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Here's what I'm reading at the moment:


My copy of The Big Short is also on it's way

I started The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I've had a number of people recommend it but I was resistant, thinking it was "sweet". It's not. It's sharp and bitter and funny. It's about a family of Baptist missionaries who go to the Belgian Congo in 1959. Suffice it to say they have no clue. There is a character that really interests me. She is non verbal. She is a twin that got "cannibalized" by the other fetus while in utero. She only has half a brain and one whole side of her body is impaired. She is quite intelligent and has a lot of autistic qualities. She loves to play with words like palindromes (in her head) and has some savant like math skills. Each chapter is a different character's perspective and I enjoy reading about her because she is so "in the moment" and describes things purely visually. She refers to her parents as "the reverend and his wife".

I'm reading Catch-22, the swapping between time gets a bit confusing but it's very engrossing and funny.

'Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes'
'2666' by Roberto Bolano (after a long break I'm finally reading the last part of the book)

An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck. This guy's mind is as ping-y as my own little ADHD mind! If I really let rip without an editor, I think the format of this thing is what my stream of consciousness would look like. Run for the hills!

Prayer by Richard Foster. A very deep, dense book...I have to take this one slow and I think I've been at it for months.

The Power of Words and the Wonder of God (THINK that's the title), edited by John Piper. Interesting book of essays about Christian communication. I am not agreeing with all of the essayists but it's still an interesting read.

H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Whisperer in Darkness", which is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. It's deals with the mystery surrounding aliens from a trans-Neptunian planet called Yuggoth that live in the hills of Vermont. A farmer from Vermont named Akeley starts writing to a professor of Lierature and amateur folklore expert named Wilmarth about seeing strange dragonfly-like creatures. Wilmarth doesn't initially believe him, but eventually, he begins to see that Akeley is not crazy.

They're making a movie of it ^^ It looks spectacular
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5gWGfnK5M&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Next up to read are "Broken Glass" and "After the Fall", both by Arthur Miller. Then I am going to look into A Clockwork Orange.

Finished The Power of Words and the Wonder of God.

Beginning Locos por Jesús by dcTalk. I have already read the English version--Jesus Freaks, which is about those who have suffered persecution. The vocabulary should be on about the right level for me, as I really need to get back into Spanish.

(Other two books previously mentioned in this thread still in progress.)

Eventually finished House Atreides. As a stand-alone space opera it would be tolerable. As an attempt at writing a book in the Dune continuum, it fails in very many ways, most notably a comprehensive failure to understand the Butlerian Jihad, a completely uncanonical plot about Ix, some scientific howlers (even given the already soft Dune setting), and some disjointed Marty Stu technology stuff that really shouldn't be there. Also full of smeerps. Awful.

I can't face House Harkonnen yet, so I'm on The Orphaned Worlds. It isn't very good either. Full of cack-handed allegory. Not having much luck with space opera at the moment.

Coming up: The Anubis Gates, Hellsing volume 10, The Complete Ro-Busters, Between the Strokes of Night, Schild's Ladder, Dragon's Egg, The Wizard of Boland and My s**t Life So Far (thanks Asp-Z for mentioning it, I like Frankie Boyle).

I FINALLY got my copy of The Big Short! Hardback too

I was reading Les Miserables, but I noticed my eyesight was getting worse so I had to stop reading

Hm...do eBook readers help you at all? Might not hurt if you could do that, if it lets you increase text size.

(I am very compulsive about having to have books in print, most of the time--so I would defer to a more technical person in answering the question about readers' capabilities.)

You can change text size on ereaders, yes, and they're made to not hurt your eyes.

( you can also pirate lots of books )

I still prefer paper though.

I just finished " Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles " Next is " The Last Templar " by Raymond Khoury... hopefully!

Les caractères from La Bruyère.

In French.

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Good stuff!