Reading

Although I'm often reading a little bit of things here and there, I try to keep four ongoing things that I'm reading current; once I finish one of one category, I switch to another, but also refill the barrel with a new one in the first category. Often, I do actually read them concurrently; if I'm not in the mood for one, I can pick up another and the categories are different enough that it doesn't give me any grief getting stuff mixed up. The categories are: 

• an RPG book, 
• a novel, 
• a non-fiction book, 
• and a pdf (usually also an RPG book.)

Currently, I'm reading: 

• Darkness & Dread, a 3e 3PP by Mike Mearls that's all about running a Warhammer or Cthulhu-like Dark Fantasy using the D&D rules, 
• The Hungering God, the third in a trilogy of Arkham Horror tie-in novels. I bought and read the first two many years ago, and for some reason I never bought the third one, and then it went out of print. I had it on my wishlist for many years waiting for a copy to come up at a reasonable price. Of course, once it did, I figured I better read the first two again. It's been probably fifteen years since I'd read them. Just finished the second recently, so the third is officially on, although I haven't actually started it quite yet.
• A nice Flame Tree printing of Epic Tales: Greek Myths & Tales. There isn't an author really listed, but it looks like it's kind of a gathering of public domain texts mostly, all put together in a nice package. 
• And for my last, the 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, which I've tried and failed many times to read. This last time, I remember more or less where I left off, so I didn't start over, which was probably helpful. The book, curiously, doesn't start off on the best foot with the most interesting stuff at all. But it's so well-regarded that I figured I have to power through and read it to see what it's all about. I'm about a third through right now.

Once I'm done with those, I have a number of books on the docket to read next: 

• a bunch more 3e books, mostly: Elder Evils, Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss, Heroes of Horror, Expedition to Castle Ravenloft and then... well, I've got many more, but let's see what I'm actually in the mood for after those. 
• The four books of the Riftwar Saga, original version, not the "director's cut" that's been in print for many years. I bought them before that director's cut was available, and although I've read the "director's cut" after losing most of my copies, I decided that the editor actually did good work and I missed his input. I put out the cash to buy used copies of the editions I used to have, so I now have them again (thanks Thriftbooks and Abebooks!) After that, the Solomon Kane collection by Robert E. Howard, the Dark Waters trilogy of Arkham Horror novels, a nice copy of Dracula my daughter bought me for my birthday not long ago, and a nice copy (both by Barnes & Noble; I do really appreciate their high quality classics collections) complete Lovecraft collection. Except; well, it isn't completely complete; it's missing the "ghost written" stories. Luckily, I have a Del Rey trade paperback of those too. Then, if I can find the box that my copies are in, I have in omnibus format, the Dark Elf trilogy, the prequel to Salvatore's Halfling Gem trilogy, which I read a couple of years ago, and an omnibus of the first have Barsoom novels. 
• For non-fiction, I have a hiking book my daughter (again; she's nice) bought for me when we relocated as well as the Norse and Celtic follow-ups to the Greek one. Those last (and the Greek one I'm in now) are pretty meaty, so they'll be slow going.
• For pdfs, geez, I have so many. I need to read the last Enemy Within companion volume, Shadow of the Demon Lord, the 5e version of the Iron Kingdoms campaign setting, Dark•Matter (probably the d20 version, but I also have a pdf of the original Alternity version) and... we'll see what happens after that. 

I'm not reading anything that looks like this. I just like the image.