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I'm reading (or rather re-reading) the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel. I'm up to "Plains of Passage".

I re-read that one a few months ago. Teenage me thought it was revolutionary. Adult me found it rather embarrassing.

I use the expression 'I am only an egg' rather a lot. Used it today in fact. Hmmm, that might be a synchronicity. Grok is also a wonderful word.

Nearly done with Sharpe; am half way through Sharpe's Waterloo. HP Un De Grulig Kamer perhaps next up (though I'm tempted to read the whole lot in English). Awaiting The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones (supposed to be good), Fungus the Bogeyman (nostalgia!) and Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists (heard the author on the radio, it sounded interesting) in the post.

Currently reading stepenwolf,death kit,the fall and some books for my english exam soon

Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics by Robert Gilmore

That sounds interesting actually, I'll make a note of it.

Just finished China Miéville's "Kraken", which arrived unexpectedly (I had it on order from a while back). Very strange book. Like all his others it's about London, this time a London populated with a genre-savvy slew of magical types and some less orthodox elements. Lots of wordplay and very naturalistic dialogue. Without giving anything away, Miéville sticks to his usual style of subverting standard plots, and things aren't quite what they seem throughout the book. Good, but weird, possibly slightly too OTT for me; I'd rather see a fourth Bas-Lag book, but I guess people wanting "more of the same" are precisely the people he's not writing for.

(If anyone's read it, I'm puzzled as to why (a person) used the first two charges of katachronowhatsit in the way they were - answers on a postcard or PM please! )

I'm reading Millennium by Stieg Larsson. Somewhat predictable, but good to read in train.

Hitler (the abridged version) by Ian Kershaw.

I just started Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It's a very good read. They just don't write books like that anymore...

The Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman

Likewise. Reading it before I play the game. I have mixed feelings about it so far. The setting is clichéd and borrows heavily from the various iterations of Stalker, and there's some metaphysical waffle (seems to be endemic in Russian writing!) but the way the plot develops is well done (and indeed, the characters have been discussing the implausibility of plots in literature, so I'm sure the book's formless plot is a deliberate attempt at subversion.)

I liked reading the English translation of a Russian translation of an (unacknowledged) German translation of everyone's favourite Norse quote from the Hávamál.

Recently, Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists (interesting and informative book, though I don't agree with some of its conclusions) and The Ballad of Halo Jones (very good graphic novel, and the Clara Pandy is a strong candidate for "best spaceship design ever".)

Next up after I finish Metro, Anno Dracula, in which Dracula shacks up with Vicky I. Or something. Should be a giggle.

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Vaterland by Robert Harris

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Am seriously annoyed at myself for not discovering him sooner

I'm reading Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov, when I get the time. It's not as dull as I remember. I was a bit disappointed because I'd mistaken it for Foundation and Empire, which I would rather have re-read first.