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Just finished The Book of Dust (La Belle Sauvage) by Phillip Pullman. It's a prequel to His Dark Materials (aka The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass) - among my favourite books ever.
It did not disappoint. I'm not sure it would be sufficient as a stand-alone but with the power of the original trilogy, it works.
 
aka The Golden Compass

Can you imagine a Golden Ark in saw ... populated by Acadians ... at horny issue like the aulde goad ...

A horse of one point ... unique orn ... as the man from Orq ...
 
If you don't read ... you miss a lot of stuff buried in tomes ... sometimes intentionally by people that didn't wish the illiterate type to know ...

There was a tendency for the powers to keep a lot of intelligence (information) in altered form ... thus churches taught in strange tongues ... like old English ...

May the tradition continue ... so the common people don't know you can think bad things about god appointed leaders ... an ad vocational attribute ... leaves some people up the stump of the epistemological tree ...
 
Nadia Bolz-Weber's, "Accidental Saints"; and plan to start, "The Course of Love", a novel by Alain De Botton.

My brother gave me a gift certificate to the coolest bookstore in town. It a classic old "shoppe", mostly full of second hand books (in good condition).

I have recently read "Conversations With God" (Book One) - by Neale Donald. It caught my attention on a table in the store. It reads like a person talking to themselves, or daydreaming - working the big questions out in their own mind. I'm not sure I'd come to all the same conclusions. You can tell that the decade (90's) had a bearing on some of those conclusions - so I question whether the answers are universal truths. It's interesting. It also reminds me of Sophie's World, a bit, but there isn't a little adventure or other narrative happening along with the conversation. It's just a conversation. I'm not that interested in Book Two.
 
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Neale Donald Walsch, sorry. A lot of it reads like "God" is telling him to follow Dr. Phil or something. Or like a subtle promo for that guy who sold those natural cure books on infomercials (but I think he went to jail for fraud) - in places. Lol. (It doesn't actually mention Dr. Phil). In other places, it reads like a lesson in Zen meditation. It's very 90's oriented, like I said.
 
RD Laing ---- Wisdom, Madness and Folly ... how the physical medical field fell into trying to deal with metaphysical things like thought and emotions ... Laing refers to it as hi anti-psychiatry theme ... sort of like emotional folk backing away from the collective of anger, fear, and passion as causes for lost logos and logic as the words are spewed ... later it was developed into a science of mind control ... the occult art of psychology when used for marketing control!

Laing was ridiculed for going against the collective Mob concepts that scaring the crap out of residence would assist takeovers! Causes some concern over what's really proper reciprocation ... upending ole BS? Really caused war between doctors, priests and witch doctoring/doctrine works ... within the vassal!

It appears all of them could be cracked and broken down ... though continues ... with no love lost ... the love being rather ethereal in the initiation ... just a wisp ...
 
Just finished my Christmas present from my son.

Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this Book.

An interesting philosophy primer. Some of the contributors clearly do not understand the storylines they appealed to.

A good read despite that glaring problem.
 
RD Laing, The Divided Self ... a divine read about isolationism as conjured in the psychology ... and JP Sartre said such a thing was non-existent!

What a niche to regress to ... then the definition of "self" is something else ...

There is a grand dependence on perspective ... easily bent right over the horizon as conjured ! Few even question that potential ... density change?
 
I'm waffling on what to read. I was starting "Last Days of the New Paris" by British s-f/fantasy writer China Mieville but then Ursula K. LeGuin, one of the greatest s-f writers ever, passed away and I'm feeling some remorse at not having read more of her stuff so I might hit the library to nab one of her novels (they don't have much LeGuin in their Overdrive e-collection as of yet).
 
Completed reading Documents of the Christian Church --- Henry Bettenson ... last evening!

No wonder the pious are inflexible about common folks studying theological history ... tis enough to generate hysterics!

I guess if works with all secret etudes: medicine, law, science, engineering, mental irregularities? God with a sense of humours?

One should be broad-minded about metaphors in life story ... otherwise you'll never learn what's buried in the fabric thereof ... a flower ... Lilli? (Tis a forerunner of Lilleth ... Goo-Glue it just for the devil that may provoke thoughts ... imagine a woman frolicking with snakes like Caduceus ... a Roman icon of two faced wisdom? Some emotional intellect required ... no one way about it ... must be done in the Dark Forest to connect with the hams ... Bottom-line Jack as a Jo Kerr? Head man is dark ... that's UV or M'N caught in a fix ... J'zus, Jo Sieve and Mara ... can this be without a field of forces ? Past oral sense ... silent trades as mind blown incident ...
 
Reading T M Achenboch: Developmental Psychopathology ... while trying to reason why some psyches are seized and don't develop any further!

It appears to be something to do with absence of cognizance of the greater social self in individuals as isolated individualism and not much seen beyond that ... a Circe or Wahl of containment?

Some incising may be required ... thus the mythical character in mind with scissors ... one of the Muses ... or Moira! One must know the alter koine ... tis common on both sides of the parietal lobe as thrown together ... by essence of mother and father genre ...

These spirit genres can stick with you as a haunt ... an extended nar rat I've ... but psyche can Maas with it ... if no respect shown!

Indicated with a falling out with one-way type ...
 
Interesting curiosity to unravel the word pathE logos as reason is taken as irrational on this side of the mire Eire ... in old Celt this may be interpreted as a dirty mind ... with a wash some can clear the Eire ... just blows my psyche ... an Irish washer whoam'n?

Tis Hur in the pool ... causing disturbing Leer ... lady of the lo'ch ... as deep itch when the grog was extracted ... a good left is as sation (from sated satire) as a rest ... for a change ... saac'din bedlam? T'under 'n Yazs-O ...

Breathed over in a grazia condition ... that's Grace ... tis AD onus ... GEO'Ghia smolders on my psyche ...

Knowledge of ancient and alien linguistic may be of assist ...
 
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Book Club meets next month to discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. It's a funny story with a dark undercurrent - an elderly man struggling to cope with the death of his wife.
 
Thanks, Bette, I'd forgotten it was a movie also! I don't think I'll watch the trailer until I'm through with the book though. And then I'll decide if it's worth checking the library for the dvd.
 
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