What are you reading the week of June 14, 2009?

[DUgosh]

The Prudence of the Flesh by Ralph McInerny

[defendandprotect]

1. I'm reading mainly two books ...

"The Beast Reawakened" by Lee Martin

who, btw, also wrote the fantastic book "Unreliable Sources" --

and "The Rise of the Third Reich" --

Getting to read these books has been unusually slow and they are books which

I usually makes notes on for my journals.

I'm way behind!

Also -- John Carlson's book on Landscape Painting ---

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. "Smells Like Dead Elephants,"

by Matt Taibbi, one of my favorites (see my signature line), and just picked up "Dark Star," an oral biography of Jerry Garcia.

I need to find some good contemporary fiction, but nothing appeals to me right now. Back to the classics, I guess..................

[pscot]

3. Family of Secrets, by Russ Baker

and it's tieing my head in knots. Also, Thud, by Terry Pratchett, to keep from completely losing touch with reality.

[madeline_con]

4. Slowly working on "Sufferings in Africa" by Cpt. James Riley.

[MADem]

5. An English-Irish book: an autobiography of an extraordinary "average" woman

Not very heavy, but a nice read. Almost done with it, I've already got someone breathing down my neck for it!

[fadedrose]

6. l/3 of the way through GONE TOMORROW, Lee Child

And it's a good read. So far, I'm liking it....It's written in the first person as character, Jack Reacher.

The last book I read in the first person was one by Robert Parker, and he was writing as a woman detective. I don't much care for a man writing as a woman, very distracting...

[fadedrose]

14. Finished PRIMARY JUSTICE by William Bernhardt

Good - will read more of Bernhardt . . .

[fadedrose]

15. Just barely starting PERFECT JUSTICE by Bernhardt nt

[TheCentepedeShoes]

7. Blood and Ice

by Robert Masello
Another novel about scientists finding something mysterious frozen in ice and deciding to thaw it out
The kind of thing that never works out well, like in Terminal Freeze by Douglas Preston (or was it Lincoln Child - I get confused when they aren't writing together)
Also, The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Non-fiction about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and other stuff that was going on at the same time
Also have The Empty Mirror by J Sydney Jones
Mystery about killings in Vienna at the end of the 19th century

[mentalsolstice]

8. "The King of Lies" by John Hart. nt

[hippywife]

9. Over the weekend I finished

To Kill a Mockingbird. Can't believe I've never read it before. But what an excellent read!

And I just now finished Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. Very interesting and she inserts much light-hearted and sardonic humor.

I'm waiting on The Virgin Suicides from the library but I'm number three of three holds so not sure when I'll get it so I'm trolling these threads looking for something else to read. I can't be out of reading material! :o

:hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. A Swedish mystery (not one of Henning Menkell's)

about a woman trying to find out what happened to her son, who disappeared many years ago. Can't remember the title offhand without running into the bedroom and picking up the book.

[fishwax]

11. Blue Highways

I've meant to read it for a long time, and finally getting around to it now that I finished Hell's Angels this last weekend ...

[Broken_Hero]

12. Nothing...I need to get off

my lazy duff and start reading again...I got about three/four S. Kings sitting on my shelf that I haven't read yet. The last book I read was Flight, by S. Alexie.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Bedside book: A Darker Domain by Val McDermid

Purse book: Fox Evil by Minette Walters.

Yes, I love British mystery writers.