So... what are you reading?

[SeumasA]

picked up a good new one. Song of the Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown. I don't usually go for non-fiction. but this is fascinating, it's a historical, biography, sort-of sketch of the medieval Icelandic writer Snorri Sturulson. the one man responsible for everything we know today about Norse Mythology

That sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
I'm currently in the middle of Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy while waiting to see if George R. R. Martin ever finishes his Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) series.
I'm also working on The Lords of the Isles, the Clan Donald and the early Kingdom of the Scots by Ronald Williams.

[Tartan Tess]

Walter Potter's curious world of Taxidermy.

[The Q]

Around the world in eighty days,,............ By Michael Palin.

Just got to the bit where he reaches the USA, strange to realise it was written 26 years ago but the TV series seems like yesterday!

Mind you, the original by Jules Verne was written about 141 years ago

[AlabamaCelticLass]

Finished reading "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon and just started the second book, "Dragonfly in Amber."

Discovered the series when I was looking for ideas for my 18th c. Scottish costume... pictures from the show kept popping up so I was like "What is Outlander?" I bought season 1, volume 1 on DVD, now waiting for vol. 2 to come out on DVD since I don't have Starz.

[Dughlas mor]

That sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
I'm currently in the middle of Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy while waiting to see if George R. R. Martin ever finishes his Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) series.
I'm also working on The Lords of the Isles, the Clan Donald and the early Kingdom of the Scots by Ronald Williams.

I like Joe Abercrombie a lot. Such a wonderfully dark sense of humor. I`ll be looking forward to whatever he comes up with next. I have tried hard to like Song of Ice and Fire, but I think ol`George has just a bit too much going on, too many characters, too many plots. I`ll keep reading though, if he ever gets around to finishing his opus.

Recently finished "Outlander." My two word review....."ho hum"

[O'hAnluain]

Ortona: Canada's Epic World War II Battle by Mark Zuehlke and The biography of Michael Collins ( Mícheál Ó Coileáin)

[Mike_Oettle]

For my birthday last Saturday my wife took me to a book shop and gave me carte blanche to pick a book of my own choice. While we were on the way there my son phoned and said I should pick one from him too, and he would pay his mother.
I thought I would pick up something in the way of a work of literature, or an adventure novel, but instead I settled on Website Building for Dummies and Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France.
Dirty Bertie is by Stephen Clarke, who wrote the hilarious 1 000 Years of Annoying the French. My son not only bought a copy of 1 000 Years a year or two back, but took it with him when he went to France on business (cheeky!). Afterwards I borrowed it from him and had a good chuckle. Dirty Bertie is no less amusing.
Website Building contains all the information I have been trying to lay hands on for years. I learnt to write HTML coding in 1999 (the dark ages of computers, almost) and have picked up no new skills in that area since then. I feel it is high time I got my heraldry website going again, and perhaps ventured into a few more.
My daughter’s gift was also a book: Paddington Here and Now. She has always been amused by my enthusiasm for children’s books (I have a wonderful collection that began with books my mother read as a child), and especially for the bear from Peru who lives in London with Mr and Mrs Brown.
I will have to read the book to my grandchildren, although (since this one does not have illustrations) I had better start with my big Paddington compendium, which has lots of pictures. Of course my grandson is too young for it, and my granddaughter isn’t even born yet, but I am looking forward to many hours of happy reading with them.

[mookien]

Mike: Sounds like you had a great birthday surrounded by family. Lots of good reading there. Congratulations and happy belated birthday!

I was writing Fortran and assembly language (Compass) for the CDC 6400/6600 in the prehistoric computing days of the mid '60s.

John

[GMan]

Belfast Noir edited by Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville

[Tarheel]

I was writing Fortran and assembly language (Compass) for the CDC 6400/6600 in the prehistoric computing days of the mid '60s.

Are we admitting our age John or was your slide rule not enough? I learned to compile DMDs (double meridian distances) when I was in college for surveying classes. Fortran and HP's "polish notation" was necessary for the CV 40 calculators they gave us to work with after I graduated.
I miss the slide rule and trig. tables as well as the ephemeris charts. How about you navigators, does long math haunt your dreams these days?

I agree that Mike's book is a fine gift.