What book/books are you reading now?

I'm reading NF, 'Napoleon's Cursed War': Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War by Ronald Frazer. Not far short of 600 pages. My better half remarked, "Don't drop it on your foot."

I tend to avoid fiction based in the period I'm writing for obvious reasons, though I do read outside it. But since I'm always looking for different angles on particular events, or things that don't quite ring true which might be worth investigating further, it's mostly factual stuff for me.

Robin Hobb, Liveship series. My brother leant me his collection of Robin Hobb paperbacks and I am slowly going through them all. He loves them, and they are well written and researched. I find them rather long winded in that Game of Thrones saga kind of way.

Recommended books are usually less of a waste of time than picking something from the top best seller list, and I'll always read something when the original owner wants the books back when finished.

I am rather useless at browsing in book shops, libraries, Amazon, being unable to judge a book by it's cover. I am lucky enough to have the country's best independent book shop nearby to help me out.