What Are You Currently Reading?

[crusader1492]

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"Tis Some Poor Fellow's Skull: Post-Soviet Warfare in the Southern Caucasus"

By Gore Patrick Wilson

This book accurately chronicles the military events in the liberation of Artsakh. I recommend it.

[Inthemood]

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Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella
Stumble on happiness by Daniel Gilbert (Apparently science can measure what makes us happy. Very comedic writing at times)

[Siamanto]

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"Language, Truth and Logic"

If my memory does not betray me, Ayer used, in many publications, the statement: "All Armenians are Christian" as the "only" universal empirical statement.
I'm unable to identify any of those publications, and lack the time to revisit them; I was wondering if you have encountered it in "Language, Truth and Logic?" Thanks!

[Stark Evade]

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"Portable Atheist"
"Spook"
"Language, Truth and Logic"

[vasbourakan1]

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to AZAD
if there's no problem, pls send me by private mail your family name, surely I
must have some data concerning your ancestors -on grand father or grand
grand father level. concerning me there is a lot of informations concerning our family, grand father, grand mother and their brothers and sisters

[vasbourakan1]

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That's where I am from.
While searching for your book on the net I found this bookstore in Constantinople. They have interesting old Armenian books ... some are from the 1800s. select the 123ABC on top and see the collections.

http://www.sahaf-turkuaz.com/turkce/..._armeniaca.asp

well my copy is the one published by the armenian catholicosate of cilicia
in antelais lebanon, and after finishing this book (of several hundred pages), I
will begin reading hay heghapokhakani me hichdaknere by Roupen (8 volumes)

[Siamanto]

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Some of the advantages of talking about a book that we are currently reading are: The memory is fresh, more accurate; it, usually, better corresponds to where we are mentally etc. etc. Unfortunately, nowadays, I have no time to read anything besides technical, work related books - that I would not consider as "reading" i.e. evasion, discovery, journey etc.; so I will "cheat," and limit myself to recalling books from my past, books that I have particularly enjoyed, books that I may revisit, books that had an impression that survived the erosion of time, books that recurrently resurface my mind

I will start with Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows

In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃 , In'ei Raisan?) is...a short book on aesthetics by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. First published in 1933, the essay consists of sixteen sections that discuss traditional Japanese aesthetics. Comparisons to light and darkness are used to contrast Western and Asian cultures; while the West, in its striving for progress, is presented as continuously searching for light and clarity, the subtle and subdued forms of oriental art and literature are seen by Tanizaki as an appreciation of shadow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows

In Praise of Shadows is a small poetic book that resonates with a texture, imagery and poignancy of a time past...He [Tanizaki] speaks fondly of the beauty, depth and resonance of shadows, specifically how Japanese designers work with darkness to create objects that reflect limited light. He talks of bright light garishly subjugating the delicate subtlety of Japanese design - the lacquer bowl, miso soup, paper paneled shoji. He suggests light robs us of the beauty of shadows, the mysterious depths and heavy patterns, the ageless unknown. Drawing comfort and familiarity of being one with a shadow, nestling into it, he laments his fellow citizens eager adoption of westernised technologies that leapfrogged Japanese design process.

http://73bus.typepad.com/73bus/2005/02/in_praise_of_sh.html

[MrHyeSev]

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I just finished reading it, very good book.

A Cup of Comfort for Christians.

[Azad]

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reading in armenian Adanayi Hayotz Badmutyun by Puzant Yeghiaian

That's where I am from.
While searching for your book on the net I found this bookstore in Constantinople. They have interesting old Armenian books ... some are from the 1800s. select the 123ABC on top and see the collections.

http://www.sahaf-turkuaz.com/turkce/katalog_armeniaca.asp

[Sip]

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