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Finishing "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman. Just picked up "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, "Plato And A Platypus.." by Thomas Cathcart, "A Tale Of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens and "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr.

Bought two last night, won't ship here for awhile though.

I'm still on with Souls in the Great Machine and really enjoying it so far, it's a romp and quite full of action scenes, though the story takes place over many years. Took me a while to work out where it is set! It's a shame that it doesn't seem to be more easily available here - I've only been able to find this and its sequels second-hand, it deserves a new print run!

Let me see....

-Fairy Cube Vol.2
-Kitchen Princess Vol.2
-Alice I have been by Melanie Benjamin
-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
-The Everything Creative Writing Book

Wow! I've got a lot of reading to catch up.

Cujo - Stephen King

i recently finished listening to all the seven parts of Harry Potter. I've realised I need to listen to audiobooks rather than reading myself. By this I mean novels and not non-fiction books. It was Stephen Fry reading all of them except one which was read by Jim Dale. I initially felt Fry was much better. But realised later that I tried to imagine what certain scenes or parts of the story read by Fry would have been like in Dale's voice

I feel not least the first half of the first HP book was pure magic. And I also felt she (JKR) managed to keep the quality going throughout. But it is pretty patchy (uneven) .. yet I really really liked it. I feel the child within (if that is what it is) really liked these books.

I imagine some part of its enormous success is to do with how these books try to face alienation. Feeling orphaned and lost. How the super-nobody, Harry, is in reality a very very important person .. (feel silly attempting to anayse this huge HP phenomenon in a few lines here, of course )

Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Haven't properly started it yet I only got it on Wednesday ).
Fantastic Four: Civil War (Not bad I finished it quite quickly. I don't normally read FF stories but I quite liked this).
Judge Dredd: Democracy Now!

An Introduction to Anthropology 2nd Edition by Ralph L. Beals and Harry Hoijer
It is terribly out of date (it was published before the discovery of radio-carbon dating for crying out loud) but nonetheless is very interesting as it let's me compare how our knowledge of anthropology has changed over the last half century.

Sharpe's Sword; I'm working my way through the series. Unusually for me, I'm hearing Sharpe and Harper speak in the voices of Sean Bean and Daragh O'Malley. Fighting the temptation to buy a 1796 pattern heavy cavalry sword now.

"Puckoon" by Spike Milligan

Harry Potter un de Wunnersteen. Makes a nice break from Sharpe. I definitely like Low German more than High!

I'm reading Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter. It's fascinating. The most interesting book I've read in a while, possibly ever.

I'm also reading Der krumme Hund by Roald Dahl. It's slow going because I don't know very much German yet so I'm having to check the dictionary every 3rd word or so. But it's a fun brain exercise trying to read a foreign language.

Son of the Morning Star (paper), A Short, Victorious War (free Baen ebook, in the Honor Harrington series). Anyone who gives out free copies of sci-fi books online is good for me...

I'm reading What the Bleep Do We Know? and Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre. There's a lot more I want to read but I can't seem to get through these with my schoolwork.

Mars and Venus On A Date by John Gray (author of the Mars and Venus series). Very informative and educational.