What literary feasts are you tucking into this February?

[Adasunshine]

So, seeing as it's 2nd February 2008 already, I thought someone had better start a new thread for the new month...

For me it's Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny... bloody marvellous!

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[Talysia]

Reading Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor. The copy I'd found was only the first part (the story being continued/finished in another book), so I'm finally getting to see how it ends.

[DeepThought]

Alternating between Allan Moore's Watchmen (reread) and Keats: Selected Poems and Letters.

Cheer's, DeepThought

[elvet]

Have been muddling through Stephen Lawhead's Taliesin. I'm done about 1/3 and it's finally catching my interest.

[Nikitta]

I'm still reading The Silmarillion. It's very fascinating and I enjoy it; it's just not something you just right zip right through, so it will take a while, this one.

[Teresa Edgerton]

I finished the Dinesen, and am now rereading Tanith Lee's The Book of the Damned.

[Lucien21]

It's nearly 3am and i've just finished Duma Key by Stephen King

Very very good book.

[Wiglaf]

Started and finnished His Majesty's Dragon; I have no idea what to read in the next 26 days this month.

[j. d. worthington]

Am currently doing a series of rereadings of things: Carl Jacobi' story collection Revelations in Black being among them, as well as a revisit to A. Merritt's short tale, "Through the Dragon Glass"....

Through the Dragon Glass

[HoopyFrood]

Still reading In A Free State by V.S Naipaul. And A Midsummer Night's Dream definitely has to be read tonight (tonight being Sunday, as it's technically Sunday morning now...)

[Nesacat]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Am currently doing a series of rereadings of things: Carl Jacobi' story collection Revelations in Black being among them, as well as a revisit to A. Merritt's short tale, "Through the Dragon Glass"....

JD ... I do love this tale as well as all his others; The Fox Woman especially. Thanks for waving this at me.

Connavar ... you might want to check out The Fox Woman. You can find it online.

Over the weekend I finished a couple of books due to it storming almost the whole day every-day. Meera and me stayed home and read.

Witches, Wraits & Warlocks - Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance edited by Ronald Curran.

The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Prem is a recently married teacher who is neither very good at teaching nor at being married. He is promised an ally against his wife Indu, whom he ragerds with varying degrees of irritation, when his mother comes to visit. He soon finds, though, that maternal interference is far from helpful, and he receives comfort from an entirely unexpected quarter - his wife - as he discovers through her the joys of being a 'settled husband and householder'.

Strangers by Taichi Yamada
Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada is forced to set up home in his office, situated in a high rise apartment block overlooking Tokyo's busy Route 8. One night, nostalgic for his lost childhood, he decides to visit the entertainment district of Asakusa, the city's dilapidated old downtown area, and there, at the theatre, he meets a likable man, who looks exactly like his long-dead father.

So begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died so many years before. Although they may be apparitions, he takes solace in seeing them, in spite of the damage it seems to do to his health. Can Kei, the mysteriously fragile neighbour with whom Harada begins a tentative relationship, save him from his part?

[Taltos]

Finished Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories - another "classical" horror story in this book - about a retired executioner. Other stories were from funny and interesting to barely readable.
Also finished The Talking Parcel - kids story about three cousins who meet a talking parrot and have to help the parrot to save a magic world. Book seems to somewhat resemble C.S.Lewis - but as I've read only a start of Lewis book, can't comment further.
Now reading Keyes The Shadow of God and Mike Resnick The Outpost

[gully_foyle]

Just finished The Book of Dave by Will Self (and even reviewed it here: The Book of Dave).

Finally (take note J.D.) getting to A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller. Dying to know what a canticle is.

[Nikitta]

Originally Posted by gully_foyle

Finally (take note J.D.) getting to A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller. Dying to know what a canticle is.

Not to be rude canticle - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

[gully_foyle]

But if I follow that link, will there be any point in reading the book?