What Are You Reading *right* Now?

Just curious what's at the top of everyone's TBR piles... I've started tracking mine and there's 22 books in it that I own... plus a stack more than my fiance wants me to read.

Reading Jayne Krentz's After Glow at the moment, though it won't last another day

I don't have such a pile, as my mood completely changes when it comes to reading (or writing, or movies, or....entertainment in general) and I tend to follow it so I don't make myself angry at myself... *ponders the sense in that statement*

In any case, I am currently reading (and almost finished with...) Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

Though not fiction and a light read, it is truthful stuff presented in a comical way--and it is pretty interesting/ entertaining. I don't know what I will read next... most likely something in the Young Adult Fiction category... as I raided BAMM of their discount YA books in January.

Well last night I just finished reading Under the Northern Lights by Tracie Peterson the second in the Alaskan Quest series. I need to buy the third one (Whispers of Winter) tonight or sometime soon. I have a list of about 40 books i want to get. I'm also reading What's A Girl To Do While Waiting for Mr. Right by Janet Folger. I also this week just finshed reading the Ribbons West series and then I'm going to be getting the newest Tracie Peterson books I just saw she had (I kinda like Tracie Peterson. She writes Christian Historical Fiction w/a tinge of romance mixed in) But at the end of April start of May I'll start re reading the HP Series so I can be done for certain by July.

Currently (in addition to text books, journal articles, and review books for work) I am reading Murder On Monday by Ann Purser.

It is a fun novel that centers around a British cleaning woman and her family. Of course a murder occurs and she has to go and solve it using her wit, and brain, and all those 'ins' she has as the town cleaning woman.

What can I say I love books like this!

My TBR pile is growing faster and faster but these stupid exams keep cropping up!

At the moment I'm absolutely loving Pride and Prejudice. It's brilliant so far and a great thing to sit and read in form time.

If you don't know it then you may need to peruse in your nearest book shop and learn a thing or two about Mr Darcy!

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I love Pride and Prejudice... for me, it has a feel good quality to it. Of the other Austen works, I also really enjoyed Mansfield Park. Of course, that could be because it's also the most recent that I've read, and thus most easily remembered.

Last time I picked up a book for leisure reading, I believe it was 'Double Helix' by Sigmund Brouwer... which is insistently nice.

Got a few going....

Heaven by V C Andrews (I like the psycho-drama of her books, even if I don't write her style/genre)

Vital lies and simple truths by Daniel Goleman (psychology about self-deception, starting from the enforcing of it for pure survival and eventual dangerous implications of it)

Foxmask by Juliet Marillier (She's a good author, I loved her first trilogy, but seems like it's getting a bit repetitive in this series)

And next week I'll have uni text books on top of these, wheeee!

At the moment I'm mostly reading web design/development instruction manuals and writing activity books (what a nerd I am, yeah?), but I'm planning on re-reading my new *favorite book ever* any day now. I say re-reading because I absolutely devoured it the first time, and I'm sure there's a TON of lovely stuff in there that I missed because I was just so excited to read.

What is this book, you ask?

Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog

By Ysabeau S. Wilce

It's absolutely brilliant, and I can't say enough good things about it.

I think I'm going to start reading Stardoc now that I've finished with After Glow. It was written by the prolific Ms. Viehl under one of her various pseudynoms. Miss Elisha's Ventura postings put me in the mood for more science fiction.

At the moment? I'm reading Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barret Browning, and Volpone by Ben Jonson, but that, though vaguely enjoyable, is for my degree.

For fun? Well, I have BOUGHT six books this term, with the intention of reading them in the holidays; Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence, Clockwork Orange and some others that I can't remember. Oh! One of the them is an Agatha Christie, for whom I have an everlasting love. She wrote probably over one hundred murder mysteries, and yet I can never predict a single one, and she has (or had. neither makes sense really.) a wonderful narrative style. If you haven't read any, do it!

And reading interwebby design stuff doesn't sound tooo geeky! You do actually have a REASON to do it at least!

And Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice is indeed a favourite; almost goes without saying. I really enjoy Mansfield Park too, though have got less and less patient with Fanny in subsequent readings of it. She totally doesn't deserve...... wait, not plot spoilers. Northanger Abbey is my other favourite; in which Jane Austen completely mocks all of the gothic literature floating about at the time; brilliant.

I'm not very adventurous on the Sci-fi front; the little I've stumbled across I have enjoyed (2001: A Space Oddyessy being the only I can remember right now) but I'm always a little scared of it. Any good starting places?

Oh, i feel like such a n00b... i've never even heard of most of the books in this thread and definitely hadn't read the rest.

Anyway... *looks at shelf*

... i'm currently reading:

- Bridge to Terabithia by Paterson (just saw the movie and loved it so much i ran out to read the book)
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Murakami
- some random book on Buddhism i picked up at the library called Taming the Mind by Chodron.

I read a lot of young adult science fiction as a kid, but never came across anyone really good, so i ended up not really getting into the genre.

With the exception of only one man, who, admittedly, has probably ruined the sci-fi genre for me (by doing so much more with even his sci-fi oriented novels):

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Yeah, I've never got into it, as I said. And, seriously, I haven't heard of a lot of the ones that other people have posted, so don't worry. I try to comfort myself by saying They must be American books... but this probably isn't totally true.

OK, let me just state for the record that I haven't heard of, much less read, most of these books either. Though I will say that I'm much less well-read than I think I should be, particularly considering that I've a degree in English.

Oh, and I tried to read Pride and Prejudice once upon a time and just couldn't do it. Sorry, Austen fans. *was a very, very bad English major*

Most of what I read is either self-help books or popular (read: not exceedingly good) fantasy. I'm trying to expand my literary horizons though, so I'm branching out a bit. Just the other day I ordered the new novel by China Mièville, Un Lun Dun, and I'm very excited to read it.

As for sci-fi, I've never read it either, aside from Dune by Frank Herbert, which I must say, after the first 100 or so pages of bore is absolutely wonderful. I actually wrote a sci-fi novel for NaNo 2006, though there's admittedly little science (I'm not really a science person, so I just made it all up). It's posted in its entirety over on the "You Wrote What?" forum if you're interested.

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