What are you reading right now?

[turpin]

The 100 days, by Patrick O'Brian. The adventures of "Lucky Jack" Aubrey and the crew of HMS Surprise during the period between Napoleon's escape from Elba and Waterloo.

[bubba]

I'm in an Anne McCaffrey mood right now. I'm in the middle of the Rowan series. I just finished reading the Rowan and Damia and I'm almost finished with Damia's Children. Next up is Lyon's Pride and the Tower and the Hive.

[MacTavishOfJapan]

Been trying to read Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin for months. Not a bad book, good actually but I just can't read at the moment.

[Riverkilt]

Just finished "Into the Canyon, Seven Years in Navajo Country" by Lucy Moore. Must reading for anyone moving to Navajoland, or even visiting.

Ron

[haukehaien]

Life is too short to read just one book at a time. Current selections are:
What's So Amazing About Grace, Philip Yancey
The Spellsinger Series, Alan Dean Foster (specifically reading The Paths of the Perambulator)
At Ease: Stories I Tell To Friends, Dwight Eisenhower

[Mr. Kilt]

At home: "The Angel Maker" by Ridley Pearson. It's the story of a Seattle veterenarian who is harvesting major organs from humans, without their consent.

At work: "The Midnight Club" by James Patterson. This one is about a New York detective who is on the hunt for a killer. I read whenever I have time to kill at a time point on my bus route, and I haven't read enough of the story yet to give a better description.

I also just picked up a small hard-cover book by Brenda Ralph Lewis, called "Tartans" It was in the discount bin at a local shop. I flip through it once in awhile and I've already found some errors, based on what I've learned here. It's still an interesting little book, with pictures and information on over 300 various historic and modern tartans.

[Panache]

At the moment I'm reading:

Kidnapped: by Robert Louis Stevenson

Just watched the most recent BBC TV adaptation a couple of weeks ago.
I haven't read the book since grade school.

Being that it was Fall, Halloween time and all I've been perusing a few stories to get me in the "spirit".

Casting the Runes and other Ghost Stories: M.R. James

Recently watched the old Movie "Night of the Demon" and wanted to reread the original short story it was based on "Casting the Runes". M.R. James is an effective and classy story teller.

H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror: Various

H.P. Lovecraft was an American writer of horror stories or "weird tales" from the 20's. His career was fairly short but his impact on Horror Fiction was immense. He wrote a nonfiction piece that was one of the very first literary overviews of Horror fiction entitled "Supernatural Horror in Literature". Lovecraft traces Horror stories from the middle ages, to the flourishing of the Gothic tales, and to the present (circa 1920). This volume includes: "Supernatural Horror in Literature" as well as as many of the actual tales that Lovecraft reviewed/mentioned as the editors could get rights to.
This includes works by such authors as Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens. M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Machen, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert Louis Stevenson.


Cheers

[Woodsheal]

Just started "Gettysburg" by Steven W. Sears, one of my favorite Civil War historians. Recently re-read "Robinson Crusoe", which I hadn't visited since I was a kid. That was quite rewarding!
I alternate between history and fiction - usually historic fiction or sci-fi/fantasy....

[starbkjrus]

I'm reading two books at the moment. One is Barrel Fever by David Sedaris. It is humor of a style that I can only call Post Modern Sarcastic Weird. Good though.

The other one I just picked up is Battle of Corrin from the Legends of Dune series. I loved the original Dune but by the time it got to God Emperor of Dune it was WAY to involved in philosophy and theology. Interesting topics but not exactly escapist reading.

I've found that the er...historical Dune texts are much more enjoyable and they paint a vivid picture of what brought the human race to the state it was in in Frank Herbert's original novel.

Fantasic books if that is your genre.

[millar]

Feeling very retro I am re-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence. It is a great book about life and thought. Also on the night stand is William Carlos Williams collected poems, Magic Mountain and Chi Running.