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

[Farseer]

Seems I've posted yet another comment that has mysteriously disappeared from up there ^ somewhere!

'Never look a gift horse in the mouth' is a Dutch expression too (Nooit een gegeven paard in de bek kijken). It has to do with the habit of checking a horse's teeth to see if it's healthy.

So interesting how different countries and cultures etc share things, from barely similar right through to almost mirrored and even exact representations. I hate to drag RotE discussion down here but the RotE addict in me can't help but illustrate this with the following: *RotE spoilers*

Spoiler

Well, the way the Skill and the Wit, and also Sa/Odava/Eda/El and possibly even Chranzuli, is depicted in each region for starters...but the former is for the other thread that I am yet to get back to, not this one, and the latter is being discussed here and here as well.

Also the similarities and differences between the games played in both the Mountain Kingdom and the Out Islands (some elements of which we have sort of discussed here), or the similarities and differences between 'The Tale of the Widow and her Son' and 'The Tale of the Boy and the Flying Chair' (I doubt these are the actual titles as I can't remember them properly but they are titles for similar tales or stories told by those in the MK and the SD).

A non-RotE example could be the fact that nearly all, if not all, cultures have a story concerning a great deluge such as is found in connection with Noah's Ark. Hmm, I think I've said this here somewhere before... ...but interesting nonetheless!

As for what I'm reading now, I have advanced somewhat in my re-read of AQ (though I find myself constantly mired in thought at each page turn!) and am also juggling New Moon and Mao's Last Dancer.