An embarassment of riches

I find that the more I get into my academic readings, the more I want to read non-academic works. For some reason, I've always been able to find the time to read throughout my studies. I know a lot of people who say that they'll start reading for fun again when they are done their degree but I've never been able to give it up. I find that my writing and quality of thought suffers if I let it go. The times in my life when I've stopped reading for fun have also been the times when I have been most blocked and laissez-faire with my writing.

I feel a renewed sense of excitement in my project these days, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that I've got a whole new bunch of books on the go all of a sudden. I'm happiest when reading a bunch of books concurrently. Here are the ones that form a pile beside my bed and find themselves in my backpack wherever I am headed:

La Gloire de mon pere by Marcel Pagnol
Naked by David Sedaris
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
L'homme aux cercles bleus by Fred Vargas
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
A couple issues of McSweeney's magazine The Believer (thanks JK!)

Does anyone know the html for accents? Also, is there any way to write in non-anglo scripts? I've seen arabic and persian blogs, so there's gotta be a way.