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Ringing Cedars of Russia - Vladimir Megre
Excellent book

Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Anglo Files - Sarah Lyall
at home

and

The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith
at work (edit - on my lunch break! I should say. )

1634 - The Bavarian Crisis - Eric Flint, from the 1630s series of books...

I am currently reading a couple of books:

A Season of Night by Ian McNulty, it is about living in New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina. This hits home with me, since the city that I live in was devestated by a flood last year.

A Lucky American Childhood by Paul Engle, it is about a young boy growing up in the city that I live in around the turn of the century.

I would like to read HW Brands biography of FDR and work a little more on Michael Burlingame's two volume Lincoln set.

finished:
Rich Dad Poor Dad, "a book by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. It advocates financial independence through investing, real estate, owning businesses..."
honestly, it kind of sucked

also finished:
Alone Together, a book about asperger and relationships

and also finished:
The Asperger Love Guide, also about AS and relationships

also finished Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point, all of them by Malcolm Gladwell

started:
The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp
I'm linking it

Handbook of Forensic Pathology, Vincent J.M. DiMaio and Suzanna E. Dana

Argh. Serious book-spiralling has happened. These five concurrently:

The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith
Still on with this one during lunch breaks.

Orlando - Virginia Woolf
One of my very favourite books. I love the easy style, the casual exaggerations, and the protagonist. It's a bit sad to read, though (and there's some racist language par for the course for the thirties I guess )

Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn
From the sublime to the ridiculous, but I got's to know about that Thrawn guy I keep seeing referenced all over tvtropes.

Priest (manga) - Hyung Min-woo
For much the same reason as the above.

and Cassell's Atlas of the Medieval World
Which is part of a wonderful series of historical atlases. Atlasii. Thingy.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, it's my favorite book, but I haven't read Little Men or Jo's Boys yet.

Whole Earth Discipline -An Eco-Pragmatist's Manifesto by Stewart Brand, founder and editor
of The Whole Earth Catalog.

War Against The Weak: Eugenics And America's Campaign to Create A Master Race
by Edwin Black, author of IBM And The Holocaust

Bought both of these today.

Pratchett again, 'Lords and Ladies'...

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/19 ... ly-reading

Reader's choice topic

Science: A Four Thousand Year History, by Patricia Faras, 2009

Why People Don't Heal and How They Can by Caroline Myss...
because I don't want to stay stuck in my loop of self-pity. I don't buy her astrological ages framework, but she does have some very useful things to say. Really getting into the Symbolic Thinking idea.

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path of Enlightenment, Vol 2 by Lama Tsong Khapa...
Foundation text of the Gelupa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, Vol 3: The Way of the Bodhisattva by Geshe Lhundub Sopa...
A commentary of the above. A wonderful, extensive explication of Tsong Khapa's treatise in accessible English.

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde...
the 3rd Thursday Next story. Just love the goofy alternate reality, a wonderfully light-hearted dystopia.