Q: What book are you currently reading? Is it good so far?

I don’t do memes, because once I start, I doubt I’d be able to stop. That wouldn’t end well for anyone, especially my cat who is bacon-averse.

This morning, though, while I was Propelling, I stopped at SF Signal and saw Quick Meme: What are You Reading?

Q: What book are you currently reading? Is it good so far?

Oh! Good question. I’m so glad you asked. I love to read, and I love to talk about books, so I’m going to go ahead and hop onto this one. Don’t worry, I won’t be tagging anyone, because that’s just silly.

Until last year, I’d limit myself and only read one book at a time, but as the pile of things I wanted to read grew ever larger, I decided that it made more sense to go ahead and read a few books in parallel, sort of like watching different channels on different nights. So far, this has worked out pretty well for me, and allowed me to read more books than I normally would without making me feel like I’m sacrificing anything in each individual book.

Does anyone else do this? Is this the normal way people read books, and I’m just figuring it out now? I wonder about these things. Enlighten me.

So, to the meme! Right now, I’m reading The Living Dead anthology, edited by John Joseph Adams. I just love it, but it’s huge. Also, as John at SF Signal observed, because it’s an anthology, it takes longer to read than a book of equal length, because you have to adjust to a new author’s style and find the groove of each new story. I never thought about that very much, but it explains why I don’t read anthologies with the same enthusiasm that I read novels.

I’ve read a few stories in The Living Dead, and I especially liked Kelly Link’s Some Zombie Contingency Plans, Dan Simmons’ This Year’s Class Picture, David Barr Kirtley’s The Skull-Faced Boy, and Dale Bailey’s Death and Suffrage.

I’ve wanted to write a zombie story for years. The last one I wrote was the 7th grade tale of turgid terror “The Land of the Zombies” and I’m anxious to revisit the genre. The Living Dead has inspired me, and I have an idea that I’m outlining right now.

Is it good so far? Oh, you betcha, my friends. It’s fantastic.

I’m also re-reading, for the first time in over fifteen years, Ender’s Game. Nolan has a Sci-Fi class at school, and when he told me that he’d picked Ender’s Game from the reading list, I thought it would be fun to grab my copy out of storage and read it with him.

Nolan isn’t a voracious reader like Ryan is, but when he finds a book that he likes, he pretty much drops everything else in the world until the book is finished. After two days, he had read over 100 pages of Ender, while I was still in the third chapter. He’s agreed to give me a day to catch up, though.

Is it good so far? Yes. Ender’s Game is as fast-paced and accessible as I remember it, and I’m picking up on all sorts of stuff I missed when I was a kid. I loved this book when I was a teenager – I think I first read it when I was 14 or 15 – but I never got into any of the sequels. I find Orson Scott Card’s recent raging homophobia and associated ignorant ranting pretty reprehensible, and I have no interest in giving him any of my money or spending any time reading his current work, but I didn’t know about any of that when I was a kid, and none of that changes how great Ender’s Game is.

Soon I Will Be Invincible. (I’m updating because I forgot to add this one. I’m kind of stupid today.) I still love this. I’m taking my time, though, because I don’t want it to end.

I keep finding myself picking up and skimming through The Pirate’s Guide to Freeport, the 4th Edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, The World of Darkness, and a bunch of old GURPS books: Cyberpunk, Horror, Autoduel and Space. I really want to teach Nolan Car Wars, but I don’t think he has the patience. Goddamn video games.

Are they good so far? Um. Duh.

I’m taking this one step beyond (with the rockingest, rocksteady beat of MADNESS!!) and adding the books I can’t want to start:

Zoe’s Tale. This one is at the top of the pile, because I love the Old Man’s War universe, and Scalzi is my friend. I think it’s another one I can read with Nolan, too.

Pattern Recognition. I was trying to decide if it was going to be this or Spook Country, and everyone I know who has read them both says Pattern Recognition is the way to go.

The Terror. I’ve had this one on the nightstand for months, and I’ve gotten about 2 chapters into it. It’s nearing that point of no return where I know I won’t be able to put it down. I can’t risk losing even more productivity than I already have, though, so it’ll have to keep waiting.

Carter Beats the Devil. My friend Yuri says that I shouldn’t even open this book unless I can clear my life of everything else until I finish it, because it’s that good.

The Graveyard Book. I bought this the day it came out, and it’s going to be my reward when I finish . . . something. I haven’t decided what it is, yet.

House of Leaves. A friend of mine knows the author, and gave me a copy a million years ago. I was intimidated by its size, but I understand that it’s worth it.

Spin. Recommended by a friend, as well. I made it about 100 pages into the book and got distracted by a red balloon. I was intrigued enough to finish it, though. Maybe I’ll get to move it up to the Stuff I’m Reading list.

I’ve been acting more than usual lately. (I know, I know, it’s weird for me, too.) It uses the same creative energy and inspiration sources in my brain as writing, so I just haven’t had anything left at the end of the day to work on the stories I have in various stages of creation. This is frustrating and a little demoralizing to me, but Stephen King says that writers have to read, though, so I’m going to go ahead and give myself permission to . . . uh . . . draw some inspiration . . . from some other writers.

Okay, let’s throw it open in comments: What book are you currently reading? Is it good so far?

182 thoughts on “Q: What book are you currently reading? Is it good so far?”

  1. I’m reading 1984 right now, for the first time actually. One of those books that I’ve wanted to read for a while now, finally made myself sit down and just do it. Enjoying it so far, although given how much the book is referenced in pop culture it’s not like the concept of what I’m reading is new or surprising.
    Didn’t know that about Card, that’s too bad. I’ve read all six Ender-verse books, really like them for the most part.

  2. Just finished reading The Watchmen graphic novel, and I’ve been occasionally reading bits of the 4e Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. Jeez the Realms have changed since the last time I looked in!

  3. I picked that up a while back. I have gotten through the first three.
    I am with you on the Class Picture as well as Death and Suffrage. I am not so sure on the Zombie Contingency Plan. It was a bit out there.

  4. I like reading books in parallel too, except I usually pair a “real” book with a knitting/crochet book.
    Right now I’m reading “The Somnambulist”, which is pretty good so far if you’re a fan of Victoriana/steampunkish things (I am). I’m also reading “Naughty Knits”, which is completely different. But fun so far.

  6. House of Leaves, Spin, and The Terror are all excellent books.
    I’m currently reading Atlas Shrugged again. It’s a phenomenal work and gives some compelling thought material, especially in an election year.
    I also read books in parallel, so I’ve got a stack that I am reading. What I usually do is get a on a kick for non-fiction, or some other genre and power through 5 or 6 books straight. Then I build a parallel stack until I fall into my next fad for reading.

  7. I think lots of people read multiple books at the same time, Wil. You’re just making the jump from analog processing to multiple processing. 🙂
    I’m only reading three books right now:
    Runes of the Earth by Stephen R. Donaldson, a nice return to the Covenant books.
    A Writer’s Book of Days by Judy Reeves, an excellent book of daily writing prompts.
    Writers of the Future, Vol. XXIII not by L. Ron Hubbard, but by lots of great unpublished writers. (Hubbard just created the trust fund for the contest.)

  8. I’m currently reading Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson.
    House of Leaves gave me the willies and still gives me the willies three years later if I think about it too much.

  9. Thank you, truly, for articulating the relationship I have with “Ender’s Game” and Card as he is now. I read the sequels (all of them) and just have nary a clue on the “Speaker” ones what that had to do with anything.
    If you and Nolan get a chance, pick up Fred Pohl’s “Gateway” and sequels for a very good read.

  10. I think lots of people read multiple books at the same time, Wil. You’re just making the jump from analog processing to multiple processing. 🙂
    I’m only reading three books right now:
    Runes of the Earth by Stephen R. Donaldson, a nice return to the Covenant books.
    A Writer’s Book of Days by Judy Reeves, an excellent book of daily writing prompts.
    Writers of the Future, Vol. XXIII not by L. Ron Hubbard, but by lots of great unpublished writers. (Hubbard just created the trust fund for the contest.)

  11. CURSE YOU, WIL WHEATON!!!!
    Everytime you review a book (or 20 of them), I find myself shopping at Amazon. I am a huge fan of (and have been since my early years) Science Ficition, Horror, and Fantasy novels.
    More recently, I acquired a KINDLE and I love it! For the most part, I get instant gratification with the purchasing power and wireless capability of the device! Your last suggestions of THE LAST COLONY, spurred me to pick up other Scalzi books on the KINDLE.
    Thankfully, some of your first suggestions are not kindlized just yet.
    Keep up the great blogging – your audience is growing!
    Bill
    San Jose, CA

  12. Currently reading “It’s Superman” by Tom De Haven. I’ve had it sitting on my shelf for a long while now and finally decided to pick it up a couple days ago.
    So far, it’s great! I love what he’s done with the Superman mythos and characters. Cannot wait to finish it.

  15. I have been a ‘parallel reader’ since college – as a liberal arts major it was somewhat of a necessity.
    At the moment, I am re-reading Watchmen, reading Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’, and plodding very slowly through the ‘Kushiel’s Dart’ series, and my plane book is ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being. On CD in the car I just finished ‘Shadow of the Giant’, one of the Ender’s Game series books (Go go library full of 1disc mp3 books). It has made me go back and pick up Ender’s Game again.

  16. I have an upstairs book and a downstairs book so if I forget to bring one in either direction, Ill have something to read. Right now, I’m reading 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill. It’s pretty good and pretty creepy. I’m also reading Blink by Malcom Gladwell. It’s also good, but requires more of my attention so it has not been attended to as well as the fiction books.
    I wrote down some book titles here that I’m looking forward to checking out. This was a fun post!

  17. I am a little embarrassed to say that I just started Jacob’s Ladder by Donald McCaig. I read Rhett Butler’s People, also by McCaig in like 4 days last week, as it called to me from the shelf at Costco. I became a Gone with the Wind junkie when I was in the Navy as the book was so huge it helped kill time I was supposed to be on guard duty.
    I work full time and am taking 13 units this semester at Sac State, so I should be reading what is assigned to me, but I have “Senior-itis” this semester, and just cannot get into “The American Constitution and its Legacy” when I can be reading something else that is actually fun.

  18. I’m reading The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (based on a recommendation from Nancy Pearl’s book “Book Lust”). I’ve never seen the movie. I was surprised (not very pleasantly) at how much I identify with the main character.
    Also, I second the vote for the Wil Wheaton Book Club. Not that I could really keep up with it, but I’d try.

  19. um… I’m more like Nolan- I get into the book and have to drag myself out to do anything. On the plus side, I tend to read things very quickly. That means I tend to skim, but it’s not unexpected for me to read the same book twice in a week. By then I’ve usually got all the details too.
    Even then, I tend to have one drier book going while I read several others. Currently, it’s Church History in Brief Language, which I actually am enjoying. The chapters are written so that it’s easy to take a break after one and not be lost when you start the next. I can’t tell you how many books I’ve read in the meantime, though. The most recent was Mercedes Lackey’s newest Valdemar book, Foundation. I read it yesterday, in about… um… 6, 7 hours? While caring for 3 kids? I started the re-read today, it’ll take longer.
    Needless to say, I am practically forbidden from buying books because I go through them so fast. Libraries are my friend, especially now that we have a new one nearby with comics/graphic novels/manga!! 🙂 Now, if I can just get them to buy Watchmen…

  20. I just finished The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks. I know Brooks gets a lot of flack for his repetitive plots and characters, but this is the guy who got me into fantasy, so I forgive him a lot.
    Even taking my bias into consideration, this is absolutely one of the best things he’s ever written. It’s the third book in the GENESIS OF SHANNARA trilogy, which is the link between the Word and Void and Shannara series. It’s awesome, it’s post-apocalyptic and it really gets into the story of the Great Wars, which ended the modern age and brought about the world of Shannara. It’s absolutely amazing and if you liked the Word and Void books, you’ll ADORE this series.
    …I sound like a shill, don’t I?

  21. I would just like to register my dislike of the use of that wonderful word, meme, in this context. The concept of a meme is so wonderful that the word should be saved for actual memes. I propose the word “bloggame” instead!
    And I am reading ‘The Name of the Wind’

  22. So funny! Ender’s Game, The Living Dead, and The Terror are all in my “sphere of books” right now (just finished, reading now, or just about to read). I’m very-much looking forward to The Living Dead – I finished up Adams’ other anthology “Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse”, and it was EXCELLENT.
    A few days ago I started Stephenson’s “Anathem”, and put it down for more dedicated reading in about a month. So instead I started “The Wordy Shipmates” by Sarah Vowell.

  23. I have a large stack of stuff to get through. At the moment I’m trying to finish The Android’s Dream, but it’s not really doing it for me. *shrug* I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never read more than one Sandman graphic novel, so we have books 1-9 here from the library, just have to get to those. Then I too have The Graveyard Book. I went to see Mr. Gaiman here in Seattle when he came through to read Chapter 4. It was great and I can’t wait to read it!

  24. Reading more than one book at a time is common, but I decided to read one book at a time so that I could finish each book quicker. I am a slow reader and I get distracted a lot. I am also having a hard time with another thing Stephen King said “turn of the TV and read.”
    I am currently reading The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum. It is a great book, but it shares very little with the movie other than a title. I think this is actually cool, because it is a whole new story, and I don’t know what is going to happen because I have seen the movie.
    It sounds to me like you have the same feeling I do when you go to get a book. You’re thinking: “I want to read this one and this one and this one. Darn it! So many good books, so little time!”

  25. First of all – I think it is completely natural to have many books going at once. My husband and I both have a minimum of 3 books we are reading at one time (normally one of them is shared).
    Currently I’m obsessed with Charles De Lint and am reading every book that I can get my grubby little paws on from paperbackswap. I’m almost done with Spirit in the Wires and it is awesome! The interplay of all the characters that exist in the Newford world has been fascinating. Plus, who doesn’t like a story about sentient technology?
    I’m also reading one of the Torchwood books (that’s our shared book) and trying to plow through DnD 4.0 PHB….ugh….too many freakin’ rules!
    I’m looking forward to Graveyard Book and am enjoying the posts from Neil on the road reading each chapter.

  27. I am currently reading The Black Unicorn by Terry Brooks. I am an avid reader of anything he writes with the word “Shannara” in it and a friend likes his Landover books better so I figured I give them a shot. I really liked Magic Kingdom for Sale and The Black Unicorn is the second book of the series. I particularly enjoy Terry Brooks’ fast paced story telling and straightforward style. Its a bit refreshing for fantasy since everyone seems to think they need to write some opus of double digit volumes to be considered a good author. Relax. If its worth telling I’ll read the story. I could care less if its one short novel or 12 long ones. Have good story, will read.
    P.S.- I really love Tad Williams as well. As a matter of fact his War of the Flowers is one of the finest books I’ve ever read and I dearly loved the Otherland books.

  28. Over the weekend I finished the Graveyard Book. I was at a conference so I bought some books. Zoe’s Tale was one of them. I also bought and read Neil Gaiman’s Alphabet Book with illustrations by Gris Grimley. I started the Golden Compass and American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson but have not gotten back to them and two other books. American Jezebel has early American language that is hard for me go get through but her story is fascinating.

  29. Otherland: River of Blue Fire, by Tad Williams; The War of the Flowers, by same; Lisey’s Story, by Stephen King; Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson; Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott; Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis; The Great War: Walk in Hell, by Harry Turtledove; Colonization: Second Contact, by same….
    @JustDoshia: How could you put The Historian down at Chapter 74? This is were the story starts to get really good!!!
    Here’s another bookclub theme: What have you just finished reading? How did you like it?

  30. I’m currently reading a book called Jack and Jill by James Patterson, but my all time favorite books are the Belgariad Series by David Eddings. Soooooo awesome, I can’t even express it. If you ever have time you should totally read them.

  31. Re-reading the Ringworld series…will be done with book 1 tonight. Also re-reading Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose.
    And yes, Pillars of the Earth is a great book…

  33. I’m on a sci-fi kick, and finished World War Z by Max Brooks, finally read Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (just too many good books, not enough time) and just last night finished Old Man’s War by John Scalzi at your recommendation. Quite literally, I was in Barnes and Noble and searched your blog trying to remember one of your recommendations.
    Regarding Ender’s Game, I really enjoyed it and the sequel’s weren’t nearly as good. But Ender’s Shadow was a good one. Same story told from Bean’s perspective and the resulting storyline was interesting.
    You mentioned “Orson Scott Card’s recent raging homophobia and associated ignorant ranting pretty reprehensible, and I have no interest in giving him any of my money or spending any time reading his current work.”
    I am also conflicted. I loved Ender’s Game until I read more about the author. It does detract from the book and that is unfair. I should be able to separate a person’s opinion on a relatively unrelated topic from their work. He is entitled to express his opinions on the matter and open debate on all issues is a good thing. Even if you are in severe disagreement. How else can we expect things to change without an open dialogue?
    In any other industry that would be discrimination. But I can’t shake it when I’m reading, the writer/reader relationship is an intimate one and in reality I would want nothing to do with someone that close minded. Ignorance is bliss when it comes to certain topics.
    Anyway, mini-rant over. And for those that don’t know, use Wil’s ‘book’ tag in the blog if you are looking for recommendations. Comes in handy when you have a slot to fill in your book list.

  34. Wow, Carter Beats the Devil. Quite fun. You are the first person I know of referencing it.
    Honestly, I listened to the audiobook, but it was one heck of a “read”

  35. Currently, the 6th book in the Harry Potter series. I never read them when they first came out. I feel they’re a bit “young” for me, but I’m still enjoying them.
    xtalcase- I *love* ABHOT by Stephen Hawking!!
    Bean- same goes for HHGTTG!
    bigmoneygrip- Childhood’s End is my favorite ACC book. I read it before I really knew who he was, and it made such an impression on me…
    Blake- I’m a huge SK fan. My fave of his is IT. I love how he writes, and how he uses music in his books. I also love how he frequently (such as in IT, as well as Stand By Me) writes from the perspective of, or at least about the lives of, pre-teens & teenagers. My pre-teens & early teenage years were very happy ones for me, and I’m very nostalgic about that time. SK kind of brings me back there in his books.
    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that many of us here like the same types of books. 🙂
    -Alicia
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    http://www.thewagband.com

  36. Currently reading Naoki Urusawa’s Monster (vol. 16) – great manga, even if it does remind me of “The Fugitive”.
    Re-reading: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. Told from the perspective of Jack the Ripper’s dog – manages to be macabre and fluffy at the same time. A light read.
    Amir Aczel’s Fermat’s Last Theorem. I’ve read mixed reviews about this book, but I like it. I only have 2 yrs of college calculus and some deductive logic, so I need hand-holding on this topic.
    Jame’s Thurber’s My Life and Hard Times. I read “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” four times in junior high and hated it each time, but I love Thurber’s autobiography – witty and self-effacing.
    I love Ender’s Game but find it hard to read his stuff now for the reasons you mentioned. Cheers!

  37. Soon I Will Be Invincible is so great. I read it last summer very quickly. Doctor Impossible slays me.
    Right now I’m reading How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone. I’m only a chapter into it so I can’t make a fair assumption but so far I like it.

  38. I am glad I’m not the only one peeved with Orson Scott Card’s comments as of late. I too read Ender’s game late in my High School career and got as far as half way through Xenocide before I was distracted by some random hot chick or something.
    I recommend reading Speaker for the Dead if you decide to go into the sequels after finishing Ender’s Game. It was a magnificent read but I didn’t find Xenocide, the third book in the series, very enlightening the first time.
    Right now I’m digging into anything Ben Bova. I am currently reading the first book of his Mars trilogy as I plow into his Grand Tour series.
    I also often read multiple books at once, but try to stick to one when I can. In addition to the aforementioned Bova book, I am also reading another by him called Colony along with a third book that is non-fiction called “Man on the Moon” which is a account of the Apollo space missions. All three are very good books, if I may say.

  39. Four pages of comments…wow. Thats a lot.
    Uhm…as for the books Im reading now (yes, plural. Ive been reading multiples at a time since i learned to read) are three different WEB Griffin books: The Last Heros, The Majors, and Call to Arms…
    Crime and Punishment and Clear and Present Danger are in my car, and to finnish off the list is Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon.
    Do I like em? Yeah. Ive read the series that Dragonfly in Amber is in quite a few times since I was a teen. Im in my second read-through of The Corps series (Call to Arms). Last Heroes is good, and Im not liking Brotherhood of War (The Majors) quite as much as the other ones.
    Im also sort of reading a few others via pdf ebook format online, like Pride and Prejudice. Thats going slowly…

  41. I’m reading “The Demon Haunted World” by Carl Sagan. It’s basically a series of essays about thinking critically and the problems that arise when we don’t. A lot of it is about the human tendency to cling to superstitions and popular beliefs despite evidence that disproves them. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but this election year is bringing out the skeptic in me, and I’ve been looking for material to help me make my point when talking to my born-again Christian relatives. So far it’s pretty good. A lot of it is stuff I already know, but he does a great job of addressing all the logical fallacies for a lot of different crazy ideas.
    Next on my reading list is “Why People believe Weird Things” by Michael Shermer. Similar concept.

  42. I read “Soon I Will Be Invincible” and it was surely a fun book.
    I have the “Living Dead” books somewhere in my boxes…
    I’m currently re-reading “Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman. I recently brought it up in literature education courses, and decided to fall for it all over again.

  43. At the moment I am reading Gettysburg by Stephen Sears.
    My typical reading tastes bounce between history (mostly American history from the Revolution up to WW2) and scifi/fantasy.
    Recently I have read Meg, about a huge prehistoric dinosaur/shark, Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, and then a few various SM Stirling and Neil Gaiman books.

  44. I tend to read anywhere from 4 to 7 books at the same time. No one else I know does this. My biggest problem is I can’t stand NOT reading SOMETHING. When a book gets too intense or if I need some light reading after a hard day, I move on to the next book. I thought I was the only person who does this.
    I am currently reading Maps in a Mirror, an anthology of short stories by Orson Scott Card, Heretic by Bernard Cornwell, Antigone by Sophocles, A Medicine for Meloncholy- an anthology of short stories by Ray Bradbury, and today I put away for good Talesien by Stehen Lawhead. Crappy, crappy trash. Not done with it, but seriously I can’t make myself read any more of it.
    I love these memes….my book list just expanded by 2,000.. 🙂

  45. I’m reading Raymond Feist’s Flight of the Nighthawks, Book 1 of the Darkwar Saga. I’m a bit of a Feist freak. It’s good, but not as good as his Riftwar Saga, of course.

  46. Pattern Recognition is a must, followed by Spook Country and then Count Zero-Gibson is fantastic. Just finished Count Zero and it’s amazing how he keeps it up-and seeing how his older stuff has become our current reality reading him is a cool look into the probable future….

  48. Oh, I love book lists. I always have a hard time finding new book to read. But this will set me up for a while. Is anyone on Good Reads? Wil you should get on there.
    Oh and i am reading Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
    and
    Gil Elvgren: The Complete Pinups – which has more pictures than words, but it gives a nice history of Gil Elvgren.

  49. I ordered John Paul Sartre’s ‘Nausea’ and it arrived in the post today. I haven’t got very far yet, but the so far it’s all making sense to me . . . should I be worried about that???

  50. Read and enjoyed Zoe’s Tale, Kitchen Confidential, Little Brother, the Dragaon and … series by Timothy Zahn, a book called Tim that I cannot recall the author of, and Uglies.
    Loved Carter Beat the Devil, this is one of my favorite books of all time.
    Also just finished Playing the Game – about how Nelson Mandela was able to have a peaceful transition into majority rule in South Africa and how the Rugby World Cup helped.
    Currently working on:
    1432 – about great Chinese fleet that sailed all over the world back in the day
    Freakanomics – analyzes more unusual trends such as how legal abortion affects the crime rate and what are the true economics of drug dealers
    Angry Wind – about the area of Africa called the Sahel covering Niger, Nigeria, Chad and so on and one American man’s experiences there
    On the side I have Spin Control by Chris Moriarty and a new Toby Bucknell book.
    I am an avid reader. I will read several books overhte course of a week. My reading style is to read the library books first and work through the ones with no time limit in between. However if a book is really engrossing, I will read it cover to cover even if that means a library book has to wait. I do a lot of non-fiction reading as there are an infinite number of interesting topics. For example I read the book Almost Human: Making Robots Think and I read an autobiography of John Young – civil rights leader and congressman. I read a book about using robots to salvage a sunken ship called Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea and I read a book about the brain and music called This is Your Brain on Music. For fiction, I read a lot of SF, mystery, classic lit., and some contemporary fiction.
    I hope you enjoy seeing what I read.

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