What are you reading right now...

[Lairënuriel]

I just started the Golden Compass with my daughter.
It is so amazing to watch a young mind blossom!!!
I swear having kids is like the best science fair project EVER.
(I was that dork that loved science fair so much, planned for ages and won every year - made holograms on my own in grade 10).

[Beren One-Hand]

Lairënuriel: oh, so you weren't one of those kids that had your parent's make the projects for you?     When I was young it was ridiculous the projects "kids" would make.  I knew all too well that most of them were done by, or greatly assisted by the parent's.  My mom helped me out quite a bit too. 

I am reading "The Divine Imperative," by Emil Brunner. 

[Lairënuriel]

No Beren - my dad was a school principal and highly against that sort of thing.  I was a dork that loved the whole process.  I find my kids give me the same sort of thing, research, planning, work, results!  With a lot of love and playing dollies thrown in.

[Beren One-Hand]

Well that's awesome that you were so studious.   

[HeruMorna]

Just finished reading The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Great book. I love easy Science Fiction.

[Beren One-Hand]

Reading "How to Achieve Greatness" by Baldesaar Castiglione.

[Lord Sauron]

Rereading The lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

[Beren One-Hand]

Welcome to MET, Lord Sauron!   

[Pulsifer]

Just finished the (so-far released) Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. It's a series about the Napoleonic wars, from the perspective of the English. An already exiting topic and quite cool setting, made even slightly more awesome by the injection of dragons.

Currently on American Gods (again) by Neil Gaiman. (Keep the copy, Leora, I bought a new one ) It's probably one of the best books I've ever read, and quite interesting to read up on as well. It's about the life and existance of all the old gods that followed the settlers over the pond, to America, and their life in a modern setting.

(If you're not familiar with Neil Gaiman, he reads like something of a mix between Douglas Adams, Terry Prattchett and Stephen King, but who actually manages to evoke real emotions. Well, The Dark Tower series notwithstanding for King. I seriously recommend everyone to check out his Sandman comic.)

[Lairënuriel]

I love Neil Gaiman - especially for Sandman.

Have you seen stardust yet?

[Bombadil_Ulmo]

I just finished "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester.  It's really engaging, but the subtitle makes it sound more exciting than it is.

[Pulsifer]

I love Neil Gaiman - especially for Sandman.

Have you seen stardust yet?

Of course, I saw it before it came out Laughed my lardy arse off every two minutes.

[Insane_Monky]

Currently on American Gods (again) by Neil Gaiman. (Keep the copy, Leora, I bought a new one ) It's probably one of the best books I've ever read, and quite interesting to read up on as well. It's about the life and existance of all the old gods that followed the settlers over the pond, to America, and their life in a modern setting.

Wow. Weird that you should be talking about Neil Gaiman, becuase I just read my first comic-book by him this weekend. What a coincidence. The comic-book was called 1602, about...well, it's hard to tell the plot without giving away the book. Basically a bunch of Marvel Superheroes somehow are born a couple hundred years before they should have. It's a really cool look at certain superheroes such as the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Otto Von Doom, Captain America and the like living in 17th Century England. A good mix of history and science-fiction. A very good read, and a good introduction to Neil Gaiman.

[Lairënuriel]

I missed it in the theatre - can't wait 'til it's out on DVD! 

[Insane_Monky]

Right now I'm reading The Killer Angels by Michael Sarra. It's about the brutality of the 3 days of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. IT tells the story from both sides (Nort hand South), by sever al different characters on either side.