What book are you reading right now?

[broken_one]

I'm reading Louise de la Valliere by Dumas.

What are you reading?

 

[Edwards1984]

I'm trying to finish A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards by George M. Marsden, as well as The God Who Justifies by Dr. James White.

 

[Rhye]

I can't wait to read for pleasure.

But, I am reading the Bible.

I'm looking at my collection (my little library)! Its calling my name. But, nope, empirical studies and Bronfenbrenner it is at the moment.
Though, I have to say, I highly enjoy reading those. Some annoy me with horrible research, but others just do great work.

 

[laconicstudent]

Plato's Republic mainly, but I also have Principles of Neural Science and The Worm Ouroboros kind of in progress as well, with Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and the Aeneid in the wings.

http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Peng...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277793543&sr=8-1


http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Ne...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277793608&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Worm-Ouroboro...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277793585&sr=8-1


http://www.amazon.com/Nicomachean-E...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277793568&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Aeneid-Pengui...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277793626&sr=8-1

 

[~Beauty_from_Pain~]

The Bible (currently Jeremiah, just finished Isaiah)
The more I see you.
Search for significance.

And a dozen others. But those are the current ones most read.

 

[broken_one]

Plato's Republic mainly, but I also have Principles of Neuroscience and The Worm Ouroboros kind of in progress as well, with Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and the Aeneid in the wings.

The Republic is a very interesting book....it gives food for thought with anyone who is interested in politics or even metaphysics. It's such a broad book.

Nichomachean Ethics is something I still practice and somewhat read today. It's much easier to remember and do than that Jewish Torah crap. (Since we're not accountable to the Law, I can say that. ) The ethical principles make sense.

 

[b.hopeful]

Beyond Charity by John Perkins

 

[peacechild4]

When Heaven Invades Earth by Bill Johnson

 

[scraparcs]

I just finished one. I think next I'll pick up a book on the UU religion and another one about the properties of gemstones.

 

[Themistocles]

Just finished The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and I've started up Silas Marner by George Eliot.

 

[Scottish Knight]

I'm reading "Constrained by His Love" by L.J. Van Valen - it's a biography on Robert Murray McCheyne who was a very famous evangelical minister in Scotland during the 19th century.

I'm also reading through Leviticus in my Bible

 

[Thunder Peel]

I just finished Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams and I'm currently reading On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming.

 

[crishmael]

The ones I'm reading consistently are Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien and Ethics by Baruch Spinoza. I'm reading Proverbs in the Bible and trying to figure out what other book I want to read.

 

[Mess]

Reading a dutch book on creationism, called Modern science in the Bible, almost at the end of it though, but an amazing read.

 

[Riot Riot Riot]

I was going to make a thread exactly like this one!

Anyways, I'm currently reading:

 

[TheOliveSeed]

Childhood's End -Arthur C. Clark.

 

[Wren]

I'm currently reading A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide by Mark Siljander.

 

[Keri]

I'm "reading" a book on math. It's a refresher guide for those of us who haven't taken math in years. I'm going to be taking a math class this fall and I forgot EVERYTHING from high school math.

 

[Inkachu]

Does anyone else keep all the books they loved when they were teens? Half the time I can't remember where I came across them for the first time (at school? random find in a library?) but they impacted me and I loved them and I still enjoy re-reading them. I tend to really love the stories of suffering and struggle that girls go through, like "It Happened To Nancy" (true story of a 14 year old who is raped and winds up with AIDS, and eventually dies), "The Girl In The Box" (about a girl who's kidnapped and locked in a cellar with a typewriter, where she journals all her thoughts, until she slowly dehydrates/starves to death).

I just finished another one, "Dancing On The Edge" by Han Nolan; it's about a pre-teen girl who is raised on witchcraft and magic and all sorts of lies, to the point where her grasp of reality is completely broken and she spends every moment terrified and confused, and eventually she snaps and winds up in a psych ward. The whole story is so heartbreaking (there is redemption near the end, though), and sadly, I can relate to it, which is probably why I love it so much.

 

[Oddish]

The Selfish Capitalist by Oliver James, after reading Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

After that, I am going to be reading The Shock of The Old by David Edgerton.