Per my usual habits, I'm reading more than one book at once. I tend to read non-fiction books non-serially, for the most part — by which I mean that I don't just start at the introduction and read chapter by chapter until I get to the end, but instead kind of browse my way through the book, eventually covering almost all of it, but in my own discovered order. I have read non-fiction that way most of my life, but it occurred to me recently that mostly I read non-serially, serially. Meaning I do it with one non-fiction book after another… since most books I have going at any given time are generally fiction, which is less forgiving of the non-serial approach. Lately, though, I haven't been enjoying fiction as much. So, it turns out, I'm not only reading non-serially, but I'm doing so simultaneously with multiple books.
Currently, those books are: John Horgan's Rational Mysticism, Alan Weisman's The World Without Us, Obama's Audacity of Hope, and Chomsky's Chomsky on Anarchism (which is actually a collection of essays, therefore exceptionally forgiving of the non-serial approach).