[quote=@Stormflyx]
I'm currently making my way through a couple of books right now!

Stephen King - On Writing 
Claire Saffitz - Dessert Person (yeah yeah it's a cookbook but there's a lot of technical information in there that is very interesting :) )

What are you reading?
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Stephen King's On Writing is legitimately one of the best books about writing fiction I've come across. Which is weird cos I'm not a huge fan of his fiction anymore, I used to be as a teenager, but the only one of his recent books I thought was any good was 11/12/63. But On writing and his other non-fiction on horror specifically, Danse Macabre, are both really good reads for anyone who wants to write. 

I just finished reading [b]'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'[/b] by [b]Shirley Jackson[/b], the horror author of Haunting of Hill House fame. Really good dark mystery about early 20th century America, madness, poison, and witchcraft. The opening scene in particular has the most amazing depictions of complete and utter paranoia and it only gets weirder and crazier from there. The narrator is very unreliable, mentally unstable, sympathetic, and dangerous, all at the same time.

Right now I'm reading some non-fiction, [b]'The Common Stream'[/b] by [b]Roland Parker[/b], a social history of a single English village set over the course of two thousand years from the Pre-Roman Iron Age to the late 20th century. I just finished reading the Roman stuff, which is frankly a little dated and full of suppositions which my archaeologist brain was not a huge fan of. But I bought the book mainly because I was interested in its reconstruction of life under the feudal manorial system, which is based more off of surviving historical documentation, so I hope that will be somewhat better.