Summer reading list

What are you hoping to
read this summer? We posed this question to the Century staff, a group of people with diverse tastes
and interests. Along with commenting on our choices, feel free to post your own
in the comments. --Ed.

I have two major reading projects that
I'll be continuing in tandem this summer. They may sound like polar opposites,
but I find them to be quite similar.

The first is George R.R. Martin's epic
fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, which I'm reading feverishly in the
hopes of being caught up when the latest installment, A Dance With Dragons, comes out in July. Set
amidst the political power struggles of the fictional land of Westeros, the
series develops complicated, unpredictable characters better than most fiction
I've read.