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So what are you reading?

Just generally, what you are currently reading. It can be now, soon, later, or, if you are reading a book for a class or something, add that as well. You can also make book recommendations based on the books you see listed for each person. On that note, feel free to note what genre of literature you like.

Anything goes: comics, novels...

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At home, the Knights of the Dinner Table trade paperbacks.

At work/in the car, the Dragon Knight series. Man, that was underrated.

Michael J. Everhart, Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (http://www.amazon.com/Oceans-Kansas-Natural-History-Interior/dp/0253345472/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284480830&sr=1-1)

Donna Kossy, Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes (http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Creations-Aberrant-Origins-Astronauts/dp/0922915652/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284480930&sr=1-1)

Elaine Morgan, Descent of the Child: Human Evolution from a New Perspective (http://www.amazon.com/Descent-Child-Human-Evolution-Perspective/dp/0195098951/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284481000&sr=1-1)

Aaaaand I haven't actually started on these yet, but they're in my to-read pile from the library:

Derek E. G. Briggs, Douglas H. Erwin, Frederick J. Collier and Chip Clark, The Fossils of the Burgess Shale (http://www.amazon.com/Fossils-Burgess-Shale-Derek-Briggs/dp/1560983647/ref=sr_1_1_oe_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284481114&sr=1-1)

Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (http://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Life-Burgess-Nature-History/dp/039330700X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284481114&sr=1-3)

Elaine Morgan, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (http://www.amazon.com/Aquatic-Hypothesis-Condor-Indep-Voices/dp/0285635182/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284481333&sr=1-1)

Also reading Gundam Sousei (http://www.mangafox.com/manga/gundam_sousei/) over at Manga Fox.

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Just finished Bloodhound and am currently on The Will of the Empress, both by Tamora Pierce (http://www.tamora-pierce.com/books.html). Both re-reads too.

The Discworld books. Just finished reading Guards! Guards!, Night Watch, and Soul Music.

Mockingjay, the third book in The Hunger Games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_trilogy) trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

The Gargoyle King!

Well, I had a good reading weekend. This weekend, I read:

Smoke and Ashes (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smoke-Ashes-Tanya-Huff/dp/0756404150/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284492118&sr=8-1) by Tanya Huff (finishing out the Blood and Smoke series)

Death Most Definite (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Most-Definite-Trent-Jamieson/dp/1841498599/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284492193&sr=1-1) by Trent Jamieson

Hush Hush (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hush-Becca-Fitzpatrick/dp/1847386962/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284492261&sr=1-2) by Becca Fitzpatrick (Yes, I do read YA books sometimes)

The Lost Symbol (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Symbol-Dan-Brown/dp/0552149527/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284492332&sr=1-1) by Dan Brown (also, popcorn books)

And I'm about halfway through:

Blood Oath: The President's Vampire (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Oath-Christopher-Farnsworth/dp/0340998148/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284492372&sr=1-1) by Christopher Farnsworth

I also have the Parasol Protectorate (Soulless (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soulless-Parasol-Protectorate-Gail-Carriger/dp/1841499722/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284492466&sr=1-2), Changeless (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Changeless-Parasol-Protectorate-Gail-Carriger/dp/1841499749/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284492466&sr=1-4") and Blameless (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blameless-Parasol-Protectorate-Gail-Carriger/dp/1841499730/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284492450&sr=1-1)) by Gail Carriger next up on my list, though that may well get pushed back if An Artificial Night (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Artificial-Night-October-Daye/dp/0756406269/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284492616&sr=1-1) by Seanan McGuire arrives before I'm done with Blood Oath.

A Clash of Kings, second novel in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire) series. Gearing up for the HBO series :|b

I AM READING!:

The Abominable Charles Christopher, a webcomic fable by Karl Kerschl. Funny, adorable and absolutely heartwrenching in equal measure. How fugly-anatomically-implausible-steriod-junky-drawing hacks like Greg Land are even working today when guys like Kerschl exist is mind boggling.

Chew ongoing, Image Comics: Have you ever wondered what would've happened if bird flu was a really big deal and they banned chicken and hired guys who get psychic powers by eating stuff to enforce it? Well, you should've been, because together John Layman and Rob Guillory prove that it would've been violent, hilarious and very, very icky. It's Miami Vice via Evil Dead.

Joe the Barbarian, Vertigo Comics: A teenage boy with Type 1 Diabetes stops taking his medicine and begins to hallucinate an off-kilter High Fantasy epic, casting his pet rat as his reluctant but faithful guardian and all his favourite action figures as the populace of a bizarre kingdom torn apart by war. Sean Murphy's art alone is glorious and it's written by Grant "He's like a big game hunter but instead of pelts he scalps beards! Magneto's dead, honest! Hawkman's an angel now! I'm killing Batman only he's not dying but he's lost in time and has amnesia! Superman defeated Darkseid by breaking into song! Why am I not writing Metamorpho the Element Man already?!" Morrison so you can expect it to be hyperbolic craziness.

The Flash ongoing, DC Comics: Gorgeous art by Francis Manapul and the usual him-fisted dialogue and sub-standard plot that takes fucking ages to go anywhere from Geoff Johns, but honestly? It's standalone, it's got the Rogues in it, (by far the characters Johns is best at writing) and it still manages to be pretty fun despite everything. I wish we saw more of this spinning out of Brightest Day rather than Aquaman moping over how his wife secretly wanted to kill him ages ago and Carol Ferris getting named queen of Hooters in Space.

Batman and Robin//Return of Bruce Wayne, DC Comics: Started of as a psychotic and camp romp for the new dynamic Chirpy Batman/Snarky Robin duo, but has since descended into total and utter batshit insanity. Pygmalion with botox! A garishly pink matador-themed mute assassin called Flamingo! Jason Todd as Penisman! Nefarious Chimney Sweeps and proof that all people from Newcastle are ruddy bloody vagabonds! Puritan Batman battling Cthulhu! Darksied still managing to fuck everything up for everyone! Just go with it. It's Grant Morrison, what do you expect?

Oh, and somebody write some good new Superman comics, already!

Oh snap, I'm actually between books at the moment. That shouldn't happen.

Last thing I read: American Indian Myths and Legends. Next thing I'm reading: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. I read some outdoors magazines for Iowa in between these.

I like ethnographies and mythology, interestingly written books about culture, and I also have a soft spot for young adult fiction that has a plot that doesn't center around romance, or where there is significantly more to the plot than JUST romance. I have an extra soft spot for late elementary/early middle school fantasy, since that's pretty much what I grew up on, especially if it's fluffy and girly, but plotwise oriented towards something other than romance. Romance is okay as a spice, not the main ingredient.

I also like humor with supernatural elements. Christopher Moore, Madelein L'engle, and Nick Harkaway are my favorite authors, and The Gone-Away World is my very favorite book of all time. Ask me about it.

I want to read allllll of these.

I THINK I've read the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. If it wasn't that book, it was one on that subject, but fictionalized. :|3 I want to read it again.

I agree on the mythology appreciation.

Reading Greek mythology is like one big soap opera.

Books that I'm reading now:

Kiss my Math by Danica McKellar --> it's my treasured math-help book. I carry it with me everywhere at school and read between breaks, classes, and even cut my library computer time short to read it some more.

Books I plan to read:

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini --> basically, this kid gets in over his head, tries to commit suicide, and ends up at this mental hospital where he tries to figure out his own road to happiness. I'm a sucker for books that delve into the emotional aspects of the characters.

Gamer Girl by Mari Mancusi --> So this girl has two sides to her life: her "boring" life where she's a shy, not-much-spoken girl with an amazing talent at manga art...and her "exciting" life where she's this fantastic RPG character in a alternate-universe type of Final Fantasy.

Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev --> A girl with power over words, her mother's a Shakespeare character, and she's out searching for her father, who spirited the mother away...only to return her back to this magical theatre. There's also two boys who like her, but it isn't the cliche triangle you might suspect it to be.

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