What are you reading the week of June 7, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Star Spangled Murder


by Valerie Wolzien

[babylonsister]

1. Susan Isaacs

"Any Place I Hang My Hat"

It's a few years old, but I somehow missed it.
So far, so good.

[babylonsister]

14. I remembered I liked Susan Isaacs, but now I remember why.

She's very funny, has a NY sensibility maybe, that I relate to. Fun fiction.

[11 Bravo]

2. Jonathan Kellerman

"Bones"

[Mz Pip]

24. Just finished it.

Like it. It was perfect for my vacation.

[Mz Pip]

25. Careless in Red

Elizabeth George's latest.

Inspector Lynley is back.

I love her books. Wonderful, complex characters, and an amazing attention to detail.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Harold Holzer

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861

Excellent.

[asjr]

4. James Lee Burke's "Sunset Limited."

[phaseolus]

5. two math books

...popular works on symmetry and group theory:

The Equation that Couldn't be Solved, Mario Livio
and
Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature, Marcus du Sautoy



Hey, I'm a nerd...

[azmouse]

6. "Lamb" by Christopher Moore

Very funny!

[fishwax]

7. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers

to start with--I've got some nonfiction to catch up with when I finish this ...

[hippywife]

8. Just finished two books and working on a third.

This was last week and this week.

The first was a non-fiction:

Rising from the Rails: The Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye

Then I read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

and now I'm reading Carl Sagan's Contact

[fadedrose]

9. Just finished 2 by Bernhardt & just started CAPTURE, Tanenbaum

I really enjoyed the William Bernhardt books, BLIND JUSTICE and DEADLY JUSTICE.

Have been so looking forward to CAPTURE, but the first 40 pages or so are a bit disappointing. It will no doubt pick up.

[fadedrose]

18. Bernhardt - thumbs up; Tanenbaum's stunk.... nt

[fadedrose]

19. Going to start RENEGADE by Richard Wolffe tomorrow...

I hope it's NOT fiction...

[pscot]

10. Just finishing DARK STAR SAFARI by Paul Theroux

Theroux is tough,witty and honest. I don't think he's cynical, but he takes things with a very large grain of salt. If you read one book about Africa, make it this one.

[Rowdyboy]

11. A little behind the times....I'm just finishing "Angela's Ashes"....

Incredibly depressing book....

[babylonsister]

13. One of the few books I had to stop reading. Very depressing. nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. The Janissary Tree

a mystery that takes place in 19th century Istanbul, with a eunuch as the detective.

[Clintonista2]

15. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff

[raccoon]

16. SANTA CLAWED by Rita Mae Brown. nt

[BOSSHOG]

17. INTREPID by Bill White and Robert Gandt

A history of the USS Intrepid from its battles in WWII to its current service as a Museum in New York. I can't get enough of Naval History.

[bikebloke]

20. White Riot by Martyn Waites

[xochi]

21. "Death with Interruptions" by Jose Saramago, and

"Sputnik Sweetheart" by Haruki Murakami.

[MaineDem]

22. "Assegai" by Wilbur Smith

Just started it.

[fadedrose]

23. GONE TOMORROW - Lee Child

Am only on page 27 or so, and it's really good. I didn't like his last one (NOTHING TO LOSE), but this one looks like Mr. Child is back on track.

[LWolf]

26. River Boy

a YA novel by Tim Bowler for my classroom library.

A powerful novel about life and death, using the river as metaphor.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[LWolf]

27. Schooled, by Gordon Korman.

I'm plowing through a stack of books for my classroom; I picked them up at the "buy one, get one free" book fair we had at the end of the year to encourage students to stock up on summer reading. I teach 6th - 8th, so these are novels written for that age level.

This one was a surprise. I've read a lot of Korman's stuff; usually high interest, low reading level stuff to attract guys who don't like to read. Funny, but usually not much substance.

This one was different.

This is about an 8th grade boy born and raised on a defunct commune by his grandmother, the only member left. He's homeschooled. He's never had a tv, phone, computer, etc., and has no connections outside the "farm." stereotypical "hippies."

Until his grandmother is injured, has to go to rehab, and social services sends him off to the middle school in town.

Where the stereotype gets lots of work, but so do some values that modern culture would benefit from revisiting.

Plenty of humor, plenty of growth for all... this one could have been a trainwreck, but it works.

[lindisfarne]

28. delete. wrong thread.