Book Talk

[tonks_op]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
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> It's vacation time. Time at the pool, at the beach, general laid back and take it easy time.
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> So, I'd like to know. What are you reading right now. How did you choose it Would you recommend it? Will you finish it? 

Tonks:
Vacation? Must be nice. I only work part-time, but no real chance to relax without a care. 

As to books. I finished "A New Vision of Reality", by Bede Griffiths a month ago. I recomment it to eveyone I see. It is about everything.. science, psychology, religion.

I don't really read fiction. HP was the only fiction I have read in 20 years. I read a lot of non-fiction. 

I usually have many books going at once. I read for a reading group, a book called "Love Letters from God". It was a very poor translation of different Saints and Mystics of different religions. I don't recommend it. 

I have been reading off and on, while drifting off to sleep "The Other Side of the Mountain" by Thomas Merton. I love anything by Thomas Merton. This was a bit different. Parts of his personal journal. Who does that anyway? Every thought is written down. Some are better not to write down. It shows that even after years in a monastery, a man... is well... still a man. I was a bit shocked to read him saying that when he saw this nun get off a plane, and she looked vary happy.. like she had just gotten laid.  I thought "THOMAS!!!!" This is a work that was published after his death. I don't think he expected anyone to read this. lol.

There are many books that I want to read before the years end. Some about Open Focus, a type of thinking. And I am researching ideas about energy and healing.

I was listening to some music by my favorite Wizard Rock group, Draco and the Malfoys. And that inspired me to get CD's from the library of the 7th HP book. I have never been able to read it again since the first time. I saw the current movie 3 times now. I have been listening to the CD every night for the past 3 days. Almost done. Only used a quarter box of Klennex so far.

Tonks_op