What are your reading tonight Lounge? Me "The Better Angels of Our Nature" by Stephen Pinker. I

[applegrove]

absolutely love it.

[rurallib]

1. Still digging through "Doubt - A History"

I am really enjoying it, but it is kind of a slog.
Jennifer Michael Hecht

[dimbear]

2. "The Blind and the Stars" by Giorgio Cicogna

who deserves to be better known over here. Italian scientist/poet/sci fi writer who blew himself up at the tender(ized) age of 31 while working on a new impulse engine. Famous for inventing a type of hydrophone, it would seem. Guy got around. Descended from one of the Doges of Venice. (really)

Golden Age sci-fi. Gotta love it.

[mwb970]

3. "Cleopatra: A Life" by Stacy Schiff.

http://www.amazon.com/Cleopatra-Life-Stacy-Schiff/dp/0316001945/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319109320&sr=8-1

I expected a basic, dry history/bio that would finally clarify for me who this woman was. To my delight, it is MUCH livelier and more amusing then that. (How often do you laugh out loud while reading a HISTORY book?) Recommended.

[hifiguy]

4. I am working my way through Robert Caro's multi-volume bio

of LBJ as the concluding installment will be coming out next year. Best political biography ever.