What book are you reading right now?

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Tehanu--the fourth book in the Earthsea Cycle

Something Unexpected by Tressie Lockwood.

I never just read one book at a time, here's my current reads:

Torchwood: Slow Decay
Star Trek: Into Darkness
On the Edge My Story - Richard Hammond
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
The curious book of olde English laws
Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

^I also seldom read only one book at a time. Probably the only way I can read al the ones I buy/get/win in a reasonable amount of time.

But what I have read out this week :

Nederland en de Nieuwe Wereld - H. Wim Van den Doel

It contained a lot of things I already knew (like for example the limited interest the Dutch government had for the overseas colonies, except for the East-Indies), alto with some new details. Most important new thing I learned was the historical reason Venezuela has an interest in Curacao.

De Verenigde Staten in de twintigste eeuw - Maarten Van Rossem

I do no remember reading a history book where the authors own political viewpoints where made that clearly.

On the currently reading list :

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
De saga van Grettur de Sterke - translated (into Dutch) by Tonny Buijs
De antichrist - Friederich Nietzsche

Reading the Princess Bride.

Am currently reading The Age of Reason by Satre which I find reassuring, and The Oak King the Holly King and the Unicorn which is about symbolism in the Unicorn Tapestries.

Being Peace, by Thich Nhat Hanh

I'm reading The Dark Lord of Derkholm [by Diana Wynne Jones] and The Merlin Conspiracy [also by Diana Wynne Jones].

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. Having been in psychiatric hospitals before, I can definitely relate to it.

Just finished the Classics of Indian Spirituality, translated by Eknath Easwaran and with commentary by Michael N. Nagler. The series is made up of 3 texts central to Hindu/Buddhist thought (as shown above): The Upanishads, the Dhammapada and the Bhagavad Gita.

I can *highly* recommend these for those interested in learning more about Indian religion and spirituality, and Michael N. Nagler provides an excellent commentary on the texts from a Western perspective.

Reading Beckett's En Attendant Godot (re-reading it) and Filth by Irvine Welsh.

Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980's
by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason!

Beyond Celts, Germans, and Scythians, by Peter Wells.

Anthropology/archaeology book on the prehistoric populations written about by the classical civilizations of Greeks and Romans. But rather than accepting that each group could be clearly delineated in the eyes of classical writers, the artifacts of these preliterate people's material culture are examined to perhaps better define notions of how they identified themselves, and how identity was not fixed among these European tribes, but often fluctuated. So far, an interesting read.