What are YOU currently reading?

[sjpianoprincess]

I have to read Alive for English. It's about survivors of a plane crash in the Andes mountains, true story. I'm also reading on the side a series of mystery books. I call them the Aunt Dimity books. They're by Nancy Atherton. I enjoy reading them.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

At the moment, I'm reading three books at once:
- "Rites of Pleasure" by Jennifer Hunter, a book about sacred sexuality.
- "Tolkien and the Great War" by John Garth, a biography that shows how WWI influenced Tolkien's work.
And last but not least:
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein, one of the most popular SciFi-novels ever.

 

[sinner/SAVED]

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

 

[Eudaimonist]

"Rites of Pleasure" by Jennifer Hunter, a book about sacred sexuality.

You've gotten me curious... what view of sexuality as sacred does the book present?

 

[Miss Spaulding]

Beneath The Ice by Alton Gansky. My favorite Christian author. His books are awesome. Here are some of my favorites by him.

By My Hands
The Prodigy
Vanished
A Small Dose of Murder
Beneath The Ice (yes, I know, I haven't finished. But I love it so far...sooo...hehe, yeah).

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

You've gotten me curious... what view of sexuality as sacred does the book present?

It's a broad overview, basically, briefly touching upon various subjects such as tantra, alchemy, the concept of hieros gamos (the "holy marriage"), the historical roots of the highly neurotic perception of sexuality in our own culture and so on and so forth.

I'm not completely satisfied by the book, because the author touches but briefly upon the aspects that interest me the most (such as the historical aspects, Tantra and so on and so forth) and dwells much too long on current practices and beliefs of the neopagan community.

Nevertheless, it was somewhat enlightening. I always felt that sexuality should be regarded as sacred - after all, it's the source of new life -, but I didn't realize how strong the influence of my cultural heritage really is. In spite of all my beliefs, deep inside I'm not quite rid of the notion that sexuality is something to be ashamed of.

 

[stonetoflesh]

Steven Strogatz-- Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
R.U. Sirius-- Counterculture: From Abraham to Acid House

 

[Chloe Williams]

I am currently reading the fifth Left Behind book : Apollyon

 

[JesseRaymondBassett]

I am reading Midnight Tableau by Michael McCorran

 

[Ellesar]

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Secret on Ararat by Tim LaHaye

 

[jbgordon]

Im reading a book by David Crowder called Praise Habit. Before that I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Thats a really cool book.

 

[progressivegal]

Before that I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Thats a really cool book.

I remember reading that a few years ago and I remember that I liked it alot, but I really can't think of what the story was about! Care to refresh my memory?

 

[Serene Repose]

"The Dawn Treader" by CS Lewis
"Jubilee" by Margaret Walker

I just finished "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner. =)

 

[enelya_taralom]

The "Otherland" series by Tad Williams, am on the last volume "Sea of Silver Light"

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

I am currently reading the fifth Left Behind book : Apollyon

Uuuurgh... *shiver*

What a waste of precious paper! Even if we don't take the actual plot into account, the technicalities alone suffice to show how primitive these books are: Flat characters, no writing style whatsoever, grammatical mistakes of a reeeeally embarassing sort, etc.pp....

PLUS: The first chapters of book one were actually copied from Stephen King's "Langoliers".

 

[lizardbit]

Just finished reading Sickened by Julie Gregory - was very good and yet horrorifying at the same time with how a parent could such things to their own children like what Julie's mother did to her - it's a true story by the way.. and am now reading It's not about the bike by Lance Armstrong.

 

[Echoes Peak]

Where is God when it Hurts by Phillip Yancey. I started it earlier and then got sidetracked.

 

[Da_Funkey_Gibbon]

"Rubican" a book about the romans.

and Lord of the Rings.

 

[progressivegal]

I'm just going to start "Lies and the lying liars who tell them" by Al Franken.

 

[feathergirl]

Firebird by Kathy Tyers