What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Starflower]

Source of Magic by Piers Anthony
Moonset by Louise Cooper
Halflings Gem of the Forgotten Realms series by R A Salvatore
I just finished Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

and a few other books that I have started but never finished for number of reasons....


Starflower

 

[Wolfshead]

I just finished Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

That's the newest Discworld novel, isn't it? With pictish pixies or some such thing...

Is it an good? I haven't got round to ordering it from the library yet.

 

[Starflower]

it is set in the Discworld yes, but it doesn't feature any of our previously met characters, and i think this one is written more to a younger audiense than the general DW books, but it is dead funny, you just can;t stop laughing



Starflower

 

[Wolfshead]

Sounds good, I'll order it next time I get to the library. Oh, and one more thing, where on the Discworld is it set?

 

[Starflower]

don't say specifically, somewhere in the Ramtops if i remember rightly.... its definitely not Lancre and not A-M either... but it's a lovely book, the Nac Mac Feegle are hilarious


STarflower

 

[Wolfshead]

I suppose the Ramtops are fair enough, for something obviously Scottish-ly influenced. But, sounds good, so... yeah.

 

[Starflower]

seeing your signature , you obviously read Wheel of TIme books. Have you read the last one? Crossorads of Twilight? I haven;t yet as i;m suffering of a bit of an overload, cause I reread all the previous ones one after the other whie waiting for the new one to come out....


Starflower

 

[Wolfshead]

I haven't read it yet. Indeed, I only bought book 7 on Saturday (the library couldn't get it in). I'll probably start reading after I finish Legend by David Gemmell and Magician by Raymond E Feist. Probably.

 

[Starflower]

good to see a person who borrows their books from the library. I'm unfortunately not one of them, I buy all my books simply because i've had so much trouble with the library cos I forgot to return the books on time....




Starflower

 

[Rhiannon]

I have that problem too, Starflower If I didn't have overdue books, my brother did (sharing a library account with family of seven people...urgh). I used the library a lot while we were in Japan, though, because 1) most of our books were in storage in the states and 2) I could take the shuttle bus. Here both the town library and the base library have small selections, and my library card got lost with my purse.

Fortunately, thanks to a book-buying frenzy that started as soon as we got off the plane and is still going on, and I don't lack for reading material

I picked up Noughts and Crosses last night. Wow. I'm already halfway through it. It's engrossing, and moves at a cracking pace. It's about an 'alternate universe' Britain, in which society is divided in to the higher ranking 'Crosses' and the subservient 'noughts' (Noughts and Crosses is the British name for Tic-Tac-Toe- noughts are 'O's). It's like the civil rights movement in reverse (Crosses are dark-skinned). The subject matter is very hard-hitting; the story focuses on a Cross girl and a nought boy who have grown up as friends who have to start dealing with the prejudices around them after the boy (Callum) gets accepted in to the Cross school by a special ordinance.

 

[Dáin Ironfoot I]

Chronicles of Narnia... I know its sad.

I'm also reading a book in French about Jeanne d'Arc. Much more entertaining I think. Narnia's too... childish.

 

[Rhiannon]

Chronicles of Narnia... I know its sad.

Is not. I love Narnia. Childish it may but, but I'm childish so this is okay.

I'm also fond of Jeanne d'Arc. Which book is it you're reading?

 

[Wolfshead]

good to see a person who borrows their books from the library

I usually do, yeah, basically because it's cheaper, so I can spend my money on cd's. Cd's I'll listen to a lot, whereas a book will only be read once every few years

i've had so much trouble with the library cos I forgot to return the books on time....

That occasionally happens with me - because there are small libraries connected all over the Highlands, I have to order pretty much every book I read, so I often end up with a large pile of books to read. I then forget about the return date, and end up with 15p per day fine on every book. Still, my family uses the library a lot, so I think a couple of quid is the largest fine I've knocked up...

One main complaint with libraries is that they can take so damned long to get books in! An extreme case was that I was waiting for book 6 of the Wheel Of Time for 6 months before they told me they couldn't get it in, so I had to buy it instead!

Something quite frightening in my local library is that almost all the fantasy books are there by my ordering It used to be the case when I was younger (9 or 10) that almost the whole teenage section was there because of me!

Noughts and Crosses is the British name for Tic-Tac-Toe- noughts are 'O's

Really you ought to be saying that tic-tac-toe is the American for noughts and crosses Who's that book by? I have a feeling one of parents has either read it or owns it.

 

[Rhiannon]

Really you ought to be saying that tic-tac-toe is the American for noughts and crosses Who's that book by? I have a feeling one of parents has either read it or owns it.

Good point. I wonder how it came to be called something different over here? And the book is by Malorie Blackman.

 

[Talierin]

I'm reading the Singer Trilogy by Calvin Miller... it's an allegorical retelling of the New Testament in song/prose/poetry... quite interesting.

 

[FoolOfATook]

Stil re-reading Richard II, and finding that I'm getting more out of it this time.

O! who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking of the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer heat?
O, no! the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

- Bolingbroke, Act I, scene 3

Great stuff. Since I know the plot this time, I'm taking my time to revel in the language. This is Shakespeare at the height of his poetic powers.

As for non-school reading, I found myself overwhelmed by all of the different options I had to read, and decided to fall back to an old stand-by and re-read The Sandman books. If anyone hasn't read them (cough- Rhiannon- cough) they really should- they represent some of the best storytelling of the past twenty years.

As for what's next, I'm thinking that I really need to take the plunge into Foucalt's Pendulum...

 

[Rhiannon]

f anyone hasn't read them (cough- Rhiannon- cough) they really should- they represent some of the best storytelling of the past twenty years.

Yes master. I solemnly swear to make them the subject of my next book buying spree.

 

[Rhiannon]

It's 1am and I just finished Noughts & Crosses. Wow. Freaking wow. That is a powerful books.

Excuse me, I have to stagger off in a daze now.

 

[Eliot]

About halfway through Turtledove's Ruled Britannia, reading about WWII in America's Wars, I've canceled my plan to read The Communist Manifesto because it was hard to understand, and I just recently started Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati.

 

[Wolfshead]

Good point. I wonder how it came to be called something different over here? And the book is by Malorie Blackman.

I have no idea, seems a silly thing to do, really. The name doesn't ring any bells, but the title does, maybe I'll come across it some day.

I finished Legend by David Gemmell earlier, quite a damned good book, really. So, this evening I intend to begin Magician by Ramond E. Feist, which looks good.