"Zorro" the novel, by Isabel Allende.
"Encyclopedia of World Mythology" by Arthur Cotterell (ed.)
And a Japanese translation of LOTR for language practice.
Ooh I loved 1984. (Except that my mum ruined it for me by telling me the ending before I got to it :evil: grr.)
I have just completed Series of Unfortunate Events, and I'm not sure about what to read next.
Maybe I should continue reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
(This is my first post since the forum re-opened. The new format is going to take some getting used to but am super-dooper happy it's re-opened.)
Anyway, back on topic. I just finished reading Zorro and have started "The Last Continent" by Terry Pratchett.
I hate Tolkein's writing style. It is very boring. I mean, Tolkein's STORIES are good, but I can only keep up with them through the movies. I've never fully passed through the first little Book thing of Lord of the Rings before.
"Bet that's a link, ma'am."
Monty Python is wikkid.
"Back to the Front, by Stephen O'Shea He is a Canadian who walked the entire length of the Western Front of WWI, and wrote about the horrendous waste of lives and the aftereffects of the war.
Highly recommended for history buffs. I am personally interested because six of my Canadian forebears lost their lives in that war. Maybe even more than six, I only know about one side of my fathers family.
I'm reading the first book of the Otori trilogy: Across the Nightingale Floor.
I just finished reading "Electra" by Kerry Greenwood. And now I'm re-reading my old Classical Mythology textbook, which is "Classical Myth" by Barry B. Powell.
I like that book better than a lot of other mythology books because of the detail. (Although, obviously, a book on World Myth could not go into the same depth.)
Yup. "House of Spirits." I never read it and probably won't -- it's not the kind of thing I'm into -- but I did like Isabelle Allende's "Zorro".
I've found occasion to start reading "Cassandra" by Kerry Greenwood.
(For the fourth time.)
Primarily because my old mythology textbook is too big to take to bed with me.
I'm reading Primate Psychology (edited by Dario Maestripieri).
Ooh. Sounds fascinating. Do tell!
A Short History of Nearly Everything.
(No I did not finish Otori. I just got this and two smaller books from the library.)
This guy, Bill Bryson, is DEFINITELY Aspergian. Just read the introduction of his book.
i read a lot of manga, since that's my favorite. i also like to read books about AS and stuff.
current reading manga: either Eureka Seven or Rurouni Kenshin [best ones they had.. :-\]
I'm reading "the Raven Warrior". About Launcelot and Guinevere. (But set within a far more Celtic warrior / mythic motif.)