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I'm reading a book called Tiger's Curse. It's funny because the main character, the girl, strikes me as having autistic tendencies... the way she sorts her clothes by color and also mentions having a 'hypersensitivity disorder'. Mind you, I'm not SAYING she is but just a few things I notice that seem a bit autistic like. XD

It's a good book though. I loooooooove white tigers and this book attracted my attention. There is another book I want to read but stupid wal-mart only has the second book of the series. >>; Stupid wal-mart.

I'm currently reading Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Asperger's by John Elder Robison.

The Eye: A Natural History by Simon Ings

The Dark and Hollow Places - Carrie Ryan
Divergent - Veronica Roth

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: by Phillip K. Dick.
It's so, so very good.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick

the first PKD ive read. Im likeing the writing style so far (1/3 way in) i often enjoy the earlier stages of a novel where its establishing itself, then lose interest slowly especially if theres a complex plot i struggle to keep track of.

Ive put off reading this book a few times, because i hapopen to have picked it up at times when ive felt ill and (reading the blurb) thought the subject matter might plunge me further into psychosomatic dysphoria. maybe a bit too close to my own demons. I was outdoors today, feeling really anxious, and thought ill sit down & start reading to and calm myself down - didnt work! I got to the bit where they were explaining the left-right thing and had a premonition that i should stop immediately.

But ive started it now so ill have to finish.

Embassytown was very good, and the central premise - a very literal Language in which only true things can be expressed - is interestingly relevant. Easily the best take I've seen on the "aliens who cannot tell a lie" trope.

Now on with Broken Angels.

Always reading The Bible, and also reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Glancing at my bookshelf, I currently have bookmarks in:

* Beowulf (Anonymous)
* Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (David Edmonds, John Eidinow)
* Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
* The Great Shark Hunt (Hunter S. Thompson)
* In Search of Dracula (Radu Florescu, Raymond T. McNally)
* H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)
* The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle, Leslie Klinger)
* The New Annotated Dracula (Bram Stoker, Leslie Klinger)
* Ripley Under Ground (Patricia Highsmith)
* The Ruins (Scott Smith)
* The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (Joan Schenkar)
* The Tremor of Forgery (Patricia Highsmith)
* Strangers on a Train (Patricia Highsmith)

Don't call me disorganized. I know exactly where I am in each of these books.

I'm a huge Philip K. Dick fan and glad to see anyone else reading him. A Scanner Darkly is tied with Ubik for my favorite novel (my screen name comes from the latter), but I wouldn't recommend either to a newcomer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a good place to start. I would also recommend The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and Time Out of Joint.

It's not like I'm reading them all at once, doing a chapter of one and then a chapter of another in one sitting or even one day. I usually just read one per day, sometimes the same one for several days in a row. But it's rare for me to read a single book from start to finish without starting another or three others or ten others. I'm like a spazzy child opening up the Lucky Charms when I haven't finished the Cheerio's, Frosted Flakes, Cap'n Crunch, and Count Chocula yet. Some of the ones I listed haven't been touched in weeks.

It's funny, I have such narrow obsessions. I love Philip K. Dick, but I can't call myself a big science fiction fan. I've never even read Gibson, Heinlein, or Asimov. I've read one Clarke. (It's easy to guess which one.) I love Stoker, Shelley, and Lovecraft, but I can't call myself a big horror fan. I've never read Barker, Straub, or Koontz. I've read a few Kings and didn't like them. (I really dig Richard Matheson, though.) I have a book of Poe's poetry and prose, but I can't say I really like him all that much. (Yeah, I know, blasphemy.) I love Patricia Highsmith and Dashiell Hammett and Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, but I can't call myself a big fan of mystery and crime. I've never read Chandler or Christie. I love Thompson but haven't read any of his contemporaries and I know nothing about them.