Books girls and I are reading.

From left to right: books to read, Maeve's, Kate's, mine.
At front current books: Val Biro, Gumdrop for Maeve. Philip Pullman, Northern Lights for Kate. Neal Stephenson, Anathem for me.

Gerard Whelan, The Guns of Easter for Kate & I finished it last night. Good book! How messy the rising was.

Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (not pictured) and The Last of The High Kings also read recently by me. Maybe Kate. Good stories. And I really like the tunes in The New Policeman.

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (not pictured) (the one with the young witch Tiffany Aching and the Nac Mac Feegles from Chalk sheep rearing hills) also also read recently by Kate and myself.

Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories.
William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties.
Andrew Martin, The Lost Luggage Porter.
Dr. Seuss, Oh The Thinks You Can think.
Various Little Miss and Mr Men books.



Timeline diagram:
http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discworld-reading-order-guide-20.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld

http://www.lspace.org/books/timeline/dw-timeline-intro.html


http://xkcd.com/625/
http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/discworld/map.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Aching
 

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lovely webcomics, current reading: Ctrl-Alt-Del, xkcd, Moosehead stew, Eragon, Mossflower, Herd, ...

I FINALLY caught up to where I had discovered and started Ctrl-Alt-Del webcomic half way: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20040204 Now I just have to find where I left off somewhere probably a year or so after that one again and read to last or current. Very funny, laughing out loud almost sometimes. Don't like the weird cook though. No.

Others I follow now regularily (my regularity being occasional binges interspersed with sometimes months of not following).

http://xkcd.com/ SO excellent. So clever. I want the t-shirt! Oh wait. I have two! :) - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe


http://www.mooseheadstew.com/  So lovely. Ever so slightly madly geeky (or is that geekily mad?) indian (as in red Canadian/American) comic artist. There are hedgehogs on occasion!
http://www.weregeek.com/ Alina(of Moosehead stew)'s polished comic aboutish a gang of gaming geeks.

http://www.freakangels.com/
Warren Ellis's Freakangels. Every Friday.
Like the best of what might be in 2000AD. Original.
Not safe for kids, nor is Ctrl-Alt-Del sometimes and on occasion.

 http://www.warrenellis.com/

http://thedailywtf.com/

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/index.html

We like lovely pictures and stories.


In paper form I've finished one of Daire's books - and another, Brisinger the 3rd of Eragon cycle which I've finally got. Nice. Grand. I like a good yarn. With different creatures and cultures. But mmmh the magic maybe in a way is too powerful and makes things too easy. And I don't know how the dragon puts up with being in Eragon's head the whole time as one book is enough :-P for now anyway :)

And I'm on a nice mousey tale now. Mossflower. Warrior mouses. Like the rats of Nimh + Wind & the Willows only a bit more feudal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossflower
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=mossflower

And there are 8 or so other books on the pile as usual.

Also reading Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature http://www.amazon.co.uk/Herd-Change-Behaviour-Harnessing-Nature/dp/0470060360 I can't even edge in on a conversation and influence one person mostly. Sometimes I can with my kids. The younger ones! So I'm very curious how to influence people en-masse. Onward! Towards a liberal fun greener lovlier future.  Surprised the intro/other stuff pitches it as a marketing/advertising business book. Cool ideas, very thought provoking, makes sense OF course we've a huge herd instinct, he illustrates and describes this working in different ways very very well.