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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aholibamah" data-source="post: 3633053" data-attributes="member: 53031">Currently I'm reviewing material for the History of Christianity class I'm going to be teaching this fall semester. This means I am reading personal works by Erasmus, Augustine, Noktur the Stammerer (great name), Tacitus, Josephus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Francesco Petrarca, Bernard Gui, John Milton, Blaise Pascal, John Wesley, and so on. However I've got selections of writings so really this is not as much as it seems, more like reading two somewhat long books. I also need to brush up on the Acts of the Apostles. However this is sort of work writing (though I do enjoy it)I wish I could read "A Song of Ice and Fire" afresh all over again, I'm impatient for the next book in the series to come out. Probably one of the best fantasy novel series I've ever read. At the moment I was thinking of picking up something by China Mieville but I hear such mixed reviews that I'm wary--I'd love to find something fresh and exciting in the fantasy genre to read. Anyway I'm finishing up Joan Slonczewski's Daughter of Elysium which is the sequel to A Door into Ocean. Her books are actually rather interesting though they are slow paced and often about conversations about philosophy and biology. This almost sounds boring except that the tension of intrigue accompanies this. Slonczewski actually is a biologist which has made her sci fi a little more solid than that of some. I loved and hated the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The first three books seem to me to be better than the last three. On the one hand I loathed Thomas Covenant and on the other hand found him fascinating and reluctantly saw something of myself in him. The books were deeply moving to me.</blockquote>

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