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I don't know why I'm reading them , since most of it is utter crap (but crap that's improving, I notice) but I've begun reading Tamora Pierce's Immortals series. Only started 2 hours ago, and I'm already 3/4 done Wild Magic.

It's crap, but it's crack. Figure that one out.Oh man, I need sleep, but I cannot stop reading.

Dammit, I just spoiled myself for Half Blood Prince.

I just can't keep away from spoiler links, can I? DAMMIT.

Finished reading Enemy of God, and oh my. Lancelot is such a cowardly ass. I may have to rethink my fake casting of Orlando Bloom in this role, because there is no way that he could ever be this assy.

ASS!!!

I'm taking a bit of a break before reading the third book. Will take in some Pratchett, maybe Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell before finishing. So, so good.

ASS!!!
( not really spoilery spoiler )

I'm having a hard time putting into words what I want to say, so instead I'll talk about different things I'm reading at the moment.

Up north I read The Winter King in two days. It's like the perfect book for me: an interesting Arthurian story, engaging, great battle scenes and the same type of character that you always find in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe bookes (a poor man who becomes a soldier and works his way up the ranks. Predictable, but oh so engaging.)

Since I read it so quickly, I bought Enemy of God and Excalibur. I highly reccomend it to everyone on the friendslist, especially the King Arthur freaks, and the Age of Sail-ers who enjoy Cornwell's stuff.

Speaking of AoS, I picked up a cheap copy of Jack Absolute. I think I'll save it for when/if I have to bus it up north again.

Finally, I found a book that I think the historical fictioners, KA, BHD and even non-fannish people will enjoy, called From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. I'm waiting to get it from the library.

Sorry _jibberish_, for not calling you back. I'm really not feeling like chatting on the phone right now.

ETA: Forgot to mention Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45, by the awesome Peter Geller, who let me crash at his house the first time I was up north. I was at the book launch in THompson, and it was a very engaging presentation- I can't wait to get into this book.

I'm rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and the twins have just taken off on their broomsticks, which is one of my highlights from the entire series.

OotP is my least favourite book of the series. Whenever I reread them all, I cringe when I get to this one because there's just so much dark material here and so much that could be avoided if the characters simply talked to one another.

Also, while recognizing that Rowling is trying to pack in a lot of information that we're going to need over the next two books, I wish this book wasn't so damn long. That, combined with the darkness makes it my least favourite- if it were upbeat and optimistic I wouldn't mind it being so damn long. As it is you have one bad thing after another.

And ALL CAPS TEENAGED ANGST HARRY just gets on my nerves so damned much. Arrgh.

Forgot to mention. Last night mom and I went shopping- I bought her a giant pillow for mother's day (she picked it out, instead of the illustrated DaVinci Code), and I bought myself a mug from the persfect dinner set that I want when I move out (blue zen blossoms, or something like that. I may go back to buy myself a bowl as well.) and a little non-descript black journal, to write fieldnotes in. Assuming I write fieldnotes.

I have a fieldnotes journal. I want to squee. Eee!

I finished reading Life, The Universe And Everything, and am reading more of The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative, by Thomas King. It's very interesting- I'm enjoying reading about the perceptions of the "authentic" Indian, and what this mean to the urban or "invisible" Indian (I'm pretty sure he would have included my father in the latter group).

King refers often to N. Scott Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn- has anyone read this? I think I'll give it a go later this summer.