What are you reading?

[Sibling DavidH]

Thank 'ee, Aggie - I do hope you win.

And if I win, I'll take you all on a tour of Waterloo and Gettysburg and bore you rigid with my ideas on why the two battles were so similar.  You'll love that! 

[Aggie]

Heck, if I win the $50 million jackpot, I will hand-deliver each copy, and then you can take me on the tour as well.  

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

July's issue of Scientific American

[Lindorm]

Lawyers, Guns and Money -the supplement on "The New Inquisition" for the Unknown Armies RPG. A very good and entertaining read, but also one that starts me longing to get a gaming group going again. It's been waaay too long since I last played any role-playing games or boardgames. Le sigh!

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
'Tis free for download and really, really good. Give it to all the teenaged youngin's you can find.

[Sibling DavidH]

'England's First Castle', about the earliest Norman castle in England - 15 years before    the Norman conquest.
It is recorded to have been built in Herefordshire and we always pretty much knew the politics behind it.  What we didn't know was exactly where it was.  This bloke more or less proves it was in Burghill, walking distance from my house.  And   that settles the argument about the name Burghill, and in my favour!

[Swatopluk]

Rubicon (Tom Holland)

[Pachyderm]

The Spartans (Paul Cartledge)

[Sibling DavidH]

Re-reading the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance.  Magic.

[Aphos]

I like Vance.  I love his Realtime books.

Right now I am reading two books, Lois McMasters Bujold's The Curse of Chalion and Sean Carrol's Endless Forms Most Beautiful.  Both are quite good, though in different ways.

[pieces o nine]

Discovered a marker halfway through The Demon Haunted World;  am finishing it with enjoyment.

[Swatopluk]

The morning papers

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

My son sold me on Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, and I'm liking it.

[Sibling DavidH]

A new book on the battle of Edgehill, by three amateur military historians.  It claims to be a revolutionary new interpretation, but I'm not sure.  They find two reasons for blaming Rupert instead of the usual one and unusually they're biased towards Parliament.  Interesting.

[Swatopluk]

back to Rubicon.
Also going to order a book on apokalyptic scenarios later (do you prefer plagues, metoric strikes or zombie infestations?)