Today’s meme comes courtesy of Marginal Revolution where I discovered a post about current reading lists. Because I have actually been reading on a regular basis this summer, I have books to discuss.

1) The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, which I have mentioned before and urge you to NOT watch the film but to read instead – even if you hate Austen (though how anyone could hate Jane is beyond me).

2) The Mist by Stephen King. Short. Very Sweet. Timely, given that the Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland is about to make something like this too scarily possible.

3) Fight Club by Chuck Palanhuik. Mainly because it is MidKid’s favorite book and I wanted to know why. I think I do but I am not similarly drawn. Some of the chapters are so well written I am jealous and others scream “dissociative personality” and made me want to scream “could we get back to the story, please?” In the ’90’s the topic of disenfranchised males and consumerism robbing us of our souls might have seemed cutting edge but it hasn’t aged well and seems a bit to retro-trendy now. I haven’t read enough of Palanhuik to say, but I found Survivor to be his best. Most of the rest of his topics are just to sick for me. I don’t believe I have to be made uncomfortable by my reading material in order to achieve spiritual growth.

4) Skinny Bitch which I reviewed previously.

5) The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby by Dave Plinky. It’s a graphic novel for the early elementary set that I first read to my nephew when he was six (he is now fourteen and a half) and got for BabyDaughter for her recent birthday because she is in love with the Captain Underpants series by the same author. Very punny, potty humor but it makes me laugh a bit too.

6) The Gruesome Guide to World Monsters as part of my research for my novella. Recalled my days as an X-Files fan as I learned about all the truly disturbing monstrosities big and small that mankind as created to, oddly, allay his fears.

So, what have you been reading? Comment or link back, please.