I also read a lot of nonfiction. So thanks for starting this thread. I just finshed reading Bonhoeffer which was great. This week I've been reading a lot of samples trying to decide what I want to read next. I have narrowed it down to one of these three:
Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)
The Good News We Almost Forgot
Plus I have some homeschool related books to read with my kids.
I'm currently reading this:
The Panic Virus , about the hysteria that has been generated and sustained, largely through the Internet and by ill-informed celebrities, around the contention that childhood vaccines cause autism.
EVERY legitimate scientific study has shown that this contention is false, yet children are dying of diseases that we thought had been conquered over 50 years ago because they weren't vaccinated or worse, because they couldn't be vaccinated, and other children who could have been vaccinated but were not transmitted a deadly disease to them.
This is a maddening, frustrating, tragic and essential book.
ABthree wrote:I'm currently reading this:
The Panic Virus , about the hysteria that has been generated and sustained, largely through the Internet and by ill-informed celebrities, around the contention that childhood vaccines cause autism.
ABThree, you just put another book on my wishlist. 
What is the world coming to when Jenny McCarthey is being quoted as a "medical expert"? I'm in no way downplaying the severity of the condition or the concerns of the families touched by autism, but if I have to choose between the word of multiple controlled medical studies and the Vanna of MTV's Singled Out, my choice is obvious.
Pertussis was almost completely eliminated in the early 90s. Babies in California are dying of it today. 
(And yes, I just started Nightlife, again, because library books kept getting in the way. I promise to report back when I finish. I really did like the 50 pages I got to read. 
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You've given me another one too ABthree. As a clinical virologist for years I have had my fill of people telling me "the flu vaccine gave me the flu", and other nonsense.
I also want to finish reading
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
had to return it to the library before I go too far in it.
Arctic_Ranger wrote:
I also want to finish reading
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
had to return it to the library before I go too far in it.
I hope that you can -- it was the first book I read on my Nook, and I really liked it.
Some critics think that Skloot inserted herself too much into the story. My take on it is that the story was well worth telling, and that the Lacks family was so traumatized and alienated by decades of neglect and ill treatment that, had Skloot not inserted herself and won their confidence and cooperation, their story would have been lost.
From Booklist
Lukacs’ contribution to WWII POW literature reconstructs an escape by Americans from the Japanese-occupied Philippines. From biographical introductions of the dozen Americans involved, dramas of their captures at Bataan and Corregidor, and ordeals of imprisonment and maltreatment, Lukacs launches into their breakout scheme and the nail-biting danger of putting it in motion. Ably declaiming the ensuing intrepid events, Lukacs readily evokes the high tension and strenuous travails of the fugitives’ evasion of enemy patrols en route to evacuations by American submarines. But, as Lukacs recounts, their stories of Japanese atrocities (which included revelation of the Bataan Death March), in which their heroic saga was wrapped, were too hot for officialdom to handle. Fearful of endangering remaining POWs, but also tempted by the opportunity to put to use the inevitable intensification of popular anger against the Japanese, FDR expressly delayed release of the news until it coincided with a war-bond sales drive. Built from every available research source, Lukacs’ diligent, impassioned history will aid and abet the ever-growing interest in the WWII fighting experience. --Gilbert Taylor
This is written by an ordinary guy as he reads the Bible from the beginning to the end and talks about his impressions along the way. Very light reading; fun, entertaining, and interesting. I can hardly put it down! His observations make me laugh about one every two pages, and make me think harder almost as often, and I don't even believe in the Bible.
It has been a while since I checked out this thread. Seems like that is the case the for other folks as well. I'd have to look to see what I've read in the time since my last post. But currently I am reading:
It has been excellent. I tend to be skeptical of these sorts of books but a good friend of mine and fellow father of three daughters recommended it. I am glad he did. 
