What are you currently reading?

[Arun]

i thought Piper at the Gates of Dawn was a Pink Floyd album...

[Clare]

i thought Piper at the Gates of Dawn was a Pink Floyd album...

So did I!

[LouisIX]

Well, it is that too.

[Daniel]

Hmm. Hate to be a killjoy. And some parts of it are hilariously funny. Other parts, however, like "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" are openly pagan and pan-theistic in a typical early 20th-century way.

offtopic - What's "pan-theism"?  I think I've heard that term before and just assumed it was another way of saying "pantheism".  But you're using it as if it has something to do with the pagan god Pan?

[Maximilian]

Hmm. Hate to be a killjoy. And some parts of it are hilariously funny. Other parts, however, like "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" are openly pagan and pan-theistic in a typical early 20th-century way.

offtopic - What's "pan-theism"?  I think I've heard that term before and just assumed it was another way of saying "pantheism".  But you're using it as if it has something to do with the pagan god Pan?

No, just a random extra hyphen. But in this particular case it does have to do with Pan. But I wasn't intending to make a pun.

[Melanie_T]

I am trying to read "The Last Illusion"by Porochista Khakpour....which is a reworking of a Persian myth/ legend.  I can't settle with it, having discovered I hate modern writers, all who have university qualifications and trying to be clever imho.

I am also reading "The knight in the panther's skin", a medieval tale from Georgia...the one by the Back Sea, not America. Georgia has a fascinating history straddling the West and the East.

[Melanie_T]

Has anyone read " Three men in a boat" by Jerome Jerome?

[Arun]

I am trying to read "The Last Illusion"by Porochista Khakpour....which is a reworking of a Persian myth/ legend.  I can't settle with it, having discovered I hate modern writers, all who have university qualifications and trying to be clever imho.

I am also reading "The knight in the panther's skin", a medieval tale from Georgia...the one by the Back Sea, not America. Georgia has a fascinating history straddling the West and the East.

Georgia has some beautiful histories and traditions. it was one of the oldest Christian nations in the world.

[red solo cup]

The Station by Robert Byron.  The author visited the famous Mt Athos of Greece in 1927 with an archaeologist friend to record the frescos and mosaics of the various
Orthodox monasteries. Athos is famous for banning women from the entire peninsula including  female domestic animals and even laying hens.

[maryslittlegarden]

St Pius X catechism

[Daniel]

I'm now reading If the World Only Knew by Noël DEROSE.  It's a brief biography of Fernand Crombette (a Catholic cosmologist and Egyptologist) and an overview/summary of Crombette's writings.  But at first glance, some of Crombette's stuff seems heretical, so I'm not sure what to think of it at this point.



(the image on the cover is actually a side view of what Crombette believed Pangaea looked like:
)

[JubilateDeo]

[sprungli]

re-reading the lion, the witch and the wardrobe and pippi longstocking for a literature essay.

[Melanie_T]

Still having my love affair with Georgia, as Arun says it is one of the oldest Christian nations although schismatic orthodox. There are many beautiful monasteries and churches. It is thought the Garden of Eden was around there!

The medieval period is lovely, and the national love of polyphonic music. It is with sadness I know I will never travel there.....

[Melanie_T]

Currently listening to "The White Company" by Arthur Conan Doyle. Boys own adventure stuff.