What are we reading?

Just to get the conversation going again (I am a horrible blogger, I know)...what are we all reading and/or interested in at the moment?

I am reading a collection of Truman Capote stories. I probably won't read everyone of them, but I have always found with him that he seems most himself when he is writing about small town life in the south. The stories set there are his most affecting, in my opinion. In Cold Blood is a masterwork, and even though it wasn't set in the south, it's still about small town life and small town personalities and I think that's why his voice is so strong in it.

I have about 25 pages left of the Obama memoir. I don't know why I can't just finish it off. It's keeping me from moving on to other things!

I just read a great piece in The New Yorker about these gnostic gospels called the Codex Tchacos that were found in 1978 and tell a very different story about Jesus's relationship with Judas. It's amazing how the image of Jesus changes every time these new gospels are found. It reminds me of that funny bit in Talladega Nights where Will Ferrell refers to Jesus as "Baby Jesus". He just likes the image of Jesus as a baby. I guess Jesus really is in the eye of the beholder! He's like this enigmatic figure who has been depicted by all of these writers and no one will ever really know who he was. He's a reflection in a hall of mirrors.

So what are you reading, writing, interested in?