What Books Are You Reading?

demetrios karaolanis · Mon 13 October 2003 11:38 am

I am reading a good collection of sayings of the desert fathers right now, called wisdom of the desert. I believe it is by thomas merton. it is a book wich is a nice small collection of sayings I like to have around. nothing major.

Justin Kissel · Post by **Justin Kissel** » Mon 12 January 2004 1:38 pm

I recently started The Idiot by Dostoevsky. $/\$

Mary Kissel · Post by **Mary Kissel** » Tue 13 January 2004 12:31 pm

I'm currently reading the Lives of the Holy Prophets

bogoliubtsy · Post by **bogoliubtsy** » Tue 13 January 2004 1:07 pm

Summer in Baden Baden by Leonid Tsypkin.

Just amazing so far. Check out this info from Amazon.

Book Description-

Summer in Baden-Baden, written between 1977 and 1981, is a lost masterpiece, one of the major achievements of Russian literature in the second half of the twentieth century, whose author, Leonid Tsypkin (1926-1982), never saw a single page of his literary work published in his lifetime. A complex, highly original novel written in a prose that suggests the intensity and daring of José Saramago and Thomas Bernhard (authors that Tsypkin could not, of course, have possibly read), Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is winter-time, late December, no date given: a species of "now." A narrator—Tsypkin—is on a train going to Leningrad (once and future Petersburg). And it is mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, the great novelist, and his youthful wife, Anna Grigoryevna, are on their way to Germany, for a trip that will keep them abroad for four years. This is not, like J.M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg, a Dostoyevsky fantasy. Neither is it a docu-novel, although its author was obsessed with getting everything "right." Nothing is invented. Everything is invented. Dostoyevsky's reckless passions for gambling, for his literary vocation, for his wife, are matched by her all forgiving love, which in turn rhymes with the love of liter! ature's disciple, Leomid Tsypkin, for Dostoyevsky. In a remarkable introductory essay, Susan Sontag explains why it is something of a miracle that Summer in Baden-Baden has survived, and celebrates the happy event of its publication in America with an account of Tsypkin's beleaguered life and the important pleasures of his marvelous novel.

PFC Nektarios · Post by **PFC Nektarios** » Wed 14 January 2004 7:14 pm

I am reading "Journey to Heaven: Paticular Duties of Every Christian"
By Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, published by Holy Trinity Monastery.

Its very good, one of the monks from there sent it to me.
After that I will be reading "Saint Nektarios: Saint for our Century"
I finish one at a time. I cant wait to finish Journey to heaven so I can start reading the Saint Nektarios biography.

I just recently finished, "The Young Elder: Biography on Blessed Ambrose of Milkovo, The Rush to Embrace: Archpriest Alexy, The Orthodox Church, The Balamand Agreement: Victory to Vatican Diplomacy by CTOS, and Paternal Councils by Blessed Philiotheos". I have a very nice hieromonk friend at Holy Trinity who helped me start my Orthodox Library, I was also given my most important book, the Jordanville Prayerbook. I love it.

In Christ
OL

Mary Kissel · Post by **Mary Kissel** » Thu 15 January 2004 10:25 am

St Nektarios and Journey to Heaven are both really good books! I've read both of those already. I would say I'd highly reccomend both of those books that you're reading and will read!

the Jordanville prayerbook is my favorite prayer book too

In Christ,
MaryCecilia

Moronikos · Post by **Moronikos** » Thu 15 January 2004 10:37 am

I am reading Silence by Shusaku Endo