What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[Narya]

After buying and re-reading the Farseer and Tawny Man series about three times, and giving up finding the Live Ship trilogy in any local bookstore, I found MS and SoD in my local library. So I read them (my second time reading, the first time was before I had read any of the other trilogies). Now I've finally found a copy of Ship of Magic in another library, 30 miles away, and am on the last few pages. Interesting to see how certain characters mentioned in the Tawny Man series, first introduced in the Liveship series, are developed, looking at them retrospectively. Once I'm done, I'm free to do something besides curl up with a good RH book for a while... like maybe paying my bills or gardening.

It may be a short respite, though. City of Dragons is on reserve at the library for me in one nearby city, and Words Like Coins and six other short stories by RH/ML beckons me from the on-line card catalogue of other cities within a 50 mile radius, though I have resisted tracking them down.

And there's a book of Rumi poetry sitting on my desk that I haven't cracked yet, though I know I would be sucked in if I started.

[Farseer]

Words Like Coins and six other short stories by RH/ML beckons me from the on-line card catalogue of other cities within a 50 mile radius, though I have resisted tracking them down.

Really? That's fantastic. I think the majority of Hobb fans would swamp the source of WLC if you let it slip....!

Wonderful to read that you have managed to get through LST!

[Narya]

Hobb fans who live in the USA can take advantage of Interlibrary loan. You go to your local library and ask for an interlibrary loan and they will search other libraries until they find one, ask for the loan of it, and mail it to your library. This used to be a free, but I think they charge for it now. Still, it's a useful service. Perhaps other countries have something similar. Here's more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan . Guess I better check out that local copy before someone here borrows it.

There's also WorldCat, a group of mutually sharing libraries. I plug in the name of the book, and my location, and it tells me which nearby libraries have a copy. They don't do the loaning for me, but at least I can find one near enough to go visit. It's at http://www.worldcat.org/ . I notice that they list some Australian libraries.

['thul]

Unfortunately Norwegian libraries lack such book. 'thul tried searching the entire network of Norwegian library databases.

These beings think that Valarya might like the book they are currently reading (see above) on account of a sort of title present there... the title of the leader of a city-state is called "Arya"

[fool-ish]

These beings have heard some good recommendations of that book series, fool-ish, so they look forward to your assessment.

I'll not go so far as to tell you what the story's about, as that would be too spoilerific, but I will say that I've just finished the first book and to be sure it was a gripping read, a real page turner! More sci-fi than fantasy and with it's fair share of moments, it's been a most enjoyable read, if not the most pleasant. The writing is simplistic and is definitely geared towards the teen/young adult market, but that's never put me off and I do recommend it. Book two awaits...

['thul]

These beings will check it out sometime... running through some rereads and rewrites currently...

[Farseer]

I do recommend it. Book two awaits...

Good-o...it's now firmly on my to-read pile, thanks foolish (so says Farseer now that she's bothered to fully read ALL recent posts in this thread! ).

['thul]

These beings were (literally) just reading this:

"Throe error lay in rashly coming within reach of my sword," He told him. "Thy head is forfeit now, and a man with no head has little need of a crown."

(name replaced with "He" to remove any trace of spoiler)

[fool-ish]

Speaking of crowns, I spent my time waiting for the bus earlier gazing at a poster on the bus stop advertising GoT..said crown looked very much like it belonged on the head of someone 'Ironborn.' I pointed it out to a colleague, who merely gave me a blank look..tsk!

What does 'Throe' mean?

['thul]

'thul are uncertain if that might be misspelled. they puzzled at it themselves.
Most likely it is an error from the text recognition software.

The intended word ('thul did not look it up) would be a middle-english form of "your"