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Originally Posted by orlok
I read this as a teenager, and was blown away and mystified by it in equal measure. It's worth the journey  .
Just started Love in the Time of Cholera. |
I think that I will love it. I can't wait to get my work done for the day so that I can get back to reading
I really enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera, I hope that you do too. It's been many years since I've read it. I recently bought a Spanish special edition of 100 Years of Solitude, and I think that I might do a reread of Love in the Time of Cholera as well.
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Originally Posted by Marrella
Two novellas by George R. R. Martin: The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword. The former was actually a reread, it made me pick up Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series years ago. The two stories tell the adventures of the hedge knight Dunk (Ser Duncan The Tall) and his squire Egg, who is a very interesting character in his own right. They are set about 100 years before "A Game of Thrones", and I really loved to meet a bunch of living Targaryens other than Dany and Viserys.
Highly recommended. There is a third novella in this series which I will read very soon.
Currently reading (I am a very messy reader and have usually at least half a dozen books going, but here are the ones that hold my interest right now):
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman. This is a YA story about a girl who is projected into the past by a mysterious creature. Enjoying it very much so far (I have read about 45% of it).
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling. I have been a Harry Potter fan for 12 years now and I am very happy to finally have them all on my Kindle.
Lancaster and York by Alison Weir. This is a non-fiction book about the Wars of the Roses. I picked this up to do a bit of "background reading" for A Song of Ice and Fire. 
Lightspeed Magazine May 2012. Read 5 of the 8 stories so far and like them a lot better than those in last month's issue.
This year, I am also trying to read most of the short fiction on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. I am currently reading Sauerkraut Station by Ferrett Steinmetz, liking it so far. |
I really, really enjoyed the GRRM novellas. I'd love to get them for my husband, but I don't think that they have been translated into Croatian yet. I'm a long time HP fan, too, and I'm very excited to be able to read them on my Sony Reader. I think that I will be adding Lancaster and York to my massive TBR list.
