I'm bored.  When I'm bored, I post.  So now I will tell the tales of the books I'm half-done reading (books, plural, coz I'm a muti-tasker like that, and I leave them around the house and in my bags, so the ones nearest my hands, I read.)

I mostly got these books in Palma Hall.  Seriously love that place.  New books at 200 and 400 only, old ones at 100.  Then, comic books and graphic novels at 700 each (I wanted to buy the sandman series, but that would total to 7k and I'm poor, so, no.)

The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C.S. Lewis

This one, I'm almost done with.  Mainly coz it's pretty thin. 

It's about the letters of Screwtape, some big hotshot in hell, to his nephew, Wormwood (I kept picturing in my head the rat in Harry Potter), who is an amateur tempter.

I love how it's religious but not preachy. 

And yes, I've only just discoved C.S. Lewis is a Christian writer. 

Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Alternate universe: what if the Axis won during WWII, how different would things be?

It's actually pretty interesting.  Only I keep forgetting to finish it.  Now it's stuck in the box where I can't get it.  Yet.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

I haven't gone beyond the first few chapters yet, so I can't really say.  The whole thing about religion is making me bored with the book.  I like the parts about the zoo though.

More when I actually finish it.

Smokes and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

It's a collection of short stories.  I'm not done with them all, I have only read a few.  I actually love the story in the introduction, The Wedding Present.  Among the other stories I liked were:

Changes - What would happen if someone finds a cure for cancer, but side effects include gender change.

We Can Get Them For You Wholesale - (initially got me confused with Philip Dick's short story, We Can Remember Them for You Wholesale a.k.a. Total Recall the movie) A bargain-obssessed man who decides to get a killer-for-hire after being two-timed by his fiance.

Snow, Glass, Apples - I love twisted fairy tales.  This one is obviously about Snow White.

Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson

I remember this book was a friend's favorite, and since I loved Cryptonomicon, why not try.

Snow crash is what you see on your computer's monitor after you get hit by a virus.  I haven't actually finished chapter one yet, so I can't really say how it is.  So far, so good.  But I think I like Cryptonomicon more, even though I think he flat-lined with the ending.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The devil comes with his troupe and a cat to Soviet Union, and the amazing happens.  I keep repeating reading the book from the start (what?) whenever I had to put it down for a while.  The little details given a few or so pages before, would suddenly make a ligh bulb in my head go *ting*, and I forget them when I put the book down.  So I never finish, but always start.

Gah!  What an airhead this person.

  So far, these are the ones that I still rotate reading.  I have got to finish them first before I start buying new ones again.  I want to buy The Host by Stephenie Meyer, and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, but only after I get these done.  Impulse control! 

Always starting, never finishing.  Pfbbt!

p.s.

Any interesting reads you have?  Give me an idea what to look for next.