What are you reading?

[rigavitch]

A very interesting book: The UFO Deception: An Orthodox Christian Perspective. by Fr. Spyridon Bailey. He discusses the connection between UFO's and demonic activity, as Fr. Seraphim Rose did in his writings. If you have not thought of this connection before it's a real eye-opener.

This is the reason I'm here! I stopped what I used to think were UFO experiences as a child! I would say the Lord's Prayer. More recently all my research led me back to God/Christ and The Bible, I have seen them in the sky outside my flat twice recently after years of never seeing them and I've had sleep paralysis which stopped when I called out to Jesus for help! The only reason I knew to do this was my son, who was telling me for months to read Fr Seraphim Rose's writings and that they were Demons. As I was researching all the books of the Bible, books not in the Bible, biblical archeology, giants, "resets" etc I came to the conclusion giants were real and what I had always believed to be myths and fables were real. So I stumbled upon the fact that Nephilim were real and then my whole world exploded! ha ha
Excuse my rambling. I'm about to sleep but wanted to reach out. So yes, yes it's a real eye opener!

 

[IconWriter]

It's good to hear you've learned the truth about their deceptions, and that they flee from you at the Name of Jesus, @rigavitch. When I was a child and it seemed so many people were seeing them I'd ask in prayer to God that I would see them, too. When He didn't answer, it made me doubt and step back from seeking any of that. It's good to be vindicated, to learn that there is something wrong there.

Now I'm back to reading Seraphim Rose's book Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future.

 

[rigavitch]

It's good to hear you've learned the truth about their deceptions, and that they flee from you at the Name of Jesus, @rigavitch. When I was a child and it seemed so many people were seeing them I'd ask in prayer to God that I would see them, too. When He didn't answer, it made me doubt and step back from seeking any of that. It's good to be vindicated, to learn that there is something wrong there.

Now I'm back to reading Seraphim Rose's book Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future.

I've just started a biography about Dostoyevsky by my favourite Russian translator, David Magarshack! And That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis just arrived in the post today.
I'm also reading loads of things online as I'm looking for movie ideas. I plan on attempting a script about Saint Cyprian and Justina but I'm juggling a few about and always looking. I'm somewhat obsessed by the Fool for Christ/God(?)
I have an intellectually disabled daughter so...

 

[Mrs.DanielH]

Currently re-reading Bringing up Bebe, an American expat's findings on French parenting. And reading Little Blue Truck to the baby

 

[Ah_Tibor]

Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison by Allen Hornblum. About the University of Pennsylvania's testing program on prisoners, mostly for "cosmetics" but also covert government research on germ warfare. Almost everyone ended up with some kind of permanent damage or died. Pretty good, not super well-written but finished it the other night.

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk. Historical novel about the followers of Jacob Frank and the interplay of the Catholic/Orthodox/Jewish communities. I think the author is going for a kind of magical realism thing. Ok so far.

 

[dragonfire00]

Them Before Us, it's a book written about same sex parenting, donor IVF, surrogacy, adoption, divorce/remarriage, etc and the effects on children. Essentially a book about Children's Rights, since adults in this society center themselves and their needs and ignore children's needs in which having their biological mother and father is the best scenario. It's a pretty easy read although sad at times!

 

[MajorStyles]

The Robbers by Freidrich Schiller and Miracles by C.S. Lewis. Both good so far.

 

[BasilSeal]

I'm reading Introduction to a Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales and also the Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux.

 

[Starlight]

I truly felt like an archeologist when I was cleaning out under my kids dresser… only to discover that is where my Meditations by Marcus Aurelius has been this entire time. /cry

 

[Celibate Warrior21]

I recently bought The Anthem by Ayn Rand. I haven’t begun reading it yet. Is it a good read?

 

[Ah_Tibor]

I recently bought The Anthem by Ayn Rand. I haven’t begun reading it yet. Is it a good read?

Elitism 101

 

[BasilSeal]

If you have read any other book by Any Rand, they're all kind of the same thing. Some variation of her philosophy of objectivism / virtue of selfishness. Any of those (fiction) books are interesting enough to read; they have pros and cons. I can see an RVF reader finding a lot to like in certain aspects of her writing such as collapse resulting from overreaching government and lack of personal responsibility, and a lot of find rather objectionable... Such as the human centered, Godless "morality" of the protagonists and the paper thin depth to the antagonists, which are almost always just charicatures and nothing more. It's a mixed bag. There are worse books.

 

[Ah_Tibor]

If you have read any other book by Any Rand, they're all kind of the same thing. Some variation of her philosophy of objectivism / virtue of selfishness. Any of those (fiction) books are interesting enough to read; they have pros and cons.

"Anthem" is the most symbolically Promethean (BEHOLD this one gloriously talented beautiful person discovers ELECTRICITY in a dark backward society) though (kind of loosely mushed together with Zamyatin's "We").

 

[Lucy Mansfield]

I've been reading The Romanov Royal Martyrs. It is such a joy to read. Like a perfect mix between a history book and lives of saints. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the martyred Romanov royal family without having to wade through the lies and propaganda in almost every other book in English about them.

 

[EyesFitt]

Book 2 of The Mistborn: The Well of Ascension As people who can consume metals to gain superpowers fight on the rooftops, three armies besiege the former capital of a fallen empire.

 

[Kitty Tantrum]

My husband has been reading to me recently from The Hobbit. I've read it quite a few times, but it's always enjoyable. He's got a good reading voice.

 

[PineTreeFarmer]

My husband has been reading to me recently from The Hobbit. I've read it quite a few times, but it's always enjoyable. He's got a good reading voice.

I love this so much!! My mom's radio broke in her car, and Volvo wants to charge 7k for the code to have it fixed. So I imagine we will be getting back to it.

Some of my fondest memories are reading entire books aloud to my mom and dad on the way to vacation. For some reason I get carsick if I try to read to myself, but reading aloud helps.

And Saturday mornings in the city when my best friend finally started reading novels and she'd read me Vonnegut.

My favorite car read is Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris. Yes, he is a secular gay man, but those first short stories are so, so, so funny.

 

[EntWife]

My husband has been reading to me recently from The Hobbit. I've read it quite a few times, but it's always enjoyable. He's got a good reading voice.

Obviously, I approve.

 

[BasilSeal]

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis

 

[IconWriter]

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnika, something to read over and over.