I'm currently working my way through the Ahriman series of 40k novels, as well as The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan and Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America, a collection of his letters from '68 to '76.

I've been wanting to read his Dream Cycle for a while, and earlier today I finished the Cats of Ulthar. I'm planning on starting a book of short stories called the King in Yellow tomorrow. The first few stories focus on this play that supposedly drives people mad, so that seems pretty interesting.

Right now though, I'm reading through page after page on TV Tropes. Hopefully soon I'll be finished!

Feb issue of Nylon mag , re - reading the HON series ( yeah , I know ....... ) and online I've been re - reading like crazy , hottopicgirl's badfics , Hermione's Talent ( 1 & 2 ) and Karaoke Night . Those are the main ones but there are MANY assorted other things . I'm quite a reader . 8D

Okay I'll be more serious now. Besides a relatively small pile of Dragon Age fanfiction, I'm also reading 'The Lost Stars: Imperfect Sword' by Jack Campbell, whose books (both under Jack Campbell and John G Hemry) I would thoroughly recommend to any Sci-Fi fan.

The one thing I would say is that his writing style is quite different to most other people's I've read is that he doesn't actually describe the physical characteristics of his main characters, we've gone through eleven books now in 'The Lost Fleet' and 'The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier' and we still don't have a full description of the main character, John Geary. But then again, it's hardly felt like things like that are needed. The final thing I will say is that all the battles that occur in his books, especially the space battles feel so realistic, Campbell manages to plot out each and every battle in 4 dimensions and just makes each and every one of them work, he does it almost too well at times because I know I've had to actually close the book and stop and work out exactly each battle is playing out.

If the title of the series starts as 'The Lost' (or, from May onward 'The Genesis) then they all take part in the same universe and I'd recommend reading through 'The Lost Fleet' before reading 'The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier' or 'The Lost Stars', 'Stark's War' is probably the least futuristic of all the books Campbell has written and the majority of it takes place on the Moon, whilst 'JAG in Space' is a lot more about the day to day running of a spaceship mixed in with some really interesting legal drama.

*ahem* I think I may have got a little distracted, oh well.

Storme Hawk

There is the cruising through Whateley Academy, MLP fanfics, many other fanfics actally, fantasy series, webcomics, mangas... Kinda busy, and I'm not accouting for work, games, TV series...

The PPC message board, I wouldn't be able to post otherwise......

Oh, you mean other stuff. Right. Yes. I have a pile beside my bed that I'm working my way through, A Dance with Dragons I'm about half way through. Below that I've got Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre with a bookmark in Chapter Two. Then below that is The Citizen of the World by Oliver Goldsmith.

Finished Kraken, by China Mieville a week back. It was quite good - very sort of bizarre look on urban fantasy. I'll admit, it deflates a bit towards the end - the bizarreness sort of wears off slowly, and it just kind of turns into a more generic urban fantasy. A good one, mind you, with really interesting ideas on magic and reality and such, but it's a bit disappointing considering the start. Made me expect a bit much, perhaps.
It also has the first positive portrayal of a cultist character I've ever seen! One've the main characters, part of a cult that worships squids and such. He's entirely faithful with his beliefs, and yet is still shown as a totally reasonable, relateable person!
I'll appreciate him for as long as possible, considering he's also most likely the last positive portrayal of a cultist character I'll see, too.

I also recently got The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway. It's a bit of a mess, as genres go, but it can be generally summarised as an absurdly comedic post-apocalypse kind of thing. Which is probably very inaccurate, anyhow.
I've not even got halfway, but, I mean, it's surprised me, it really has. For all the surreal humour satirising this and that and bureaucracy and such, it's actually quite genuinely sweet at times. I note this in particular, because these kinds of stories with these kinds of humour usually sway in a more bitter, distant direction, y'know? And it's damn bloody funny as bollocks, too.

Aaaand, just today, in fact, relating to a school project thing I've got, one've my teachers lent me a copy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The script. Book. Scriptbook. Dunno what that's called.
Only actually read a few pages into it, on account of having just gotten it, but it's bloody funny as hell, too. The very opening joke is so well delivered, and escalates perfectly. Brilliant stuff!
P'raps I should stop being a filthy plebian animal and actually watch the play but, er. Pssssh.

As anyone in the lounge or on the wiki already knows, I just finished Watership Down by Richard Adams recently. It was rather better than I was expecting. I've never seen the movie, but I didn't find the violence to be too overwrought in the text. Then again, I am a zookeeper, and am used to seeing animal violence regularly, so not sure if that would bother other folks. Either way, I found the characterization of the individual rabbits and their collective culture to a very believable representation of how a prey species might behave, which importantly helped keep the story from feeling dated, despite its age. It was a fairly quick read, too, so I definitely recommend it to anyone who can stomach tooth-and-nail rabbit battles.

I'm still in the middle of Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One. I'm not very far yet, but I had to watch the movie version for Senior Synthesis back in high school, so I already know most of the major points. It's a long, sprawling story about a little British boy growing up in South Africa right at the start of World War II, his experience shaped by dealing with nationalism-based hatred from the Nazi-sympathetic Boers (local white people) while also observing how native black people are treated by both. It's a good theme, obviously, but I have to warn for not just vulgar language, but extremely frequent use of the k-word. I also don't know if any sex scenes are coming up later, since I'm only up to Peekay being eleven years old. (I don't recall any from the movie, but the movie cut stuff from the book, and I may just have forgotten any that were.)

—doctorlit is aiming for a biography on Saint Ignatius next; he likes to mix things up with a teeny dose of non-fiction, ever-so-rarely

Specifically, I just brought home and began reading five books, while I was already in the middle of Lord of the Rings (I swear I'll finish it eventually), three essays on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (for school), a giant essay on Euripides' Medea (school again), Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (for school and fun; I love it, and rereading Crooked Kingdom (the sequel to Six of Crows. I like it, okay?).

The library haul:
-Making Money, by Terry Prachett. I've been excited to read Prachett, because a bunch of my friends like him, but. . . this is bad; I'll probably put it down. It's about banking. Not in a good way. I'm choosing to assume his writing is hit-or-miss?
-Siege and Storm, by Leigh Bardugo. This is also bad. I'm reading it because it's part of the series Leigh Bardugo wrote before Six of Crows and set in the same world. I want to write fanfic set in this world, and the wiki isn't well-maintained, so: melodramatic romance with a limp, uninteresting protagonist, here I come.
-Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. Haven't gotten far enough to judge yet. Haven't gotten far enough to know what it's about yet. It's been recommended to me constantly since seventh grade; it's about time I gave it a chance.
-Flight, by Sherman Alexie. This is so excellent.
-Black Butler, volume 22. Before you judge me, remember that the manga and anime are different, and I can't stand the anime.

Plus a couple of fanfic (a Six of Crows modern AU and some of Miss Cam's old LOTR slash), sundry webcomics, and PPC stuff as it's published (of course).

That's it for active reading; there's some other stuff I dip into now and again, though.

--Key has a problem. She's working on it but this week is not her week.

Novel: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett, which came recommended to me by several people. It's not my usual fare, since it's historical fiction about the start of World War I, but it's very good. All the characters are interesting, even when they're not being particularly nice, and you get to sympathize with multiple points of view from people of various nationalities. Also, this may or may not be a selling point for you, but a surprising amount of nookie takes place. I think it's fun—it's kinda detailed, but not TOO detailed, and real people fall in love and/or have sex, so it fits in with Follett's meticulous character-writing—but nobody told me about it ahead of time, and I think it should probably be mentioned.

Fanfic: "Saving the Dragonborn" by SaxyGirl - Skyrim - Farkas/F!Dragonborn. A light, fluffy, fun series of (mis)adventures with my favorite character and a perfectly tolerable, nay, likeable OC. Raelynn is clueless, hapless, and a little bit hopeless, but her heart's in the right place, and she's funny. ^_^ The SPaG isn't perfect and the characterization of both parties is a little inconsistent, IMO (exacerbated somewhat by the episodes being told out of chronological order), but I had fun reading the whole thing and I'll go back for more if the author updates.

(Out of curiosity, fellow Dovahkiin: Got a favorite twin? Farkas or Vilkas, and why?)

~Neshomeh has been on a serious Skyrim bender lately.

Alright, I'm reading Tale of Two Cities because I have to, but I'd guess that's not really relevant. On my own time, I'm splitting my time between the webcomic Freefall, and the anime Fate/Stay Night, which for some reason I am watching after Fate/Zero.