[News] What are you currently reading?

I've finally laid my hands on a copy of Ship of Destiny, the last book in the Liveship Trader's trilogy by Robin Hobb. Ever since I read the Farseer Trilogy I've been thoroughly hooked on her works, and this book is an absolute gem. Utterly absorbing stuff.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I always meant to read the Dark Tower series myself, although a friend of mine said that the books tended to drag on quite a bit. I found that with a few of his other books, but I still love to read them.

I've started a long distance English Literature course recently, and the first book on the list is Michael Frayn's Spies. I've heard mixed reviews, but mostly the bad ones are from previous students. This makes me believe that I will enjoy the book since I've had a tendancy to enjoy texts from my previous English classes.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Fiction-wise I'm occasionally dipping into two books - Sylvia Plath's Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (a collection) and Graham Greene's Complete Short Stories. The Graham Greene in particular is quite unsettling in places (a good writer, then, considering some of the content); so far "A Little Place off the Edgeware Road" has been my favourite.

Non-fiction I'm reading Life on a Young Planet by Andrew H. Knoll. It's essentially about earlier periods of evolution. I never knew I would come to care about fossils and rocks as much as I now do. I'm also going to be getting hold of a copy of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, since almost all of our lecturers have told us it is the dog's bollocks.

Vemp, I've yet to read Moby Dick! I have been meaning to for a while but I feel more comfortable with short story collections I can dip in and out of - when I'm reading a good long piece of fiction I can get quite absorbed - I will literally do nothing but read all day, and I have been known to sacrifice sleep to keep reading when I'm hooked badly.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.