What are you reading the week of July 13, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Love, Lies, and Liquor by M.C. Beaton

[mirrera]

1. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

[HopeFor2006]

2. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

[Speck Tater]

3. One Second After by William R Forstchen

EMP wipes out everything electrical in the US. Fun and hilarity ensues.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

Plus The Botany of Desire
and a couple others open at the moment.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. Re-Reading...

"Willard and his Bowling Trophies" by Richard Brautigan.

"DIE Bowling Trophy Thieves!"

An especially twisted tale of bondage and genital herpes, and a murderous band of brothers on a relentless search for their stolen bowling trophies, now protected by a paper ma-che bird in a apartment with loose numbers on the door.

Trust me, there is nothing else like it.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. Shelter Island, by Dennis LaHane

The Audacity Of Hope, by Barack Obama - yeah, I'm just getting around to it now,

and

Be Careful Who You Love, by Diane Dimond - great chronicle of the Jacko child molestation trial, with lots of intricate backstory.............

[fishwax]

7. Anywhere But Here, by Mona Simpson

[Wwagsthedog]

8. The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell. nt

[Rincewind]

9. Guns, Germs and, Steel

by Jared Diamond

[bluethruandthru]

10. Bone by Bone

Carrol O'Connell

[pleideschick]

11. Re-reading Hemingway's collected short stories

I also have older, oversized paperbacks of some of his works that I haven't gotten to and wish to.

[hippywife]

12. The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald

Very old but I'd never read it before. I like it so far. :hi:

[patricia92243]

13. The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta. Bookclub choice. I am going to this bookclub for the

first time tomorrow evening and will be very curious to see other people's reaction.

I thought it was a accurate portrail of how horrible African women were treated in the 1930's. I wonder if some people will romanticize it and say "look how nice it was before the white man arrived."

[fadedrose]

14. Just started PATH OF THE ASSASSIN by Brad Thor nt

[fadedrose]

15. Quit this one at page 65

It's mainly about Arab-Israeli terrorism/spying and I can't get interested. It's in the news too much to read about it in fiction too.

[fadedrose]

17. Half-way thru DEATH BY ACCIDENT by Bill Crider nt

[fadedrose]

19. Finished THE BLIGHT WAY, Patrick F. McManus

After finishing DEATH BY ACCIDENT. Short, easy to read..


Half-way thru with DARK JUSTICE, William Bernhardt

THE BLIGHT WAY is the first of 3 in a series about a Sheriff Bo Tully in Idaho - the third book comes out in October, I think..

[fadedrose]

20. Finished EXTREME JUSTICE by Wm Bernhardt..

Made a mistake in previous post, I was reading Extreme, not Dark JUSTICE...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I have a purse book and a bedside book

Bedside book: All the Colors of Darkness by Peter Robinson, who is becoming one of my favorite mystery writers (of about a dozen :-) ) A theater staff member is found hanged in the woods, and his lover is found murdered. A murder-suicide or something more complicated?

Purse book: The High Flyer by Susan Howatch, part of what might be called "Starbridge: The Second Generation," this is the second book of the second series of novels centering on the Church of England. In this one, a yuppie lawyer learns that her husband is not who he claims to be.

[Hayabusa]

18. Raptor Red by Robert Bakker

Good so far.

[Onceuponalife]

21. Devlin's Luck by Patricia Bray