So what are you reading right now?

[Michie]

Right now I'm reading the Hidden Pope.
http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Pope-Friendship-Relationship-Catholics/dp/0875964788

So far it is very good. Only reinforces why I am such a big fan of John Paul II.

It really clears up some misconceptions concerning him & his beliefs.

How about you? What are you reading?

[Izdaari]

The Vampire Lestat (http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Lestat-Chronicles/dp/0345476883/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0757279-4662042?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194486339&sr=1-1) by Anne Rice

The New Man (http://www.amazon.com/New-Man-Thomas-Merton/dp/0374514445/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0757279-4662042?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194486435&sr=1-1) by Thomas Merton

Christian Prayer for Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Prayer-Dummies-Richard-Wagner/dp/0764555006/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0757279-4662042?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194486494&sr=1-1) by Richard Wagner

[Michie]

I've never heard of Christian Prayer for Dummies! :P

[Izdaari]

There are "for Dummies" books on just about any subject you can think of. :D

[Michie]

Lord knows thats my market. :o

[Criada]

A Holiness of the Heart - David Wilkerson

The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson

Dark Night of the Soul _ St John of the Cross (been reading this one for weeks - the language makes it rather slow...)

[Michie]

A Holiness of the Heart - David Wilkerson

The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson

Dark Night of the Soul _ St John of the Cross (been reading this one for weeks - the language makes it rather slow...)
I've been wanting to read 'Dark Night of the Soul' but the language has held me back. I'm not extremely patient in these areas. I like a smooth read. I'm not sure if they have updated translations of this or not.

[Joykins]

_Farthing_ by Jo Walton. It's an alternate history murder mystery with a chilling political angle.

[Antigone]

Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses, for school.
The last book I finished was Brick Lane by Monica Ali.

[Rowan]

Manga (Japanese comic books for those not in the know), World Hunger: Twelve Myths, and Neck Deep.

[3girls2dogs]

I just picked up Greg Iles' new book "Third Degree". I intend to start it tonight. I also bought Nicholas Sparks' newest book "The Choice" but I am saving it for my vacation. I wanted something lighter to read for that, and Greg Iles' books tend to require a bit more attention.

They rereleased Mists of Avalon in hardback, and I should be receiving my copy tonight. I'll read it again (for the 22nd time, incidentally) once I'm done with these other two.

[3girls2dogs]

They have a Catholicism For Dummies as well ;)

[stumpjumper]

Simply Christian by NT Wright

The Golden Compass by P. Pullman

[Criada]

I just picked up Greg Iles' new book "Third Degree". I intend to start it tonight. I also bought Nicholas Sparks' newest book "The Choice" but I am saving it for my vacation. I wanted something lighter to read for that, and Greg Iles' books tend to require a bit more attention.

They rereleased Mists of Avalon in hardback, and I should be receiving my copy tonight. I'll read it again (for the 22nd time, incidentally) once I'm done with these other two.

I love Mists of Avalon!

Simply Christian by NT Wright

The Golden Compass by P. Pullman

Why have they changed the name of that?
It's called "The Northern Lights" in Britain! :scratch:
Followed by "The Subtle Knife and "The Amber Spyglass"
The first one is OK, but it gts so convoluted later on that I never made it to the end...

[Melethiel]

Confessions ~ St. Augustine

Yes, I know I've been reading this for months...I don't get much reading time while school is in.

[Michie]

Confessions ~ St. Augustine

Yes, I know I've been reading this for months...I don't get much reading time while school is in.
I started that month ago myself. The language really slows me down. I had to put aside for awhile.

[Melethiel]

I've read Augustine before, the language isn't a huge problem...it's still slower reading than your average novel of the same length though.

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Lets see, other than books for class...

I've been jumping around in the first volume of Jenson's Systematic Theology, The Many Faces of Evil by John S. Feinberg, and Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman.

[Michie]

Today I picked up Bruce Feiler's Abraham, A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths. http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1096 I plan on reading it after finishing my current book. He did that documentary & book titled- Walking the Bible.

[markbelieves]

The Middle Ages

Religious Literacy

ASP 2.0 Web programming with C#

Bible (currently reading Kings)

[progressivegal]

I'm currently reading "Living Buddha, Living Christ". It's a very good book. I'm having the urge to read something Catholic now, maybe it's nearing towards the Christmas Season, I always seem to be so drawn to my Catholic Roots at that time.

[Rhamiel]

this girl I like is getting me to read this book titled Twilight

[Rhamiel]

I always seem to be so drawn to my Catholic Roots at that time.
read Orthodoxy by Chesterton, it is great

[Michie]

I'm currently reading "Living Buddha, Living Christ". It's a very good book. I'm having the urge to read something Catholic now, maybe it's nearing towards the Christmas Season, I always seem to be so drawn to my Catholic Roots at that time.
:bow: A Get Fuzzy fan!

[MrJim]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RZSZ7D37L._AA240_.jpg

I'm on a third or fourth reading of this...i'll be Orthodox someday:cool:

[Tavita]

I'm reading "Experiencing The Depths Of Jesus Christ" by Madame Guyon, for the first time.

[edb19]

Food & Wine magazine (but I really don't think that counts).

current book
The Pact
http://www.amazon.com/Pact-Sampson-Davis/dp/157322989X/ref=pd_sim_b


edie

[3girls2dogs]

Food & Wine magazine (but I really don't think that counts).

current book
The Pact
http://foru.ms/search.php?searchid=2339828


edie
I adore every single one of her books. Jodi Picoult is so amazing.

[Mary of Bethany]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RZSZ7D37L._AA240_.jpg

I'm on a third or fourth reading of this...i'll be Orthodox someday:cool:

:thumbsup: Have you read "Mountain of Silence" yet? It's amazing.


I've been reading "Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain", but I've not had much time to spend at it lately.

Mary

[3girls2dogs]

Ok, so my eight year old comes home the other day, and she asks me if I know of Emily Dickinson!! Because my daughter's reading is so advanced, she gave her a project to do on Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. I was a little offended that my daughter thought I knew Emily Dickinson personally (how old does she think I am?), but I am so excited that she is learning poetry.

[Criada]

I adore every single one of her books. Jodi Picoult is so amazing.
Have you read 'Keeping Faith"?
She is one of my favourite authors...but I really didn't get that one!
:scratch:

[3girls2dogs]

I did read it. It was one of her stranger stories, I admit.

[Michie]

Have you read 'Keeping Faith"?
She is one of my favourite authors...but I really didn't get that one!
:scratch:
Now I'm curious....

Do tell.

[3girls2dogs]

Now I'm curious....

Do tell.
It's about a little girl who speaks to an "imaginary friend". It turns out that many people think this imaginary friend is God, and it seems, throughout the book, that the girl peforms a miracle or two. There is a man who comes to try and disprove it, and the biological father of the girl thinks the mother is causing all the trouble because he cheated on her and left her.

Does that about cover the story without giving too much away, Criada? It's been a while since I read it.

[RegularGuy]

I recently finished Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament by David Dungan, a good study of the formation of the New Testament canon. Dungan's special thesis is that a canon is a unique event and can only occur in a religion that is influenced by Greek culture and tradition. It's not a difficult read.

I'm almost finished with Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. It is mildly blasphemous, pretty thoughtful, well-researched and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, but NOT for religious folk who are easily offended.

Next up, either Milton's Paradise Lost (I've never read it, but the idea of Satan as romantic anti-hero appeals to me at the moment) or Tuomo Mannermaa's Christ Present in Faith: Luther's View of Justification.

And in the meantime I'm working my way through the Gospel of Luke in the Greek New Testament.

[edb19]

I adore every single one of her books. Jodi Picoult is so amazing.


wrong link - wrong The Pact.
http://www.amazon.com/Pact-Sampson-Davis/dp/157322989X/ref=pd_sim_b

The one I'm reading is about three young men from the inner city of Newark, NJ - and their path to becoming physicians.

But I do have a book by Jodi Picoult that's somewhere in my stack of "to be reads."

[Athene]

I'm reading Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey.

[MsVicki]

Right now I am reading Climbing Higher, by Montel Williams (about him battling MS).

[Criada]

It's about a little girl who speaks to an "imaginary friend". It turns out that many people think this imaginary friend is God, and it seems, throughout the book, that the girl peforms a miracle or two. There is a man who comes to try and disprove it, and the biological father of the girl thinks the mother is causing all the trouble because he cheated on her and left her.

Does that about cover the story without giving too much away, Criada? It's been a while since I read it.
Yup, that's it in a nutshell.

Just started "Wrestling with God" by James Emery White.
Very good so far.

[longhair75]

I am reading:

Battle Cry by Leon Uris
The Triumph of the Sun by Wilbur Smith

[Melethiel]

I recently finished Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament by David Dungan, a good study of the formation of the New Testament canon. Dungan's special thesis is that a canon is a unique event and can only occur in a religion that is influenced by Greek culture and tradition. It's not a difficult read.

I'm almost finished with Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. It is mildly blasphemous, pretty thoughtful, well-researched and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, but NOT for religious folk who are easily offended.

Next up, either Milton's Paradise Lost (I've never read it, but the idea of Satan as romantic anti-hero appeals to me at the moment) or Tuomo Mannermaa's Christ Present in Faith: Luther's View of Justification.

And in the meantime I'm working my way through the Gospel of Luke in the Greek New Testament.
I liked Paradise Lost.

[MrJim]

Discovering the Rich Heritage of Orthodoxy~Fr Charles Bell

[SumTinWong]

I am reading, Ethel Waters life story, His eye is on the sparrow, and I am reading a Lawrence Block novel.

[SumTinWong]

I am also listening to Fr. T. Hopko speaking on the death of Christ and our own deaths. Scary stuff.

[Mary of Bethany]

I am also listening to Fr. T. Hopko speaking on the death of Christ and our own deaths. Scary stuff.

Where are you hearing that? Is it a podcast on Ancient Faith?

Mary

[Izdaari]

This week:

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

[SumTinWong]

Where are you hearing that? Is it a podcast on Ancient Faith?

Mary
Come receive the light podcast. Listen to it almost every day and i downloaded some from previous days and these talks were among them.

The title of the series is The death of Jesus & our Death in Him

[pgp_protector]

Second book of the Incarnations of Immortality (Bearing an Hourglass)

[Izdaari]

Second book of the Incarnations of Immortality (Bearing an Hourglass)
That series is my favorite of all Piers Anthony's work. :thumbsup:

[Mary of Bethany]

Come receive the light podcast. Listen to it almost every day and i downloaded some from previous days and these talks were among them.

The title of the series is The death of Jesus & our Death in Him

Thanks, Uncle Bud. I'll look for it.

Mary

[SumTinWong]

Thanks, Uncle Bud. I'll look for it.

Mary
If you have iTunes I think it in their directory, if not, try this link:
http://www.myocn.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=197

[Redheadedstepchild]

A Holiness of the Heart - David Wilkerson

The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson

Dark Night of the Soul _ St John of the Cross (been reading this one for weeks - the language makes it rather slow...)

Hi there:wave:

I googled A holiness of the Heart to get more info....I got all sorts of results for Wilkerson but not one match for the book you mentioned. Is the title possibly incorrect?:blush: It sounds like something I would be interested in.

Thanks!

[Izdaari]

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice (Yes, the same one who wrote all those vampire books -- she has a different outlook now; all explained in the Author's Notes.)

[Antigone]

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice (Yes, the same one who wrote all those vampire books -- she has a different outlook now; all explained in the Author's Notes.)

Is this one as annoying as the Vampire books? Because I thought those were sophorific.

[Izdaari]

Is this one as annoying as the Vampire books? Because I thought those were sophorific.
I'm not sure what you mean. I liked her vampire books, those of them I've read. But this one has a very different feel to it.

[Antigone]

I really disliked her vampire books; like I said, I thought they were boring. I don't think I'll give "Our Lord of Egypt" a try either; I'm sure her intentions are noble, but interviews with Rice have led me to believe that she's a little bit...unbalanced. Unless you're Hunter S. Thompson, that is not a good thing.

[SumTinWong]

I am now reading Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell from Mars Hill Bible Church. Pretty good read so far.

[MrJim]

Daily Readings from the Writings of St. John Chrysostom edited by Anthony Coniaris...

oh, and on the fiction side: The Bachman Books by Steven King

...yeah I got issueshttp://bestsmileys.com/freak/5.gif

[RegularGuy]

Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, by Mel White

and

Paradise Lost, John Milton

[Izdaari]

I am now reading Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell from Mars Hill Bible Church. Pretty good read so far.
That book is high on my list since I've very much enjoyed several of his nooma videos. :thumbsup:

[SumTinWong]

That book is high on my list since I've very much enjoyed several of his nooma videos. :thumbsup:
My only qualm with the NOOMA videos is the price (and the reason I do not own any). Here they are $10 for an 11 minute video. That is pretty steep. But the book so far has been a breath of fresh air, and i recommend it highly.

[Rhamiel]

Catholic Imagination by Andrew Greeley

[Criada]

Hi there:wave:

I googled A holiness of the Heart to get more info....I got all sorts of results for Wilkerson but not one match for the book you mentioned. Is the title possibly incorrect?:blush: It sounds like something I would be interested in.

Thanks!
Sorry - David Wilkinson!!:blush:

[Antigone]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I forgot how much the movie left out.

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

An extremely boring, tedious book called Switching Time. Supposedly true story of a doctor treating a DID case with 17 personalities. One would think it would be an interesting story but whatever might have been interesting about it has been butchered, if not by the sheer banal dullness of the woman herself than by the shrink who writes the book primarily relying upon letters written to him by the "alters" and transcripts of hypnosis sessions. The guy has not got a single ounce of spark or "oomph" in his writing whatsoever. The story bes as dry as that obnoxious chapter on whaling in the middle of Moby Dick -- no, even drier as the whaling chapter might conceivably interest someone out there. It bes pushy itself to finish the darned thing since its corporeal partner procuresy for it, but uunnnggghhhhh it bes so supremely boring.

Honestly, there bes literally nothing to spark any kind of affinity with or pity for the main character, nor even any interest in her. Her "alters" are so unbelievably dull, routine, and stupidly predictable the whole thing seems contrived. One wonders if she simply pulled a colossal fake and the good Doc bought it because he needed to for reasons of his own. Halfway through the book he's mentioning his wife separating and taking an apartment because of the inordinate amount of time he bes devoting to this case. One almost begins to cringe wondering if at the end of this drab fairytale he intends to confess his undying love for its drab protagonista and asksy her bes marrying him or somesuch!! :o

When Moriah says drab she means DRAB ... the main character bes singularly unremarkable save for the bald fact of multiplicity (to which this one with 74 in the Abyss says a big fat hairy WHATEVER), and even her multiplicity cannot redeem her from being unengaging. SHEESH. Sybil had 17 personalities and her story bes much more interesting by far.

[Redheadedstepchild]

Sorry - David Wilkinson!!:blush:

Ahhhhhhhhhh.... TY!

I guess in the spirit of the thread I should mentioned that I just finished Mere Christianity and Power of a Praying Wife. I'm currently without reading material. :swoon:

[pgp_protector]

3 Year Old Source Code :D

[Criada]

3 Year Old Source Code :D
sounds thrilling!!

Just got the second part of "The Lion and the Lamb" - a study of Revelation by Tony Ling.
Volume one was excellent!

[Antigone]

I've moved on to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince now.

[3girls2dogs]

I am reading "I Am Legend". I have decided to read the book before seeing the movie. I love post-apocolyptal fiction and vampire stories, so this one should be good, but I hate seeing movies before I have read the book. And Stephen King and Dean Koontz (whose new book I have ordered off Amazon) both claim Matheson to be one of their inspirations, and I didn't realize that.

So I picked it up yesterday.

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

This one WANTS to read Madman by Tracy Groot (http://www.tracygroot.com/books.shtml). Has heard it getsy good reviews. It bes Christian fiction around the story of the demoniac what livesy in the tombs on the Gerasene shore. The one they callsy "Legion" in Mark 5.

[PROPHECYKID]

THE SECRET TERRORIST. The text is available online. Look it up and look at the subtopics and that should interest you.

[Taylor43]

im reading Why Christians wounds the wounded it is good book too understand Gods love too all people no matter what life brings us

[Rhamiel]

a companion to Authurian and Celtic myths and legands... i like encyclipedias

[HowardDean]

Am reading (from the library) You Can Lead A Politician To Water, But You Can't Make Him Think by the lovely Kinky Friedman.

[SumTinWong]

Just finished Velvet Elvis(Pastor Rob Bell from Mars Hill Bible church), and I loved it, and am now reading Adventures in missing the point by Brian D McLaren and Tony Campolo

[Tomoz]

Simply Christian by NT Wright


Man, that is a really good book.

I've been reading his Romans commentary in the New Interpreter's Bible. Its really interesting - I can't say I'm convinced by absolutely all of his ideas, but he really gets you thinking! I have a very special place in my heart for the good bishop of Durham :)

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

im reading Why Christians wounds the wounded it is good book too understand Gods love too all people no matter what life brings us
Wow that sounds like one this one might want to read. Does it ever really explain why Christians wound the wounded when they should be doing the exact opposite?? :scratch:

[karen freeinchristman]

Am reading (from the library) You Can Lead A Politician To Water, But You Can't Make Him Think by the lovely Kinky Friedman.
Someone actually has the name 'Kinky'? ^_^

[Izdaari]

Someone actually has the name 'Kinky'? ^_^
Yes indeed, though it's a nickname. His parents didn't name him that. He's a really interesting guy, even apart from the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky_Friedman

[HowardDean]

Agreed!:cool:

[Izdaari]

Haven't even started it yet, but I just borrowed this from my pastor, who highly recommends it:

The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West...Again (http://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Way-Evangelism-Christianity-West-Again/dp/0687085853/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197128371&sr=1-1) by George C. Hunter III

[stumpjumper]

Baudolino by Umberto Eco

[ABenShema]

"Church of God? or the Temples of Satan ~ A Reference Book of Spiritual Understanding & True Gnosis" by R. A. Anderson

PLU :)

[HowardDean]

The Rise of Fallen Angels by Mark Bubeck. Its about revival.

[RegularGuy]

"Church of God? or the Temples of Satan ~ A Reference Book of Spiritual Understanding & True Gnosis" by R. A. Anderson

PLU :)


Are you the same A Ben-Shema whose profile on gnosticteachings.org indicates the he wrote the same book?

One asks in the interest of full disclosure.

[3girls2dogs]

I just finished reading "Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom" by Celia Rivenbark.


I had been feeling down, and I had gone into the bookstore looking for something humorous to read. I hadn't heard of her, but the title was a riot, so I picked it up. I am in love. The book was so funny, and pretty much everything she wrote was spot on. It isn't as mean as it sounds, but come on, haven't we all thought this at one point.


It was a very enjoyable read. A book of comedy essays that was quick and mood-brightening. Heck, she has a whole essay about Krispy Kreme. Doesn't get better than that.

[Athene]

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Prachett, I've just finished Equal Rites and I'm intending on working my way through the witches series.

[ABenShema]

Are you the same A Ben-Shema whose profile on gnosticteachings.org indicates the he wrote the same book?

One asks in the interest of full disclosure.

Why don't you take a look at my profile here (under biography)? Then you will know that I have nothing to hide.

PLU :)

[Valentine]

Baudolino by Umberto Eco

^^ I have that book to read over the winter (I hope). I'm reading The World Without Us now. Interesting read.

[AngelusSax]

Giving to God: The Bible's Good News on living a generous life, by Mark Allan Powell.

[Valentine]

I just finished reading "Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom" by Celia Rivenbark.


I had been feeling down, and I had gone into the bookstore looking for something humorous to read. I hadn't heard of her, but the title was a riot, so I picked it up. I am in love. The book was so funny, and pretty much everything she wrote was spot on. It isn't as mean as it sounds, but come on, haven't we all thought this at one point.


It was a very enjoyable read. A book of comedy essays that was quick and mood-brightening. Heck, she has a whole essay about Krispy Kreme. Doesn't get better than that.

^^ :D Sounds like a fun book. I may have to look for that one in the book store. ^_^

[paxi1334]

These are what I've been reading the past few weeks (honestly):

*The Queer Bible Commentary
*Queering Christ by Father Robert Goss
*Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
*Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
*Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg
*Omnigender by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

What can I say? I'm a book worm