OT: What Are You Reading?

My System by Aaron Nimzovich

CHESS!!!

Monastic Wisdom – The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast

ISBN: 0-9667000-1-5

Pride, Prejudice and Zombies.  Fun and easy read.

Nearly finished reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, an extremely long winded book I must say

The 14th Book of Pan Horror Stories.

The Bhagavad Gita

I’m about to start “A Lion Among Men,” the third book in the “Wicked Years” series by Gregory Maguire. 

The Northern Thebaid… Monastic Saints of the Russian North
Compiled and translated by: Fr. Seraphim (Rose) and Fr. Herman (Podmoshensky)

ISBN: 0-938635-37-9

We’re talking about guys who went away out into the wilderness and wetland country in the far north of Russia between the 14th and 18th century.

(The Thebaid was a desert in Egypt where Christian Monasticism first sprouted in the fourth century.)

Haven’t heard those names in a long while. I bought Fr Seraphim’s book on the Orthodox teachings on death and dying (ascension through the watchtowers and all) when I visited St Herman’s Monastery in Platina, where he is buried.

On the end table now: Patrick O’Brian’s “Ionian Mission” (the one in which the Doctor Maturin’s sloth is debauched by Capt Aubrey), Marcus Borg’s “Speaking Christian,” and the “Oxford Book of Card Games” (wicked fun).

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass.

Usually jump around a lot, lately have been stuck on Martin and started book four in the Song of Ice and Fire series which is A Feast for Crows.

I’m also in the middle of DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Dr. Rick Strassman and Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Frederic Jameson.

Pharmako/poeia by Dale Pendell

For daily readings…

A Psalter for Prayer
(An Eastern Orthodox Psalter published by Holy Trinity Monastery {Russian Orthodox} in Jordanville, NY)

ISBN: 978-0-88465-188-8

Remember Thy First Love
The Three Stages of the Spiritual Life in the Theology of Elder Sophrony

By: Archimandrite Zacharias

ISBN: 978-0-9800207-2-4

I’ve been reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. Really love the books and the characters, but I’m stuck on Wolves of the Calla and can’t seem to make it past the prologue. 

If anybody out there is looking for some good detective stories, I highly recommend:

The Joe Gunther Series by Archer Mayor.

All about a detective who lives in Vermont.  Read them in sequence since there is an ongoing development of characters and interpersonal relationships between characters.

Archer Mayor is a real artist when it comes to painting pictures with words!

Currently reading ‘The Impossible Dead’ by Ian Rankin. It’s the second of his post-Rebus novels featuring DI Malcolm Fox.

“Doctor Dogbody’s Leg”  by: James Norman Hall (co-author of: “Mutiny on the Bounty”)

All about a salty old British sea surgeon (retired) who was in the British Navy during the American Revolution and Napoleonic wars. He would tell his cohorts in the taproom of Will Tunn’s Cheerful Tortoise (a seafarer’s pub in Portsmith) about how he lost his leg in action. The thing is… the story was different every time he told it!

A great collection of short stories!

@Walrus1985 & stogie:  The only pub I’ve been in with a name that comes anywhere close is “The Stone Toad.” It had a 4’ sculpture of a toad sitting beside the front door.

Cold Vengeance by Lincoln and Child.

I’d love to go in a pub called The Cheerful Tortoise. The wierdest pub name I’ve come across was in Chesterfield and it used to be called The Slug & Fiddle, but now renamed to it’s previous name The Crooked Spire, because it’s next to the Crooked Spire Church.

Stefan

@Walrus1985 I love all those names.  Sl much more creative than something like Jeff’s Bar.