Phantasmal Fingers Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 1. The Vision of God, Nicholas of Cusa (15th century German mysticism) 2. Ecomysticism, Carl von Essen (Thoreau, Emerson, Richard Jeffries et al, plus modern psycho-biology and the experiences of war, sport, hunting and art.) 3. Dark Night, Early Dawn, Christopher Bache (Following on from Grof - the perinatal & transpersonal, NDEs, OBEs, reincarnation, Gaia and Deep Ecology) 4. Fighting the Flying Circus, Edward V. Rickenbacker (The memoirs of the top scoring American WW1 fighter ace, which includes some hilarious and disturbing anecdotes about strafing.) 5. In Search of The Christian Buddha, Donald Lopez & Peggy McCracken (How the story of Barlaam & Josaphat was originally based on the life of the Buddha and then influenced Christianity and Islam.) 6. Croiset, The Clairvoyant, Jack Harrrison Pollack (A study of the Dutch clairvoyant, Gerard Croiset, who worked closely with Utrecht University's Institute of Parapsychology and various police forces tracing missing persons and finding murder victims.) 7. The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard (An amazing account of Scott's ill-fated 1910-1913 Antarctic expedition by a member of the team.) 8. The Inner Game of Tennis, W Stephen Gallwey (How to allow the subconscious to be in the foreground and let the conscious take a back seat - just as much mysticism as sports psychology.) 9. The New Poacher's Handbook, Ian Niall (A nostalgic and evocative account of poachers and poaching and the game they were after. Very much a period piece, even when it came out over 50 years ago.) 10. Wild Awakening, Dzogchen Ponlop (A survey of Dzogchen and Mahamudra, with the emphasis on the latter.) 11. Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness, Padmasambhava (trans. John Myrdhin Reynolds) (A Dzogchen terma text.) 12. Russia in 1916, Stephen Graham (Another of Graham's highly readable accounts of travels through Tsarist Russia, with no hint of what was just around the corner, except for the vastly inflated prices in the shops.) 13. The Heart of Nature, Sir Francis Younghusband ("Nature is a person, and a person is a process." ; "It is the 'I' of Nature, which informs, directs, controls the whole from the centre to utmost extremity through all space and all time. It is the Soul and Spirit, the Genius of Nature. It is what we should mean when we speak of God.") 14. The State and Revolution, Vladimir Lenin (Lenin's 1917 work on violent revolution followed by the socialist dictatorship of the proletariat and then the state 'withering away of itself' in the higher communist phase. A re-read from the 80's.) 15. Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Joseph Stalin (The continual flux of being born and passing away, in terms of social and class relationships, is rather revealing in terms of the psychosis and paranoia of Stalin's old age. Another reread from the 80s.) 16. Stonehenge, Temple of Ancient Britain, Robin Heath (A brief archaeo-astronomical monograph - an overview of scientific and new age theories on Stonehenge.) 17. Last of the Summer Wickets, John Fuller (Reminiscences of the Scarborough cricket festival.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anie Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 2020 Read books: 1. The Last Mortal Bond - Brian Staveley 2. Call Down The Hawk - Maggie Stiefvater 3. Geography Club - Brent Hartinger 4. Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch 5. Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea - Adam Roberts 6. Two Can Keep A Secret - Karen McManus 7. Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James (currently reading) Looking back over the list, they’re a much more eclectic mix than what I usually read. The aim is to beat 38 books, which is how many I managed last year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 iff's list 2020 Spoiler 1. The outlaw album - Daniel Woodrell ★★★★ 167 pages reread 2. Normal People - Sally Rooney ★★ 266 pages 3. Adele - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor ★★★★★ 209 pages 4. The Transmigration of Bodies - Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman ★★★★ 101 pages 5. Meat Market - Juno Dawson ★★★★★ 402 pages 6. Crossing - Pajtim Statovi translated by David hackston ★★★★ 1/2 257 pages 7. The Sopranos - Alan Warner ★★★★★ 324 pages reread 8. Girl Woman Other - Bernadine Evaristo ★★★★★ 452 pages 9. Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano, translated by Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins ★★★★★ 124 pages 10. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex - Oksana Zabuzhko translated by halyna Hryn ★★★★ 161 pages 1161+257= 1338 total pages - 2,483pages (does not include currently reading) either my ratings are very generous or it was a very good month the last one was a march read Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scarletlatitude Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Right now I am reading "John Dies at the End". If you like sarcastic and dark humor with some supernatural stuff, you have to read this series. I love it. Edit to add book list: Spoiler 1) "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas (624 pages) 2) "The Science of Monsters" by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence (205 pages) 3) "The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore (398 pages) Total = 1227 pages 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scarletlatitude Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Update 1) "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas (624 pages) 2) "The Science of Monsters" by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence (205 pages) 3) "The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore (398 pages) 4) "John Dies at the End" by David Wong (362 pages) Total = 1589 pages Reading now: "The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures" by Aaron Mahnke Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 2020: 1. On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden 2. Nimona - Noelle Stevenson 3. Radio Silence - Alice Oseman 4. The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow - Fuyumi Ono 5. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty 6. Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman 7. The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa 8. Stargazing - Jen Wang 9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow 10. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki 11. The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd-Jones 12. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton 13. Girl Made of Stars - Ashley Herring Blake 14. Famous in a Small Town - Emma Mills 15. How to Make Friends with the Dark - Kathleen Glasgow 16. Bunny - Mona Awad 17. The Enigma of Amigara Fault - Junji Ito 18. Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scarletlatitude Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Thanks to quarantine I am reading a lot more than usual. 1) "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas (624 pages) 2) "The Science of Monsters" by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence (205 pages) 3) "The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore (398 pages) 4) "John Dies at the End" by David Wong (362 pages) 5) "The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures" by Aaron Mahnke (283 pages) Total = 1872 pages Reading now: "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Spoiler On 3/15/2020 at 11:14 AM, bobbypin said: 2020: 1. On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden 2. Nimona - Noelle Stevenson 3. Radio Silence - Alice Oseman 4. The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow - Fuyumi Ono 5. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty 6. Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman 7. The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa 8. Stargazing - Jen Wang 9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow 10. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki 11. The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd-Jones 12. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton 13. Girl Made of Stars - Ashley Herring Blake 14. Famous in a Small Town - Emma Mills 15. How to Make Friends with the Dark - Kathleen Glasgow 16. Bunny - Mona Awad 17. The Enigma of Amigara Fault - Junji Ito 18. Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente 19. How It Feels to Float - Helena Fox 20. We Are the Ants - Shaun David Hutchinson 21. Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang 22. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 23. Saga, Vol. 4 - Brian K. Vaughan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzipueo Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 2020 Fox and Birch - Sam Burns Hawk in the Rowan - Sam Burns Fatal Shadows - Josh Lanyon American Gods - Neal Gaiman Stag and the Ash - Sam Burns In Any Light - Sam Burns Adder and Willow - Sam Burns Eagle in the Hawthorn - Sam Burns A Dangerous Thing - Josh Lanyon Salmon and the Hazel - Sam Burns Wren and Oak - Sam Burns The Hell You Say - Josh Lanyon Death of a Pirate King - Josh Lanyon The Story of Medieval England from King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest - Dr. Jennifer Paxton Troublemaker (Dave Brandstetter #3) - Joseph Hanson Somebody Killed His Editor - Josh Lanyon So this is Christmas - Josh Lanyon The Dark Tide - Josh Lanyon Rewind - Marshall Thornton All She Wrote - Josh Lanyon Slow Road to Hell - Grant Atherton The Boy with the Painful Tattoo - Josh Lanyon Blessed Curses - Madeline Ribbon In Other Words: Murder - Josh Lanyon The Avengers: Everyone Wants to Rule the World - Dan Abnett Wind of Choice - Marty C. Lee The Ultimates: Against All Enemies - Alexander C. Irvine Sunset: Pact Arcanum - Arshad Ahsanuddin Murder at Archly Manor - Sara Rosett Last but Not Lease - Jordan Castillo Price X-Men: Empire's End - Diane Duane Stolen Trinkets - Alan Steele Soul Engine - R.L. King - ace character alert. Good story too! The Last Sun - K.D. Edwards A Ferry of Bones and Gold - Hailey Turner All Souls Near and Nigh - Hailey Turner Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey A Crown of Iron and Silver - Hailey Turner The Egyptian Antiquities Murder - Sara Rosett The ABCs of Spellcraft - Jordan Castillo Price Civil War (Marvel) - Stuart Moore Murder in Black Tie - Sara Rosett Our Haunted World - John A. Keel - 👽👽👽👽 The Death of Captain American - Larry Hama Mountain of Mars - Glynn Stewart Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars - Alexander C. Irvine A Vigil in the Mourning - Hailey Turner Fallen - Benedict Jacka First Moon - Richard Amos Captured: The Barney and Betty Hill UFO Experience - Stanton R. Friedman 👽👽👽1/2 Updated: March 30, 2020 Page Count to date: 12386 Book Target: 160 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WobblyWallaby Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 (3) 1. Bernstein, Carl. Woodward, Bob. All The Presidents men. 1974 336 pages. (1) 2. Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods. 1998. 274 pages 9 (2) 3. Bryson, Bill. At Home. 2010. 452 pages 7 (3) 4. Camus, Albert. The Fall. 1956. 147 pages. 5 (3) 5. Camus, Albert. The Stranger. 1942. 123 pages 5 (1) 6. Carey, M.R. The Girl With All The Gifts. 2014. 403 pages 9 (3) 7. Carlin, George. Napalm and Silly Putty. 2001. 269 pages 8 (r) (2) 8. Cep, Casey. Furious Hours. 2019. 276 pages. 6 (1) 9. Chapman, Clay McLeod. The Remaking. 2019. 295 pages 8 (3) 10. Coldrick, Brian. Behind You. 2017. 152 pages. (2) 11. Dalcher, Christina. Vox. 2018. 326 pages. 10 (3) 12. Dunham. Lena. Not That Kind of Girl. 2014. 262 pages 6 (1) 13. Eagleton, Terry. On Evil. 2010. 159 pages 7 (3) 14. Ellis, Helen. Southern Lady Code. 2019. 199 pages. 10 (2) 15. Gendry- Kim, Keum Suk. Grass. 2017. 478 pages. 8 (2) 16. Gran, Sara. Come Closer. 2003 168 pages 2 (1) 17. Haig, Matt. Reasons to Stay Alive. 2015 246 pages (r) 9 (1) 18. Harry, Debbie. Face It. 2019. 354 pages 6 (1) 19. Inmann, Matthew. 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth. 2011. 140 pages 4 (1) 20. Inmann, Matthew. How To Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You. 2012 130 pages (r) 7 (2) 21. Keyes, Daniel. Flowers For Algernon. 1959 311 pages 9 (r) (3) 22. King, Stephen. Elevation. 2018. 146 pages 9 (r) (3) 23. King, Stephen. The Institute. 2019. 557 pages. (1) 24. Knoll, Jessica. The Favorite Sister. 2018 372 pages (r) 9 (1) 25. Krause, Fran. The Creeps. 2017 200 pages 8 (1) 26. Lithgow, John. Dumpty. 2019 112 pages 9 (3) 27. Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. 145 pages. 7 (2) 28. Marzano- Lesnevich, Alexandria. The Fact of a Body. 2017. 309 pages. 6 (1) 29. McBride, Eimear. The Lesser Bohemians. 2016 310 pages 3 (3) 30. McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. 2006. 241 pages. 3 (1) 31. Montillo, Roseanne. The Lady and Her Monsters. 2013 287 pages 8 (2) 32. Moore, Christopher. Lamb. 2003 437 pages (r) 9 (1) 33. Palahniuk, Chuck. Adjustment Day. 2018 316 pages 6 (1) 34 Perkins, Stephanie. There's Someone in the Inside Your House. 2017 287 pages 4 (1) 35. Priest, Cherie. The Toll. 2019. 334 pages. 5 (2) 36. Reid, Iain. I'm Thinking of Ending Things. 2016. 209 pages 9 (2) 37. Ronson, Jon. So You've Been Publicly Shamed. 2015. 282 pages (r) 9 (2) 38. Sacks, Oliver. Hallucinations. 2012. 293 pages 7 (3) 39. Sedaris, David. Calypso. 2018. 259 pages 9 (3) 40. Stage, Zoje. Baby teeth. 2018. 304 pages 8 (2) 41 Tremblay, Paul. The Cabin at the end of the World. 2018. 315 pages. 8 (2) 42. Ware, Ruth. The Turn of the Key. 2019. 336 pages 9 (1) 43. West, Lindy. The Witches are Coming. 2019 259 pages 9 (2) 44. Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. 1895. 71 pages 7 (2) 45. Zumas, Leni. Red Clocks. 2018. 351 pages. 5 January- 17 February-15 March- 13 “I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.”- A Walk in The Woods, Bill Bryson “ We can't and don't know what others are thinking. We can't and don't know what motivations people have for doing the things they do. Ever. Not entirely. We never know anyone. I don't. Neither do you.” -I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid. “Spirituality: The last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.”- Napalm and Silly Putty, George Carlin. “Be careful what you wish for. Cinderella's house was infested with mice.”- Southern Lady Code, Helen Ellis “This life we think we're living isn't real. It's just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark all the shadows disappear.”- The Institute, Stephen King. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 2020: Spoiler 1. On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden 2. Nimona - Noelle Stevenson 3. Radio Silence - Alice Oseman 4. The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow - Fuyumi Ono 5. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty 6. Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman 7. The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa 8. Stargazing - Jen Wang 9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow 10. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki 11. The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd-Jones 12. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton 13. Girl Made of Stars - Ashley Herring Blake 14. Famous in a Small Town - Emma Mills 15. How to Make Friends with the Dark - Kathleen Glasgow 16. Bunny - Mona Awad 17. The Enigma of Amigara Fault - Junji Ito 18. Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente 19. How It Feels to Float - Helena Fox 20. We Are the Ants - Shaun David Hutchinson 21. Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang 22. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 23. Saga, Vol. 4 - Brian K. Vaughan 24. Saga, Vol. 5 - Brian K. Vaughan 25. Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew - Grace Ellis 26. Harley in the Sky - Akemi Dawn Bowman 27. Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints - Cullen Bunn 28. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch 29. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 30. Edenbrooke - Julianne Donaldson 31. Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told - Cullen Bunn 32. Nightbooks - J.A. White 33. Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phantasmal Fingers Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Spoiler 1. The Vision of God, Nicholas of Cusa (15th century German mysticism) 2. Ecomysticism, Carl von Essen (Thoreau, Emerson, Richard Jeffries et al, plus modern psycho-biology and the experiences of war, sport, hunting and art.) 3. Dark Night, Early Dawn, Christopher Bache (Following on from Grof - the perinatal & transpersonal, NDEs, OBEs, reincarnation, Gaia and Deep Ecology) 4. Fighting the Flying Circus, Edward V. Rickenbacker (The memoirs of the top scoring American WW1 fighter ace, which includes some hilarious and disturbing anecdotes about strafing.) 5. In Search of The Christian Buddha, Donald Lopez & Peggy McCracken (How the story of Barlaam & Josaphat was originally based on the life of the Buddha and then influenced Christianity and Islam.) 6. Croiset, The Clairvoyant, Jack Harrrison Pollack (A study of the Dutch clairvoyant, Gerard Croiset, who worked closely with Utrecht University's Institute of Parapsychology and various police forces tracing missing persons and finding murder victims.) 7. The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard (An amazing account of Scott's ill-fated 1910-1913 Antarctic expedition by a member of the team.) 8. The Inner Game of Tennis, W Stephen Gallwey (How to allow the subconscious to be in the foreground and let the conscious take a back seat - just as much mysticism as sports psychology.) 9. The New Poacher's Handbook, Ian Niall (A nostalgic and evocative account of poachers and poaching and the game they were after. Very much a period piece, even when it came out over 50 years ago.) 10. Wild Awakening, Dzogchen Ponlop (A survey of Dzogchen and Mahamudra, with the emphasis on the latter.) 11. Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness, Padmasambhava (trans. John Myrdhin Reynolds) (A Dzogchen terma text.) 12. Russia in 1916, Stephen Graham (Another of Graham's highly readable accounts of travels through Tsarist Russia, with no hint of what was just around the corner, except for the vastly inflated prices in the shops.) 13. The Heart of Nature, Sir Francis Younghusband ("Nature is a person, and a person is a process." ; "It is the 'I' of Nature, which informs, directs, controls the whole from the centre to utmost extremity through all space and all time. It is the Soul and Spirit, the Genius of Nature. It is what we should mean when we speak of God.") 14. The State and Revolution, Vladimir Lenin (Lenin's 1917 work on violent revolution followed by the socialist dictatorship of the proletariat and then the state 'withering away of itself' in the higher communist phase. A re-read from the 80's.) 15. Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Joseph Stalin (The continual flux of being born and passing away, in terms of social and class relationships, is rather revealing in terms of the psychosis and paranoia of Stalin's old age. Another reread from the 80s.) 16. Stonehenge, Temple of Ancient Britain, Robin Heath (A brief archaeo-astronomical monograph - an overview of scientific and new age theories on Stonehenge.) 17. Last of the Summer Wickets, John Fuller (Reminiscences of the Scarborough cricket festival.) 18. The Mystery & Lore of Perfume, C.J.S. Thomson (Various scents and perfumes and their uses from the ancient world to the present.) 19. The Precepts of the Dharmakaya, ed J. Myrdhin Reynolds (A Bon Dzogchen text in the Zhang-Zhung tradition.) 20. The Teacup and the Skullcup, Chogyam Trungpa (Zen and Tantra compared in Trungpa's usual insightful and idiosyncratic manner) 21. Madness, A Brief History, Roy Porter (Really a history of modern and early modern approaches and attitudes to the insane, culminating in the increasingly problematic DSM IV and V) 22. In Days of Great Peace, Mouni Sadhu (A beautifully observed memoir of time spent with the dying Ramana Maharshi at Arunachala) 23. Bridge of The Brocade Sash, Sacheverell Sitwell (Travels in Japan with a focus on architecture and the fine arts, mainly focusing on Kyoto and Nara) 24. Life of St Aloysius Gonzaga, Fr Virgil Cepari, S. J. (A biography by a Jesuit colleague of the 16th century ascetic, the patron of Catholic youth, who 'made an entire and perfect holocaust' of his life and ultimately martyred himself - arguably suicidally - by tending plague victims) 25. The Santiago Pilgrimage, Jean-Christophe Rufin (A memoir of a walk along the 'Camino de Santiago' from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. I started a thread on this in Hot Box called 'Christianity, Paganism and Contempt' 26. Byzantium: The Early Centuries, John Julius Norwich (From the foundation of Constantinople under Constantine to the Empress Irene and the contemporaneous establishment of the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne in the West.) 27. Byzantium: The Apogee, John Julius Norwich (From the reign of Nicephorus I to the disastrous defeat in 1071 at Manzikert to the Seljuk Turks) 28. Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, John Julius Norwich (From the revival under Alexius Comnenus to the final capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Over the three volumes that's 1200 pages of war, political intrigue, theological disputation, murder, magnificence and depravity. And that's quite enough of that for the moment!) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ca$hrina Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 I'm so jealous, I wish I had the time for this... maybe I will. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 iff's list 2020 Hide contents 1. The outlaw album - Daniel Woodrell ★★★★ 167 pages reread 2. Normal People - Sally Rooney ★★ 266 pages 3. Adele - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor ★★★★★ 209 pages 4. The Transmigration of Bodies - Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman ★★★★ 101 pages 5. Meat Market - Juno Dawson ★★★★★ 402 pages 6. Crossing - Pajtim Statovi translated by David hackston ★★★★ 1/2 257 pages 7. The Sopranos - Alan Warner ★★★★★ 324 pages reread 8. Girl Woman Other - Bernadine Evaristo ★★★★★ 452 pages 9. Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano, translated by Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins ★★★★★ 124 pages 10. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex - Oksana Zabuzhko translated by halyna Hryn ★★★★ 161 pages 11. The Discomfort of Evenings - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld translated by Michele Hutchison ★★★★★282 pages 12. Serotonin - Michele Houellebecq translated by Shaun Whiteside ★ 309 pages 13. Tyll - Daniel Kehlmann translated by Ross Benjamin ★★★★ 1/2 342 pages total pages - 3,416 pages (does not include currently reading) Kehlmann and Rijneveld's novel were so good, rightfully on the short list for Book International Prize Houellebecq's novel was just so bad. I think the page count should be discounted. I certainly skipped 4 pages at one point because it was so bad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 2020: Spoiler 1. On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden 2. Nimona - Noelle Stevenson 3. Radio Silence - Alice Oseman 4. The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow - Fuyumi Ono 5. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty 6. Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman 7. The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa 8. Stargazing - Jen Wang 9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow 10. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki 11. The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd-Jones 12. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton 13. Girl Made of Stars - Ashley Herring Blake 14. Famous in a Small Town - Emma Mills 15. How to Make Friends with the Dark - Kathleen Glasgow 16. Bunny - Mona Awad 17. The Enigma of Amigara Fault - Junji Ito 18. Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente 19. How It Feels to Float - Helena Fox 20. We Are the Ants - Shaun David Hutchinson 21. Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang 22. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 23. Saga, Vol. 4 - Brian K. Vaughan 24. Saga, Vol. 5 - Brian K. Vaughan 25. Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew - Grace Ellis 26. Harley in the Sky - Akemi Dawn Bowman 27. Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints - Cullen Bunn 28. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch 29. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 30. Edenbrooke - Julianne Donaldson 31. Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told - Cullen Bunn 32. Nightbooks - J.A. White 33. Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire 34. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata 35. City of Ghosts - Victoria Schwab 36. Saga, Vol. 6 - Brian K. Vaughan 37. Tunnel of Bones - Victoria Schwab 38. When the Sky Fell on Splendor - Emily Henry 39. Down Among the Sticks and Bones - Seanan McGuire Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scarletlatitude Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Holy crapsicke how do you all read that much. I need to step up my game. 1) "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas (624 pages) 2) "The Science of Monsters" by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence (205 pages) 3) "The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore (398 pages) 4) "John Dies at the End" by David Wong (362 pages) 5) "The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures" by Aaron Mahnke (283 pages) 6) "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson (447 pages) 7) "A Court of Wings and Ruin" by Sarah J. Maas (699 pages) Total = 3018 pages Reading now: "Hunting Prince Dracula" by Kerri Maniscalco Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 4 hours ago, scarletlatitude said: how do you all read that much. I need to step up my game. I know, right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzipueo Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 16 hours ago, scarletlatitude said: Holy crapsicke how do you all read that much. I need to step up my game. 😄 It's my main past time. With work at a slow down right now, I'm reading more, plus I listen to audio books while I'm outside pulling weeds or watering the trees and such. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phantasmal Fingers Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Spoiler 1. The Vision of God, Nicholas of Cusa (15th century German mysticism) 2. Ecomysticism, Carl von Essen (Thoreau, Emerson, Richard Jeffries et al, plus modern psycho-biology and the experiences of war, sport, hunting and art.) 3. Dark Night, Early Dawn, Christopher Bache (Following on from Grof - the perinatal & transpersonal, NDEs, OBEs, reincarnation, Gaia and Deep Ecology) 4. Fighting the Flying Circus, Edward V. Rickenbacker (The memoirs of the top scoring American WW1 fighter ace, which includes some hilarious and disturbing anecdotes about strafing.) 5. In Search of The Christian Buddha, Donald Lopez & Peggy McCracken (How the story of Barlaam & Josaphat was originally based on the life of the Buddha and then influenced Christianity and Islam.) 6. Croiset, The Clairvoyant, Jack Harrrison Pollack (A study of the Dutch clairvoyant, Gerard Croiset, who worked closely with Utrecht University's Institute of Parapsychology and various police forces tracing missing persons and finding murder victims.) 7. The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard (An amazing account of Scott's ill-fated 1910-1913 Antarctic expedition by a member of the team.) 8. The Inner Game of Tennis, W Stephen Gallwey (How to allow the subconscious to be in the foreground and let the conscious take a back seat - just as much mysticism as sports psychology.) 9. The New Poacher's Handbook, Ian Niall (A nostalgic and evocative account of poachers and poaching and the game they were after. Very much a period piece, even when it came out over 50 years ago.) 10. Wild Awakening, Dzogchen Ponlop (A survey of Dzogchen and Mahamudra, with the emphasis on the latter.) 11. Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness, Padmasambhava (trans. John Myrdhin Reynolds) (A Dzogchen terma text.) 12. Russia in 1916, Stephen Graham (Another of Graham's highly readable accounts of travels through Tsarist Russia, with no hint of what was just around the corner, except for the vastly inflated prices in the shops.) 13. The Heart of Nature, Sir Francis Younghusband ("Nature is a person, and a person is a process." ; "It is the 'I' of Nature, which informs, directs, controls the whole from the centre to utmost extremity through all space and all time. It is the Soul and Spirit, the Genius of Nature. It is what we should mean when we speak of God.") 14. The State and Revolution, Vladimir Lenin (Lenin's 1917 work on violent revolution followed by the socialist dictatorship of the proletariat and then the state 'withering away of itself' in the higher communist phase. A re-read from the 80's.) 15. Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Joseph Stalin (The continual flux of being born and passing away, in terms of social and class relationships, is rather revealing in terms of the psychosis and paranoia of Stalin's old age. Another reread from the 80s.) 16. Stonehenge, Temple of Ancient Britain, Robin Heath (A brief archaeo-astronomical monograph - an overview of scientific and new age theories on Stonehenge.) 17. Last of the Summer Wickets, John Fuller (Reminiscences of the Scarborough cricket festival.) 18. The Mystery & Lore of Perfume, C.J.S. Thomson (Various scents and perfumes and their uses from the ancient world to the present.) 19. The Precepts of the Dharmakaya, ed J. Myrdhin Reynolds (A Bon Dzogchen text in the Zhang-Zhung tradition.) 20. The Teacup and the Skullcup, Chogyam Trungpa (Zen and Tantra compared in Trungpa's usual insightful and idiosyncratic manner) 21. Madness, A Brief History, Roy Porter (Really a history of modern and early modern approaches and attitudes to the insane, culminating in the increasingly problematic DSM IV and V) 22. In Days of Great Peace, Mouni Sadhu (A beautifully observed memoir of time spent with the dying Ramana Maharshi at Arunachala) 23. Bridge of The Brocade Sash, Sacheverell Sitwell (Travels in Japan with a focus on architecture and the fine arts, mainly focusing on Kyoto and Nara) 24. Life of St Aloysius Gonzaga, Fr Virgil Cepari, S. J. (A biography by a Jesuit colleague of the 16th century ascetic, the patron of Catholic youth, who 'made an entire and perfect holocaust' of his life and ultimately martyred himself - arguably suicidally - by tending plague victims) 25. The Santiago Pilgrimage, Jean-Christophe Rufin (A memoir of a walk along the 'Camino de Santiago' from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. I started a thread on this in Hot Box called 'Christianity, Paganism and Contempt' 26. Byzantium: The Early Centuries, John Julius Norwich (From the foundation of Constantinople under Constantine to the Empress Irene and the contemporaneous establishment of the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne in the West.) 27. Byzantium: The Apogee, John Julius Norwich (From the reign of Nicephorus I to the disastrous defeat in 1071 at Manzikert to the Seljuk Turks) 28. Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, John Julius Norwich (From the revival under Alexius Comnenus to the final capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Over the three volumes that's 1200 pages of war, political intrigue, theological disputation, murder, magnificence and depravity. And that's quite enough of that for the moment!) 29. The Compassionate God, Choan-Seng Song (Transpositional Theology: "If the cross is a negation of Jewish messianism, it should also be the negation of Christian messianism, the messianism that believed in the Christian church and its history as the sole instrument of God's saving work in the world." 30. Fear & Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard ("Faith is precisely this paradox, that the individual as the particular is higher than the universal... This position cannot be mediated, for all mediation comes about precisely by means of the universal; it is and remains to all eternity a paradox, inaccessible to thought. And yet faith is this paradox - or else there has never been a faith ...precisely because it always has been.") 31. The Sickness unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard ("His collision is essentially this: is he the elect, is the thorn in the flesh the expression for the fact that he is to be employed as the extraordinary, is it before God quite as it should be in respect to the extraordinary figure he has become? or is the thorn in the flesh the experience he must humble himself under in order to attain the universal human?") 32. Electra/Orestes/Iphigeneia in Taurica/Andromache/Cyclops, Euripedes (4 tragedies and a satiric comedy. In Freudian terms if Oedipus can be said to represent a complex in the unconscious then Orestes (who kills his mother in revenge for murdering his father, and then rescues his sister from a Goddess who rescued her from being murdered by their father, only to condemn her to murder anyone who approached her) could be said to represent a complex in the conscious.) 33. A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising, Miron Bialoszewski (A deliberately fractured and disjointed narrative of the author's experiences with some particularly effective passages, especially the escape through the sewers.) 34. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Antony Beevor (Monty's plan could never have worked, despite the best efforts of those involved. A well structured account of a brutal encounter with atrocities committed on both sides.) 35. Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell (A lyrical, touching but ultimately tragic account of bringing up otters on the remote West coast of Scotland. Rather a contrast to the doom and gloom in the last few books!) 36. An Arab Tells His Story, Edward Atiyah (The autobiography of an Anglophile Syrian Christian, born in in Ottoman ruled Lebanon, educated in British Egypt and England, who worked in the colonial administration in Sudan and became a pan-arab nationalist who eventually sought reconciliation between colonisers and colonised.) 37. Treatise on Parapsychology, Rene Sudre (Psi phenomena, as exhibited by mediums and others, accounted for entirely through telepathy and collective psychism, with the spiritualist hypothesis dismissed. I was amused by the repeated injunctions that large quantities of bilberry preserve should be ingested by mediums to prevent fraudulent exhibitions of ectoplasmic manifestation!) 38. The Origin of Species, 6th Ed. 1876, Charles Darwin ("Have we any right to assume that the Creator works through intellectual powers like those of man?" Natural Selection, the survival of the fittest and the struggle for life in the later edition - published after The Descent of Man - with the focus on groups rather than individuals. An amazingly wide ranging argument.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lady.Saturnina.94 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 On 2/29/2020 at 10:09 PM, Lady.Saturnina.94 said: 2020 List 1. The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins 2. Catching Fire- Suzanne Collins 3. Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins (currently reading) 4. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte 5. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon- Stephen King 6. The Woman in Black- Susan Hill 7. Jennifer Government- Max Berry 8. The Aspern Papers- Henry James 9. Beneath the Citadel- Destiny Soria (currently reading) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anie Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 3/5/2020 at 10:37 AM, Anie said: 2020 Read books: 1. The Last Mortal Bond - Brian Staveley 2. Call Down The Hawk - Maggie Stiefvater 3. Geography Club - Brent Hartinger 4. Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch 5. Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea - Adam Roberts 6. Two Can Keep A Secret - Karen McManus 7. Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James 8. The Smoke Thieves - Sally Green 9. Queenslayer - Sebastien de Castell 10. City of Lies - Sam Hawke 11. We All Looked Up - Tommy Wallach (currently reading) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Guest Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 2020: Spoiler 1. On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden 2. Nimona - Noelle Stevenson 3. Radio Silence - Alice Oseman 4. The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow - Fuyumi Ono 5. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty 6. Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman 7. The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa 8. Stargazing - Jen Wang 9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow 10. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki 11. The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd-Jones 12. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton 13. Girl Made of Stars - Ashley Herring Blake 14. Famous in a Small Town - Emma Mills 15. How to Make Friends with the Dark - Kathleen Glasgow 16. Bunny - Mona Awad 17. The Enigma of Amigara Fault - Junji Ito 18. Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente 19. How It Feels to Float - Helena Fox 20. We Are the Ants - Shaun David Hutchinson 21. Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang 22. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 23. Saga, Vol. 4 - Brian K. Vaughan 24. Saga, Vol. 5 - Brian K. Vaughan 25. Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew - Grace Ellis 26. Harley in the Sky - Akemi Dawn Bowman 27. Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints - Cullen Bunn 28. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch 29. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 30. Edenbrooke - Julianne Donaldson 31. Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told - Cullen Bunn 32. Nightbooks - J.A. White 33. Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire 34. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata 35. City of Ghosts - Victoria Schwab 36. Saga, Vol. 6 - Brian K. Vaughan 37. Tunnel of Bones - Victoria Schwab 38. When the Sky Fell on Splendor - Emily Henry 39. Down Among the Sticks and Bones - Seanan McGuire 40. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 41. Lucky Caller - Emma Mills 42. Saga, Vol. 7 - Brian K. Vaughan 43. Rules for Vanishing - Kate Alice Marshall 44. Saga, Vol. 8 - Brian K. Vaughan 45. Saga, Vol. 9 - Brian K. Vaughan 46. The Monster of Elendhaven - Jennifer Giesbrecht 47. Scary Stories for Young Foxes - Christian McKay Heidicker 48. Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire 49. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel 50. The Dead Girls Club - Damien Angelica Walters Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WobblyWallaby Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Since March I've read 17 books or 6444 pages 1. Backderf, Derf. My Friend Dahmer. 2012. 224 pages. 9/10 (r) 2. Bechdel, Allison. Fun Home. 2006. 232 pages 8/10 (r) 3. Bernstein, Carl. Woodward, Bob. All The Presidents men. 1974 336 pages 8/10 4. Carrol, Emily. Through the Woods. 2014. 208 pages. 8/10(r) 5. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. 200 pages 9/10 (r) 6. Keillor, Garrison. The Keillor Reader. 2014. 358 pages 7/10 (r) 7. King, Stephen. The Institute. 2019. 557 pages. 9/10 8. King, Stephen. It. 1986. 1142 pages 8/10 (r) 9. Ng, Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere. 2017. 338 pages. 9/10 (r) 10. Sedaris, David. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. 2004. 257 pages. 9/10 (r) 11. Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day. 2000. 272 8/10 (r) 12. Smith, Jeff. Bone: Complete Edition. 2010. 1344 pages 9/10 (r) 13. Strieber, Whitley. Communion. 1987. 320 pages. 8/10 (r) 14. Vasquez, Jhonen. I Feel Sick #1. 2000 32 pages 5/10 15. Vasquez, Jhonen. I Feel Sick #2. 2000 32 pages 6/10 16. Watterson, Bill. The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary book. 1995. 208 pages 8/10 17. Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King. 2016. 384 pages. 9/10 (r) “This life we think we're living isn't real. It's just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark all the shadows disappear.”- The Institute, Stephen King. “We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.” The Serpent King, Jeff Zentner. “ Nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs you can't really think about that. Which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly.”- Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scarletlatitude Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 1) "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas (624 pages) 2) "The Science of Monsters" by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence (205 pages) 3) "The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore (398 pages) 4) "John Dies at the End" by David Wong (362 pages) 5) "The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures" by Aaron Mahnke (283 pages) 6) "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson (447 pages) 7) "A Court of Wings and Ruin" by Sarah J. Maas (699 pages) 8 ) "Hunting Prince Dracula" by Kerri Maniscalco (435 pages) Total = 3,453 pages Reading now: "Sharp Objects" by Gillian Flynn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scarletlatitude Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 1) "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas (624 pages) 2) "The Science of Monsters" by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence (205 pages) 3) "The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore (398 pages) 4) "John Dies at the End" by David Wong (362 pages) 5) "The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures" by Aaron Mahnke (283 pages) 6) "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson (447 pages) 7) "A Court of Wings and Ruin" by Sarah J. Maas (699 pages) 8 ) "Hunting Prince Dracula" by Kerri Maniscalco (435 pages) 9) "Sharp Objects" by Gillian Flynn (393 pages) Total = 3,846 pages Reading now: "Stories From the Plague Years" by Michael Marano Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phantasmal Fingers Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Spoiler 1. The Vision of God, Nicholas of Cusa (15th century German mysticism) 2. Ecomysticism, Carl von Essen (Thoreau, Emerson, Richard Jeffries et al, plus modern psycho-biology and the experiences of war, sport, hunting and art.) 3. Dark Night, Early Dawn, Christopher Bache (Following on from Grof - the perinatal & transpersonal, NDEs, OBEs, reincarnation, Gaia and Deep Ecology) 4. Fighting the Flying Circus, Edward V. Rickenbacker (The memoirs of the top scoring American WW1 fighter ace, which includes some hilarious and disturbing anecdotes about strafing.) 5. In Search of The Christian Buddha, Donald Lopez & Peggy McCracken (How the story of Barlaam & Josaphat was originally based on the life of the Buddha and then influenced Christianity and Islam.) 6. Croiset, The Clairvoyant, Jack Harrrison Pollack (A study of the Dutch clairvoyant, Gerard Croiset, who worked closely with Utrecht University's Institute of Parapsychology and various police forces tracing missing persons and finding murder victims.) 7. The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard (An amazing account of Scott's ill-fated 1910-1913 Antarctic expedition by a member of the team.) 8. The Inner Game of Tennis, W Stephen Gallwey (How to allow the subconscious to be in the foreground and let the conscious take a back seat - just as much mysticism as sports psychology.) 9. The New Poacher's Handbook, Ian Niall (A nostalgic and evocative account of poachers and poaching and the game they were after. Very much a period piece, even when it came out over 50 years ago.) 10. Wild Awakening, Dzogchen Ponlop (A survey of Dzogchen and Mahamudra, with the emphasis on the latter.) 11. Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness, Padmasambhava (trans. John Myrdhin Reynolds) (A Dzogchen terma text.) 12. Russia in 1916, Stephen Graham (Another of Graham's highly readable accounts of travels through Tsarist Russia, with no hint of what was just around the corner, except for the vastly inflated prices in the shops.) 13. The Heart of Nature, Sir Francis Younghusband ("Nature is a person, and a person is a process." ; "It is the 'I' of Nature, which informs, directs, controls the whole from the centre to utmost extremity through all space and all time. It is the Soul and Spirit, the Genius of Nature. It is what we should mean when we speak of God.") 14. The State and Revolution, Vladimir Lenin (Lenin's 1917 work on violent revolution followed by the socialist dictatorship of the proletariat and then the state 'withering away of itself' in the higher communist phase. A re-read from the 80's.) 15. Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Joseph Stalin (The continual flux of being born and passing away, in terms of social and class relationships, is rather revealing in terms of the psychosis and paranoia of Stalin's old age. Another reread from the 80s.) 16. Stonehenge, Temple of Ancient Britain, Robin Heath (A brief archaeo-astronomical monograph - an overview of scientific and new age theories on Stonehenge.) 17. Last of the Summer Wickets, John Fuller (Reminiscences of the Scarborough cricket festival.) 18. The Mystery & Lore of Perfume, C.J.S. Thomson (Various scents and perfumes and their uses from the ancient world to the present.) 19. The Precepts of the Dharmakaya, ed J. Myrdhin Reynolds (A Bon Dzogchen text in the Zhang-Zhung tradition.) 20. The Teacup and the Skullcup, Chogyam Trungpa (Zen and Tantra compared in Trungpa's usual insightful and idiosyncratic manner) 21. Madness, A Brief History, Roy Porter (Really a history of modern and early modern approaches and attitudes to the insane, culminating in the increasingly problematic DSM IV and V) 22. In Days of Great Peace, Mouni Sadhu (A beautifully observed memoir of time spent with the dying Ramana Maharshi at Arunachala) 23. Bridge of The Brocade Sash, Sacheverell Sitwell (Travels in Japan with a focus on architecture and the fine arts, mainly focusing on Kyoto and Nara) 24. Life of St Aloysius Gonzaga, Fr Virgil Cepari, S. J. (A biography by a Jesuit colleague of the 16th century ascetic, the patron of Catholic youth, who 'made an entire and perfect holocaust' of his life and ultimately martyred himself - arguably suicidally - by tending plague victims) 25. The Santiago Pilgrimage, Jean-Christophe Rufin (A memoir of a walk along the 'Camino de Santiago' from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. I started a thread on this in Hot Box called 'Christianity, Paganism and Contempt' 26. Byzantium: The Early Centuries, John Julius Norwich (From the foundation of Constantinople under Constantine to the Empress Irene and the contemporaneous establishment of the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne in the West.) 27. Byzantium: The Apogee, John Julius Norwich (From the reign of Nicephorus I to the disastrous defeat in 1071 at Manzikert to the Seljuk Turks) 28. Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, John Julius Norwich (From the revival under Alexius Comnenus to the final capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Over the three volumes that's 1200 pages of war, political intrigue, theological disputation, murder, magnificence and depravity. And that's quite enough of that for the moment!) 29. The Compassionate God, Choan-Seng Song (Transpositional Theology: "If the cross is a negation of Jewish messianism, it should also be the negation of Christian messianism, the messianism that believed in the Christian church and its history as the sole instrument of God's saving work in the world." 30. Fear & Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard ("Faith is precisely this paradox, that the individual as the particular is higher than the universal... This position cannot be mediated, for all mediation comes about precisely by means of the universal; it is and remains to all eternity a paradox, inaccessible to thought. And yet faith is this paradox - or else there has never been a faith ...precisely because it always has been.") 31. The Sickness unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard ("His collision is essentially this: is he the elect, is the thorn in the flesh the expression for the fact that he is to be employed as the extraordinary, is it before God quite as it should be in respect to the extraordinary figure he has become? or is the thorn in the flesh the experience he must humble himself under in order to attain the universal human?") 32. Electra/Orestes/Iphigeneia in Taurica/Andromache/Cyclops, Euripedes (4 tragedies and a satiric comedy. In Freudian terms if Oedipus can be said to represent a complex in the unconscious then Orestes (who kills his mother in revenge for murdering his father, and then rescues his sister from a Goddess who rescued her from being murdered by their father, only to condemn her to murder anyone who approached her) could be said to represent a complex in the conscious.) 33. A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising, Miron Bialoszewski (A deliberately fractured and disjointed narrative of the author's experiences with some particularly effective passages, especially the escape through the sewers.) 34. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Antony Beevor (Monty's plan could never have worked, despite the best efforts of those involved. A well structured account of a brutal encounter with atrocities committed on both sides.) 35. Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell (A lyrical, touching but ultimately tragic account of bringing up otters on the remote West coast of Scotland. Rather a contrast to the doom and gloom in the last few books!) 36. An Arab Tells His Story, Edward Atiyah (The autobiography of an Anglophile Syrian Christian, born in in Ottoman ruled Lebanon, educated in British Egypt and England, who worked in the colonial administration in Sudan and became a pan-arab nationalist who eventually sought reconciliation between colonisers and colonised.) 37. Treatise on Parapsychology, Rene Sudre (Psi phenomena, as exhibited by mediums and others, accounted for entirely through telepathy and collective psychism, with the spiritualist hypothesis dismissed. I was amused by the repeated injunctions that large quantities of bilberry preserve should be ingested by mediums to prevent fraudulent exhibitions of ectoplasmic manifestation!) 38. The Origin of Species, 6th Ed. 1876, Charles Darwin ("Have we any right to assume that the Creator works through intellectual powers like those of man?" Natural Selection, the survival of the fittest and the struggle for life in the later edition - published after The Descent of Man - with the focus on groups rather than individuals. An amazingly wide ranging argument.) 39. On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, Charles Darwin (A minutely detailed account, surprisingly interesting, written to back up what is argued in 38.) 40. Themes & Variations, Aldous Huxley ("The Chinese taught that the Tao, or indwelling Logos, was present on every level from the physical and the biological up to the spiritual; and they knew that outrages against Tao, in Nature no less than in man, would lead to fatal results. We have to recapture some of this old lost wisdom. If we fail to do this - if, presumptuously imagining that we can 'conquer' Nature, we continue to live on our planet like a swarm of destructive parasites - we condemn ourselves and our children to misery and deepening squalor and the despair that finds expression in the frenzies of collective violence.") 41. The Byzantine Achievement, Robert Byron ("The existence of St Sophia is atmospheric, that of St Peter's overpoweringly, imminently substantial. One is a church to God; the other a salon for his agents. One is consecrated to reality, the other, to illusion. St Sophia, in fact, is large, and St Peter's is vilely, tragically small." Having visited both I know exactly what RB means.) 42. The Triads, St Gregory Palamas (A 14th century defence of Byzantine hesychasm - mystical experience of God as the unborn. 43. The World I Live In, Helen Keller ("Many persons, having perfect ears, are emotionally deaf. Yet these are the very ones who dare to set limits to the vision of those who, have will, soul, passion, imagination. Faith is a mockery if it teaches us not that we may construct a world unspeakably more complete and beautiful than the material world. And I, too, may construct my better world, for I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the Mind that created all worlds.") 44. Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait, Van Wyck Brooks (A short biography of HK by someone who knew her.) 45. Facades: Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell, John Pearson (A triple biography of the Sitwells. With all of the triumphs, disasters, eccentricities, suffering, self deception and interminable wrangling over money that that involves.) 46. Splendours and Miseries: Sacheverell Sitwell, Sarah Bradford (A biography of Scacheverell Sitwell.) 47. The Road to Oxiana, Robert Byron Travels through Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s. As vivid as Patrick Leigh Fermor's books on Greece, and mainly a paean to Persian and Seljuk art and architecture, with the Bamiyan Buddhas being cursorily dismissed as "of no artistic value".) 48. On Acquisition of the Holy Spirit, St Seraphim of Sarov (A tiny but very dense work by the 18th century Russian ascetic on experiencing the mystical transcendence of mutually exclusive, dualistic logic.) 49. Michael Psellus On the Operation of Daemons, ed S Skinner (An 11th century Byzantine work on daemons - a la Socrates rather than later medieval demonology) 50. Ghosts and Hauntings, Dennis Bardens (A rehash of various famous and lesser known ghost stories by an investigative journalist who had some very interesting paranormal experiences himself.) 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzipueo Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 2020 Fox and Birch - Sam Burns Hawk in the Rowan - Sam Burns Fatal Shadows - Josh Lanyon American Gods - Neal Gaiman Stag and the Ash - Sam Burns In Any Light - Sam Burns Adder and Willow - Sam Burns Eagle in the Hawthorn - Sam Burns A Dangerous Thing - Josh Lanyon Salmon and the Hazel - Sam Burns Wren and Oak - Sam Burns The Hell You Say - Josh Lanyon Death of a Pirate King - Josh Lanyon The Story of Medieval England from King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest - Dr. Jennifer Paxton Troublemaker (Dave Brandstetter #3) - Joseph Hanson Somebody Killed His Editor - Josh Lanyon So this is Christmas - Josh Lanyon The Dark Tide - Josh Lanyon Rewind - Marshall Thornton All She Wrote - Josh Lanyon Slow Road to Hell - Grant Atherton The Boy with the Painful Tattoo - Josh Lanyon Blessed Curses - Madeline Ribbon In Other Words: Murder - Josh Lanyon The Avengers: Everyone Wants to Rule the World - Dan Abnett Wind of Choice - Marty C. Lee The Ultimates: Against All Enemies - Alexander C. Irvine Sunset: Pact Arcanum - Arshad Ahsanuddin Murder at Archly Manor - Sara Rosett Last but Not Lease - Jordan Castillo Price X-Men: Empire's End - Diane Duane Stolen Trinkets - Alan Steele Soul Engine - R.L. King - ace character alert. Good story too! The Last Sun - K.D. Edwards A Ferry of Bones and Gold - Hailey Turner All Souls Near and Nigh - Hailey Turner Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey A Crown of Iron and Silver - Hailey Turner The Egyptian Antiquities Murder - Sara Rosett The ABCs of Spellcraft - Jordan Castillo Price Civil War (Marvel) - Stuart Moore Murder in Black Tie - Sara Rosett Our Haunted World - John A. Keel - 👽👽👽👽 The Death of Captain American - Larry Hama Mountain of Mars - Glynn Stewart Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars - Alexander C. Irvine A Vigil in the Mourning - Hailey Turner Fallen - Benedict Jacka First Moon - Richard Amos Captured: The Barney and Betty Hill UFO Experience - Stanton R. Friedman 👽👽👽1/2 Star Trek: The Lost Years - J.M. Dillard Fae, Flame and Fedoras - Glynn Stewart The Templars: History & Myth - Michael Haag The Painted Crown - Megan Derr Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds - Brian Daley Vampire with Benefits - E.J. Russell Demon on the Downlow - E.J. Russell His Fairy Share - Meghan Maslow Jinx on a Terran Inheritance - Brian Daley The Less than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch - Marshall Thornton Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders - Jean Lorrah The Templars - Dan Jones Gather Her Round - Alex Bledsoe Chapel of Ease - Alex Bledsoe Chariot of Wrath - R.L. King - ace character alert/friendship alert. The Fairies of Sadieville - Alex Bledsoe Stone and a Hard Place - R.L. King Fall of the White Ship Avatar - Brian Daley Sword Edged Blonde - Alex Bledsoe The Forgotten - R.L. King Doctor Who: The Secret in Vault 13 - David Solomons Hot Dog Girl - Jennifer Dugan Deadpool: Paws - Stefan Petrucha Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder - Christopher L. Bennett Stranger on the Shore - Josh Lanyon Durance - Lynn Gala Doctor Who: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor - Nicholas Pegg Threshold - R.L. King X-Men: Mutant Empire: Siege - Christopher Golden Updated: June 22, 2020 Page Count to date: 21594 Book Target: 160 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GingerRose Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 2020: Thus far: 1. Anna by Dagfinn Gronoset 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phantasmal Fingers Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 44 minutes ago, GingerRose said: 2020: Thus far: 1. Anna by Dagfinn Gronoset Good name for an author! I once read a book by Ferdinand Gregorovius just because I liked his name. It was a biography of Lucretia Borgia - an interesting subject but not very well done, I'm afraid. How was 'Anna'? Edit:- Just googled him. Sounds very interesting indeed! 🙂 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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