What are you currently reading?

[CJ]

Hi all,

I'm an avid reader, I won't hide the fact. I'm always reading. If I could, I'd read in my sleep. Often, I'm reading two or three books simultaneously, picking up whichever I'm most in the mood for.

I thought it would be fun to see what folks here are reading, these days.

Just a couple of days ago, I started reading Erving Goffman's Stigma: Notes On The Management Of Spoiled Identity. So far, it's very interesting. Here's a link with a description and a couple of reader reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... TUCCVJ7DGE

Love,
CJ

[Angie]

CJ,

I also juggle two or three books at a time. Just started "The Lazy Crossdresser" and "My Gender Workbook". Also working on "The Five Gospels" and "Dude, Where's My Country". History and science fiction are my usual tastes, but I'll pick up just about anything that looks interesting.

Angie

[Loretta Ann]

Hi all

Since I got on the net I don't seem to find enough time to read books any more. I was an avid reader of books for about 18 years prior to that. One book at a time for me and straight though it in the least amount of time possible. The only topics that interested me were books that would help me improve myself as a person.

[Rebecca]

Hi folks,

I read every night for an hour or two before I go to sleep. The only thing is, I read horror stories, king, that sort of thing, and I find them dull and boring. So, I don't know why I keep reading them, maybe it's just a way of switching off for me.

Love to all
Rebecca xxx

[Kathy]

Hi CJ,

While I am no where near the bookworm you are, I do enjoy reading. While SF is, by far, my favorite, I can pick up almost anything that looks interesting.

Currently reading The Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and 1984 by George Orwell (been in my library for a long time, just never got around to it).

Never far from my reading table is As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.

[Lorna]

CJ,

I also juggle two or three books at a time. Just started "The Lazy Crossdresser" and "My Gender Workbook". Also working on "The Five Gospels" and "Dude, Where's My Country". History and science fiction are my usual tastes, but I'll pick up just about anything that looks interesting.

Angie

"Dude, Where's My Country". That was an excellent read!

[Lorna]

I'm an avid reader, I won't hide the fact.

That's the way to be! At the risk of sounding like a public service message, there is NO shame in being an avid reader at all.

I am currently reading Black Boy by Richard Wright.

[Kathy]

Another book that I neglected to mention on my "currently reading" list...

Male Femaling by Richard Ekins. A rather clinical treatment of crossdressing and how CDrs cope with society's view of them. It is a bit dry and probably not for everyone but interesting in its own way.

Hmmm...three books on my reading table...maybe I'm more like CJ than I thought.

[Jessie]

I love read (when I have time) but as I have posted before it was not always that way. It took a high school teacher to show me the beauty of the written word. Currentaly I have First Strike by Eric Nylund on my bed side. My mom has suggested I read Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey, but I am unsure. I am thinking of rereading the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling I hold so highly on my book shelf. (problem is that they are so big being hardbacks) But mostly I rereading a lot of my own stories I have written so I can stay in tune with my current book I am writting an some the side stories I write.

Jessie

[Alexandra]

Nope, no books for me, its all TV all the time!


Kidding aside, I'm almost always reading a non-fiction book usually about whatever project I'm working on . . . in fact right now I've 3 open books on a certain Mac application -- fun for me but not for everybody else I'm sure!

[Carolynn]

Hi C.J.!

I guess I read a bit too. I currently have an "in the works" book (well, technical journals in a couple of cases, with only a few worthwhile papers) (oh, and last weeks' SCIENCE folded open to a page on the computer table for later tonight) in literally every room of the house and two in my luggage for my next trip, one the new Elizabeth Peters book, and one the latest David Drake ( trip starts tomorrow). Just finished the DaVinci Code, am about halfway through Skeleton in God's Closet by Paul Maier (great mystery so far, better than Davinci Code I think), slogging my way through Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India, mostly dry pedantry as are many sociological/anthropological studies, good for trying to put yourself to sleep with; read straight through the New Girl by Mike Reynolds in one sitting last weekend, so that one doesn't count as working any more I guess, it was fun, and a short read too. Unfortunately, I don't sleep as much as I should, so I do have some extra time here and there.

[Jaye]

I have a nasty habit of reading two or three books simultaneously. In theory, this is good because I can read something else if my interest shifts mid-story, then go back when I'm interested again. In practice, I tend to start a book, then put it down to look at something else, then change again. Soon, I have three or four different stories started, and I tend to leave the first one behind. This can be expensive when the first book came from the library.

On that note, I'm reading The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, and A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick. I just finished Weapons of Choice, a new scifi/alternate history book by John Birmingham.

[VickiCD]

Hi CJ

Believe it or not, I'm a bookworm.

On average I read at least two books a week, everything from Technology, Fashion, History, I love Biology specifically Virology, and business. Novels or fiction related materials, not really into them.


Love

VickiCD

[CJ]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the responses. This is great. Do I detect a pattern, here? Seems a lot of the gals are into SF (I'm also a fan) and science. Plus, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who reads two or three books at once.

I just finished The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose, a SF thriller about a man "slipping" into a different branch of the "quantum tree." Felt like booting that book into a parallel universe... it wasn't very good. Ambrose could've done so much more to look at the philosophical implications of identity, but chose to concentrate on the science instead. I'm still plodding through the Goffman book (it's not that bad, actually). I also picked up Peter Straub's Magic Terror, an anthology (I'm a huge fan of short stories, my all-time faves being Twilight Zone: The Original Stories, edited by Richard Matheson, Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Greg Egan's Axiomatic, and anything written by Charles Beaumont or Roald Dahl). I'm also reading, one very slow chapter at a time (I'm trying hard to pay attention), a book on the main issues in contemporary philosophy by Appiah.

Also, like Carolynn, I guess, I'm a big periodicals consumer. I'll buy two or three magazines a week, most of them about science, computers, or video games; some about psychology, philosophy, current affairs; the occasional Vogue or Cosmo or the British edition of Glamour (I like the format).

Again, thanks for the input, gals. This is fun. Let's hear from more of you out there, eh?

Love,
CJ

[SophieLawson]

I'm not a book worm, but funniely enough my fav type of book is science fiction lol Actually, everything like that really fascinates me like Space, Pharanormal, Ghosts, UFOs etc etc all that cool stuff

Last book I read was 1984, that book about being controlled by Big Brother, great book.

Sophie xx