reading

I still have a conference paper to edit, but lately I find myself more and more drawn back into procrastination by pleasure reading. My two current authors are:

1. Mary Roach
I read Stiff a few years ago. It was the hilarious documentation about what happens to bodies after people die. Last year she wrote Spook about the afterlife, but I'm skipping that right now to read Bonk, which is about how science views sex. I'm only past the "Foreplay" but it looks to be a very enjoyable read. I love it when nonfiction is written in an accessible and humorous manner.

2. Jeff Lindsay
I was hooked by the Showtime tv show Dexter, so I went to the source of the story, the books. Last week I read Darkly Dreaming Dexter (and yes, there's just as much alliteration in the book as in the title). I just checked out Dearly Devoted Dexter and Dexter in the Dark, the last two of the trilogy, and I can't wait to start in on them. I'm trying to keep my comparisons to the show minimal, but I can't help it. I'm fairly certain that had I read the books first, I would be completely loyal to them, but the show was so well done that I'm finding myself compromising the differences between the two.