I'm really into Neil Gaiman at the moment. I think it would work well for some lighter reading while you're working. What's great about it to me is that it is a fairly quick and easy read with some great wit and humor, but it says something as well. He has a few short story collections out, I haven't read them, but might be a good place to start. 
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"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides"
-Carl Sagan
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