does anybody like stories that are clean and family-friendly?

 

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[Learning always]

I just finished Agatha Christie's What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (Miss Marple) and am about to start Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot). I'm on a mystery jag. Also slowly reading John MacArthur's One Faithful Life.

I also like mystery novels. Agatha Christie is one of my favourite writers.

 

[godisagardener]

I also like mystery novels. Agatha Christie is one of my favourite writers.

She was certainly a prolific author! I enjoy her books for the mystery and for the recurring characters. I also like Erle Stanley Gardner's "Perry Mason" mysteries. It's nice to be able to keep up with the same characters through 70-80 books. I've collected all the Perry Mason books over the years and need to start back at the beginning. They're great even though the earliest were written in the early 1930s.

 

[godisagardener]

Started "Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials" by Marilynne K. Roach. It's slow going so far and somewhat convoluted but does some deep digging into historical records.

 

[godisagardener]

I am currently reading a book about Judge Dee's cases.
By the way, does anybody like stories that are clean and family-friendly?

I looked Judge Dee up, the books sound interesting.

I do like clean books. I guess that's why the oldies grab my attention. I look through Amazon's free Kindle books maybe once a month and find some interesting public domain mysteries (many of which are teen mysteries from the early 1900s) to "purchase" for $0.

 

[Learning always]

I looked Judge Dee up, the books sound interesting.

I do like clean books. I guess that's why the oldies grab my attention. I look through Amazon's free Kindle books maybe once a month and find some interesting public domain mysteries (many of which are teen mysteries from the early 1900s) to "purchase" for $0.

I prefer novels that were written before 1950s, they are clean and family friendly. Moreover, they are charming and less violent.
My edition of Judge Dee was written for teenagers, so it is clean and family friendly. But I am not sure about the edition on Amazon, so be careful.
Are there many free ebooks on Amazon? I didn't know that.

 

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[Akita Suggagaki]

The Sacred and The Profane by Mircea Eliada


Religious man experiences two kinds of, time profane and sacred. The one is an evanescent duration, the other a "succession of eternities," periodically recoverable during the festivals that made up the sacred calendar. The liturgical time of the calendar flows in a closed circle; it is the cosmic time of the year, sanctified by the works of the gods. And since the most stupendous divine work was the creation of the world, commemoration of the cosmogony plays an important part in many religions. The New Year coincides with the first day of Creation. The year is the temporal dimension of cosmos. "The world has passed" expresses that a year has run its course. At each New Year the cosmogony is reiterated, the world re-created, and to do this is also to create time that is, to regenerate it by beginning it anew. This is why the cosmogonic myth serves as paradigmatic model for every creation or construction; it is even used as a ritual means of healing. By symbolically becoming contemporary with the Creation, one reintegrates the primordial plenitude. The sick man becomes well because he begins his life again with its sum of energy intact.


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The Idea of the Holy by Rudolph Otto