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torpid,

I often have several books on the go at once - it depends on what I'm doing and why I'm reading. I read slowly because I like to absorb what I'm reading and to think about the subject, or my reactions to it.

Eric

kettle

He does indeed. He's best known for his work on evolutionary psychology. I'm very taken with this passage - it sums up what it means to be alive, I think: 'As a sentient being, you have the potential to flourish. You can refine your faculty of reason itself by learning and debating. You can...

while

Yes - the Grim Almanac of Sussex, Reaching for Utopia (newly published by my publisher - essays written by the editor of the New Statesman), and Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. Can't believe you haven't got through your reading list yet (said the hare to the tortoise).

This is my current reading pile...