What... ?

"What have you been reading these days?" asked the old friend.

"Do you really want a list?" I replied.

"Just tell me what's in the piles at your desk," said she.

And so, here:

1. Earnest Lau, From Mission to Church.
2. H.E. Wilson, Social Engineering in Singapore.
3. Andy Kirkpatrick, English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN.
4. Tu Wei-Ming, Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity.
5. Robert Winston, The Human Mind.
6. Robert Winston, Bad Ideas?
7. Sheri S Tepper,  The Waters Rising.
8. Gregory Maguire, What the Dickens.
9. Stephen Hunt, Jack Cloudie.
10. Alan K. Baker, The Martian Ambassador.
11. Alan K. Baker, The Feaster from the Stars.
12. Christopher Fowler,  Bryant & May and The Memory of Blood.
13. Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars (in 3 volumes).
14. Antonio L. Rappa, Globalization: An Asian Perspective on Modernity and Politics in America.
15. Emrys Chew (ed.),  Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy of Public Service.
16. Michael J. Sandel, Justice.
17. Theodore Gray, The Elements.

They're all in various stages of being read, having just been read enough, or being prepared for reading. Sometimes, I drive myself mad, working on stuff that has nothing to do with what I'm reading. Sigh.