hi there, greetings from glasgow
i have started to read some books about psychic mediums and about spiritual healing:
i read one two weeks ago about a local and well respected medium Gordon Smith and last week read one about a nationally well known healer, Betty Shine.
this week i'm reading Betty Shine's second book: Mind Magic. i am transfixed !!!

Has anyone read....Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Enneads by Plotinus, and Pensees by Pascal?

Recent Bible scholars have established certain facts: 1) Christ was probably given a narcotic which induced a death-like trance 2) He was an magician from the Egyptian school 3) The Templars buried his body somewhere in France...

In light of this news, Pascal's wager does not seem very logical.

Also, "Black Athena" is another controversial and interesting book.

I am currently reading "Fire" by Sebastian Junger. He also wrote "The Perfect Storm", which I have also read. I am reading "A History of Appalachia" as well. I love to read; I am always reading something...I like both fiction and non-fiction. Both of the books I am currently reading are non-fiction.

Hi, Jazz! Great questiion! I'm reading I Sing The Body Electric, by Ray Bradbury. I just finished his Long After Midnight. And, thrown in there, also, I just re-read Kenneth's Grahame's The Wind in the Willows! You know, I've done a lot of movie quizzes and some book ones--so it'strange not to put quotations around these titles! Happy Reading!

I am currently reading the book Don't You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I just got done reading the books It's Not the End of the World, by Judy Blume, and Silent to the Bone, by E.L. Konigsburg.

I am currently reading Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone, an old book called Constantine and the Conversion of Europe (I forget who wrote it) and I just finished the first two Harry Potter books.

Have just finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and am about to start Little Women (again). Other than that, I am also reading:
"Enduring Love" and "Mean Time" in college

I'm finished now with my last book and I'm reading The Agony of Alice, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

I found the coolest verison of Dracula by Bram Stoker. It's got a bunch of extras in it-maps, supersitions, stuff on Vlad the Impaler, even a "letter" to Harker in Dracula's hand! It's really so much fun to read because it is a copy for young readers. I figure I read the unabridged verison, so I'm entitled to relax over this one. Of course, it could not be used to make quiz-which means I can just read it! Agony Of Alice--sounds Serious, LilSpikey!

Currently reading A Crown of Swords (book 7 of The Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan. A friend loaned me book 1 of the series in the summer and I am now totally hooked.
Also re-reading Soldier from the Wars Returning by Charles Carrington recounting his experiences during WWI.

I'm happy to see that you've joined us in the forums Liz...I've seen your name around for quite a long time in quizzyland. Please feel free to have a look around the place...and enjoy the rest of the 'book corner'...

SpanishLiz be warned "Pace yourself" If you are reading the Wheel of Time and you are on book 7, you have one more to go and then your stuck waiting with the rest of us till that old coot Jordan finishes book 9.

According to his publishers website they (Tor books) did not mention him in the new release calander which ran through October 2002.

I can't stand Robert Jordan anymore.
I read the first five books in The Wheel Of Time and I quit.
There is no end in sight. I don't begrude the man for writing a big series with lotsa books to make tons of money, but dude, end it already! It just got way too pedantic. Not enough action, very cerebral (not that I mind that book) but there needs to be a payoff.

It's like...never mind...can't repeat that here.

However, that series is one of the best cases of world building I have ever seen. Great conflicted characters. And Jordan writes very well. I just got bored with it.

I am currently reading A Shadow on the Glass. The first novel in The View from the Mirror series. Four books in all and it is written by Ian Irvine. He is an Aussie. The books are already out down there...but we dumb Americans broke the novel into four separate parts and are selling/releasing it that way. Irvine will make more money this way, but the fans have to wait. Waiting for the second novel The Tower on the Rift.

anyone down under wanna send me a copy of the entire thing?

Thanks for the welcome Jazz, I am enjoying myself immensely, don't know why I have waited so long to register.
War Wizard, my friend has books 8 & 9 waiting for me when I finish seven, it's book 10 he's gasping for. He has read the first 9 three times each! I'm not that hooked.
As for being bored with them, certainly not yet Lord Andry.
The world building aspect, that's one of the things I most enjoy.

Im reading "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card its really good...if your a Sci Fi fan i suggest you read it.

The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowsip of the Ring

"Looking Aound" by Witold Rybczynski...Rasselas...the King of ?

yup...Orson Scott Card does good work.
I did the Ender's series about ten years ago.
there, I'm dating myself.

I should really read the Tolkien books again.
it's great stuff.

Oooooh! Why didnt I do this before. I am reading Trollope the Barsetshire Chronicles.... so funny, so well written, such fun!

I can update my reading status again. Now I am reading Anastatia At This Address, by Lois Lowry.

The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King

Partly because I love the book, and partly because I need a refresher before the movies.

I'm actually reading Acid House at the moment. It's a bit mad, becuase the book is mostly set in the UK (with most of the central characters being Scottish), and it's all written out phonetically. So instead of Somebody saying "You're totally out of order" it'll come out something like "yer totally ootay order". I'm used to it from Trainspotting, and because some of my old school friends are Scottish (I actually think my mother's grandfather and half me dad's family were Scottish too, but I'm digressing....). It's just for a while afterwards (especially if you live alone) you start thinking with an accent!! I'll be getting dinner ready thinking "I doona ken were I put the salt. I'm ootay me moind!"
It's an ace book though, some of the stories are really bizarre. And they're short stories, which suits me short attention span fine!!

PS. Slaughterhouse-5 was fan-flippin-tastic!

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I am reading "Ellie's Book", by Ellie M. Andrews It was transcribed and annotated ny Ann Campbell MacBryde. It is the journal of a woman kept from 1862-1865. Her husband was in the Confederate Army, and I think that is a very tounching portrait of what families went through during the War. We read about battles, Generals, armies, but real bravery can be found through the eyes of one woman who had to keep life going at home.

Currently...'China Urban', an anthology of works by anthropologists with what seems to be limited knowledge of China,'Prison House of Language' by Jameson, 'The Rise of Anthropological Theory' by Harris...good review of the history of the field, 'A Doll's House' by Ibsen...never read it!

Am currently reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and am finding it very hard going. It was recommended to me and I have seen a lot of good reviews for it so I am determined to persevere. Anyone else read it? I can't say that I like any of the characters yet.