I'm one of those weird people who read multiple books at once -- well, not at once, more like in rotation. Just now I'm reading Will James' "Cowboys North and South" for the umpteenth time, JK Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire", CS Forester's "Ship Of the Line" (my favorite of the Hornblower books), David McCullough's "Truman", and "The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life" by Thomas Moore. Any one of them beats hell out of the newspaper.