What I'm reading right now is Barbara Eherenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.

5-cent word: soteriological (p. 68).

Finished Chekhov's Later Short Stories, 1888-1903, which I called "dry and humane" for some reason: They are far from dry: They're dark and funny and sad and brimming with life, and the best of them are wise and funny in places where wisdom or wit are not expected.