One of my more liberal friends was talking about The Forever War as being a book he liked about Afghanistan, so I'm reading that. I'm not a big fan of when journalists write about real events like novels, and I'm not impressed so far, because it seems like so far it's just a series of vignettes whose point is "Wow, being in Afghanistan sure is a bummer, y'all."

I'm also reading *The Man Who Couldn't Stop", a memoir/popular science book about obsessive-compulsive disorder.