What're you reading?

[sweet_sparrow]

I'm curious, what's everyone reading right about now?

I'm currently doing some more of my university course prep reading because "Read this small section of the book" means "read the whole book" to me. (I mean, if you're not going to read the whole thing, what's the point?)

I've recently finished up Two Medieval Outlaws by Glyn Burgess, which translates two romances about outlaws and which was a lot of fun. I've also finished up The Alliterative Morte Arthure, which just proves, again, that I don't get along with medieval texts and am staring at The Stanzaic Le Morte Arthur before delving into Malory's more well-known Le Morte d'Arthur.

In between I've been reading The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett (well, I was until I finished it. ^-~) It was a lot of fun. Now I know why I've seen comments along the lines of "Austen, but with magic!" and the like. It's, obviously, more nuanced than that (and certainly not like, say, Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesThe Harp of the Grey Rose by Charles de Lint and I also need to reread Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising at some point so I can take notes and figure out if I can get enough out of the book to write an essay on it. And I should really, really pick up Kay's The Last Light of the Sun some time soon. I promised a friend to read it ages ago. >> Plus there's the group read too...

(Oh, and I should be rereading Shakespeare for that course too. I have too many books...)

So... what're you reading this month? ^-~

Comments

[queen_ypolita]

I'm reading The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller (this month's book group book that I didn't finish in time for the meeting :o) and A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson. And I expect to read pretty much all of Information Ecology by Thomas Davenport for uni.

[sweet_sparrow]

Is it a big problem if you don't manage to finish a book due to time constraints? I'm sure we must have book clubs here, but I'd have no idea where to look for one.

[queen_ypolita]

Depends on the group, I think. Mine is very laid-back, and not-finishing happens all the time for all sorts of reasons; some people still come to the meeting, some don't. There were four of us at the meeting to talk about The Land of Green Plums, one had abandoned it after 100 pages, I had made a bit further than that, and another had only just finished it on the train on his way to the meeting.