What book(s) are you reading now?

Here's what I'm reading:

• For fun: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
• For learning: Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World by Jean Bethke Elshtain
• For growth: Traveling Light by Max Lucado

Yeah, I'm one of the ADD people who has to/ can read three books at once and still keep them all straight...for a while.  Don't ask me what I read last month, though.  I may not remember.

Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars" - 2nd book in the Red/Green/Blue Mars triology - a very detailed, complex, and engaging story - both technically and politically - about the colonization of Mars.

Thomas Friedman "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century" - an interesting book on the causes and effects of globalization.

I am continuously reading Grays Anatomy. Working on it slowly. Its my marathon of books.

Last book read was the new John Irving, "Until I Find You".  A good book, but not his best. I would like to read 1776 next, or maybe The Kite Runner, since I keep hearing about it.  I hear Bill Bryson has a new one out too.  I love him, especially A Walk In The Woods -so funny!

Jess

Yeah, I know how it is.  That's why I asked what book(s) folks were reading.  I used to be a several books at a time person myself, one for different moods and reasons.  I've since pared down to one book at a time, in an attempt to simplify a complex and busy life.

But I'm also a magazine freak... but that's for another thread.

I'm reading American Pastoral by Philip Roth

(I'm two thirds through all of the Pullitzer prize non-fiction winners.)

I read the Kite Runner a couple of weeks ago--really good. And I have Bryson's 'a Short History of Almost Everything'--starting that now.  Another good one is 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime'--it's funny and the guy's got a very distinctive voice.

Have you guys ever heard Sedaris telling his stories?  He's on This American Life now and then, and if there's anything funnier than reading his stories, it's hearing him read them.....  Lara, I'll be interested to see what you think of a particular 3 or 4 pager from Me Talk Pretty One Day, about visiting the loo during a party.  I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe

As for reading, just finished Harry Potter, next 2 books are Jarhead by Timothy Swofford (accounts of the Gulf War) and Devil's Teeth, subtitle is "A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great WHite Sharks", set in the Farallon Islands