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Not right at this very second, smart ***. Literature-wise. Stuff on bound paper.

I remarked before about Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel and how it was slow going. Once I got past the Polynesia crap, the book has picked up considerably and become much more interesting. I had bought a book about the Spanish Inquisition but I'm back into GG&S for now and will probably finish that off before getting into the foibles of Torquemada & Co. I also have a biography of Abigail Adams I need to get started on.

After that, I'll be ready to go back to Weis & Hickman formulaic fantasy novels or something to give my brain a rest

That book (Guns, germs and steel) is amazing. I read it a couple of months ago, it really opens up a new perspective. I highly recommend it.

At the moment I'm reading The Undercover Economist, which is very intresting if you havent already got a degree in economics. It explains lots of cool stuff in a very simple way, and it's not too biased. It's certainly much better than Freakonomics, which is fun but slightly gimmicky.

Nothing ATM. My spare time is usually spent watching my novela, sewing, working out, or doing something around the house.

Every so often I pick up Madeline Albright's book, but I can only read a bit at a time because I start to panic and think about Armageddon.

Edited, Aug 30th 2006 at 11:27am EDT by Atomicflea

Freakonomics is on my short list, mainly because Samira seemed to think well of it and she & I seem to be of fairly like mind.

Still meandering through Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, which is good but depressing. Fun, though, to read a novel written in 1948. Common expressions that are decidedly not PC in this day and age keep jumping off the page and smacking my sensibilities around.

For a commute book I have Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, pure escapism, nicely done.

Joph, why do you hate teh inerwebs?

Currently reading Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman.

V.S. Naipaul, Half a Life. He's a great Trinidadian/British writer, who recently won the Nobel Prize for literature. I'm really enjoying this book; I just finished Enigma of Arrival a few months back.

Currently digging into Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. He traces the course of evolution backwards from modern humans back to the first single-celled organism, highlighting the various principles and bits of evidence along the way. It's an interesting narative-type approach.

I finally picked up Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop. Finished it up. It was good, but I enjoyed the trilogy better. Apparently there's another book called The Invisible Ring that's part of the Black Jewels Series.

With the school year started, my daughter and I are reading books together. Sweet Valley High is her favorite at the moment for me to read to her.

doesnt sound familiar so I will have to check it out. Danke!

I recently finished reading all of Richard Russo's works, which I happened to read in reverse order which doesn't matter since they're not connected.