Books
About two weeks after I got home I went crazy at Books-a-million (worst store name ever) and came home with Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, Survivor, and Diary and George R.R. Martin's A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. I did a ton of reading in Iraq so I guess I thought I'd be able to get through books just as fast here as I did there. Well not quite. I was already knee deep in Dan Simmons' Olympos and since then I've only finished that, read Choke, and now I'm about to finish off A Clash of Kings. Earlier this week something possessed me to buy more books so I ordered Penny Arcade Vol. 2: Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.
Now Palahniuk's books are larger than standard paperback but only 200 something pages in length. I got them because they'd make good breaks between Martin's epics, which span around a thousand pages each of small print in standard paperback size. Now that I've got House of Leaves though, I think that'll come after A Clash of Kings. It's 600 pages and pretty huge but it's got some crazy typography (stuff printed sideways, near blank pages) and after reading lots of good things about it I'm really looking forward to starting it. Then maybe I'll follow that with one of Palahniuk's books before jumping into A Storm of Swords, which I'm told is the best book of the series so far.
Note how this whole entry is about books but not what the books are about.