your current reads..., post-holiday reading

now that the holidays are over, i need to get cracking on my pile of *to read* books.
i have seventeen in all and i also have three gift cards for bookstores. i just started An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears about two o'clock this morning.
i've only read three chapters so far, but it seems very interesting. it is set in england in the 1600's and is a murder mystery. i've got a lot to do later, but i'm looking forward to bedtime so i can pick up where i've left off.

what are you reading? or looking forward to reading?

That reminds me, I planned to read more this year and spend less time on the net. Till now I succeeded to read 0 pages and stay online from morning to night and even during the night...

I don't know what I'm going to read there are some overdue books that wait for me, even magazines that I didn't have time to read because of my wasting my time on the Internet.

I think that I will do at least "one day without Internet", probably on Sunday or Saturday... and come back to "no internet after 10 PM rule" (heck, now it's 1:30 AM)

argghh. adrian, you just reminded me that i've got ebooks (somewhere in my drive) that i've forgotten, in addition to all that i've mentioned.

i'm really enjoying the book that i've mentioned previously...i haven't had a lot of time for strictly reading, so it follows me to the loo, i keep it by the bed (in case i'm awake in the middle of the night), i read during commercial breaks and i drag it to appointments. next, i'm going to start keeping it in the car to read at red lights.

that was a joke, but now that i mention that...

Well, I personally don't think it's worthy to read like that in the breaks between various things, I'd much rather do things in the breaks from reading.

oh, i agree. i'd much rather have nice, uninterrupted chunks more often than i do. for me, reading on the fly is better than not reading at all and sometimes reading on the fly seems like all i have. when i was a kid, i used to think older people were strange reading on the potty. when i got older i realized it's like it's the last bastion of undisturbed privacy and sometimes not even then. i work with whatever i have to work with.

I am reading one of the books of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. I pretty much always do I am looking forward to a new release that I KNOW Todd McCaffrey is writing but for the life of me cannot remember or find again. Bleh.


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I just started reading Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the shore".

A short intro:
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. Murakami's new novel is at once a classic tale of quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.