What are you reading at the moment?

[Cosmic Ash]

The River Cottage Cookbook - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, given to me by my mum for Christmas.
Soon as the weather warms up I'll be digging up the lawn for veggies and fruit and herbs, and I wonder if the neighbours will mind chickens on the green out the front, and maybe there'll be room for a pig or a couple of small sheep out the back...

[Ade Sundog]

Soul Retrival by Sandra Ingerman

and

The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor: - essential mind-blowing reading - i wish i'd read it 20 years ago.

[Badger Bob]

Currently reading...

At home - Harrius Potter et Philosphi Lapis (very slowly with a dictionary)
travelling - Under the Eagle, Simon Scarrow (lightweight but a real page-turner as they say)
picking at - Epigrams Vol.I, Martial (trying to find the fruitier ones to memorise)

I'm feeling a bit Roman at the moment, the doctor told me to drop my toga, bend down and say eheu! I have to recline in a darkened cubiculum now.

[Aitrus]

I've just started re-reading all of R.A. Salvatore's Icewind Dale books.
Jim Butcher's "Dresden Files" is good for a quick little break.
A history on WWII gets some attention now and then.
Calvin and Hobbes never gets old.

[Airmid'sCat]

The Boudica quadrillogy (again), I can't get enough of the dreamers. The Diary of Lady Murasaki - to satisfy my Japanese itch. Joanne Harris's Runemarks. Bobcat's Living Druidry - for the sheer mystical rich Christmas cakeiness of it, & Our Trees - An A4 guide to growing the native trees of Northern Ireland, although I'm using it for identification and ogham notes - found in our local Oxfam book shop; 2 of your earth pounds well spent.

[Corwen]

No Logo by Naomi Klein. Thought I'd reread a few books I haven't read for a while, this is the first. Its a relatively old (pub in 2000) but sound analysis of the process and power of 'brands' and the way Corporations have increasingly encroached on public and mental space.

[Claer]

At work I'm on some heavy going reports and scientific papers at the moment (inbreeding reduction in small populations anyone?). To counter that I need some lightweight interest at home for now - so I'm working my way through Phil Rickman books. One of my favourite authors, William Horwood, has a new book out "Hyddenworld: Spring" which is next in the pile. I've been waiting a long while for a new Horwood book - so very much looking forward to that.

[katie bridgewater]

I just finished Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings. Very thought provoking collection of essays and reflections from John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, Arne Naess & Dailan Pugh (Illustrator).
Now reading The Other Side of Eden - hunter gatherers, farmers and the shaping of the world by Hugh Brody, part anthropology, part history, part autobiography. Really interesting so far.

[Ade Sundog]

Krautrock - Various writers - A complitation of the (mostly) West German alternative rock bands of the 60's and 70's , with a history of how this wonderful music came into being. Profiles of all the bands we know and love -Agitation Free, Amon Duul II, Can, Guru Guru, Faust, Neu!, Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream etc etc , plus lots i'd not heard of - Anima, Between, Embryo, Xhol Caravan....

Some great photos too.

(*ps - i've never been too happy with the term 'Krautrock' , i think 'Kosmische musik' is far better.)

Weit heraus

[Ade Sundog]

Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock

[Corwen]

Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock

Funny, I bought that from a charity shop the other day, and its beside me on the sofa now.

[Tyriell_Whisperwind]

lets see whats on my queue for books....im currently reading "World War Z" and i have a pile of ill read it when i get around to it including "Anita blake:Vampire hunter" 7-18 (lol) "the way of the shadows" and "the man who lives with wolves" the only nonfiction book near me lol

[Kernos]

I just finished Samuel Delany's Dhalgren. What a read. I cannot figure out if it is great literature or a big joke. But, I found it a thoroughly fascinating journey thru an Escheroid landscape.

I am now reading the Wraeththu trilogy by Storm Constantine.

[Teileag]

I'm reading "Animism" by Graham Harvey... quite an eye-opener and fascinating to read!

[LadyCelt]

"Lost Christianity" by Jacob Needleman

Some of the passages in this book are over my head - meaning long, involved sentences of philosophy too deep for me to fathom. But there are some interesting ideas put forth about what is lacking in modern Christianity that drives its followers to look for "whatever it is" elsewhere (such as paganism, Buddhism, etc.) I'm going to have to read it again in order to absorb some of it, but I have passages highlighted all over the place that resonate with me.

He has some fascinating ideas about how Christian ritual has become a meaningless exercise that is more about the ego, when in reality ritual was meant as a way to release the ego and listen for that "still small voice". He also talks about the concept of "spiritual psychology" which explores what it is about religion/ritual that feeds something that is hard-wired for us as humans to need. (Actually Needleman is relating ideas and writings of four men he interviewed over several years' time.)

Anyway, like I said, I need to read it again. There's a lot in there to absorb.

[Vapour Trail]

I'm reading Peter Marshall's book "Europe's Lost Civilisation" in which he sails from te Orkney Islands down the west coast, visiting all the important megalithic sites in Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland before continuing down through France and into the Mediterranean, ending at Malta. The book is a good balance between factual information on the sites, some well thought-out speculation on the purpose of these places, and some tales of his adventures along the way.

I'm really enjoying it because it's such a delightful contrast to the stuffy scientific non-fiction that I usually have to get through on these subjects.

Link to buy/read review: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0747242011/sr=1-1-spell/qid=1268265786/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1268265786&sr=1-1-spell&seller=

[Aurora]

Just finished reading The continuum comcept by Jean Liedloff which was a really interesting look a child rearing

[Badger Bob]

Oven Ready Chaos by Phil Hine with Peter Carroll's Liber Null and Psychonaut next on the reading pile.

Chaos Druidry anyone?

[Airmid'sCat]

The Bardic Handbook by Kevin Manwaring, Myths and Legends of the Celts by James MacKillop. Until I can afford the tree book I really want- Irish Trees by Niall Mac Coitir - I've just found the Kingfisher Field Guide to Trees for 3 of your shiny earth pounds

[Ade Sundog]

Practical Shamanism:A Guide To Walking In Both Worlds by Katie Weatherup

Just finished reading this. Groovy .