Robin Hobb, the Liveship Trader trilogy
The Times University Guide
How to fill out your UCAS form
and I’m still reading London’s Biography by Ackroyed. Great book, been reading it for 1 and a half years now, lol, but it is good - just not something you can read in a week… uh… or a year 
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You’re pregnant Marie? 
Hope you’re coping with everything. Any ideas for names yet?
Congrats, Marie! Sears is good, I didn’t know about him when I was pregnant, but I got the Discipline Book later. The title is a little off-putting, if you don’t know what Sears stands for, but it is a great book. It has been a great source of info (and consolation sometimes ) for me.
Ingrid, mum of two.
I had forgotten to add my current title, it’s “Science and Modern World” by A.N.Whitehead. His terms torture my brain. 
Every time I try to reply I just look at mingshey’s avatar. That is one cool baby.
Just as a minor update: I finished Herodotus’ Histories yesterday. I started (and finished) Aristophanes Arkhanians and Knights today, and will start reading The Republic tomorrow. Hurray for having too much time on my hands 
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Just finished The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears.
Oh, I think it’s too early to say. I don’t even know if it’ll be a boy or girl yet. My husband & I are bouncing a few names around, but nothing definite yet. Spending lots of time looking at baby name websites, and making a list of names we like.
I’ll have to check out the Discipline Book. I like the Pregnancy Book. I ordered 5 books today – through Textkit (http://www.textkit.com/support/) – including the Birth Book and the Baby Book, both by Sears. They seem to have A LOT of books.
August 1914, Alexander Soljenitsyin
An introduction to Comparative Law, Zweigert & Kötz
Discours sur la méthode, Descartes
and,
Going through Corto Maltese comics
Ancient History: Evidence and Models by M.I.Finley
The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750 by Peter Brown
Just bought the Ancient Greek-Chinese Dictionary which is finally published after 20 years’ silence.
The only book I’ve read about pregnancy is Sandra Steingraber’s “Having Faith”. Sehr interessant! I hope mariek would like it.
What are you going to do with an ancient greek/chinese dictionary?
jc
Latin: Aeneid: Book 5
Greek: Iliad Book 3
Old English: Grammar and Reader ( Robt. E. Diamond )
Archaeology of Colorado ( Cassells )
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All in English I’m afraid…
Virgil: Aeneid Book 1
A study guide on Plato
Oxford prospectus
Pride and Prejudice for the 20th or so time(!)
Dante: Inferno
Ah! It’s a truth universally acknowledged…
I should re-re-re-re-re-read it. It’s at least a year ago since I did .
Ingrid
Greek -Dionysius Halicarnassus Roman antiquities
Latin - Marsilio Ficino’s commentary on Plato’s Symposium
English - Arthur Machen -Holy Terrors
bit of an odd mixture but all very enjoyable
Yesterday on recommendation from a friend I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I’d ALMOST forgotten how bad “teen lit” was 
However I was curious about a book mentioned in the book so I checked out Naked Lunch (and I have to say teen lit recommending Naked Lunch and you know only 11-year-olds read teen lit without mentioning what it is think of the children!111), liked the introduction and appendices but couldn’t get my head around the book itself (read maybe 20 pages). I’d love to see the cliff notes for it though.
It strikes me that some of us have slightly different definitions of “reading”. Reading Sihler is somewhat different from “How to fill out your UCAS form” I imagine.
I read all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons. Some I read every day, some every week; some I dip into, some I read from cover to cover…
One book I’m rather enjoying is Georges Roux’s “Ancient Iraq” - which is a introductory survey of the ancient near east.
what’s Old English like then?
Macbeth, in the kings english
The Gospel of Luke, also in the kings english (and other translations)