What are you reading the week of July 19, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Some Like It Lethal by Nancy Martin

[LWolf]

1. Just got done rereading

"Half Blood Prince," before seeing the movie Friday, and "Deathly Hallows," yesterday, to finish the story after the movie.

Will begin "Ghost Riders" by Sharon McCrumb this evening.

It's a re-read, too. I'm waiting for some books to come in from Powell's for new reads.

[PDJane]

4. Free Lunch, David Ray Johnson,

The Shadow King, Jane Stevenson, Spirits in the Wires, Charles De Lint, A Time of Changes, Robert Silverberg, Breakpoint, Richard A. Clarke, The Mess They Made, (waiting for Climate Wars) Gwynne Dyer, Conspirator by CJ Cherryh........not necessarily in that order.

[asjr]

2. Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs

[Kceres]

5. I just finished that one!

LOVE me some Kathy Reichs. Used to read Patrica Cornwell until I learned what a wing-nut she was, then I found Reichs by chance. She's just the opposite of Cornwell politically.
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[callous taoboy]

3. Just finished Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

I highly recommend it.

[InternalDialogue]

6. I'm treating myself to Stephen King's "It" this week before returning to something more substantial.

Also browsing casually through Ken Robinson's "The Element."

[hippywife]

7. Bound for Glory by Woody Guthie. n/t

[_dynamicdems]

8. John Connolly - The Lovers

This is one intense book. I love anything by John Connolly, but he's outdone himself on this one. I usually breeze through a novel in a day or two, but I'm savoring this one, reading only a chapter a day. It's that good.

[fadedrose]

9. Started DARK JUSTICE by Wm. Bernhardt

I really like this guy...

[fishwax]

10. Take It or Leave It, by Raymond Federman

[Greyskye]

11. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.



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[closeupready]

12. Brian Keene's "The Rising".

n/t

[RebelOne]

13. "Skipping Christmas," by John Grisham.

[bluescribbler]

14. "Lend Me Your Ears"

subtitled, "Great Speeches in History", compiled and introduced by William Safire.

Some would say that it doesn't qualify as fiction, but nobody really knows what Marc Antony said at Caeesar's funeral. For that matter, do we really know that Patrick Henry said, "Give me Liberty or Give Me Death!"?

And then, of course, there are speeches by Ronald Reagan, Shrub, and Richard Nixon. They might qualify as fiction? :shrug:

You may question why I, a good Democrat, would be reading something by Safire, but he is remarkably non partison in his selections. He also includes speeches by JFK, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, the Dalai Lama, Josef Stalin and Nikita Kruschev.But basically, I'm reading it for inspiration, to help me to write better speeches.

[fadedrose]

15. Finished AVALANCHE by Patrick F. McManus nt

[Onceuponalife]

16. The Barbed Coil by J. V. Jones

[yellowdogintexas]

17. just finished The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva and am now reading

44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith