What Are You Reading?

Andie

Let’s hear about your current read! Please include the title, author, and a short synopsis—no spoilers, please. Share what you love, find fascinating, or are learning—it’s all welcome here.

Andie

Iron Flame, by Rebecca Yarros.

This is the second book in the series, after Fourth Wing. It's high fantasy, with dragons and magic--but it has strong themes of friendship, social justice, and speaking your truth. Also, apparently it's gonna be SUPER spicy, but I haven't gotten to that part yet!

Hannah

I just finished Lights Out by Navessa Allen...

It is a dark romance about a trauma nurse with a mask kink and a serial killer's son who doesn't want to be like his father. It was pretty good! Now I think I might read Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas which is a Spanish vampire western with spooky elements and plenty of romantic yearning.

zeph

Alternating between Scott's translation of the Corpus Hermeticum and Von Welling's Opus Mago Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum, occasionally dipping back into Dame Yates' biography of Giordano Bruno.

The first one is a bunch of little books declaring that there is no part of you that is not of the gods. The second one is a very long treatise on the tria prima. The third one is about St. Bruno, especially in the context of the Renaissance recovery of Hermetic magick.

If I'm in the mood for laughs, I'll pick up where I last left off in Confessions. Next time I'm in the mood for fiction, it'll be Clarke's Rama II. There are also a great many Star Wars comics which I need to study.

Stef

Hannah, have you read Isabel Allende? I read a few of her books years ago, you might like her.

I'm always reading numerous books at the same time. Lately, I've been reading:

Priest by Sierra Simone, a passable erotic novel about a young Catholic priest in the Midwest who breaks his vow of celibacy all over his church for a woman who comes to his confessional
Slowly rereading Plato's Republic, which I recently rescued from a college book stash at my parents' house
Enrico gifted me Liber Kaos (thanks, Enrico!) which I have yet to read, but which is sitting on my nightstand patiently waiting
I've read through most of Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Other Stories except for the last ten pages which for some reason I can't bring myself to finish
The Book of Hermetica, a publication that includes the Corpus Hermeticum, Emerald Tablet, and Kybalion that I've been picking through since last year

Hannah

Yes, I love her! I have only read Eva Luna though, when I was in a magical realism streak. I really like Haruki Murakami. Maybe I will read more of her work! What was your favorite book?

Omg I was about to read Priest too!

I like having a fiction and nonfiction book going at the same time too.

Stef

I remember reading her book about Zorro because I was obsessed with Zorro as a kid, but I know she has other magical realism books.

Priest is fun! It's a bit too "this woman is so perfect and amazing omg" for me, but it's a fun read so far.

Hannah

@Stef awesome, thank you! I appreciate that you were into Zorro, that is a fun character to be interested as a kid!

augur

I have been reading ITC, Magick in Theory and Practice, Law is for All, and the original Magick without Tears manuscript. The last non-research book I read was The Archetype of Initiation by Robert L. Moore.

atomanegg

Hi friends! I'm new here. I have a real life book club that meets in Southern Oregon twice a month. That is how I found the Thelema site, and look at ye! You're book-clubbing too!

We've been reading Eliphas Levi's work, currently on Dogma and Rituel of High Magic.

Also, has anyone heard of Leonora Carrington? Blown away by her surrealist novel "the Hearing Trumpet". One of the finest, strangest short books I've ever read. The protagonist is a 92 year old woman. Good fun...

Hannah

Hello! That sounds like a blast!

Babalon Salon (our women's group) did an event on Leonora Carrington's artwork but I haven't read any of her writings. I will definitely check it out!

Andie

@atomanegg Welcome! ...and I'll have to check out that book--sounds fun!