I have read The Fires of Heaven and needed a break from such big and loooong reading that I read some shorter novels, A ClockWork Orange and The Lord of the Flies and now A Spell for Chameleon of which I'm almost done.  I am also working on a painting, not very earth shattering, just a simple shell but I am playing with color layers in order to figure out how I want to do my major piece Green Man Wizard.  Doing small paintings of shells help me to focus on color and structure.  Usually monochromatic so I can see how far I can take a certian color and I usually like the results that I put it on my art site artid.com/celtfire