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Started by Sylvie, June 20, 2014, 01:58:56 PM

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islandgirl

I am reading 'The Dime' by Kathleen Kent. Very good!
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CynthiaAnn

Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly

This book makes me cry, it's a bit intense

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Pica Pica

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers by Dr Jane Shaw.

It's all about an unusual religion that flourished in the 20s and 30s which believed in a foursquare God as opposed to a trinity. They also believed that their leader was the daughter of God, here to save the body as Jesus saved the soul. They were located in the smallish English town of Bedford and regarded the garden of their headquarters as the original Garden of Eden.

The religion doesn't exist anymore but the headquarters have been turned into a museum which means that last year I had a pot of tea and a lemon drizzle cake in the Garden of Eden.
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graspthesanity

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
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Devlyn

I just finished Termination Shock, a climate engineering novel. It was a pretty interesting read.

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Jenn104

Cycling Past 50 -- its a guide to more serious cycling. I have a friend who wants me to do the gran fondo, NY in May. I need to up my game a bit.

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ChrissyRyan

I did enjoy actor Patrick STEWART's memoir. But it has been awhile since I finished it.

He has had a long acting career, three wives, and you may know him from Star Trek TNG and the theatre.



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Lori Dee

I am reading, "Liber Lucis - The Book of Light"
The Liber Lucis aims to be a narrative guide for calling upon each individual to create their own manifesto, their own personal declaration to themselves, about how they are going to contribute to, restore, share and protect the Light of their spiritual nature and that of others.
Sponsored by The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) of which I am a long-standing member. If interested, you can download a free copy of the book at https://www.amorc.org/liber-lucis/ 🔗. If not interested, that is okay too.

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Talula98

A bio of the comedian Rodney Dangerfield.  A bit out my norm, but wanted something a little lighter at bedtime,
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Jen T.

I'm currently enjoying the audiobook version of He Who Fights With Monsters, Book One. I just found out there's twelve books in the series and my library only has the first two!

NancyDrew1930

I've currently been reading Diane Duane's 1983 Star Trek book "The Wounded Sky", which was later partially turned into the Star Trek The Next Generation episode "Where No One Has Gone Before".  Plus, I think the producers of "Star Trek Beyond" also mined this book for what Starbase Yorktown looked like for that movie.

I've also been reading a commentary on 1 Enoch a very interesting apocryphal book that, when I compare it to the Bible, I find many references, either directly or passively referencing 1 Enoch, going all the way back to the Bible's oldest book, Job.  I'm reminded of how the writer of 1 Chronicles 29:29, under guidance from the Holy Ghost, told people that if they wanted more info on King David, to check out three other books, one of which is in the Bible and two others that are not.  So we know that the Bible writers would consult other books, and I definitely believe that one book that just about every other referenced was 1 Enoch.
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Lori Dee

I have enjoyed reading Enoch's books. If you want an interesting collection for your reference library, look for a copy of The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden. It is a collection of apocryphal works with some interesting stories.

Two of my favorite quotes are from when God was explaining Creation to Enoch. (Slavonic Enoch or 2 Enoch):

And for all the heavenly troops I imaged the image and essence of fire, and my eye looked at the very hard, firm rock, and from the gleam of my eye the lightning received its wonderful nature, (which) is both fire in water and water in fire, and one does not put out the other, nor does the one dry up the other, therefore the lightning is brighter than the sun, softer than water and firmer than hard rock.

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I conceived a cunning saying to say, I created man from invisible (spiritual) and from visible (physical) nature, of both are his death and life and image, he knows speech like some created thing, small in greatness and again great in smallness, and I placed him on earth, a second angel, honourable, great and glorious, and I appointed him as ruler to rule on earth and to have my wisdom, and there was none like him of earth of all my existing creatures.
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Dawn Kellie

I don't have a lot of free time to read. I do a lot of audio books. I really enjoy the tales of Drizit. It's a fantasy series
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big kim

David Thurlow's trilogy of true crime in East Anglia. The Norfolk Nightmare, Evil in East Anglia and the Essex Triangle. Several short accounts of cold cases,unsolved murders and disappearances and a few solved ones from the beautiful East Anglia area. I'm an armchair detective and have followed the unsolved disappearances of April Fabb,Stephen Newing and Pamela Exall from East Anglia for many years. All 3 get a mention here plus some little known cases
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Laura Squirrel

Sometimes, I mess with audiobooks. I did that with the comedian Steve Hofstetter's book "Ginger Kid". I waited until the time was right, and I listened to it all the way through a few times. These days, I am going back to reading physical books. But, at least for now, I am refraining from political subjects. I get enough of that on YouTube. I don't read about it now. I did that enough between the ages of 10 and 29. I would rather use books to escape this horrid world as much as I can.

I forgot to mention which books I was reading. D'oh!

Shane Embury's autobiography "Life? - And Napalm Death"
Albert Mudrian "Choosing Death - "The Improbable History Of Death Metal & Grindcore"
Frans De Ward - "America's Greatest Noise!" (This is about Ron Lessard, aka Emil Beaulieau)
Ongaku Otaku - This is a repriniting of all 4 volumes of the utterly amazing fanzine put out by Mason Jones in the late 90s/early 00s. This is a super interesting book. Being into Japanese extreme music was my doorway into that scene. But you learned so much about the culture ,,too. Sooooo cool. I wish I could go to Osaka for a week. But, I will never see that.
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Finally Anna

Hmmm, do I even dare mention the kind of books I am reading?

Just finished:
Whipping girl, Serano.
The righteous mind, Haidt.

Ongoing:
The road to unfreedom, Snyder.
The philosopher in the Valley - Alex Karp, Palantir and the rise of the surveillance state. Steinberger.

Printed books, please. E-books are semi-acceptable. Audiobooks are not for me.
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The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne

On the 3rd book and have gotten sucked in again (2nd time going through them)

Tbh I'm more of a gaming/film/sci fi guy but I can usually find time for reading and I'm a massive fan of his first run

Going to go through the tread now to get some reading suggestions
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