What book(s) are you reading now?

Currently Reading
1979 Book of Common Prayer
Book of Hours by Thomas Merton

Finished
My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of his own Faith by Benyamin Cohen
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork chops? by George Carlin
Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches are mixing God with politics and losing their Way by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Reading: Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood Vol. II
Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce McConkie
Odes of Solomon

NC Building Code: Mechanical Codes and NC Building Code: Fuel Gas Code.

Sounds fun, huh? :sarcastic

"An Unfettered Faith" about Unitarianism... Wee!

I just started "I hope they serve beer in hell" by Tucker Max and "The game" by Neil Strauss.
I'll post again when I'm finished.

I always forget about this thread. I finished The Plague. I am currently reading Violent Politics: A History of Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare: From the American Revolution to the Iraq War

The best book I've read recently was "Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague" by Geraldine Brooks. It was so well written, and brought the 17th century in a tiny English village to life.

It's based on the true story of a village in which the inhabitants voluntarily quarantined themselves during an outbreak of the plague.

Fascinating.

Homer's The Odyssey; Robert Fagles translation

I'm reading "The Distant Hours" which Kathryn recommended. So far, it's really good!

The Charismatic Community: Shi'ite Identity in Early Islam, Written by Maria Massi Dakake.

The Charismatic Community examines the rise and development of Shiite religious identity in early Islamic history, analyzing the complex historical and intellectual processes that shaped the sense of individual and communal religious vocation.

Maria Massi Dakake is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where she teaches courses on various areas of Islam and on women in world religions. Her research encompasses areas of Islamic theology, philosophy, and mysticism, and she has a particular interest in Shiite and Sufi traditions. Dakake has completed a book entitled, The Charismatic Community: Shi‘ite Identity in Early Islam and is an active contributor to current traditionalist thought and writing.

Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Written by Mark Curtis.

The information in the book is highly valuable, well presented and well researched. I completely disagree with and disregard I would say the political agenda of the writer. however this information in the right conditions is good, very good I would say.
Curtis is a British journalist, writer, and historian specialising in investigative journalism.

The Science Book, Everything you need to know about science, but never had time to ask. by Cyril Aydon

Science explained in a human perpective.

Some idea's of what I mean

Science owe's its existance to Islam. Christianity only concerned itself with theology, Islam had an important element to it that you have an obligation to pursue knowledge. Most of the greek tranlations were first done by Islamists.

Science and Technology are separate but intertwined. Greeks had great scientific procedure's but for the time period the Chinese had greater technology. It wasn't until technology and scientific method met up that societies really started to develop.

Science needs to be nurtured to develop. Society needs to be well off and democratic principals need to be in place.

Lots more an interesting read.

Author's first book was a biography on Charles Darwin.

I am now reading "A Box of Darkness: The Story of a Marriage," by Sally Ryder Brady:



From Publishers Weekly

"It's not hard to identify my emotions. What's hard is filling in the gaps of a forty-six-year love affair," confesses Brady (A Yankee Christmas series) in her account of life with longtime Atlantic Monthly Press editor-in-chief Upton Birnie Brady. In 1956, 17-year-old Ryder met Upton when he cut in on a dance at the annual Boston Cotillion. Feeling an immediate rapport with the dashing Harvard student ("our bodies fit, leg to leg, pelvis to pelvis"), she harbors hopes of meeting him again. They do, and in 1962, they marry. Soon after, Brady experiences Upton's spiraling anger and depression, and begins scavenging for insights into Upton's character (through Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited) and proof (e.g., a cassette of Everly Brothers songs). The shock of finding gay pornography in Upton's bedside table drawer, yields unexpected gifts along with pain. Readers will be captivated by Upton's ability to resuscitate a fading antique carpet with crayons; make elegant clothing for his wife (with whom he had four children); plan and execute formal dinner parties; and dance a hypnotic merengue. Diagnosed by his therapist with narcissistic personality disorder, Upton, in Brady's view, is both superhero and deeply flawed man; her memoir is as searing and tender as the life she describes. (Feb.)
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Very well written, very poignant.

YmirGF said:

I suspect many here are avid book readers.

I am currently reading two, in tandem.

One, which is excellent, is Warlock by Wilber Smith. (Ancient Egyptian local)

The second, which is not quite so interesting is, The Sundered World by Frank Ryan.

How 'bout you folks?

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I am reading the Holy Koran, Living with Siva, and The Voudon Gnostic Workbook at the moment.

Unitarian Universalism: A Narrative History...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone- again...

I'm about to read The God Debris....

It looks and sounds interesting.

Citizen of Cosmos said:

I'm about to read The God Debris....

It looks and sounds interesting.

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I read that book a few months ago. It is really interesting. You will have to tell me what you think about it when you are done.

Paris Talks by Abdul Baha if you want religious books