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?

Comments

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Aside from my students' exciting exams and my own dissertation, you mean?

I'm hooked on Laurell K. Hamilton right now. I've read six of her books in the last week. I read a lot of manga of many varieties. Umm...I don't know what I'll read after that. Oh, since Lackey's book "Joust" just came out in paper I'm going to read that soon too.

And then maybe back to plays for awhile; I still have a few left.