What readest thou?

Just read The Phantom Tollbooth. 😕 Wow.

What kind of wow, hobbit?

On the last book of the Ascendance Trilogy. It's pretty good, though it took a ways through the first one to really get interesting. It was slow at a few parts, and isn't the most well-written book I've read, but over all, interesting plot.

@ Ariel: As in, it was weird and, in a way, surprising. I liked the puns and other humor, but it otherwise had the feel of a poorly-written fantasy. I know a number of people who like it a lot, but to me it just felt like Alice In Wonderland trying to be educational.

Speaking of puns, I recently read a book called The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack. It was actually a really cool book - it's all about the anatomy of puns and how they've changed over history. I would most certainly recommend it, with one warning: there was a particular chapter that references evolution and some non-Christian themes, which can be ignored, although I found it rather annoying.

My dad loves puns; I'll see if he'll let me read that, then. 🙂

Term is over so I have a bit more free time for leisure reading (though I'm still working away at my thesis). So on Saturday I downloaded Out of the Silent Planet on my ipad since I can legally download free editions of Lewis' works in SA :D. Finally rereading OotSP nine years and (three degrees) after my first reading.

I'm busy reading up on the Great War so I picked up War Letters 1914-1918 Vol. I and enjoyed it, short and sad as it was. I always like reading first-hand accounts like these as they provide greater insight into the people involved in historical events and brings them and their situations to life on a more personal level (even if some letters, as these, were censored for the prevention of certain information (like the detestable conditions in the trenches) from getting to the public). Hopefully I can find the other volumes!

I hope you find more too! Those sound so interesting!

Finally finished VDT from where I left off during the first winter challenge.... 😕 But I was happy to notice that the ending worked on me a way I don't think it has before: namely, just how beautiful everything was after Ramandu's Island.

So this summer I'm gonna be doing a bit of Greek mythology and I'm gonna be reading Edith Hamilton, which I am excited and not so looking forward to because I am already a huge Greek nerd so I will be just reading about stuff I already know. But I love reading and Greek mythology is my thing. ALSO I get to read the Iliad and the Odyssey so I am SOSOSOSOSOSO excited for that! I am also still reading the book thief and I'm re-reading my beloved Percy Jackson series. ( Greek mythology in the modern time)

@Ariel: So far no luck, but I'll keep looking!

I'm still reading up on the Great War (it's become something of an obsession, this time period - but I'll be studying history in college so it can't be all that bad 😉 ) and came across a fascinating book, okay a kindle book (it was free!). Anyway, it is called Now It Can Be Told, and is a collection of anecdotes by a British war correspondent who was in the European theatre from before Britain formally declared war to the war's conclusion. It was written after the censors were no longer in place, so after the actual events happened but it's still so very intriguing to get his view and commentary of everything that was taking place before his eyes. I'm only about a quarter way through (it is a very long book) and I'm completely engrossed. I would only recommend this for maturer readers considering the content (it is a book recounting one of the bloodiest of wars) and few instances of swearing.

Ooooh... *makes a note*.

Just finished rereading A Love That Multiplies by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. I'd read it before, but I didn't know as much about them as I do now, so this time everything kinda made more sense.

Also, I'm curious. Anybody read Til We Have Faces?

Yup! I've read Til We Have Faces... like, a year ago. I need to reread all of my C.S.Lewis books soon anyway... 😛 Plus reading it again would probably help me figure out exactly what was happening... 😕