What Are YOU Reading??

Some books on my shelf:

Some new books I've received over the past few weeks:

....this should keep me busy for a few weeks.  If I had life my way, the world would leave me the fuck alone and let me read 24/7!!!  Actually I DO have life my way....LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!  ESPECIALLY DUMB-ASS SKANKY, UGLY, NASTY, JUNKIE HOOKERS [D.C.]

"The Struggle forVirtue: Asceticism in a Modern Secular Society"  by Archbishop Averky (Taushev)

"The Monk"  by Matthew Lewis 

"The Curious World of Drugs & Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany"  by I Nierman & A. Sack

"St Nikodim of the Holy Mountain: What God Has Done for Our Salvation"  by St. Nikodim

""The Icon of the Nevskaya Mother of God, Quick to Hear"   by Archpriest Gennady Belovolov

"My Life in Christ"  by  St. John Kronstadt

"Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths"  by C. Epstein

"Living Without Hypocrisy: Spiritual Counsels of the Holy Elders of Optina Monastery "  trans. by Archimandrite George Schaefer

"On Suicide"  by Emile Durkheim

"Reset Your Inner Clock: The Drug Free Way to Your Best-Ever Sleep, Mood & Energy"  by M. Terman, Phd & I. McMahan, PhD

"The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace"  by C.M. Sennott

"Fire & Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942 - 1945"  by R. Hansen  [NEVER forget Dresden, a holocaust inflicted on innocent Germans by America & her allies -ECM]

"A Concise History of Nazi Germany"  by J.W. Bendersky

"Germany, 1945: From War to Peace"  by Richard Bessel

"After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation"  by Giles MacDonogh  [Please learn as much as you can about the occupation of Germany from 1945 -1955 or so. Millions of innocent Germans were raped & killed by the "Allies", mostly the Red Russian scum!]

"The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, The Universe, World History, Jesus, and Ourselves"  by Unknown 

"Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews & Overviews"  by Simon Reynolds 

"We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the Collected Interviews"

"The Eichmann Trial Diary: An Eyewitness Account of the Trial the Revealed the holocaust"  by Sergio Minerbi

"Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk"  by L. McNeil & G. McCain

"The Young Hitler I Knew: The Definitive Inside Look at the Artist Who Became a Monster"  by August Kubizek

"Yoga: Immortality & Freedom"  by M. Eliade

"Why I am Still a Catholic"  various essays

"The Future of the Catholic Church With Pope Francis"  by Gary Willis

"Judaism for Dummies"  by Rabbi Ted Falcon, PhD & D. Blatner

"Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism"  by Timothy Keller "Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church"  by M.S. Rose 

"How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" by T.E. Woods, Jr.

"Islamic Political Thought: An Introduction"  ed. by Gerhard Bowering  [Thinking of my sweetest friend Karin Friedemann]

"Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital"  by M. Andersen & M. Jenkins

"Seeds of Grace: A Nun's Reflections on the Spirituality of Alcoholics Anonymous"  by Sister Molly Monahan

"Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East"  by Barry Rubin & Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

"Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls"  by John J. Collins

"The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945 - 1946"  by M.R. Marrus

"The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom"  by Joan Halifax

"As I Lay Dying: Meditation Upon Returning"  by Richard John Neuhaus

"The Heritage of the Bhikkhu"  by Walpola Rahula

"The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion"  by Thich Nhat Hanh

"Finding Our True Home: Living in the Pure Land Here & Now"  by Thich Nhat Hanh

"Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism"  by Thich Nhat Hanh

"My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk"  by Thich Nhat Hanh

"Osiris & Christianity: The Christian Adoption of Egyptian Iconography..." // Several Other Videos Also

A Plethora of New Buddhist Books--

Hot damn on fire!  Yesterday saw the arrival of seven awesome Buddhist books from the monks of the Thai Forest tradition monastery in Redwood, California!!  
I also picked up a few great titles from a used bookstore.  These are mostly of the contemplative & mystical Christian tradition.  My spiritual collection is coming along nicely.  I'm am surely blessed to have a veritable library of knowledge at my fingertips!!  That to a lifetimes' worth of reading material.  I shall not be bored again.  This is love m//r

Book List Book List Book List Book List Book List--

Holy smokes! Dug out three more boxes of books from storage!  Including doubles & triples of a few.  Those will go to my friends Catholic Men's House, "Friends of the Master" in Ypsilanti.  I've already donated around one hundred books to them, with about another hundred waiting to be transported.
I've decided I need to really make a serious inventory of what's here. And it's just as easy to put it on my blog as it is to put it in one of my hand-written journals. Wish me luck! m//r

note: I am NOT including novels & fiction (for the most part)