What are you reading this week/month?

Right now I'm in the middle of two books at once, one being 'Operation Wandering Soul' by Richard Powers and the other being 'Under the Skin' by Michael Faber. Right now I'm focusing on the latter, since it's a faster read. Basically this race of aliens has begun taking humans for their own use, using a surgically altered (to look human) female of their species as a decoy of sorts, who picks up hitchhikers, drugs them and takes them back to the "farm." I've probably given away too much already, because the way the story develops, and is revealed, is so subtle and well-done.

'Operation Wandering Soul' - which I'm only 40% of the way through - is about a doctor doing his surgical residency at an inner-city Los Angeles children's hospital, in some sort of dystopian near future (from an early 90's perspective). He and the hospital's physical therapist, with whom he becomes romantically involved, attempt to make the best of a seemingly hopeless situation, in which human lives - children's lives particularly - are considered of little value.