Narrative works:

-Ivanhoe (Walter Scott), an all-time favorite.

-Nadja (André Breton), i don't like what i know of the man, but i like the writer and his books. (The few i read so far.)

-Chessmen of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Also rereading Les Langages de Rabelais, by François Rigolot.

That's a bit of too many books at the same time, it's still OK and manageable but none the less a lack of discipline on my part. I intend to quickly reduce it to one or two books. 

Published back in 1995, this is basically a sequel to his award-winning book on the making of the atomic bomb, which I read a few years ago and really enjoyed.

My interest in reading the book was kindled by reading a mystery/thriller novel last year that was centered around the Soviets designing, building, and testing the Tsar Bomb back in 1961, which was the most powerful thermo-nuclear (hydrogen) bomb ever detonated (~ 55 megatons).

I just finished The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor.  That led me to revisiting her short stories which I first read in college.  

Her story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is still a great read.  Darkly funny despite being so twisted.  She remains a favorite of mine.  

It was a really great presentation.

Luckily I was in the first quarter of the attendees in line so I didn't wait too long. Hendrix mentioned that the autograph line took six hours!

"My Best Friend's Exorcism" is my favorite of his books, which is now signed.