What Book Are You Currently Reading?

The last book I read was Primo Levi's The Drowned and The Saved, which I actually finished on Thursday. Not bad considering I only started the Friday before (I am generally a non-reader).

I am reading 2 books at the moment,

The first is called "The World is Flat" by Thomas Freidman

Link to the book

and the other is

"O. Henry: Essential Writers Collection"
Published by Barnes & Noble, this book lists all the 200+ short stories that O. Henry wrote during his writting carrer.

I am currently reading Star Wars The New Jedi Order, Star by Star by Troy Denning, it ROCKS THE HOUSE!!!!!!!

ever read any of the Timothy Zahn ones in the star wars saga? Those are great!

I'm reading "The Black Cat And Other Short Stories" by Edgar Allan Poe, for the 100th time lol i just love this book, so as i love Edgar Allen Poe lol

This one: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s441999.htm

im reading "the art of undressing" by Stephanie Lehmann...partly to see peoples reactions as the nosily ask "whats that book your reading"...so far, the title has shut quite alot of people up because they darent ask another question like "whats it about"...lmao!!..its is actually a story though and not a self help book as the title might suggest!!!...so far its quite a quirky book...but i havent read it all yet!!!

the back reads...

Ginger Levine really doesn't want to turn into her mother. Coco used to be an exotic dancer and now make sher living selling sex toys and teaching the fine art of striptease. A straightlaced twenty-five-year-old would-be pastry chef, Ginger has no desire to follow in her mum's high heeled footsteps.

But when she falls for a fellow student, she finds herself ill-equipt in the art of seduction. And suddenly ginger is looking for some motherly advice on how to reveal herself to the man she loves...

the Online Marketing Book.

well, currently i am reading a book called "The Farthest Shore" by Ursula Le Guin, im not far into this one but it is part of the earthsea quartet and this is the third...the other two books have been very interesting to me and have included things like magic, mages and dragons....fantastic...

heres the synopsis

Young Prince Arren of Enlad, heir to the Principality of Morred, sails to Roke, the Isle of the Wise, to warn Ged that the world's magic is disappearing. Word had reached his kingdom from other points in Earthsea, and he and his father had begun to notice signs of this malaise in their own land. Sorcerers, mages, witches and chanters, no longer remember their spells, nor are they able to sing their songs. The names of things are on the verge of being forgotten. Wizards are being maimed and killed in some places. Men and women who have long depended on magic to enrich their lives, seem not to care at all anymore. Roke is "defended," invulnerable, protecting the Masters from harm, so the prince's warning is the first heard on the Island.
Ged, now the Archmage: the greatest wizard of all Earthsea; "the man who had capped the Black Well of Fundaur and won the ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan and built the deep founded sea wall of Nepp; the sailor who knew the seas from Astowell to Selidor; the only living Dragonlord," confers urgently with the other Masters. They know the Balance has been disrupted. Whatever balance remains, now resides in Roke when it should lie in the hands of a king. Eighteen years before, the Ring of the King's Rune was returned to its rightful place. This deed improved the world for a while, but it did not bring oneness. There has been no king on the high throne in Havnor for 800 years. Now a king must sit on the throne of Earthsea again, to wield the Sign of Peace and unite the lands and peoples. However, a prophecy must be fulfilled first: "He shall inherit my throne who has crossed the dark land living and come to the far shores of the day." Ged insists on taking action before any more discussion takes place about kings and future. He would go where the trouble is now, immediately, to find the source of the blight. He must find and close the hole in the world that is leeching out the light. Ged will take one companion with him, Arren.

As the two sail south and then west, they discover decay, decline, darkness, forgetfulness. Many people they encounter take drugs to numb, and to let the body be free of the mind. Others seem to have their minds' dimmed without using substances. Clearly, magic and meaning have been drained from the ports, towns, cities and countrysides of Earthsea, as has all sense of well-being and vigor from her people. The dead are mysteriously crossing over under the influence of a vile mysterious creature. Even Orm Embar, the powerful Dragon of Selidor, seeks help from Ged and Arren to rid the world of this insanity.