Which book are you reading?

I'm a mad science fantasty fan who loves all sword and sorcery books. I'm currently reading Stephen Donaldsen's 'Chronicles of Thomas Covenant' series. It's about a man called Thomas Covenant who is an outcast in his community because he has leprosy. His wife leaves him to protect their son but Covenant can't let go of his 'normal' life and continues to wear his white gold wedding ring. Anyway, he ends up passing out in front of a police car and while he is unconscious he is transported to a place called 'The Land' a wonderful place where health and beauty can be felt aswell as seen. The land is nurtured by a council of Lords who wield the 'earthpower' to benefit the land and people. But they have an Enemy, Lord Foul the Despiser who has summoned Covenant to the Land in the hopes of getting his white gold wedding ring in order to escape the Land by destroying the arch of time where his brother, the creator has imprisoned him. Anyway, Covenant has a miraculous recovery from his leprosy but is so incapable of using his white gold ring because it represents letting himself go and believing that he has power to make positive change which is something his lifestyle of survival from leprosy denies. Anyway, in the third book he finally defeats Lord Foul. The second series is ten years later his time but 4000 years in the land and Lord Foul has succeeded in corrupting the land, the people have lost their health sense. Covenant has lost his health sense too and the land no longer heals his leprosy. He goes on a quest with a woman of his world (who has the health sense) to save the land and at the end they finally beat Lord Foul for good.

I am reading a book by a new author. Her name is Melina Morel. The book is called Devour, and it's a paranormal fiction. It's kind of confusing as they keep switching narration of the story, but the story itself is quite interesting. It's about a man and woman who are werewolf hunters. They have the help of an American school teacher, a vampire, and werecats. They are trying to eliminate werewolves all over the world, since they are ravenous and tend to kill a lot of humans. It's the first werewolf book I've read where the werewolf is considered a threat. All the other werewolf books I've ever read has been in the werewolves perspective and they are trying to convince people that they are not a threat and they don't kill humans. I think that this book is interesting as they don't do that.

I am currently reading a book that I know will have me reaching for the hankies. "Same as Different as Me" by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. It's about two men, black and white. The black one was raised to pick cotton, didn't go to school, didn't learn much, but he did know about things and such. The white one was raised in a home, but he lived moreso an underachievers life until their paths cross. I am also rereading "The Ditchdiggers Daughters", which is about a family of girls raised by their parents as a musical group, but he also taught his daughters to go to college and become doctors. Two of his six daughters did. Very inspirational and is also a movie that was on The Family Channel.

I am reading the third and final book of 'The Ellie Chronicles' by John Marsden, which is a follow on series of his 'Tomorrow' novels, in which a group of teenagers survive an invasion of their country by hiding out in a place they call 'Hell'! Good reading, and plenty of time to get to know and love the characters!

I just bookmooched the Emerald City of Oz. I am reading it to my daughter. That is all I am reading at this time. Nothing for myself yet.

I am currently readying the truth about diamonds by nicole richie. Also, down came the rain by Brooke sheilds, I espically recommend this book for any mothers. Even if you didnt have postpartum it is honest an amazing journey.

I just finished reading "Seen It All and Done The Rest" by Pearl Cleage. Her earlier work, "What Look like Crazy on an Ordinary Day" was one of Oprah's favorite books(and a personal favorite of mine as well). Anyway, you have this African American woman who gained a following over in Europe as an actress in the theater there. When anti American sentiments towards our involvement in Iraq suddenly made her quite unpopular there, she decides to come home to Atlanta to a granddaughter with her own troubles and a house left to her by her mother left in disrepair and somehow she decides to remodel the house, but runs into some unscrupulous realtors with their eye on that house as well as other homes in that neighborhood. When the work they have done on remodeling gets thwarted, things take a turn and they start an online reality show dealing with the house and gains a cult following. Very good book, I truly hated to see the book end. Reading any of Ms Cleage's works are hard to walk away from.

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