Assorted ghost stories by M R James. A damn fine writer of the genre...

Still gamely working my way through Crime and Punishment. Good book, but man is it taking me a long while to read.

Liberty, by Thomas Fleming. An excellent - and very thorough - history of the American Revolution.

Not so much as reading as listening to an audiobook of LOTR. Its hard to get an english copy here, and it'll prolly cost like a nyaaaaaraaagh, so I had to compromise.

The guy reading it in YouTube, PhilsStuffOfDoom or whatever, put some special effects in it and it's really awesome. Guy's a genius.

I'm doing my annual reading of The Hobbit.

Finally finished Crime and Punishment after two and a half months of reading and an awful lot of procrastination. Damn good book, but damn did that take a while.

And now on to Ack-Ack Macaque!

Just finished Ack-Ack Macaque, and I've got a full review of it up on my blog. And no, this isn't a shameless bid to generate traffic, that's a silly idea.

I'm trying again with - Warhammer 40 000, Galaxy In Flames by Ben Counter...

I started it last year just before my chronic fatigue/memory problems/heart problem thing...And, d'you know...I can't remember a damned thing about the book...So I'm starting it again... ...

Lately I've been reading Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. I am alternating that with Pride and Prejudice. I tend to read more than one book at a time. But my limit is four books at a time. This consists usually of usually of two books of fiction, one of non-fiction (Machiavelli's Florentine Histories at the moment) and either poetry or drama. Or sometimes I just read pornography.

I loved Pride and Prejudice, even with its wordiness.

I'm reading Metro 2033 and George Orwell's 1984 over again. I must just be in the mood for dark settings.

"Present At A Hanging" - and other stories.
Ambrose Bierce

Bierce is fascinating simply because of his disappearance.

I'm currently reading Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I highly recommend reading this book over seeing the Spielberg film loosely based on it.

Midsummer Night's dream

I'm only reading it because my teacher is making me

Dude (or dudette) Shakespeare is Awesome, seriously.

A dude, and I'm not the biggest Shakespeare fan

Doesn't take away from his Awesomeness. Stop thinking of him as the purveyor of a dead language that you are being forced to eat by your teacher. Approach him as a student of language eager to see how one makes music with words.

Either that, or go to netflix and get a copy of A Midsummer's Night Dream. Shakespeare was meant to be seen... not read.

I remember reading Romeo and Juliet while watching it at my dad’s house on TV. It was hard for me to process what I was hearing and the reading was difficult, but together it somehow worked. After that it was easier to have the text come to life when I was just reading (since we didn’t have a TV at my house until I was in high school.)

The Flight of The Einstein by James Swallow...

This is very true.
I studied a lot of Shakespeare back in the day, but he really comes alive when seen or even just read aloud.
Remember that plays are dynamic things meant to live outside of our heads, and WS was as fine an exponent of that as you will find.

As I'm loving the new Spartacus series, I thought I'd treat myself to a dirt cheap book about the rise and fall of the Mighty Roman Empire™...

So I'm reading that at the mo...It's called Rubicon...By someoneorother...Not bad at all for £3... ...

I don´t read too much books actually, apart from in-game books in Oblivion

But I do like the classic adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Have a nice little book with assorted stories in it ( The Dying Detective) which I got when I was a kid. Back then I thought the different stories were chapters! Man, those were some pretty long chapters!

Well currently I'm re-reading the full collection of the Feynman lectures. They are some very interesting books if you can get a hold of them (physics and non-fiction isn't for everyone though).

I've just finished reading a local newspaper.

I haven't read a book in ages, the last one was probably Clinical Medicine in November, required for my study. I usually read a lot of books on my holidays in summer but I don't know yet what will they be, probably something crime/adventure related.

The Most Dangerous Game. There is no hunt like the hunting of a man!

I remember that story. My stepdad won't take me hunting anymore because I constantly talk about that story when we go hunting XD he says I can go hunt myself XDDD

Hehehe! Your stepdad sounds like a cool dude. I would love to go hunting by myself. It's one of those hobbies you wish you had.

He's pretty straight-edge, but cool. That's the closest he's ever gotten to cursing XD.

He taught me how to skin and dress game, and paid for my hunting license when I was younger, which comes with classes on how to survive if you're ever lost in the woods. So, now I know how to get water from the ground, build a shelter and know to always keep a knife and flint on me, but I live the downtown area of a small city. I miss the woods.

I'm about to get all nostalgic and reminisce-y.

Iron Council, by China Miéville.

This book is amazing and I want this man's babies. Quite possibly the best-written and most startlingly original fantasy novel I've ever read.

Warhammer 40 000, Fulgrim by Graeme McNeill...I think...

The competition entries everyone sent in for the contest. They're all terrible.

GAAAAAH!

Nah, I kid, I kid.

I have, however, also been reading Peter Fehervari's Fire Caste, and a review of is now up on my blog. Not too shabby, not too shabby at all.

That's just mean XD I'm sure only mine is terrible XD

I've been reading your blog with interest, actually. I must admit I'm looking forward to seeing your review of Iron Council. I read it a few years back, straight after Perdido Street Station and The Scar, and I'm curious to see what you made of it. Certainly sounded like you were enjoying it, if you want his babies!

Burnt Sierra, I read everything you type in an English accent.

Just thought you'd know.

I read Mustard's blog back when he first suggested doing reviews of our contest entries (to see what I was in for, lol) - saw where he had written that and sprayed my keyboard and monitor laughing. Mustard's sense of humor is wry, you can miss it if you read too fast - but that one jumped out of the page, lol.

Lol! Aaah, but I'm from the north of England, so my accent is closer to Sean Bean than say..erm... someone posh like Richard E Grant...

You're from the North? Who let you out of your mill?!

And now I'm expected to do an Iron Council review? I'll get right on it after I've fulfilled my obligation I've made to a bunch of strangers on the internet that I'll never meet.

Wait, can you compare it between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant? Lol.

Not really!!! I don't sound as posh (or as foppish) as either of them.



Yeah, yeah. I've actually lived in Huddersfield for the last ten years, so you're not far wrong there, loads of mills around. Of course they've all been closed down for I don't know how many years...



Whinge, whinge, whinge... such a hard life

(And then promptly re-obligated yourself to do it monthly for those same strangers, lol).

I'm reading The Good Earth currently.

I'm not gonna lie. I don't like it

Funny story, I can tell American accents apart, but was flabbergasted when it was pointed out to me that there are different Hispanic accents.

Many free ebooks from Amazon. And a fan fiction by some Eliza or Melissa person. It is good.... has vampires in it.

I love those free books.

Just got done with one called Demonsouled. Had some typos here and there but was enjoyable. It is a medieval fantasy.

I'm thinking about doing the free publishing thing on Amazon. An ebook with my name on it? Sounds awesome.

Why yes it would. Of course- you are ALREADY on MY Kindle Fire. (Yay me).

The general strategy I have observed is write a book series, release the first one for free, and charge for the others.

If you're like me, reading the first book is great, until you see there are more. I read the first one and never make it to the second in any series because I can't afford the others.

Well, I mean I can NOW, but before, I couldn't, lol