What book are you reading right now?

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'To race a dream' by Deborah Savage.
Or actually I read it in Swedish, it's named 'Spring som vinden'.

'Understanding Autism For Dummies', and 'What Difference Do it Make' which is the sequel to a book titled "Same Kind of Different as Me', and 'C# 2008 For Dummies'. And of course I can't remember any author's names at the moment.

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett

"It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you.". (p.24)

I love the idea of playing with well known starts for dodgy horror stories and making it real. It has me grinning quite a lot and I would really recommend it, even though I haven't finished yet.

I am currently reading the book my wife had ordered for me off of Ebay as a Valentine's Day present - which just came yesterday in the mail. And that book is - -

Pre-Roman Iron Age, Including: Cimbri, Tollund Man, Irmonones, Proto-Germanic Language, Teutons, Ingaevones, Istvaeones, Jastorf Culture, Gundestrup Cauldron, Boiorix, Ale's Stones, Ambrones, Hilleviones, Hjortspring Boat, Teutobod, Old Croghan Man.

Yes, that's the whole damn title. Essentially, the title is self explanatory - part history, part anthropology, and part linguistics, concerning prehistoric and ancient Germanic culture.
The downside is, the chapters are nothing more than Wikipedia articles, many of which I recognize having read in the past. Still, my wifey got it for me - after having to wait more than two weeks past Valentine's Day for - so I'm reading it cover to cover.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I'm really going guts-out right now on the kind of stuff that I never thought I'd catch myself reading but informative cravings have been nibbling at me this much.

I'm almost done with "Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and Occult" by Richard Metzger (as the title might indicate it's somewhat of a mixed bag, albeit seems to err much for the better the occasional idiot article).

Aside from that I just got done reading/scanning The Book of Enoch (the cheap no notes version), am about 1/4 of the way through The Essence of the Notes by Maurice Earl Osborn (which I hope to have read by early next week) and Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henrich Cornelius Agrippa collated by Donald Tyson.

Lots of topics here that I'd rather just read up on myself and have a thoroughly educated opinion on rather than have a random expert form my opinion or leave these in my 'I don't know' repository.

I'm going to look for some Piers Anthony. I haven't read him in a long time.

I'm just wondering out of all the book threads why nobody has posted in them for over two years?

I've just finished a huge fictional paperback by Lucinda Riley. Called The Seven Sisters.

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

I am presently reading, 'Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress', by- Dai Sijie

I'm currently reading Deep Down Dark, a book about the 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine for 69 days.

Picking at two things right now:

Work lunch breaks on my Kindle: Just finished Max Heindle's Cosmo Conception, reading Man, His True Nature and Ministry by Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. Enneads by Plotinus might be next.

At home: The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn by Pat and Chris Zalewski.

I was reading fiendishly for at least 2 1/2 or 3 years but in the past few months I've dialed it back a notch just on how heavy my load at work as well as my organizational involvements has been.

I just finished the Count of Monte Cristo on my kindle, started on holiday but it was so damn long I didn't finish it until several days after the holiday finished . Gave a real feel of the early to mid 19th century in France, so that was interesting.

The Center Cannot Hold.

Gil's All Fright Diner.

A werewolf and a vampire while on a road trip stop off at an all night diner, to discover it's under attack by zombies. A genuine combination of horror and comedy.