Whats everyone reading now or read lately

[October]

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Crit buddies on Scribophile. Right now, I'm reading a literary post-apocalyptic story about a woman who is facing getting her four grandkids through a global disaster, and a sort of medieval Celtic fantasy...with steampunk gorillas...kind of. They're both pretty wild.

Maybe later today I'll get back around to the ancient Sumerian humour novel I've been enjoying so much.

[Yorin]

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As corny as it sounds....a lot and lot of art books~as in how to draw stuff, or my sculpting stuff. I'm trying to push myself to get better, and I think I really need to go back to the basics on some stuff, and learn how to get better and build bigger on others. Hopefully I can manage it all

[anubisa]

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Tarot 101 and An American Dream.

[anubisa]

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Tarot 101 and An American Dream.

Whoops! Should be An American Life by Ronald Reagan.

[Bjorn]

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I bought the fella his favorite book from childhood and we read it aloud together, popcorn style. ^_^

Prettiest Book EVER

[October]

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I should actually get back to my crits. I've been playing around with you people all morning and making soap. But I've got work to do! So back to the Ancient-ish Sumer-ish spoof story! And maybe a little historical fantasy in early medieval Scotland...

[Medusa]

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Rise Again by Ben Tripp. About zombies. Duh.

[Jembru]

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Finally finished reading 'The Essential Guide to Psychic Self Defence' by our own Mrs. Penry. I actually bought it not so much because I thought I had been cursed or whatever, but because I thought it would give me some tips and ideas on how to protect myself generally, because I've started going a bit deeper with my spirit work needed to make sure I was correctly prepared and guarded. Yet when reading through it, I did kinda realise something.

I'm not even gonna try to find the post, but about 2 or 3 months ago I posted a photo of my coffee table upon which I'd gathered all the things I needed to make a witch's bottle*. I'd had one when I lived with my mum, but never thought to make one here until then. Then in July (this time I can find the post I wrote about it, as it's in the Home Cleansing and Blessing thread), I was suddenly hit by the desire to completely cleanse and bless the flat.

Does anyone else think it's suspicious that suddenly my life seems to be moving forward after years of stagnation? That I'm overcoming my anxiety and body image issues? I can't help wonder if some of the dubious pagan folk I cut myself off from before moving to Germany (the first time I was away from my witch's bottle, and that ended in disaster), might have been petty enough to curse me. I am aware some rumors were spread about me (not sure what they were, but I'm pretty sure it's all BS), so I know these individuals were bent on causing me trouble in the physical, so it's hardly a stretch of the imagination.

I lost my faith around that time too. Makes you wonder if they'd done some kind of 'de-witching' on me too. Pretty nasty people if so. Kinda glad the banishing spell I use includes the line 'send it back to it's source'. Yeah.. have it back you gits!!

So anyway.. I'm glad I bought Tylluan's book now. Of course it did indeed give me practical ideas to keep myself spiritually safe, but it also reminded me that while such notions as curses can seem so unlikely it isn't worth thinking about, it's always worth taking the time to protect yourself... just in case...

*For those who might not know, these are said to protect the maker from curses, both intentional or otherwise.

[anubisa]

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The Call of the Wild and Panzer Leader.

[Watchful Wanderer]

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I am bouncing back between re-reading the Inheritance cycle and reading Jaguar: One Man's Struggle To Establish The World's First Jaguar Preserve by Alan Rabinowitz, as well as re-reading Lovecraft's works and Heisod's Theogany.

[Kiesha'ra]

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Faust by Van Goethe and Golden verses of Pythagoras (book fragments) by Pythagoras

[anubisa]

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White Fang and still reading Panzer Leader.

[Azvanna]

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Fool's Quest- my husband bought it for me for my birthday this week. It's going to be Robin Hobb's second to last book in her Farseer world. I'm not as impressed with this one. It's taking a little while to warm up.

[Clive]

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The last three books I read were "Half-Past Midnight" by Stephen King (actually a collection of four novellas), "The Husband" by Dean Koontz (couldn't put it down), and "Misery," also by Stephen King. As for the latter, the book was very enjoyable and, although the film adaptation left much to be desired, Kathy Bates's performance was very amusing yet frightening.

[iris]

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'The Harvill book of twentieth-century poetry in English', we're starting Ezra Pound today. I'm fascinated, this will be interesting.