What's on your bedside table?

[pjthompson]

arcaedia did this over at her blog, so I decided to import it over here (steal the idea) because I thought it was a cool thing.

Here's what's on mine:

The Halo Effect by MJ Rose—because it's the novel I'm currently reading. (Frustrating book. It's supposed to be a thriller, but the narrator keeps talking and talking about herself.)

Three anthologies—because I tend to take a break from novels at night with short stories:

❶ My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding—big fan of Charlaine Harris, Rachel Caine and Jim Butcher, but have enjoyed the others quite a lot, especially the Esther M. Friesner story, which was hilarious.

❷ In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss

❸ Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint

And a book of poetry—because if not short stories, then poetry (or vice versa):

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins (a long time favorite of mine)