Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic has been a pleasant diversion for the last week.
I'm reading The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell. It's #6 in the Saxon (Last Kingdom) series. The series follows a warrior from youth to old age in Anglo Saxon England. Cornwell tells a good tale. He is a pretty prolific writer. To some degree his heroes are all cut from the same cloth and there are some repeating themes and characters. There's lots of action and his history is robust.
+1I love his Saxon series the best out of all his works. Uhtred is a very entertaining character.
While not technically a read, the gunslinger series on audio is one of my King favorites.This must be my year for Finishing What I Started (such as still participating in The _____ Willy, 3017 Williams Mug Soap Challenge V2.0), because I'm still slogging through Robert Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast" (1980). I had read it in the '80s, and I was hoping I would like it better this time around. No such luck. It could have been condensed into a 100 page novella, and still be tedious.
But I will finish it.
And then cleanse my palate by re-reading Stephen King's "Black House" or something.
A very good book.Another relevant book I would recommend is Philip Roth's Plot Against America.
May I recommend "The High Mountains of Portugal" by Yann Martel? Not as good as "Life of Pi", but helps with Portugal a bit.Blindness by José Saramago
Getting ready for Portugal
Excellent! Thank you!May I recommend "The High Mountains of Portugal" by Yann Martel? Not as good as "Life of Pi", but helps with Portugal a bit.