I thought it might be interesting to post what I'm currently reading and what's on deck.

So, without further adeiu:

In Progress

• Nancy Pearcey. Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books). 2004. 479pp. This was given to me by a friend to read, and it is well worth reading. You should read it too. I'm about 140 pages into it. This is my primary book right now, I hope to read it quickly, both because it is the sort of book I tend to read and absorb quickly, and because I've got so much other good stuff to get into.
• Stanley E. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell. The Greek Verbal Network Viewed from a Probabilistic Standpoint: An Exercise in Hallidayan Linguistics, in Filologia Neotestamentaria vol XIV, pp. 3-41. 2001. Just picked this one up today and started reading it over lunch. I've already noted a few other Filologia Neotestamentaria articles mentioned in footnotes that may be worth reading.
• Ray Van Neste. Cohesion and Structure in the Pastoral Epistles, (London: T&T Clark, Int'l). 2004. 354pp. I've been working on this one for a bit, taking it slow. I'm about 60 pages in. Good stuff.
• Anthony Kenny. A Stylometric Study of the New Testament, (Oxford: The Clarendon Press). 1986. 124pp. This is slow reading, but good reading. Kenny starts at the beginning, realizing he needs to discuss the most basic statistical stuff in order for this text to be useful to non-statisticians (like me). I'm about 30 pages in (so, through chapter 5), but this one will be sitting for a bit. I find myself re-reading the earlier chapters just to make sure I get it.
• Kevin Gary Smith. Bible Translation and Relevance Theory: The Translation of Titus. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa). 2000. 260pp. I'm about 30 pages in. I'm most interested in the Titus translation and rationale (chapter 4) but the rest seems to set the scene for that, so I decided to read whole paper.
• Mikeal C. Parsons and Martin M. Culy. Acts: A Handbook on the Greek Text. (Waco: Baylor University Press). 2004. 558pp. I'm on page 125 (so, Ac 7.20). I read anywhere from three to seven or so verses each weekday morning. So, I read the Greek, translate in my head and compare to the translation of Parsons & Culy, taking consideration of the grammar/syntax/translation notes provided. Then I dwell on the text for a bit.

On Deck (In no particular order)

• Stanley E. Porter. Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood. (New York: Peter Lang). 1989, 1993, 2003. 582pp. This is more hopeful than anything. I've read the foreword and other chunks, but I need to work through it at some point. It'll be a tough slog, though. It's intimidating stuff.
• Stanley E. Porter. Studies in the Greek New Testament: Theory and Practice. (New York: Peter Lang). 1996. 290pp. I've read a few of the essays, but need to read the balance of them. It won't happen anytime soon, though.
• Stanley E. Porter (ed). The Pauline Canon. (Leiden: Brill). 2005. 254pp. Just got this one. I'm itchin' to get into it, but need to finish off a few things above before I get into this one.
• N.T. Wright. The Resurrection of the Son of God. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press). 2003. 817pp. I've read the other two volumes in the series and need to read this one. It's tough for me to get into because I don't think I like where Wright is going.
• Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo. (New York: Modern Library). 1996. 1462pp. I've read this before (within the past two years) and I loved it. I couldn't put the book down. I want to squeeze it in again, but know it will consume me when I do pick it up.
• C.S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia. Need I say more? The last time I read these books I burned through them. 7 books in one week, one book per night. It was awesome. I'll probably take it a little more slowly this time. Maybe. When I get around to it.

That's it. A little Porter-heavy in the on-deck list, but that's life. If you're going to read stuff about the Greek of the NT, these days it means you have to deal with Porter. I also want to read Schneemelcher's NT Apocrypha volumes, but that's a ways out at present.

Update (2005-05-20): Wayne Leman of Better Bibles Blog provides more info and his perspective on some of the books in the above list. In his comment below, he notes that he's one who finds himself in several books at once as well.

I'm not quite sure how I started doing that myself, I think it happened when I really started purchasing books and had more than one to read at a given time. I find, for me, it's the only way to get things done. Sometimes it's hard to pick up in the middle of something that I haven't read for a few weeks, but it is manageable. I usually have different types of books, too. I'll have a book I can just blitz through (Pearcey's Total Truth), a book on slow burn (Van Neste on Cohesion) and then some others just to cycle through to keep things interesting.

(n.b. Just added Wayne's blog to the blogroll).