I don't get much chance to read. I have quite the collection of books on my shelves and very little time to go through them. Most of my collection is related to Star Trek or Pern. I am in the process of expanding my collection to other things, but haven't managed well enough just yet.

The series I'm reading now is the first DS9 series to appear in a while. Millennium is a set of three books, The Fall of Terok Nor, The War of the Prophets, and Inferno. I'm starting the third of the set now. I liked the first, found the second a bit scattered, and can't say anything about the third at this point. I was so excited to see the Mirror Universe mentioned throgh the series. The Intendant especially was the first and only character to be mentioned in The Fall of Terok Nor, but she's not been in the series. The Mirror Universe was mentioned over and over in the second book, probably just to keep my attention. I simply have a low tolerance level for plots that take place in the future, which The War of the Prophets did. We'll see what the third has in store.

Dragonholder is the biography of Anne McCaffery. I first heard of the book at Dragon*Con last year and finally got a copy of it early this year. I enjoyed reading it and thought it was well done. The presentation of the book itself is elegant. Each page looks as if it's a page out of a scrapbook, which continues with the theme of the McCaffery family simply letting you wander into their home. The cover certainly reflects the beauty within the antique style pages.

I originally bought the book for just the images within, now signed by both Rene and Nana, and then grew to treasure the glimpse it gave into the behind the scenes aspect of filming the show. The $40 hardback now sits on my coffee table in the living room where anyone can come and read about the making of Voyager, Deep Space Nine and Insurrection. The book covers the filming of segments of the movie and parts of the final episodes of the 1997-1998 season of the television shows.

It was a marvelous book to read. I focused on the Deep Space Nine section for the most part and felt like a part of the action.

Around Thanksgiving of last year, I finished reading a book I picked out more from the Gamman side of me than anything else. Of Tangible Ghosts was the first book I'd ever picked up just because I felt like trying something totally different. I'm not sure how I feel about it and I think I've decided on neutral.

The political side of the plot made it something that I didn't pick up all of the time. I'm not sure how to truly judge something that's so far away from anything I'd ever picked up before. It's a different kind of a ghost story than I expected, a murder mystery with a hint of love and a recurring ghost. One of the voices in my head picked out one particular quote that has really struck the Ghost lover in me...

It goes on to question what works like Hamlet would be without the ghosts most of us are sure don't exist. I hadn't noticed the quote until I picked up my Purple pen and started jotting down the lines frantically. I'm not very good at discovering these sorts of things in just about anything I read, so this came as a true blessing to find.

Of all the Pern books, this one is the one I read the most. Not because it's the newest, but because it has the most of everyone's favorite Harper, Robinton. I truly enjoy the way these books are written and MasterHarper of Pern pulls out the most creative parts of me.

I collect various dragon books for my coffee table or just to keep around the house, but the DragonHeart novel is one that I'm always reading. It's probably the best novelization of a movie that I have ever seen, read or heard of to this day. All of the scenes that were taken from the movie were kept in, which explains a bit heare and there about the plot and why things were the way they were. This in no was changes my mind about the movie, however. I think that had the movie kept these parts it wouldn't have been as good and so the novel is even more of a treasure because it did manage to keep its quality. Oh, by the way, look for the sequel "DragonHeart: A New Beginning" on the movie shelves this August.

I've started collecting more books on tape, though all of my collection exists only for the reason that Nana has performed them. I have all but the second of the Orson Scott Card series that began with Seventh Son and am waiting to get Mother of Pearl, which has been promissed to me as a gift. Nana has extraordinary tallent in giving life to each of the characters she reads. This is a collection everyone should have!

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