Books: What are you currently reading?

[Agent Minivann]

Currently reading The Complete Works which includes both Handbook and Discourses from Epictetus, my personal favorite stoic philosopher. I've noticed it's quite a bit easier to read, less nihilistic, and contains more actionable knowledge than Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

I liked Meditations. I'll have to get this.

 

[chas]

The Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch. This is a truly amazing, frightening, and colorful history book about the Caucasian resistance to the expansion of the Russian Empire in the mid 19th Century. It was a primary source for Frank Herbert back when it came out in 1960 when he was writing Dune! The fierce Muslim mountain tribesmen fought for 30 years before being conquered. Both sides were brutal and unrelenting. The volume was famous when it came out; Jackie Kennedy asked Krushchev about it and got an evasive reply! This book is so well written that you feel like you've been sent back in a time machine. It also serves as a biography of the charismatic Imam Shamil, the leader of the fanatical Murids, who fought from deep mountainside forests and almost inaccessible mountain peak villages against the Tsar's rapacious army of conquest.

 

[Ninja Status]

Currently on my 2nd read-through of Silent Music by William Johnston. Real interesting if you like meditation and want to learn more about its history, science and importance.

 

[iceman3317]

I've been taking a break from reading, but (I think it was last year) I reread the first two series of Warriors by Erin Hunter.

But recently, with the reveal of the Redwall inspired units coming to Heroscape, I've been wanting to find and read the Redwall series. I remember them being popular in school, but because I very much hated reading when I was younger, I never read the books. I think I may have gotten one from my School's Library when I was like in 3rd or 4th grade, but I never actually read it.

 

[chas]

I've been in a local Science Fiction Book Club over the last year or so. Here's what we've read, all of which were new to me--some old, some recent. I started reading SF and Fantasy avidly in the 60s, but stopped in the last ten years or so:

We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor
Willful Child by Steven Erikson
Red Shirts by John Scalzi
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Naylor
Day of The Trifids by John Wynham
An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair
The Night Shift by Natalka Burlan
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Deep Storm by Lincoln Child