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Let's see currently being read, GotMead Forums! (Lots of catching up to do, since I got started so late!)
"First Steps in Winemaking" by C. J. J. Berry - Given to me by my mother who received it from my dad's father in the late 1960s.
"Homebrewing Guide" bye Dave Miller
"ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer" (Studying to become a personal trainer)
"Fitness Swimming" by Emmett Hines (Studying to become a triathlon coach)
"Let us Prey" by Jamie Lee Scott - Because mysteries are mysterious.
 
Just finished rereading S.M. Stirling's Dies The Fire series. Just started reading the second book in the I am Number Four series. Also reread City of Bones since they are releasing a movie of it. May go back and read Beautiful Creatures since they are releasing a movie of it too. When I am not reading I am catching up on podcast like the Wigglian Way and waiting on Pagan Centered Podcast to start back releasing episodes.
 
Good Omens is one of my all time favorite books - I so adore Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I've had the good luck to meet both of them, and, by chance, had several of each's book with me. My Good Omens is signed by both, and they do it in the expected grand manner:

The first person to sign it uses an opening line from 10 jokes. The second author signs it with the punchline. Mine says:

Gaiman: "Burn this book!"
Pratchett: "Apply sacred match HERE."

I LOVE IT!
 
Haha! Awesome! Maybe someday i'll get a chance to get some of their books signed and give Neil a bottle of mead that i've madecalled 'Sandman' or 'Sleer' or something else that i would've named from one of his books.
 
I've wondered about recreating his funeral wine from Anansi Boys.

"Its seasoned with bitter aloes and rosemary, and with the tears of brokenhearted virgins."

Wow, that man . . .
 
I haven't read Anansi boys but i know the character since i read American God but i'll pick it up next :) And i'm sure you could find some brokenhearted virgin teardrops on ebay...i wonder how much you'd have to use... haha
 
xopher425 said:
Good Omens is one of my all time favorite books - I so adore Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I've had the good luck to meet both of them, and, by chance, had several of each's book with me. My Good Omens is signed by both, and they do it in the expected grand manner:

The first person to sign it uses an opening line from 10 jokes. The second author signs it with the punchline. Mine says:

Gaiman: "Burn this book!"
Pratchett: "Apply sacred match HERE."

I LOVE IT!
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That's so awesome... it's one of those books I read every couple of years... my cassette player in the Chevette no longer works so I don't have to worry about increasing the stockpile of Best of Queen tapes anymore... (although with the Beast it was always an Iron Maiden tape)
 
Chevette Girl said:
my cassette player in the Chevette no longer works so I don't have to worry about increasing the stockpile of Best of Queen tapes anymore... (although with the Beast it was always an Iron Maiden tape)
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I find myself listening to 7th son of a 7th son front to back at least 2x a week.

Im taking a break from GoT Book five cause its just to bulky, and going back to finish Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles
 
Marshmallow Blue said:
I find myself listening to 7th son of a 7th son front to back at least 2x a week.
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Aah... 7th Son did its time in my tape deck but it somehow got too tight and triggered the auto-reverse before it would hit the end of the tape, same happened with Piece of Mind... so for about the last three years, it was their self-titled album (with the songs Iron Maiden, Transylvania, Running Free, Sanctuary and Phantom of the Opera) that got popped into the tape deck every time the radio ticked me off... which is fairly often since the three stations I listen to most all seem to go on really long commercial breaks all at the same time. Now I've got a CD player hooked up to battery-powered speakers (SOO crappy) and my new Alice Cooper CD (Welcome 2 My Nightmare) is in it for when I'm sick of the commercials. Wish the thing had programmable radio stations and bigger buttons though, it's really not safe to fiddle with while driving so I have to wait till the next stop light... However, I think we should be resurrecting the "what are you listening to" thread should we feel the need to continue this discussion...

Still working through Emma. Not really enjoying it. She (Emma) is a nasty piece of work, and I don't often enjoy books centred around charactes I loathe. Not ever, in fact, do I recall enjoying a book where I hated the main characters. Was talking to my boss (~75 year old lady) about it last week and she gleefully told me she hoped whoever Emma ends up marrying at the end of the book would beat some sense into her :eek: I think I may go back to my familiar old Mercedes Lackey for a while after I finish this one...
 
Marshmallow Blue said:
and going back to finish Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles
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Ah yes "and there will come soft rains"... I have all kinds of time to read though school has made it hard to do anything else but read for class, re-reading The Possibility of an Island in between some BYO mags and other brew-related books, gotta get my real education anyhow ;)
 
Ha ha! I haven't read a book since I started 2nd shift. That was 16 yrs ago. But, The Death Gate Cycle by Margret Wiess and Tracy Hickman, 7 books, 7 stories. 2 thumbs up!
 
Ten Beers said:
Ha ha! I haven't read a book since I started 2nd shift. That was 16 yrs ago. But, The Death Gate Cycle by Margret Wiess and Tracy Hickman, 7 books, 7 stories. 2 thumbs up!
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I totally concur on the Death Gate Cycle. That was the series that actually got me reading beyond required school readings.
 
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