What's on your reading list?


What do you plan to read this summer? What are you reading now?
I am currently reading "Degrees Kelvin" by David Lindley, published by Joseph Henry Press. The biography of Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. He was a 19th century physicist probably best known for dicsovering the temperature at which atoms cease to move: -273.15 degrees Celsius (0 degrees Kelvin or absolute zero). He also performed a lot of the early groundwork for theories of electromagnetism and thermodynamics. Lord Kelvin devised a new compass for ships that would work well when surrounded by steel as the world's ship building began to move from wooden to iron vessels. A fascinating figure from history.
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Recently, "Everybody Pays" short stories by Andrew Vachss. A great "hard-boiled" detective writer with moral content.
Lost in a good book by Jasper Fforde and The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. Fun fantasy writings. An if when nothing else is available, I'll reread anything by Kinky Friedman. "Kill two birds and get stoned" being the most recent and best.
Also waiting for a new book by Christopher Moore or Joe R. Lansdale.