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Current and Recent Books - sahgwa - 02-19-2026
Hi all! I thought it would be fun and educational to share which books we are currently reading, have recently finished, and maybe a sentence or two synopsis, and what we thought of them. Then we can learn what we are all into, and get some recommendations.
I will start
CURRENTLY
I am reading:
The Selected Letters of HP Lovecraft Vol 3
Very erudite and shows what Ecclesiastes said is true , there is nothing new under the sun. In our pitifully short human life spans we repeat repeat repeat the sins and idiocies of the past.
I Just Finished
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
Here is a great horror writer at the beginning of his career. This book harkens back to Thomas Ligotti, HP Lovecraft, and other masters of gnawing eldritch and terrifying cosmic horror. Highly reccomended!
RE: Current and Recent Books - babushka - 02-20-2026
The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy: to which is added, an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta : embellished with 44 copperplate heads
https://archive.org/details/2561008R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n1/mode/2up
RE: Current and Recent Books - Moon68 - 02-20-2026
I'm about a quarter of the way through re-reading "The Wolves of Calla".
RE: Current and Recent Books - quintessentone - 02-20-2026
I am thumbing through a poetry book given to me as a Christmas present.
"The poetry of Charles Baudelaire"
"Mist and Rain - context Summary
Published in 1860, Les Fleurs Du Mal
Published in Les Fleurs du Mal (1860), "Mist and Rain" encapsulates Baudelaire’s attraction to melancholic, nature-driven beauty. The speaker praises autumnal and wintry fogs that shroud heart and mind, finding in dreary seasons a fitting cloak for a sorrowful, elevated soul. The poem links depressive reverie with spiritual freedom and hints at escape through nocturnal intimacy or oblivion. It exemplifies Baudelaire’s recurrent mingling of gloom, the sublime, and erotic consolation."
"O ends of autumn, winters, springtimes drenched with mud,
Seasons that lull to sleep! I love you, I praise you
For enfolding my heart and mind thus
In a misty shroud and a filmy tomb.
On that vast plain where the cold south wind plays,
Where in the long, dark nights the weather-cock grows hoarse,
My soul spreads wide its raven wings
More easily than in the warm springtide.
Nothing is sweeter to a gloomy heart
On which the hoar-frost has long been falling,
Than the permanent aspect of your pale shadows,
O wan seasons, queens of our clime
- Unless it be to deaden suffering, side by side
In a casual bed, on a moonless night.
Translated by - William Aggeler"
RE: Current and Recent Books - sahgwa - 02-25-2026
(02-20-2026, 01:53 AM)babushka Wrote: The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy: to which is added, an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta : embellished with 44 copperplate heads
https://archive.org/details/2561008R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n1/mode/2up
Does this seem accurate to you?
Has it helped you in your life lately ?
I just finished last night a fun , gross , funny ,sad black comedy novel by Nick Cave called The Death of Bunny Munroe.
If you like sad funny black comedies , maybe like Trainspotting or Fight Club, this is a book for you!
Very fast entertainment.
(02-20-2026, 02:07 PM)quintessentone Wrote: I am thumbing through a poetry book given to me as a Christmas present.
"The poetry of Charles Baudelaire"
"Mist and Rain - context Summary
Published in 1860, Les Fleurs Du Mal
Published in Les Fleurs du Mal (1860), "Mist and Rain" encapsulates Baudelaire’s attraction to melancholic, nature-driven beauty. The speaker praises autumnal and wintry fogs that shroud heart and mind, finding in dreary seasons a fitting cloak for a sorrowful, elevated soul. The poem links depressive reverie with spiritual freedom and hints at escape through nocturnal intimacy or oblivion. It exemplifies Baudelaire’s recurrent mingling of gloom, the sublime, and erotic consolation."
"O ends of autumn, winters, springtimes drenched with mud,
Seasons that lull to sleep! I love you, I praise you
For enfolding my heart and mind thus
In a misty shroud and a filmy tomb.
On that vast plain where the cold south wind plays,
Where in the long, dark nights the weather-cock grows hoarse,
My soul spreads wide its raven wings
More easily than in the warm springtide.
Nothing is sweeter to a gloomy heart
On which the hoar-frost has long been falling,
Than the permanent aspect of your pale shadows,
O wan seasons, queens of our clime
- Unless it be to deaden suffering, side by side
In a casual bed, on a moonless night.
Translated by - William Aggeler"
I just bought (as long as he didn't sell out) a real nice edition of A. Crowley's translation of Baudelaire Little Poems in Prose, ,
In French I think La Spleen Du Paris.
Should be great.. Apparently Baudelaire Held it in higher regard than his Fleur.
RE: Current and Recent Books - babushka - 02-26-2026
(02-25-2026, 09:39 PM)sahgwa Wrote: Does this seem accurate to you?
Has it helped you in your life lately ?
It has endless meme potential but otherwise not. Still looking for info on eye stuff, this book was following the rabbit but a dead end.
RE: Current and Recent Books - sahgwa - 03-18-2026
I finished re -reading Phillip K Dick's VALIS and it was a great trip.
I am reading his last trilogy in order, now that I am more mature and have more spiritual experience under my belt, it's making a lot more sense. Especially the no-time-ness and alternate dimensions in regards to the nonphysical, and higher selves.
Now I am starting THE DIVINE INVASION!
dun dun dun
Still trucking through Lovecraft's Letters vol 3. Very fascinating. And depressing. (Nothing changes - time repeats- similar flavours).
My metaphysical book I am halfway through is
QUANTUM SPIRITUALITY by Peter Canova. It ties in the similarities and truth between:
Gnosticism (I dont agree with all Gnosticism - as a Thelemite I view the Universe in a more positive light)
Jungian Psychology - archetypes
Christ's true teachings - importance of divine feminine
Quantum Physics - observer principle/spooky action etc
Its super and easy too.
What you all reading?
RE: Current and Recent Books - F2d5thCav - 03-18-2026
@"sahgwa"#42
I find myself reading only brief passages anymore.
The discipline to read an entire book ... could do it, but the read would have to be quite interesting.
The effect of social media on the ability to concentrate ... awful.
RE: Current and Recent Books - sahgwa - 03-18-2026
(03-18-2026, 06:32 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: @"sahgwa"#42
I find myself reading only brief passages anymore.
The discipline to read an entire book ... could do it, but the read would have to be quite interesting.
The effect of social media on the ability to concentrate ... awful.
Cmon mannnnnn
Just say no!
The only thing I have on my phone besides call and text is Browser (Brave) and Chess, and Words.
Dont get sucked into the news cycle . it's all nonsense. Generally.
I like to keep an overhead view with my author correspondent Doc Joseph P Farrell, and also forums like this.
But getting involved wastes time!
Once you get more than 2 pages into a book you get sucked in by the power of Imagination and Curiosity/Problem solving.
It's just a muscle to reuse and grow.
RE: Current and Recent Books - sahgwa - 04-02-2026
I finished the first 2 books in Phillip K Dick's last trilogy:
Valis
and
The Divine Invasion
They are both amazing, for the 2nd or so time. Now that I am older and a bit wiser about metaphysical and spiritual things, they both make so much more sense and are really great.
I highly recommend if anything on just the the entertainment value alone, but then you can go 2 or 3 layers deeper too if you want.
Divine Invasion especially deals with alternate universes and timelines.
How time is an illusion, and how God dreams Creation into being.
How we are all sparks of God.
And also I learnt a little more about the Shekinah
RE: Current and Recent Books - F2d5thCav - 04-03-2026
Reading the "Alien Agendas" by Richard Dolan.
Some interesting notions therein, but it mostly seems to be speculation. Gotta milk those aliens for all they're worth, I suppose.
RE: Current and Recent Books - sahgwa - 04-03-2026
(04-03-2026, 11:15 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: Reading the "Alien Agendas" by Richard Dolan.
Some interesting notions therein, but it mostly seems to be speculation. Gotta milk those aliens for all they're worth, I suppose.
Dolan is okay. I don't know how I feel about him . He definitely is a true believer, I think, in the ET nuts and bolts hypothesis?
I have his 2 volume giant set I am scared to start. I got it at a used book store, and for paperbacks it was not cheap:
UFOs and the National Security State vols 1 and 2.
Everyone says it is great research, so it will be good if anything to see the interplay between 'the phenomenon' and our bumbling bureacrats in their hubris and greed.
What kind of notions does he posit in this 'Alien Agendas' book?
RE: Current and Recent Books - F2d5thCav - 04-03-2026
@"sahgwa"#42
One is the "D Allele" genetic issue I mentioned in another thread. I tried to find confirmation from other sources; it sort of sounded like what he claimed in terms of previous human species not having this allele, but the writing was unclear to me.
He also thinks there are plenty of hybrids on Earth with us and that they are essentially undetectable by conventional means.
I'm only to page 55 or so.