Just finished Dreamtreaders by Wayne Thomas Batson, one of my all time favorite fantasy authors! This book was just as wonderful as all of his others. Oh, and this line made me laugh.

One does not simply surf into Archaia.

Can you tell he's a LotR fan? 😛

Haha, definitely an LotR fan.

Finished Mere Christianity and hope to start re-reading Screwtape next weekend.

Just started reading the Diary of Anne Frank. It's sooo good, I love it.

Reading the Two Towers right now. Took us a while to get through the Fellowship, but we're making pretty good progress on TTT.

My sister has been renting the G.A. Henty books from the library so I can read them, and I'm enjoying them. Although it seems there are a few characters that are in all the books, just with different names. I also read A Wrinkle In Time and was sort of confused by the time I got to the end.
I'm at an awkward stage where I'm growing out of little kid books because they don't make sense any more but none of the grown-up stories make any sense either, and none of the teen-age books seem to be any good, and I don't like romances.

*doesn't get how one can not like romance* 😛 😉

I haven't read any really good books lately. Oh, wait! About a month ago I read the book Feather by Susan Page Davis. I would highly recommend it. 🙂

*Doesn't like romance centered stories* 🙄

Well my reading has been down lately... but a month ago I picked up War Horse, a children's book that could easily be read in an hour or so. Good, solid story about a time in history one might not know a lot about; it was good read but considering the content it isn't for everyone. I've also been reading a music theory book which has been interesting.

I'm currently pretty much only reading nonfiction right now. I'm reading a book called "The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs," which has a whole lot about spinning wool yarn (I have sensitive skin and have not yet found a wool I can work with or wear, so not helpful, but interesting)--but it also gives lots of useful information for fibers I can use--plus it has some ways to make stretchy yarns out of fibers that aren't stretchy, which might make it easier for me to make my own socks someday. 😉 Apparently I'm a physics geek--it's really interesting to me to figure out how the plies of a yarn interact with each other, why they act and interact the way they do 😛

So, yes, that's what I'm reading 🙂

@Ela: Oh, me neither. 😛

Who is the book by?

@ Berry: So long as the romance isn't an important part of the book (it's like an extra thingy on the side) I can handle it. For example...
Quo Vadis is a historical fiction about a girl who was a Christian and a Roman centurion who was not, and the Roman wanted to marry the girl but the girl didn't want to marry someone who wasn't a Christian. The story is pretty much completely romance, and whatever wasn't romance was depressing. I came, I read, I was bored.
The Robe is the only historical fiction that I have read more than once. 😛 It's about the Roman tribune who was in charge of the crucifixion and came into possession of Jesus' robe. There's a random girl that he likes, but the romance takes back-burner to the rest of the story. I came, I read, I read again, I read again, I read again...

I agree with Hobbit about romance. "YA novel" is synonymous with "gushy romance," really. The only book I like in which romance is perhaps the main theme is Heartless, and that's because the romance is actually an allegory of Christ and His Church... a naïve, distracted young woman and a suitor who won't give up on her no matter how many stupid, destructive choices she makes. Beautiful.

I'm reading Mere Christianity on-and-off-again, with a chapter every week or two. This is because 1) I don't want my parents to think I'm reading instead of completing homework and 2) you can't read Mere Christianity in big gulps -- you have to read one chapter and then just bask in it.

(Espirit, I love your set)
I recently read a book called Victimproof. It is a really good book about how not to be a victim, and how to do it without being a bully yourself. I am/was not being bullied but it helped me in life a lot. It taught me to become more confident with myself, and it showed me all kinds of bullies and I realized that I, in some ways, was being a bully, and a victim! It helped me a lot and if you want to read it is by Tom Thelen. And even if you don't need help in those areas I recommend it to you anyways. It is just yeah.....It's a great book.

@Spree: I had to take Mere Christianity slow too. You just gotta let a couple chapters at a time slosh around in your brain before continuing. 😀

@ Cor: Ooh, cool. I'll look into it. 🙂

So believe it or not, I had never read Peter Pan (or Peter and Wendy as it was originally called) until yesterday. I would have loved it except for the fact that there wasn't really a likable protagonist. And I didn't like the ending. But in spite of all that, it was the book I most enjoyed reading in the past few months! *sigh* I wish there were more good fantasy books out there.