What are you reading?

[Hawthorne]

I'm in the middle of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah by Brant Pitre. Even though it was quite good, I put it down and started rereading the books of the Bible I've studied, but which I have not used some of my newer books in studying. Currently I am going through Acts 3-8.

 

[bèlla]

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[Sif]

The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen,
It is a general history of the Crusades in the Baltic against the pagan tribes there. The Lithuanians were one of the strongest.
It also discusses the great leaders such as Mindigaus (Lithuania) and Alexander Nevsky (Novgorod) as well as the development of the Teutonic order of monastic knights.

 

[public hermit]

I'm getting dizzy.

Jason Stanley How Propaganda Works. He's a philosopher at Yale.

Jason Stanley - Wikipedia

 

[bèlla]

I'm getting dizzy.

Jason Stanley How Propaganda Works. He's a philosopher at Yale.

Influence is good by Robert Cialdini. You might as well.

 

[bèlla]

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[thehehe]

I finally found a nice edition & translation of the Kalevala, so I'll finally start reading it this evening. Wanted to read it for years, can't say how glad I am.

 

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I've been listening to C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy on my headphones at work.

I like it. But it's long winded at times and seems to detract into non-essential details away from the main story. That's my personal opinion. I like stories that drive to the point.

 

[Sif]

I've been listening to C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy on my headphones at work.

I like it. But it's long winded at times and seems to detract into non-essential details away from the main story. That's my personal opinion. I like stories that drive to the point.

I read Lewis' Space Trilogy a few years ago. I enjoyed them but also, like you, found some parts a bit long winded.

 

[Sif]

Now that is is the middle of October and Halloween is getting closer I am going to read a couple of stories by H. P. Lovecraft. At The Mountain of Madness and The Shadow out of Time

 

[bèlla]

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[Hawthorne]

Now that is is the middle of October and Halloween is getting closer I am going to read a couple of stories by H. P. Lovecraft. At The Mountain of Madness and The Shadow out of Time

At the Mountains of Madness is an absolute thrill, possibly my favourite story from H. P.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

will soon be reading Having a mary spirit.

 

[hluke]

'Knowing God' by J.I packer and 'Unknown' by Matthew Everhart

 

[bèlla]

will soon be reading Having a mary spirit.

I read it. You’ll like it.

 

[Petros2015]

I've been listening to C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy on my headphones at work.

I LOVE Perelandra (the 2nd book) - takes a little while to peak and goes on for a little while after the peak, but DON'T miss it. The Garden of Eden story/temptation happening again on Venus with the main character (Ransom) trying his best to give counterpoints and an innocent but thoughtful Eve between them... Gave me chills. Still does...

Perelandra, by C. S. Lewis

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"He is what in my world we call Bad," said Weston's body. "One who rejects the fruit he is given for the sake of the fruit he expected or the fruit he found last time."

"We must make him older, then," said the Lady, and though she did not look at Ransom, all the Queen and Mother in her were revealed to him and he knew that she wished him, and all things, infinitely well. And he--he could do nothing. His weapon had been knocked out of his hand.

"And will you teach us Death?" said the Lady to Weston's shape, where it stood above her.

"Yes," it said, "it is for this that I came here, that you may have Death in abundance."
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[Petros2015]

Just finished re-reading Peter Pan by James Barrie.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16/16-0.txt

Truly an amazing book if you've never read it and only seen the Disney animations; it's far deeper and more beautiful than you might expect, a little Twilight Zone esque in some places - but then, it is the NeverLand.

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Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow
up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old
she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with
it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for
Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, “Oh, why can't you
remain like this for ever!” This was all that passed between them on
the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always
know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Of course they lived at 14 [their house number on their street], and
until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady,
with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic
mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the
puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and
her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get,
though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
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Barrie wrote some other things as well; this play affected me DEEPLY. There's a moment where I found myself saying, "No... No..." I would love to see it live sometime. But I fear that I might rush the stage and stop the play at that moment for even on the first reading I knew what was to come.

The Project Gutenberg E-text of Dear Brutus, by J. M. Barrie

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ACT I

The scene is a darkened room, which the curtain reveals so stealthily that if there was a mouse on the stage it is there still. Our object is to catch our two chief characters unawares; they are Darkness and Light.

The room is so obscure as to be invisible, but at the back of the obscurity are French windows, through which is seen Lob's garden bathed in moon-shine. The Darkness and Light, which this room and garden represent, are very still, but we should feel that it is only the pause in which old enemies regard each other before they come to the grip. The moonshine stealing about among the flowers, to give them their last instructions, has left a smile upon them, but it is a smile with a menace in it for the dwellers in darkness. What we expect to see next is the moonshine slowly pushing the windows open, so that it may whisper to a confederate in the house, whose name is Lob. But though we may be sure that this was about to happen it does not happen; a stir among the dwellers in darkness prevents it.
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[sunshineforJesus]

I read it. You’ll like it.

I loved the last book we read at Womens bible study which was having a mary heart in a martha world.

 

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G.K. Chesterton - A Father Brown short story called 'The Secret Garden'.