What are you reading? April 2009

[Mark Chance]

Recently finished biographies of Joan of Arc and Junipero Serra. Currently reading The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and almost done with Le Guin's The Dispossessed. I had been reading The Age of Religious Wars, but I put it down somewhere and can't find it again.

 

[Richards]

My list of books to be read is rather large of late:

Hop on Pop, by Dr. Seuss
Fox in Socks, by Dr. Seuss
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? by Dr. Seuss
Ten Apples Up On Top, by Theo LeSieg
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins
Go, Train, Go! by the Rev. W. Awdry
Trains, Cranes, and Troublesome Trucks, by the Rev. W. Awdry

And then, after I put my two-year-old down for his nap, I can finish reading my book, Cradle, by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee.

Johnathan

 

[Asmo]

Just finished "Wrath of a mad God" by Raymond E. Feist, the final volume (book 3) of The Darkwar Saga, a tremendous achievement and a worthy successor to the "Conclave of Shadows" (also 3 books).

To put it simply - this is fantastic stuff, probably the best fantasy I´ve read in many years. It´s pretty much the perfect mix of old and new heroes (it doesn´t hurt if you´ve read Feist before), a huge, wonderful world where he can weave his epic tales.
It feels like coming home: many, many moons ago I read "Magician" and now I´m here, 20 + years later, finishing another chapter in a long line of great books. Don´t miss it.

Asmo

 

[Agamon]

Just finished Angels & Demons (thought I better finally get to that with the movie coming out) and I'm working on Book 2 of Harrington on Hold Em, working on my poker game.

 

[El Mahdi]

I'm currently reading [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Dreamer-Dune-Biography-Frank-Herbert/dp/0765306468"]Dreamer_of_Dune:_The_Biography_of_Frank_Herbert[/ame].

It's written by his son and is a wonderful look behind the curtain of Dune.

I'm also reading a collection of Cthulu stories.

 

[Darth Shoju]

My list of books to be read is rather large of late:

Fox in Socks, by Dr. Seuss

Make sure you do some tongue warm-ups before taking that one on. My son gets a kick out of watching Dad flail his way through that Chinese finger trap of a book.

 

[Wycen]

Right now, by posting this I'm shirking reading:

The Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor

Gregory of Tours: The History of the Franks Translated by Lewis Thorpe (dead tree version) with a little use of the online translation by Brehaut and maybe a little of the Eight Books of Miracles thrown in depending on time and what I end up writing my paper on. I probably wont read the entire book until much later.

And The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just started Tanith Lee's Paradys stories hardcover omnibus.

 

[delericho]

"Watership Down", by Richard Adams

By the end of the month, I also want to have read through "Invincible" by Troy Denning (the last volume in "Legacy of the Force"), "From Russia Wih Love" by Ian Fleming (the 5th Bond novel, of course), and "Howl of the Carrion King" by Erik Mona and others (Pathfinder #19). I don't know how realistic that is.

 

[Wombat]

Getting outside of my usual book "comfort zone", I am reading Bangkok 8 by John Burdett. A curious book, it oddly gives me ideas for many rpgs...