Fiction

Just picked up John Updike's Rabbit at Rest (though I must admit I haven't read the preceding three books; nonetheless this is amounting to a good read, even if at times I'm left strandled without information I'd have had if I'd read the three books). Very early on, the reader can tell that Rabbit is reckoning with his mortality, which seems tantalizingly close now, and the book is charged this way. I'm only about 60 pages in, and I must say it's a very rewarding read.
Other than that, as I often do, I'm just doing some random ecology-related readings. I just read about keystone species, a seemingly simple concept, but several intricate, many-pronged natural processes influence a specie's ability to become pivotal in a given setting. Very interesting to consider.