What have you been reading lately?

We haven't had a reading thread for a long time. Perhaps its time to start a new one.

I just finished an interesting book called The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead by Heather Pringle. The author is a journalist who spent a year travelling the world and interviewing various experts on mummies. The book recounts interesting findings and also delves a bit into what these attempts to preserve the flesh tell us about ourselves.

In the fiction category, I read not long ago The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger. The intriguing premise of this book is that the protagonist has a genetic anomaly that gave him a condition which causes him to travel backward and forward in time, especially when emotionally upset. He learns eventually to exert some control over this and often visits himself in the past or visits his future wife when she is a little girl. In this way, she gets to know him before she ever meets him in real time. Its a pretty good love story and the time travel adds an extra hook.

So...what have YOU been reading lately?