What are you reading at the moment?

[D'Arzhur]

The path of Druidry: walking the ancient green way from Penny billington.

[Blyth]

I am reading this book at the moment. I love this book and keep reading and re-reading it

[LoneWalker]

Woodlands by Oliver Rackham, really interesting read and makes you think about the woodland around you - what it's history may have been and why certain plants are and aren't there.

[Blyth]

Woodlands by Oliver Rackham, really interesting read and makes you think about the woodland around you - what it's history may have been and why certain plants are and aren't there.

Sounds really interesting, LoneWalker. Have added this title to my "Wish List"

[Arth Seren]

I'm also reading The path of Druidry: walking the ancient green way by Penny Billington. I'm really enjoying it and it's having an effect on my Grade work too.
Added to that I'm reading Khris Hughs' Natural Druidry which is also fantastic and helpful.

I'm also reading Tales of Avalon by Walter William Melnyk - Oakwyse. It's a wonderful book that gives a beautiful depth to The Apple and the Thorn.

All 3 books come highly recommended by myself.

[skydove]

Just finished 2 children's books by Pat Walsh, the Crowfield Curse and The Crowfield Demon set in the 1340's with a cast of monks, hobs, angels healers and the fay. A great mix of fantasy and reality and very pagan in content. For those readers who would sooner not grow up!

[skydove]

Hey Arth Seren, Reading the same two druid books as bedtime reading, the two make a nice contrast and seem to complement each other. As you say Penny's book is a good bulker outer of the course work and Kris's book is inspirational and has great moments of humour which stops youself taking yourself all too seriously.

[Fiona The Bard]

I just finished a book called 'The Highland Witch' by Susan Fletcher: a book about the Glencoe Massacre in the 1600s, told by the nature-seeking Corrag as she relays her version of the story to a Jacobite pastor. A beautiful (and beautifully written) book, one that I think would interest Druids near & far. The majority of the book is a narration of the hills, creeks and trees from Northern England to the Highlands in Scotland, and Corrag's love for them. She takes you so deep into those scenes that you feel like you are there, bathing in those waters and climbing the same peaks. Well, now I want to be. Five stars!

[Aynfean]

I'm reading The Mist Filled Path by Frank MacEowen and Old World Witchcraft by Raven Grimmasi. Really enjoying both.

[Elhonna]

I'm reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, along with La Tisseuse, by Lea Silhol. Not exactly the same type, but I need something more fantastic to keep reading the first one. Anyway, really interesting books, both of them , and nothing to do with druidry.

[Zylah]

I'm treating myself to some Edgar Allan Poe from my new collection of his work, which has some stuff I'd never heard of before.

[Becca]

I just ordered The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way by Penny Billington and The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual by James Green, so I'll be reading those as soon as they get here.

[Muddy Fox]

After a very lucky and opportunistic visit to a very good second hand bookshop I will mainly be reading, The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross, John M Allegro.
The Philosophy of Religion, (teach yourself) , Mel Thompson.
Scottish Fairytales, Lomond Books
Celtic Dawn, celtic survival in the modern world, Peter Berresford Ellis
Tibetan Ting-Sha (sacred sound for spiritual growth), Robert Beer
The Power of premonitions (How knowing the future can shape our lives), Larry Dossey MD
There were at least another three books on Celtic legend and mythology but I couldn't afford them. I love books and bookshops.

[Lily]

I just got Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton.

[skydove]

Just finished Snuff by Terry Pratchet - unputdownable I naughtily read it every moment I could till it was finished.

[Kris Hughes]

I've just discovered Ella Young's "Celtic Wonder Tales". I love this type of mythological retelling, particularly from this period. (I'm very fond of James Stephens' "Irish Fairy Tales"). The Celtic Wonder Tales are on the Sacred Texts site, so they have cost me nothing, which is great. I became curious about Ella Young. She travelled in the same literarly circles as Yeats, etc. then relocated to the US and lectured on Irish Myth at UC Berkeley for some years - turning up to class in "Druidic robes". I see on Amazon that someone has written a biography. She sounds amazing.

[Equidae]

I'm rereading the entire Harry Potter series since it just came out in ebook format
Before that I was reading Paganism: An Introduction to Earth- Centered Religions by the Higginbothams, Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler, and General Chemistry by Linus Pauling.

[Fox]

I'm in the middle of Roger Deakins's "Wildwood, A Journey through Trees", and very good it is too - his last manuscript before his untimely death, it's a sort of miscellany of essays around the central theme of his life among trees. Beautiful and affecting.

Also perusing Shaw's "Pygmalion" as I'm helping choose the next production for our AmDram group in Dunbar!

[Ade Sundog]

'Manual Of The Warrior Of Light' by Paulo Coelho


A truly inspirational book.

[skydove]

Reading Boudica - Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott great portrayal of the tribal lands of Britain just before the Roman occupancy with 'dreamers' -druids and warriors on Mona. Also recently finished 'The Forgotten Garden' by Kate Morton set in 3 time periods tracing the story of the abandonment of a small child and her upbringing in Australia and her grandaughters return to Britain and lastly just finished a children's book The Master of the Fallen Chairs by Henry Porter a fantasy novel with plenty of page turning action set in an old house with a cursed painting and very interesting characters.