UPDATE September 2012:

See this post for the latest round of Amazon Kindles, including the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite.

Original older post below.

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UPDATE 28 September 2011

New Kindles and a Kindle tablet called the Kindle Fire have been announced. Here is a …

Jesse Byock: Viking Age Iceland

I read this book prior to my trip to Iceland, and it really served to give me a good sense of the country, how it was settled, who settled it, and how the population grew over time. It also explained the desolation of the countryside – when you …

There are are a couple of new books out or coming out that seem worth investigating.

The first is a book by Majorie Burns titled Perilous Realms: Celtic And Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. From a review in the Rutland Herald:

There’s a new book out on the “Lord of the Rings” and its …