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Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn... the magic system makes no sense to me at all... I just can visualize what the heck they are doing when they are weaving colors or what the point of it is... I'm almost halfway through and this whole sunrunner thing is frustrating me... I can tell you for a fact that I will probably finish this book and that will be it. I can't see myself reading the other two books of the trilogy.

About to start The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and its Causes, by Steven Pinker who is one of my favourite humans. Here it is reviewed by another of my favourite humans, Peter Singer.

This hardcover copy weighs at least 4 pounds and has some 800 pages.

The Vampire Genevieve.
Next up Reamde and Diary of an On-Call Girl.

By Schism Rent Asunder by David Weber

recently, I've been reading Frankenstein Unbound..

The Holmes-Dracula File (1978) by Fred Saberhagen

I only recently started to explore Sherlock Holmes stories that were not written by Arthur Conan Doyle. My first choice was Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and it was excellent. My second choice was The Holmes-Dracula File. It's a bit too early to judge since I'm only two chapters into it, but I've been told that Saberhagen presents Dracula as a misunderstood anti-hero, so I'm not expecting to like it too much.

The Best of John W. Campbell (1973)

I was lucky enough to find a hardcover edition of this book in good condition at a Salvation Army store a few years ago. It cost me $1.50. I bought it primarily for the story "Who Goes There?" which was the basis for The Thing. It's a very good story, much better than the first adaptation from 1951, but not quite as good as the remake from 1982. I just started reading "Who Goes There?" again, and I promised myself that I would finally read some of the other stories in the book. I'd say there's a 50/50 chance that I will.

I'm just starting The Art Of War by Sun Tzu translated by Thomas Cleary. I started reading it years ago while I was traveling but that book was damaged so I threw it in the trash. I picked up this book a few years back and rediscovered it while I was unpacking some of my things recently. So I decided to go ahead and read it now.

God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens; page 129/307
(Not religious/spiritual, but this book is kind of getting on my nerves. He's just listing everything about religion that pisses him off.)

Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts: How To Gain Control of Your OCD by Christine Purdon; page 45/160
(Trust me; I would be much further into it if it weren't one of those "chapter a week" books.)

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and The Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami; page 47/384
(Bought and started yesterday. I read a fiction work of Murakami's, and I'm interested in Japan as a country, so I figured I'd read this.)

Losing Small Wars - British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan. Does exactly what it says on the tin, though the author is a lawyer so more unreliable than usual.

Now got a dozen or so more books from the SF Masterworks series to be on with.

Also read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 and 1969. Two fairly short parts of what will be a three-part volume when finished.
Given my interest in "looking things up", these graphic novels are a case of taking it to extremes - they are absolutely loaded (more so than the first two volumes) with references to a vast number of (generally fantastical) fictional works of the relevant periods. And it's a bit heavy even for me; I felt I was Missing A Lot and didn't like it one bit.
They're quite good (though I'm really not much of a fan of Brechtian imagery, I don't see what the fuss is about with all that Threepenny Opera stuff or why it's so popular in pop culture) though there's some distasteful scenes. I laughed maniacally at a few points - 1969 opens with Fotherington-Thomas (standing in for Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones) having gay sex in a swimming pool before being drowned by robed Satanists. Like it or not (I was doing "stunned disbelief" between giggles) it's hard to top... ...except for all the stuff that happens later.

The Man in the High Castle, PKD. Always it is incoherence, always we are annoyed. Though it wasn't quite as bad as usual.

Next up, RUR and War with the Newts, Karel Capek. Might be interesting. I've a dozen or books from the SF Masterworks to get through now, went on a shopping spree.

Goth Girl Rising (the sequel to The Amazing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl) by Barry Lyga.