What are you reading the week of September 20, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Charm City by Laura Lippman

[bbinacan]

1. Texas

by James Michener.

[hippywife]

32. Not one of my favorites of his but still

an interesting read, as they all are. :hi:

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. Tess of the d'Urbervilles...

Thomas Hardy.

[katandmoon]

12. Thomas Hardy fan here!

[katandmoon]

13. Just finished reading Rumer Godden's "An Episode of Sparrows" (which I first read as a kid)

[WorseBeforeBetter]

18. I'm re-reading some I read in junior and senior high...

what a difference 30ish years makes!

[yellowdogintexas]

36. that was a wonderful book wasn't it? I read that in 8th grade

I think.

[Mz Pip]

3. Deal Breaker

Harlan Coben

Just wanted to read a good crime novel that has a lot of humor in it.

[appamado amata padam]

4. Just finished

All Quiet on the Western Front.

Just started David Copperfield.

[Pab Sungenis]

5. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.

What can I say? I'm in a light mood after having just finished "Dexter By Design."

[Zoeisright]

6. Penny Vincenzi's 'No Angel'

[peacebird]

7. Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis

Informative, entertaining, and more than a little frightening - this book attempts to unravel the mysterious malady behind colony collapse disorder.
A very good read, highly recommend it.

[AndyHammond1970]

8. Exodus from Empire

by Terrence Paupp

[kestrel91316]

9. Third book in the S M Stirling Island in the Sea of Time trilogy:

On the Oceans of Eternity

I also love his Dies the Fire trilogy.

[hippywife]

10. Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCollough. n/t

[TheCentepedeShoes]

23. I finished

First Man in Rome (the first book in the series) this weekend and turned it in to the library today
I took away Leviathan by David Coleman and Apocalypse 2012 by Gary Jennings

[hippywife]

30. Are you not going to

finish out the series? It's nice for you to be coming into it when it's all written and not get stuck waiting for the next installment.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

33. The next book

is The Grass Crown and the central library has it
I was going to go there this last Sunday but was having some car trouble which turned into a trip to the Buick place yesterday
I'll pick it up this weekend or next :hi:

[sspeilbergfan90]

28. I loved that book

[hippywife]

31. I finished it earlier today.

A pretty different take on their relationship than that of Margaret George, another of my favorite authors.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

And goodbye already. Tombstoned.

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. Post Captain.

The second book of the 21 volume Patrick O' Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels. The movie Master and Commander with Russel Crowe was based on the characters. I was so excited last week when the complete set I ordered arrived.

[azmouse]

14. "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks

[azmouse]

19. Also reading "Bloodsucking Fiends" by Christopher Moore

[MaineDem]

15. Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson

So far it's great.

[asjr]

16. BLOOD MEMORY by Greg Iles.

[fadedrose]

17. THE SCARECROW by Michael Connelly nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. The Insight Guide to the Baltic States is my bedside book

I just finished a purse book (Faye Kellerman's Mercedes Coffin), and I haven't decided what the next one will be.

[BOSSHOG]

21. I found 4 old William J. Caunitz books in a musty old used bookstore

He was a NYC Police Lieutenant who retired in the early 80's and commenced to write about that which he knew. New York and its Cops. Interesting to read about cops looking for pay phones to get in touch with the office and police precinct offices strewn with pizza boxes and beer cans. Seems like every cop cheats on his wife and every senior member is paranoid about being backstabbed. A very nice look back 25 years or so. Its fiction, But!!

[sazemisery]

22. An Echo in the Bone, by Diana Gabaldon

Number 7 in her Outlander series. I discovered her recently and read the first 6 books straight through. If you like historical fiction/sci-fi(time travel)/men in kilts, you need to read this series.

[fadedrose]

24. DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER by Jeff Lindsay (very weird) nt

[fadedrose]

34. I 'think' there's a program on Showtime based on this character...nt

[Rowdyboy]

25. Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"....

Car battery died at the grocery store. While waiting for my partner to come to my rescue I was bored so I bought the book and a six-pack of Blue Moon "Harvest Moon". By the time he arrived I was no longer bored.

Its the first current hit fiction I've read in at least 20 years.

[LWolf]

26. A very large stack of YA and tween books.

Some for inclusion in the classroom library, some because we're reading and discussing them in class.

In class:

"Tuck Everlasting," Natalie Babbit

"The Giver," Lois Lowry

"Tangerine," Edward Bloor

[sspeilbergfan90]

27. wiseguy

[fadedrose]

29. MIDNIGHT RAMBLER by James Swain

Good . . .

[fadedrose]

35. DEATH ROW (2003) by William Deanhardt

Very good - lots of nice dialogue between the main characters.

If I think of it, am going to put the date of the book next to the title from now on....