What are you reading the week of May 3, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Everglades by Randy Wayne White

[DrDan]

1. Differences by Jean Chatzky and Real Money by Jim Cramer

[virgogal]

2. Hunting Eichmann-----Neal Bascomb

[valerief]

3. Solomon's Grave--Dan Keohane. nt

[babylonsister]

4. "A Good House" by Bonnie Burnard. nt

[babylonsister]

5. How is that book, or the author? I have that and 'Captiva; but haven't

read either yet.

[DUgosh]

13. They are page turners

But if you can start at the beginning of the Doc Ford series they are even better.

Sanibel Flats
The Heat Islands
The Man Who Invented Florida
Captiva
North of Havana
The Mangrove Coast
Ten Thousand Islands
Shark River
Twelve Mile Limit
Everglades
Tampa Burn
Dead of Night
Dark Light
Hunter's Moon
Black Widow
Dead Silence

[bajamary]

6. Secrets of the Temple

"Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve RUns the Country" by William Greider.

Fascinating and terrifying.

[Jim__]

14. Great book!

I read that years ago. It is the clearest description of the what the Federal Reserve does that I've ever read.

[fadedrose]

7. Tim Maleeny

Just finished STEALING THE DRAGON and BEATING THE BABUSHKA, both by Maleeny. Easy light reading, some smiles..(oops, not all light, Oriental names hard to pronounce and remember).

He's detective named Cape Weathers, works out of San Francisco, and has a sometime partner who's a femaile trained in marshall arts...

[PADemD]

8. "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

[Staph]

9. The Language of Bees

by Laurie L. King -- the latest of the Mary Russell / Sherlock Holmes books.

[Orrex]

10. Mother Night

Just started it for the first time, and I'm about 70 pages in. I'm not a fast reader, but Vonnegut's style always grabs me.

[fadedrose]

11. MURDER AT THE BAD GIRL'S BAR & GRILL (N. M. Kelby)

I just started this about a half-hour ago, am on page 13, and had a couple of laughs already - not smiles, laughs...

Hope I like the whole book as much as the first 12 pages....

(I don't think I'm what the author had in mind demographically when she penned this book, am 71, but am enjoying it regardless)

[deepthought42]

12. Mrs. Dalloway

Reading it for my Literary Modernism class. I have to finish it by thursday evening. In fact, I need to read a few more pages before I go to bed...

[Jim__]

15. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge - Jean-François Lyotard

I bought the book because I read through part of the first chapter at the bookstore. He is claiming (the book is from 1979) that human knowledge will be transformed by the fact that machines are storing, processing, and transmitting information. If his claims are specific, they may be at least partially testable against what has happened since.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. "The Price of Butchers Meat" by Reginald Hill and "Polar Star" by Martin Cruz Smith

One's a bedside book, and the other's a purse book.

[Captain Hilts]

18. I've not read Polar Star. I might have to. Good term 'purse book'! nt

[fadedrose]

17. SKINNY DIP by Carl Hiaason

I enjoyed it - funny and nice plot....

[JitterbugPerfume]

19. re reading The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

good stuff!