Reading list for the year?

[an anarchist]

What's your reading list for the year?

I have a hefty one, doubt I'll be able to get through it all but I'm gonna try. I used to read non stop when I had no technology it was nice. Technology is too distracting.
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The two books you can't read the title are Tao Te Ching and Mencius

If I get through this, I'll be much more smarter. Haven't hardly read at all in 2022.

Here's to a more productive year!

 

[JustGeorge]

What's your reading list for the year?

I have a hefty one, doubt I'll be able to get through it all but I'm gonna try. I used to read non stop when I had no technology it was nice. Technology is too distracting.
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The two books you can't read the title are Tao Te Ching and Mencius

If I get through this, I'll be much more smarter. Haven't hardly read at all in 2022.

Here's to a more productive year!

Looking at your books, I recognize the Power of Myth; I read that many years ago, and remember enjoying it. I've read a translation of the Upanishads as well.

I know we have the History of God; my husband picked it up at a thrift store. Neither of us ever read it; it sits on the shelf. Maybe someday...

 

[RestlessSoul]

I don’t have a year planned out. But I’m starting a short course later this month, for which I’ll have to read James Ladyman’s Understanding Philosophy of Science. Before the course starts, I’m trying to work through Carl Jung’s The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious; in fact I’m a bit stuck on that, and also on Wholeness and the Implicate Order, a collection of essays by physicist and philosopher David Bohm; while I’m avoiding those, I’m actually reading Waterlog, a journal about wild swimming, by Roger Deakin; and Poet in New York by Federico Garcia Lorca; I’ve also been given a novel, The Leopard, by Tomasi de Lampedusa.

I need to get some discipline around this stuff, which is one reason why I’m starting the online course. I agree that digital technology eats up time, in a way which is seldom very productive

 

[amorphous_constellation]

I don't have a definite list, but I guess I'm just sticking to the 'strategy,' which is kind of controversial. And that is, to read 5 books at time, which seems to mean 1 hard, long and complex philosophy book, one semi-long and semi-complex book, and 2 or 3 short books to 'grease the wheels' of the mind. And it might be better to read 4, in case I start to lose track of the plot in the 5th one

Jumping around like this is supposed to keep it 'artificially fresh,' so that I can read more without feeling it as much

The lunker book I have on the back-burner right now is Hume's 'a treatise on human nature,' and getting up to 50% read on that one was a hike. I think I know most of what he's talking about after some hard mental work, but I don't think I could explain it back to you. I think I will be able to increase the speed on it now, because it seems like my comprehension of 18th century English has increased a little bit

Once I get through that, I think I want to read some Origen, specifically Origen vs. Celsus.

 

[The Hammer]

I wouldn't say I have a list or a anything. But I have a helluva TBR pile. These are the newest editions to it.

- The Complete Guide to Herbal Medicine by Charles Fetrow and Juan Avila (both are Pharm.D)
- Walking Meditation by Nguyen Anh-Huong & Thich Nhat Hanh
- Native Trees of Western Washington by Kevin Zobrist
- Wandering and Feasting: A Washington Cookbook by Mary Caditz
- Inside a Magical Lodge by John Greer
- The Wanderer's Havamal by Jackson Crawford
- The Poetic Edda: translation by Jackson Crawford
- The Saga of the Volsungs: translation by Jackson Crawford
- Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes (Hervor and Heidrek; Hrólf Kraki and His Companions): translation by Jackson Crawford
- Saga of the Volsungs w/Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok: translation by Jackson Crawford

 

[amorphous_constellation]

I wouldn't say I have a list or a anything. But I have a helluva TBR pile. These are the newest editions to it.

Nice. I really enjoy Jackson Crawford, his translations are very easy to read and lucid. I'll have to read his 'two sagas of mythical heroes,' that must be a more recent one

 

[JustGeorge]

I wouldn't say I have a list or a anything. But I have a helluva TBR pile. These are the newest editions to it.

- The Complete Guide to Herbal Medicine by Charles Fetrow and Juan Avila (both are Pharm.D)
- Walking Meditation by Nguyen Anh-Huong & Thich Nhat Hanh
- Native Trees of Western Washington by Kevin Zobrist
- Wandering and Feasting: A Washington Cookbook by Mary Caditz
- Inside a Magical Lodge by John Greer
- The Wanderer's Havamal by Jackson Crawford
- The Poetic Edda: translation by Jackson Crawford
- The Saga of the Volsungs: translation by Jackson Crawford
- Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes (Hervor and Heidrek; Hrólf Kraki and His Companions): translation by Jackson Crawford
- Saga of the Volsungs w/Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok: translation by Jackson Crawford

I know I've got The Sage of the Volsungs around here needing to be read, too...

 

[syo]

What's your reading list for the year?

Casamias. Kazamias. It's the yearly book of prophecies. Almanac.

 

[Vinayaka]

What's your reading list for the year?

I have a hefty one, doubt I'll be able to get through it all but I'm gonna try. I used to read non stop when I had no technology it was nice. Technology is too distracting.
https://www.religiousforums.com/media/img_20230105_120740.9809/full
The two books you can't read the title are Tao Te Ching and Mencius

If I get through this, I'll be much more smarter. Haven't hardly read at all in 2022.

Here's to a more productive year!

I'm illiterate so it's a short list.