Let's start with the classic icebreaker: what are you currently reading?
I just finished the last novel in Timothy Zahn's Conquerors trilogy - classic SF with some excellent plotting, though the ending falls completely flat - and next up is Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds by Greg Lastowka.
Yesterday I finished Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow, based on the story of the reclusive Collyer brothers. Homer, blind since his teens, recounts life in their Fifth Avenue mansion from the Gilded Age up until about the 1980s. In real life, the Collyers were discovered dead in 1947, but Doctorow extends the narrative, brilliantly conveying the passage of time and its effects on the brothers in many different ways. If you're interested in representation of human consciousness, time, New York, or American studies, then you should take a look at Homer and Langley.
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