What Book Have You Read Recently?

[Quahom1]

Just finished reading the Seventh Son series (Alvin Maker), by Orson Scott Card. An alternate reality where America is laced with magic and people with "knacks".

Very entertaining.

[Muslimwoman]

I am re-reading the Terry Pratchett discword series, for about the 7th time and I still can't help but laugh out loud.

[dauer]

I just finished reading conscious community, a translation of machshava tova by reb kalonymus kalman shapira into english by Andrea Cohen-Kiener. I'm organizing a Jewish intentional community inside the virtual world of second life, and that will be the first text we examine as a community. I just started re-reading the Tao of Pooh and I think I'm going to order some new books from the ic.org bookstore on group faciliation, conflict resolution, mediation, and listening skills. Also I'll probably order Vegan with a Vengeance, which is an awesome cookbook by one of the women from post-punk kitchen. She also wrote a book of I think 100 recipes for vegan cupcakes.

Dauer

[Pathless]

Originally Posted by dauer

I just finished reading conscious community, a translation of machshava tova by reb kalonymus kalman shapira into english by Andrea Cohen-Kiener. I'm organizing a Jewish intentional community inside the virtual world of second life, and that will be the first text we examine as a community. I just started re-reading the Tao of Pooh and I think I'm going to order some new books from the ic.org bookstore on group faciliation, conflict resolution, mediation, and listening skills. Also I'll probably order Vegan with a Vengeance, which is an awesome cookbook by one of the women from post-punk kitchen. She also wrote a book of I think 100 recipes for vegan cupcakes.

Dauer

Cool. I just heard about ic.org about 10 days ago. I've yet to check it out, but plan to someday.

Your Second Life intentional community sounds like a good virtual reality group. Better than any EQ or WOW guild, for sure.

I just read a very small but great book called Planetary Intelligence. Recommended for anyone. Period.

Dauer, you shaved your beard!! What does that mean?
It's okay though. I shaved mine, too.

[dauer]

Hey path.

I didn't shave my beard. I trimmed it. And I'm starting to grow a stache. Sorta. Still working on that one. I never keep my beard grown out. I let it grow for a while and then trim it, and then grow it again, and then trim it. I'm not big on spending a lot of time grooming my beard every day, and this way I can go a long time without worrying much about it. lol. That other picture was actually 2 years old, and it seemed I was due for a new one.

Dauer

[dauer]

Oh sorry. forgot to mention the books I'm reading.

I just ordered
Vegan with a Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber
Buddhism for Beginners by Thubten Chodron
Growing Within: Psychology of Inner Development by Sri Aurobindo
Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics by Rachel Adler and
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

I'm also re-reading Jewish with Feeling with my girlfriend and re-reading The Tao of Pooh on my own. Oh, and I picked up Innerspace by R. Aryeh Kaplan again. I'd picked it up before, found something else I wanted to read, and never gotten back to it.

Dauer

[Pathless]

Currently tearing my way through what I believe is Hunter S. Thompson's last book, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century. Lovely reading.

Check out my profanity-strewn (you've been warned) musings on it and HST here.

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by Pathless

It's okay though. I shaved mine, too.

Er, no, it's not OK!

s.

[mee]

What Does the Bible Really Teach?
The Bible provides the key to your enjoying a truly satisfying life. It can help you to deal with problems. Would you like to find out what the Bible really teaches.................... then read this book i have just finished reading it, and i really enjoyed reading it . it is published by Jehovahs witnesses.......... this book would interest those who are wanting to know what the bible REALLY teaches .

[17th Angel]

Read that book three times...... Three... Times... Mee how many times have you read that book?

[flowperson]

Michael Crichton's, Lost World. If you want to know the basics of how complex interconnected systems operate in nature and be entertained at the same time, it's good. But he only brushes the surfaces of intricate academic theory and then paints the disaster scenarios with a lurid brush.

Actually, how this sort of knowledge is utilized and applied throughout the world these days is much more subtle and ominous IMHO. But the book is still a good starting point for those interested in expoloring a science that began in the seventies, and that is applied all around us every day now in, at least, urban settings.

flow....

[Miss Amy]

I never noticed this thread. Nice..

Recently I read: "The Birth House" which was very very good

"Lullabies for Little Criminals" which was very very good

I am currently reading "Wicked" which is good, too.

[mee]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

Read that book three times...... Three... Times... Mee how many times have you read that book?

good to see that you are finding out just what the bible REALLY TEACHES. 3 TIMES TO GET THE POINT OVER

[Miss Amy]

I read a book called "Little Beauties" this weekend. It was very intersting, but if I say why it will totally be ruined for you and you won't need to read it.

[Snoopy]

is it about ants?