What are you reading in general?

Wosbald · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:41 am Post subject:

+JMJ+

True and False Reform in the Church by Yves Congar
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Sorus · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:44 am Post subject:

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

One of those books that always looked interesting, but I'd never gotten around to reading. It is quite interesting.
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Hiro · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 10:53 am Post subject:

Wosbald · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 7:53 pm Post subject:

+JMJ+

The Heterodox Hegel by Cyril O'Regan
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Linna Heartbooger · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:43 pm Post subject:

Sorus- That's one deer's read, I remember!

I'm reading "The Pursuit of God," by A.W. Tozer.
Swoon

This is a book I attempted a few years back, thought "That would be a good anti-idolatrant," but I shrank away from!
I have an idea for a funny "Anti-Recommendation" I'd like to write for it, but... I just can't do it.
Hide

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"We human beings do real harm. History could make a stone weep." -Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

deer of the dawn's anti-recommendation of "Gilead"
My anti-recommendation of the same. (hers is shorter!)
Both are on the Watch's excellent "Anti-Recommendations of your Favorite Books" thread.

'"He will wipe the tears from all faces." It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required.' -Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

Wosbald · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 4:34 am Post subject:

+JMJ+

Gnostic Return in Modernity by Cyril O'Regan
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Wosbald · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:22 am Post subject:

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Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob Boehme's Haunted Narrative by Cyril O'Regan
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Linna Heartbooger · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 7:46 pm Post subject:

Currently reading a book on how to do Improv!
"Truth in Comedy: A Manual for Improvisation" by Charna Halpern and Del Close

I have been experimenting with using the ideas from the book in how I respond to the pretend-play games initiated by the 8-year-old-and-under crowd at the little church plant I go to.
Turns out that ever-popular games like "Put Ms. Linna in JAIL!" and "I throw fire on you!" are vastly improved by certain kinds of response outta me.
Banana

It's AMAZING.
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"We human beings do real harm. History could make a stone weep." -Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

deer of the dawn's anti-recommendation of "Gilead"
My anti-recommendation of the same. (hers is shorter!)
Both are on the Watch's excellent "Anti-Recommendations of your Favorite Books" thread.

'"He will wipe the tears from all faces." It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required.' -Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

Avatar · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:21 am Post subject:

Sound like a charming bunch of kids...

Laughing

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Wosbald · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 5:24 am Post subject:

+JMJ+

Theology and the Spaces of Apocalyptic (The Père Marquette Lecture in Theology 2009) by Cyril O'Regan
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Wosbald · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:31 pm Post subject:

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The Anatomy of Misremembering: Von Balthasar's Response to Philosophical Modernity Volume 1: Hegel by Cyril O'Regan
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Linna Heartbooger · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 6:41 pm Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:37 am Post subject:

David Nobbs, The Complete Pratt.

Collection of 3 humorous novels...only just started, so no opinion yet other than a slow start...

--A
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Wosbald · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:21 am Post subject:

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Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life by Oliva Blanchette
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Sorus · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:34 pm Post subject:

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry.

Probably not the best choice of reading material during the middle of a bad flu season, but it's very interesting.
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Six stars of the northern cross
In mourning for their sister's loss
In a final flash of glory
Nevermore to grace the night

Skyweir · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:24 am Post subject:

Actually that IS a very interesting period in history .. infected 500m people .. which is astoundingly scary.

Wow .. omg you are even a more prolific reader than Av 🤷‍♀️

You are a walking library ... omg .. that there is anyone more prolific is .. well .. 🤷‍♀️ ....
Shocked

shut the front door .. Shocked

But your topic choices .. are a tad gritty .. 🤢 Do you read anything other than religiosities 🤷‍♀️ Well you must .. I assume you read sci fi fantasy .. TCTC .. GOTs 🤷‍♀️ Have you read all of Donaldson 🤷‍♀️ MN the Gap series
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Avatar · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:28 am Post subject:

Yeah, I'm too old for all that hardcore stuff. Very Happy

Time is too short. Very Happy

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Skyweir · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 9:13 am Post subject:

That it is 😉
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Wosbald · Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 3:26 am Post subject:

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Surnatural: A Controversy at the Heart of Twentieth-Century Thomistic Thought (ed. Serge-Thomas Bonino O.P.)
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Skyweir · Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 5:20 am Post subject:

Youre a freaking machine Wos 🤷‍♀️
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