Reading list

[autographedcat]

So, I'm thinking that if I actually start talking about the books I'm reading, it'll encourage me to spend more time reading them. I used to read a lot, but in recent years I've started spending too much time in front of the computer and not enough time with a book in my hand. Time to fix that.

Currently, I'm in the middle of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is one of the most entertaining general overviews of science and the history of science that I've ever come across. I really enjoy a genre of non-fiction that I call "anecdotal history", by which I mean "history told in a nonfiction but entertaining manner". I also have Kenneth Davis's "Don't Know Much About History", which I'd read before but only recently reacquired.

Last week, I read Nerve.com's Guide to Sexual Etiquette, which was a marvelously informative book with a droll style. It was slightly different in focus from The Bride Wore Black Leather (And He Looked Fabulous), which is a different sex etiquette book focusing more on altsex than more usual fare. And I'm reading Dan Savage's Savage Love in pieces. As a collection of columns, its easy to read in small pieces. (What I sometimes refer to as a "bathroom book").

So, what are YOU reading right now?

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[armb.livejournal.com]

I got a A Short History of Nearly Everything for Christmas, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Currently I, like Keris, am reading Tcl and the Tk Toolkit. There's a small pile of books I bought from the local library sale, including the first Flashman, waiting to be read, or I might succumb to ordering some of my Amazon wishlist (get the remaining Aubrey/Maturin novels - I did try before Christmas, but they sent the wrong edition, and having two non-matching covers in a series of twenty when matching ones exist was annoying enough I sent them back). I've recently read Revelation Space and Cosmonaut's Keep, both of which have sequels I want to read, and American Gods.

[armb.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I might get some books from the CUSFS library sale (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/cusfs/sale.html), though I haven't organized myself into doing so so far.