What are you reading?
I’ll start.
Harry Crews, Blood and Grits.
Greg Bear, Queen of Angels
Next: Tom Drury’s The Driftless Area
The Asylum of Howard Hughes by Jack Real…
I’m only about 30 pages in at this stage and I’m enjoying it..Jack Real was a fellow aviator and was closely associated (by telephone 
) with Howard for the last 20 or so years of his life..
Next book to read is The House on Garibaldi Styreet by Isser Harel…The story of the hunt for the ‘most wanted’ nazi Adolph Eichman..
Charles Stross: “Rule 34”
William Gibson: “Idoru” (again).
Alex Bellos: “Alex’s Adventures in Numberland” (again).
Marion Grace Woolley: “Angorichina” (She’s a friend of mine).
Lean times as there are no bookshops in my local shopping areas. My wife has the Amazon habit, but I am not there yet.
I’m going to seem like such a nerd for this one … Quantz.
But the soon, thank God, I’ll be onto Edwin Drood. 
Insurance policies, not sure if they’re fiction or non-fiction. Any hints would be appreciated.
The Puzzle Action Game book, the Photographer or the Flute Dude? (I’m guessing you don’t mean the dinosaur cartoons…)
I buy almost all my books on amazon.com. Whey they started selling used books–my habit become much more intense.
I recently got an iPad and have started the Gutenberg thing. I’ve downloaded a few books that I like and followed the “Other people who downloaded this book downloaded these others.” So now I’m reading a book by a Canadian woman (can’t call up the name) whom a lot of Jane Austen fans like. She doesn’t have Ms. Austen’s subtlety, but so far it’s a good read.
I keep Quantz (flute book) on my bedside table and pick it up every few months and read a few pages. More than that at one time and I lose interest.
Next physical book I’ll read (other than the new Clementine book, which was released yesterday) will be Cast in Chaos, by Michele Sagara, due out next week.
I read incessantly, mostly escapist SF/Fantasy, but occasionally diverge. Like chas I’ve gone partially e-book and have been taking advantage of Guetenberg to re-read some of my old favorites. Recently read some of Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung books (fun pseudo ancient China from the outsider’s perspective, no where near as good as Hugart’s “Bridge of Birds”, or many others. Still for the publication date a diverting read) and “The Importance of Being Ernest” (lots funnier in the theature as I recall, or maybe I’m just getting old). Now going back thru Dumas (starting with the “Three Musketeers” of course).
BTW another great source for free SF (though a bit biased towards the pro-military genre) is the Baen Free Library: http://www.baen.com/library/ . I’ve read most of what they have posted there and there are plenty of fun reads.
Patrick O’Brian ‘The Letter of Marque’ (again); Tom Devine ‘To The Ends Of The Earth: the Scottish Diaspora’; Marquez ‘Love In the Time of Cholera’ (again); Margaret Visser ‘The Rituals of Dinner’; Iain Banks ‘Transition’ (again)
Flute. Fascinating stuff. Funny how many of the arguments seem so modern. It’s full of things like “Know your audience”, “choose your pieces carefully according to the situation” and “don’t over-ornament or play too fast”. I’m praphrasing with all of those of course, but that’s the gist of what he says in various places.
Just finished Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Well worthwhile.
I’m about to start White Like Me by Tim Wise. I don’t know whether I will like it or not yet.
My wife wants me to read David Sedaris next. He writes short stories. She says “Jesus Shaves” is one of the funniest stories she has ever read. She says “The Santaland Diaries” are funny too.
I have no skill finding books in a library. I have read all the books by all the authors that I know. Our librarians display interesting books among the shelves and I used to pick from those. I think that’s the old school version of “Other people who downloaded this book downloaded these others.”
My wife is a former librarian. She could live and eat books.
An American friend of mine swears by http://www.swap.com. I haven’t used it. I might get around to it. If they have a UK site.
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Underworld by Graham Hancock
I read recently that Hancock is working on an updated, revised version of Fingerprints of the Gods, if you’ve read that.
I think I’ve either developed ADD, or I’ve become a lot more picky about what I read. Lately I go a couple of months between books, and a lot of what I start I don’t finish. The last books I read were Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. And those were back in June/July.
Voices from the Grave by Ed Moloney.I would imagine this would be the first in a series,as they are based on accounts given to researchers for Boston College by combatants from both sides of the divide in Ireland.It was stipulated beforehand that none of these would be allowed to be published until after the participants deaths.
An interesting read,and very controversial at the time of it`s publication.
Link to a review http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article7090439.ece
Just finished Therese Raquin by Zola (I thought Germinal was much better) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell (excellent as always). Currently reading Heartstone by CJ Sansom. I have about 50 novels sitting in the ‘waiting to be read’ pile so no idea what I’ll read next.
It’s called Tracy Park , by Mary Jane Holmes. I finished it yesterday, and it was a truly fine read. Partway through I thought it was more reminiscent of the Bronte sisters, but in the end it was more like Charlotte Bronte meets Jane Austen. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes authors in those veins.
Most recent book: The 4 percent universe : dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality, by Richard Panek.
Recently enjoyed: Being wrong : adventures in the margin of error, by Kathryn Schulz, which I picked up thanks to Denny’s TED thread.
Currently sitting on my computer desktop (believe it or not): Production de son par couplage écoulement/résonateur acoustique: Étude des paramètres de facture de flûtes par expérimentations et simulations numériques d’écoulements, par François Blanc. (“Production of sound by coupling flow with an acoustic resonator: study of parameters in the making of [recorders], by experimentation and numeric flow simulation.”) His PhD thesis. I don’t read much French, so it’s real slow going, but if you want to know what’s really, really, happening in the window of your whistle, this is one of the places you have to look.