Unfortunately, I have to read too much stuff for school for my eyes to handle reading much of the fiction stuff. Not that I don't like the books for school, but a change is nice sometimes. In that spirit, I read Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom. I think most of you would like that book a lot. It's part one of a three book series. I read it because I've enjoyed Cornwell's previous series so much, but it didn't hurt any that the story is about Alfred the Great and his descendants as seen "through the eyes of Uhtred, an English boy born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria, captured by the Danes and taught the Viking ways".