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

[shanaqui]

Yep! I love FFVIII. I just downloaded it for my PSP, and my girlfriend's replaying it too at the same time, so we're having a lot of fun with it.

Cardiiiifffff. ♥ Says the very biased Welsh girl. *grin* I have... probably more than twelve books per semester, though it depends. Because I do a lot of translation, that's just one book in which a lot of different things are collected. (That course sounds... deadly.)

Yes! There's always something new or something you can look at from a different angle... They're really good for discussions, too, because of that. I want to be as skilled as Kay, too. I was writing in his style for a bit last week, which was amazingly fun.

I can't believe that throughout this thread I haven't used any Merlin icons. Look at his cute wee face, as my flatmate would say.

[sweet_sparrow]

Oooh, that's awesome! I tried playing FF8 on the PC way, way back when the library had a copy, but we didn't really get along. I appreciate the effort to make it a PC game too, but the controls were awful and completely counter-intuitive (compared to what I was used to, perhaps).

*grins* Nothing wrong with a little bias. ^-~ It looked like a gorgeous city when I was there. (But I'm biased too.) Do you do the translation because the courses require it or just because you enjoy it? *curious*

Mm. For us it depends a little on the course and on the rest of your courseload. I'm taking two literature courses this semester, so I have about 24 books to read in total. It could've been 36 if I'd been insane enough to sign up for a third.
(I was amazed to see that they haven't adapted the format. Granted, the exam consists solely of multiple choice questions and we're relatively spoiled when it comes to workload, but...)

Oooh, it sounds it! ^-^ And now I'm torn between singing and writing...

Hee! He looks so happy and adorable! *still needs to get her hands on the seasons and sit down to watch it properly ^-^; *

[shanaqui]

FFVIII was my first ever RPG. ♥ Suuuch nostalgia playing it now. I never tried it on the PC -- I had an awful feeling it wouldn't adapt well...

Cardiff feels like home to me, which is why I'm so biased. I grew up away from Wales, so it's wondrous to be home. Heh.

A bit of both, when it comes to translation. I love translating and I do more than I have to, but some of the translation is for my course. E.g. we only had to translate three riddles, I did all of them I could find, and I'm about five weeks ahead of everyone else... Our exam just after Christmas was heavy on translation, so I did extremely well. *grin*

I need to watch more Merlin... I've only seen five episodes.

[sweet_sparrow]

Eeeeeeeee! Mine... *thinks* Mine must've been Might and Magic 3. I was hopeless. XD And no, it really, really didn't adapt well. I think it'd have been much better if they'd taken the time to write in an option to change the keyboard layout around. Then the awkward original layout would be completely void because all players could set the keys they're used to.

*smiles* I'm glad you're getting a chance to live there, then. ^-^ Long may you continue to be home!

Neat! ^-^ I have a love-hate relationship with translation myself. But I did enjoy the Old English we did. I'd have signed up for that course last semester or this semester if there'd still been room.

I think I've seen more than that, but I've been watching them haphazardly, so I'm happily oblivious as to plot developments. ^-~

[shanaqui]

Yeaaah, that would suck. It took me a while to figure out the new controls for the PSP, 'cause that wasn't exactly self-evident either, ugh.

Indeed! And hopefully the rest of my family will move back here, in time.

I have quite a methodical mind, in some ways, and I do love carefully piecing together a translation.