Have you started this one yet? Its on my Amazon shopping list. Planning to buy it soon.
Let me know how you like it.

I'm reading for the 4th time The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I don't really get down with much Fantasy (love sci-fi though) but this series is really just fantastic.

Just started Genes, People, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Mark Seielstad

Just finished In Search of the Indo-Europeans:Language, Archaeology, and Myth by J.P. Mallory
I enjoyed this one, it was very interesting.

This past week I came across a copy of a book called Icelandic: Grammar-Texts-Glossary by Stefán Einarsson. So far it seems quite thorough (although perhaps slightly outdated). Very interesting though.

Well it's ok, not perfect. It's organized a bit strangely and chaotically. He for example placed Egyptian and Chinese in one section since they are both written in pictographic scripts and then tries to explain why one survived and one didn't.

He writes more about history than languages themselves, as the title says. I like it though since he wrote about languages not in so much a chronological order or according to language families, but according to the way they were used throughout history. For example: languages that spread by land and those by sea, those that spread as tools of religion and those as tools of an empire, those that were solely languages of literature and those that were languages of commoners, etc.

Currently I have returned to reading Zarathustra and the Transfiguration of the World by Paul de Breuil. It's a long book and it basically explains Zoroastrianism, its history beginning with Zarathustra, how Zoroastrianism influenced other world religions and how can knowledge of Zarathustra be applied to the modern world. Personally I think its one of the best books ever written.

Knut Hamsun's Mysteries.

Currently I am reading William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Very strangely written, indeed.

I read Delany's Babel-17 last week. Anyone want to discuss how he based the plot on a strong reading of Sapir-Whorf?

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R Martin and Sir Walter Scott's Waverly. Very good books and authors!

I've gotten to the point now where whenever I glance over and someone's reading a book with double Dutch names in it, I just assume it's G. R. R. Martin.

I'm reading Sheridan Le Fanu's In a glass darkly and rereading some E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Because I was recommended it by a friend.

Rowe's Phonemes Allophones phones Phonology.
An Introduction to Syntax by Robert D. Van Valin.

I also decided to pick up the full collection of Grimm stories. I might give it a shot later.