I read constantly, and just finished "genderqueer," a collections of essays about/by genderqueer folk. This was interesting and put some stuff in perspective, though I could only solidly identify with one person in there. I read it in, like, three days, which is quick, because I read painfully slow.
I just finished Startide Rising by Brin and TSOG by Robert Anton Wilson. I'm actually just in the ebb and flow of books right now, finishing about 4 or 5 of them at once, which is kind of neat, like an orchestra coming together at once. The other ones were "Stranger than Fiction" by Chuck Palinhuck (spelling?) and "Beauty Myth" by Naomi Wolf.
I keep picking up Murakami's "A Wind Up Bird Chronicle." That is awesome, and the only reason I keep putting it down because other stuff comes up that I "have" to read, but it's never far from my mind.
It's my summer reading before starting my linguistics course in the fall. There is, of course, the inner geek in me trying to learn PHP and other web-stuff so my website can be something meaningful instead of a wasted "placeholder" domain.
If you want a good classic, I can't recommend any of Hemmingway highly enough. That's if you're feeling particularly masculine. I like his short stories a lot (probably because I can read them in a sitting while I identify more as "male"). "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is an awesome story, and made me think a whole bunch about what it means to be a person in this world, in addition to my "male" self in that queer kind of way that it is for me. The interpretation is kind of cheesy, I know, but I'm still in school for English (M.A.), so it's habit at this point.
