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.
slipknot1
Florida Roadkill was a fun read. Frankly all of that series is great airplane fodder.

While modern fiction is my normal fare, I seem to have taken a detour into Jeffrey Steingarten's world, having just polished off _It Must Have Been Something I Ate_ and being now in the midst of _The Man Who Ate Everything_. JS is the food editor for Vogue (who ever thought Vogue readers actually *ate*?). In terms of obsessiveness, he'll give any audiophile a run for the money, 'cept his gig is the eaten arts. Damn funny guy.
AVguygeorge, May I recommend "I'm OK, Your OK", I would recommend more but I gotta go and see if I finally got that FR headshell on ebay
Who Cut the Cheese: A Cultural History of the Fart by Jim Dawson

I also read the back of a can of dehydrated prunes from California just the other day. If you liked one, make sure to read the other!

Marco