Seterios honey, you just listed all of my favorites! Seriously, it's uncanny...

I haven't had much time for reading, or rather, I just haven't been good at making time to read lately. I used to take a 30 minute bus ride to work where I would catch up on reading, but now I drive and unfortunately, I can't read and drive (though I'm sure some people do).

I was last reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (unabridged version) and a book my friend sent me called Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, but I haven't touched either in a while. *le sigh*

Seterios wrote:

If you want try something, go to http://www.goodreads.com and you can rate the books you've read or are reading and maybe even find others of interest.

I have an account at that website, but yeah, I don't use it much! I got really into it at first, then I guess because I had like two friends there, I got bored.

I understand getting bored and quitting a page out of sheer lack of participation. It's happened. Look at what happened to MySpace when Facebook came around.

The husband (because he knows and loves me) went to a convention in Jersey a few weeks ago. Instead of bringing me back stuff (cause god knows I don't need anything else) he brought me books!

The first is called Shorn and it's by Larissa N Niec who is apparently a child psychologist. It is the first book in a series that the author is publishing through Mercury Retrograde Press. It's the story of a race of people who randomly give birth to children with wings. These winged children are forcibly mutilated and raised as slaves supposedly to atone for what another group of winged people did during the last war. They are supposed to "pay the debt" through service. It's a rather hideous idea of bigotry and false remuneration.

The other is called There Was a Crooked Man, by Edward Morris (also from Mercury Retrograde). The tale is a time travel/alternate history/police drama. All of which sounds good until you actually start reading it. The problem? It's written in the style of a Clockwork Orange. *dies* I really don't think I'm going to be able to read that. It's sad, but there comes a point when you look at a book and say "Yes, I consider myself a reader and lover of books, but you, Sir, are no book." I understand literary masturbation (which is what I call rping by yourself) but it does not belong with a dust jacket on it.

Yes, I'm being mean. But I feel it is deserved. I will read almost anything. The "Almost" is important.

Started 'Clash of Kings' the other night, already got about seven chapters in.

Yeah I can't wait to start that book. Game of Thrones was very nice, it's no wonder it is earning a lot of excitement. I can relate to every character in the book in one way or another, even the villains. It makes them very believable.

I don't know what the video was like, but there is always rape in war and incest in royal families, particularly in the medieval period.. It's just how things worked. Of course HBO probably chose to show off a little more of that aspect. It is HBO after all..