The Reading Keep : My reading list

I am almost too tired to be making this post, but I am anyway! So this picture about sums up how I feel about books and reading lists: I want more of them than I can probably manage. That is why I am resigned to building a Keep to hold what will be someday a truly absurd number of books. This entry, and its fellows to come, will be the precursor to the actual physical "Reading Keep," and for now all it will be holding is the books I am most currently reading. I am quite serious about this being a physical structure, and blueprints will be forthcoming, just you wait. Now then!

At the moment I am working my way through:

1984 by George Orwell

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
and
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

I have read all of these before, aside from the last one. I tend to have several different books for several different purposes.

1984 is what I take with me when I am going somewhere and I know I will have some time to kill, like the Doctors office, or some other sort of appointment.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is what I read shortly before going to bed. I really love this novel and all its wonderful relatives, and when tired the rich detail sends me off to a rather wonderful world of slumber. I mean this in all of the best ways, and at times the book will keep me awake more than help me fall asleep.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire isn't actually what I am "reading" at the moment. Don't get me wrong though I am not watching the movies. I could write an entire series of posts on how I feel about the movies, maybe even a whole other blog. I have taken to listening to the Harry Potter Novels on Audio book instead of watching TV. Any time I have the desire to watch TV I usually squelch it with a good book, but at times when I need some kind of sound other than the gears of my own mind, I turn to a good audio book. Recently the audio books of the Harry Potter series, as voiced by Jim Dale, have served me quite well.

Last, but certainly not least, Neverwhere is the novel that I am actively working my way through at the moment. I am a big fan of Neil Gaiman and enjoy his work immensely. This is currently the only book that I will spend hour upon hour on, and as usual, it is going by too fast, but that is not author's fault, merely my voracious appetite. I have read several of his novels including American Gods, Stardust, The Graveyard Book, and the novel he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens.

All of the novels I have listed or mentioned come highly recommended from me and I am sure will offer you a good time. If anyone has any suggestions I would be more than happy to hear them. I will read anything really, I am definitely not a genre snob and can even joy non-fiction. Although I am not afraid of making some enemies now in saying that nothing but angry spurting will come from suggesting Twilight, or any of its author's other work. Fair warning.

I know this is a long post, but hey, why not make it longer. I am open to the idea of starting a book club if anyone is interested. I know this blog is in its infancy at the moment and the club might only consist of myself for a bit, but I thought I would get the idea out there. It would be something like one book a month and could range wildly in genre, and be very open to suggestion.

Best to all! And Goodnight!