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Currently reading.. well, the title would probably be translated as Plowed land: A guidebook to interpretation of historical maps and landscapes.

Tirza - Arnon Grunberg.

The past couple of months I've been re-reading the Harry Potter series in preparation for the final movie.

After that I finally got round to reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton which is great.

I've started Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg today. I'm not sure how I'm going to feel once it gets to the arctic stage but it has a great start.

Cloud Atlas was alright, bit pointless though. Hum ho. I'm (after much deliberation, foreboding &c.) attempting to read the first book of the Wheel of Time (under my rolling buy-it-secondhand-know-your-enemy programme.) I'm one chapter in. It's as atrocious as I remember. Cliched, horrible prose, gratingly sexist, stupid characters with stupid names (I'm mentally pronouncing the gratuitous apostrophes as "pillock", as Rand alpillockThor - and what's with calling a character Rand anyway? elsewhere perhaps, but no way an American author calls someone Rand accidentally) and feeble copying "and over here's the Mountains of Mist, da-dum!" oh, be still my bleeding brain. It has cleared up one little mystery for me - it now seems clear that the scriptwriters for the LoTR films were themselves imitating Jordan, which explains why the film dialogue and plot veered towards the "shite" end of the spectrum.

Seriously, I'd rather read Battlefield Earth. I'd much rather read Battlefield Earth. That's how bad this is. I'm rooting for the evil guy who showed up in the prologue. He seems to have the right idea.

Wolves of the Calla written by Stephen King.

I read a few pages of my copy and kinda sensed it was going to be one of those books.

I'm reading a bunch of mostly impenetrable and technical texts on meditation.

Some random medical textbook by I forgot the author's name, Kingdom Hearts II by Shiro Amano, and 50 Jobs for your Personality Type.

It gets better, a bit - without giving anything away, the chapters are written in different hands and different styles and it's implied that they may be fiction even within the context of the book. But yeah.

Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth.

Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth.

I am reading Camus's The Stranger. It is about how people judge and persecute an individual based on not acting the way they are supposed to act.

Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux.

Well I've just finished (and restarted due to lack of anything better)

Goodnight Mister Tom, by Michelle Magorian

I picked it up while looking for books to read to my 7yr old, thinking I'd read it before.
It is a story about a 2nd world war evacuee, but some parts were a lot darker than I thought and I'm not sure I will be sharing it soon. (Especially since the mother is such a villain of the piece)

The story is probably a bit sentimental, but I had a few tears reading it on Saturday.

Long walk to freedom - Nelson Mandela

Still on with The Eye of the World - it has improved, or perhaps I'm just tuning out the annoyances better. He's a bit better at storytelling than scene setting.

I have a half dozen spy thrillers to plough through next, but I'll probably see if I can get the next WoT book after.

(And now he's gone into full on Japan-worship as seems to have been very popular in American media from the late eighties / early nineties; oh well, it's kinda funny.)

Det viskande barnet ("The whispering child" for those of you who don't speak Swedish). It's.. weird.