What are you reading right now?

Winter Break is my read-a-novel opportunity.
Beowulf
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Pagan Lord (historical fiction of 10th century England) Bernard Cornwell.

Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Czeslaw Milosz.

Cabur Senaar wrote: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin.

You might find this book in your lesson list...

I received this book for Christmas. I adore LeGuin.

I am reading a couple things:
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (blowing my tiny mind)
Road To Heaven by Bill Porter

I'm halfway through Mockingjay (yes, the Hunger Games books). My daughter is making me read it.

I have to say though... of all of the terrible, awful books I've read with Mary Sue protagonists over the years, this one finally get a female character right. She's deeply flawed, she screws up, she's insecure... she's the most sincerely written female that I've seen in ages. When I finally write something of worth, I'd like to feel as real as what Suzanne Collins has written.

That said, the situations are utterly stupid. But those characters...

I read the biography of Robert H Goddard when I was young, so now I'm going through the autobiography of Boris Chertok, who was "a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft" during the full span of the 20th century.

Quite interesting so far if your into that sort of stuff, and is called "the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program" on wikipedia!



Consists of 4 Volumes, and can be downloaded for free at;
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/rockets_people_vol1_detail.html

I'm currently reading:

• Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories by John Jackson Miller
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Karate-Do: My Way of Life by Gichin Funakoshi
• Ghost Night by Heather Graham

I just finished "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." I'm just beginning The Jedi Path.

I'm currently reading:

• Karate-Do Kyohan: The Master Text by Gichin Funakoshi
• The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts and Other Tales by Issai Chozanshi
• Haunted by Heather Graham
• Glimpses of Heaven by Trudy Harris

I think that I'll start reading this one next.

Alan wrote:
Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Czeslaw Milosz.

A friend of mine gave me a book by Czeslaw Milosz called Road-side Dog. Perhaps I shall have to dig in to this again soon.

I'm currently reading

• The Mediation Process: Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict by Christopher Moore
• How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev