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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[keristor.livejournal.com]

At the moment I'm re-working my way through Elizabeth Moon's "Serrano Legacy" series (only 7 books because that's what she planned, it's not an open ended series like so many). After that it will be back to Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire series, since I had only read the first two and have only just got the others. For non-fiction, "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" (but I also need to reread Korzybski's "Science and Sanity", that's not a book I can read in bed though because it's too heavy to hold up).

I don't have books in the bathroom, I go in there for specific purposes which are non-compatible with printed paper. And it's cold...