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My overall reading tends to be:
Constant diet: non-fiction. Memoirs. Very heavy slant toward science topics, linguistics, history, and poetry criticism. Books like The Professor and the Madman, Genius, Chaos, The Code Book, etc.
Intense Spurts lasting 2-3 months: SF. I am disgusted by 9/10ths of it (I should add all of S.M. Stirling's stuff, which I did read, to the "books I hate" thread). But I do manage now and then to make a "discovery" and find an author I like, like a William Gibson or Neal Stephenson.
Amorphous seasoning to the steady non-fiction diet: Historical Fiction and Alternative History Fiction. Jack Whyte's Camulod series, The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth. 1945 (What if Japan didn't surrender?)
I'm extremely disappointed, as I knew I would be, in finding stuff I want to read in ebook format. My ebook reader reading has been classics, and the TOR reads, none of which I've been able to force myself to complete.
I travel a LOT, a real "road warrior" type, so read constantly in airports, airplanes, hotels, taxis, trains. At home, I read like others watch TV, meaning, when I'm not doing anything else and want to relax.
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