• Just finished re-reading "The Hobbit". I'm getting ready to go see "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy of movies, due to come out soon.
• Read "The Temple and Stone" and "The Temple and the Crown" - basically speculative historical fiction about the fall of the Knights of the Temple, or the Templars. Dabbles a bit too much in the religious and the "old" magic for my taste.

• Tad Williams final book in his series "Tower of Black Glass". It finishes up another virtual reality gone horribly wrong type of story.
• I also read "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" which was sort of disappointing. Especially since after buying a new copy, I come to notice I already have a copy in my vast library.
• And because I wanted to, I re-read "A Stranger in a Strange Land" because I've been meaning to, for some time now. And I find with a few more years behind me, I followed the book a lot better.

I just finished Terry Pratchett's "Thief of Time" and this was much better than The Truth, imho.

I also read Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and "The Diamond Age". I have this grand plan, see? I saw Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" on a buddy's bookshelf and said I'd be interested in borrowing it. He turned me on to these earlier works and I thought I'd read them first to learn Stephenson's "style". But the style is different between those two books, though he does show an amazing understanding of techology and it's possibilities. I preferred "Snow Crash" over "The Diamond Age". I look forward to reading the Cryptonomicon.