Toadfish Monastery

This site becomes Pterrynfectious, it seems 

Darwin's Children by Greg Bear

Heidi by Joanna Spyri - got to write an essay on it.

I've just got my hands on the johny trilogy by Pratchett, so that's what I've started reading this evening (before started to drink)

Just finished Pyramids, about to start The Truth. Taking a Pratchett break.

Just finished a book on the Spanish Armada

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
for the third time (of a projected many)

That Diamond still missing on my shelves (I have Guns, Germs and Steel and recently Collapse  )

Turkish fairy-tales at the moment

Finishing Feet of Clay, about to start Guards, Guards and am also reading the entire body of material on-line and in print about High-Dose Indium-111 in Pentetreotide Radiotherapy

http://www.carcinoid.org/medpro/docs/Indium111DX.html
http://interactive.snm.org/docs/pg_ch27_0403.pdf

This stuff is made in Canada, then shipped to Houston, one dose at a time.

I just read the Book of Five Rings by Musashi.  It's a medieval Japanese text that incorporates both military strategy and personal development (kind of a Japanese analogue to Sun Tzu's The Art of War).

And I'm currently working on two books:

Jesus and the Quest for Secular Justice - a book that presents a very different perspective to my own... but if you only read stuff you already agree with, how can you learn about other points of view?

Many a Midnight Ship: True Stories of Great Lakes Shipwrecks - just like the title implies, it's a collection of the stories behind shipwrecks on the Great Lakes from the War of 1812 up to modern times.

Another book on Hammer Films

Just finished Nanocosm by William Illsey Atkinson and am on to Life as We Do Not Know It by Peter Ward. 

Finally got off of the cookbooks (not proper 'reading') and into the nonfiction binge.

War of Nerves (book on gas warfare from WW1 to the present day)

For some reason I cannot figure out, I have started reading Dean Koontz books. Bizarre.

I've been reading The Modern World ,the general editor beening Esmond Wright, a not so modern book published in the early seventies.Fabulous read for history buffs, very enlightening for me since it covers so many key people in many countries that i was not aware of.