>>Surely this forum needs a diversion, and maybe even an opportunity to pick up a good tip. Michel was kind enough to create this section for us and we hardly use it. What are you reading these days?
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>>This is posed as a straight question, not an invitation to impress everyone with how refined your tastes are. Personally I read a wide range of authors, from potboilers to writers who are as good as it gets. To prove the point, the book of the moment here is "The October List" by Jeffrey Deaver. Stylistically it is a steaming pot of poo. But I keep reading to see how it turns out.
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>Last night, I finished "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar," a look at philosophy through the lens of jokes. Easy, run read.
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>The book before that was "El Illuminado," the first time I've read a graphic novel (though I was a big reader of comic books as akid). Picked this one up partly because one of the authors was one of my son's college professors.
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>Recently read "Brothers Emanuel" by Zeke Emanuel. Enjoyed it a lot, and found this his family's values matched pretty well the ones I was raised with.
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>Beyond that, I've been reading James Patterson's "Women's Murder Club" series, as well as a series of cozy mysteries by Gail Bowen, and two different mystery series set during and after WWI by Charles Todd. Plus a bunch of "women's fiction" for my dose of brain candy.
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>Oh, and a pile of magazines, including the Penn and Amherst alumni mags, Scientific American and Good Housekeeping.
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>Looking at this list, guess I'm a bit of an eclectic reader.
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You are evil giving me all these recommendations when I am already buried ;-)

My interests are eclectic as well. It might be a mystery, it might be a biography, it might be something recommended in the NY Times book review. I need to rein myself in somehow. There are probably more unread books here than I am likely to read in my lifetime.