What are you reading?

[Hawthorne]

Finished this one,

....and thinking of revisiting material from this one,

 

[Petros2015]

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain -
It is wonderful; a fiction but not a satire

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Wikipedia

"I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best;
I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times
the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of
preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no
preparation and got none."
— Mark Twain

The Cynic adored the Saint

 

[bèlla]

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[Noxot]

I was reading a book about symbolisms of the cross by Rene gueuon. Stopped on page 72 for a while. He says a lot of interesting things. He deals with Christianity a little bit but I think he was a bit disappointed of his native tradition, he felt the spiritual depths of it was largely quenched. Or perhaps it simply was not as ordered as he would have liked it to have been since he seems to be somewhat of a conservative person. I find it pretty strange that there are a few conservative perennialist. I guess that goes to show that you cannot judge an individual person by typical personality traits of a larger group.

At the bottom of this site you can download PDFs of some of his books though I doubt many Christians are interested in comparing religions or symbolism.

Rene Guenon english pdf : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[bèlla]

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[Sif]

2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke

 

[sampa]

It's been a long time since I've opened a book, but with my data running so slow and the recharge date tomorrow, I'm reading Windows of the Soul, a look at dreams and their meaning by Paul Meier, MD and Robert Wise, PhD.

 

[sampa]

Ughhh, sorry for all the post. My screen has been frozen and having difficulty for half an hour because of the slow data.

 

[bèlla]

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[.Mikha'el.]

Ughhh, sorry for all the post. My screen has been frozen and having difficulty for half an hour because of the slow data.

Deleted for you.

 

[sampa]

Deleted for you.

Thank you!!!!

 

[sampa]

Time to get back in the word and refresh my spirit and heart with the Lord. Christmas is coming soon.

 

[bèlla]

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[DragonFox91]

Just finished re-reading Peter Pan by James Barrie.

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


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I want to never grow up

 

[Petros2015]

I want to never grow up

There's a certain beauty to it for a while
But after a while
And a season
And 7x7 seasons
There's more beauty to a soaring eagle
Than there is to an egg that never hatched
And went bad

(with credit to C.S. Lewis -
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. ... And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
)

Even Peter, if you read closely, is known as "heartless" (though this is a bit unfair for he is various things, turn by turn)

Lately I have been listening to Orthodoxy by Chesterton, 1908.
Chesterton is amazing, a bit like "C.S. Lewis carrying a musket"

I (LOVE) this chapter: "The Maniac"

https://ia802606.us.archive.org/22/items/orthodoxy_jac_librivox/orthodoxy_02a_chesterton.mp3

 

[Sif]

Jupiter by Ben Bova (who, sadly, died November 2020). It is part of his Grand Tour series. Stories set in the fictional future of the colonized Solar System.

 

[Sif]

I think I will begin to re-read Dante's Divine Comedy

 

[public hermit]

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business...In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat." Yikes

 

[thehehe]

Ellis Peters, The Hermit of Eyton Forest. Been a lifetime since I last read Ellis Peters.