What I'm Currently Reading and a Movie Announcement

I'm currently reading Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Elisabeth and Eric Freeman. This is definitely NOT the kind of book I usually read, but I'm enjoying it! Josh suggested it to me. It's not written like your typical textbook and is very easy to read, even if you don't know much about html. So far, I've known about half the information in the book. Most of the html I already knew I learned through looking at codes here and there on the web when I wanted a specific thing, but I've learned that I wasn't doing a couple of the things exactly the correct way, and I've picked up some new tricks as well. If you want to learn a bit more about html, I'd recommend this book!

At the same time, I've started reading a new-to-me set of books called the Mithgar series by Dennis L. McKiernan. There are quite a number of books in the series. Right now I'm about halfway through the first book, The Dark Tide. It's pretty good so far, very high fantasy and Lord of the Rings-ish in style.

I didn't start reading books in the fantasy genre til Josh suggested I read J. R. R. Tolkein's The Hobbit* and LOTR triology back when he learned Peter Jackson was making the LOTR movies. I really enjoyed the books but still didn't read any more fantasy til I picked up the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini this past summer. To my surprise, I'm discovering I really like the high fantasy genre, although maybe I shouldn't be so surprised since I also like reading historical fiction set in the Middle Ages, and high fantasy shares a similar setting.

*I just discovered that the same team that wrote the screen play for the LOTR movies has written one for The Hobbit and production is set to start in 2010 with the movie to be released in 2012!