What are you reading the week of October 11, 2009?

[DUgosh]

City of Night by Dean Koontz

[Bobbieo]

1. Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

[kickysnana]

3. +1

[MaineDem]

13. I'm finishing it in the next few days.

Not a bad read.

[fadedrose]

18. Just started DARK OF THE MOON (2007) by John Sanford

This is the first in a series of three (so far) about Virgil Flowers, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, who works under Lucas Davenport. He's 3 times married and 3 times divorced, likable, as he would have to be to attract 3 women...

Am only on page 30 or so because the Health Care bill passing Baucus' committee is on the news and is very absorbing. Thumbs up everybody!!

[PDJane]

2. Quite honestly, I'm stitching, not reading.........

Christmas approaches.

[DUgosh]

6. What are you sewing the week of Oct 11, 2009

A great idea for a new thread. I've pieced curved blocks for a thirties style quilt, I'm gonna arrange them on design board today then sew them together later during football game.

[PDJane]

8. I am cross-stitching pink roses.......

a bookmark, a needlebook, and a scissor keep, along with a wall hanging (no, I'm not sending a frame and glass air post to New Zealand). These will be included with two glass pens and a reproduction pen rack for the various members of the family there! I am also making a disney hanging (winnie the pooh's christmas) and a pair of trumpeter swans, which will be framed.

I have a painting of a dragon sitting in one corner, drying, while I figure out what kind of frame it wants, and a set of quilted placemats waiting for inspiration. Poppies, I think........on green.

[MaineDem]

14. I do both.

I listen to audiobooks.

[murielm99]

4. Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer

I have to read it now. I won't be able to read it if I wait until winter. It is making me cold now.

[JDPriestly]

5. The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins

[hippywife]

7. Almost done with Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown

then will start her book, Confinement. Have more Studs Terkel books on order from the library for the coming week.

[azmouse]

9. The New Annotated Dracula by Leslie Klinger

[LWolf]

10. Just finished "Briar Rose" by Jane Yolen.

Mainly because I'm leading an after-school book discussion group with it.

It's certainly a worthy read.

[fadedrose]

11. HATE CRIME (2004) by William Bernhardt

Am almost half way thru, and like this book a lot.

Good dialog, tight story, very timely.

Recommend this as well as all of the Bernhardt "Ben Kincaid" books.

Ben is a lawyer who takes impossible cases that don't pay, and best friend, Mike Morelli, is a cop, and between the two, there's no foot draggin'. Takes place in Tulsa, OK,

[Onceuponalife]

12. Just finished "Evolution" by Stephen Baxter

A remarkable book. It's a novel that tells the story of human evolution from about 36 million years in the past to the year 2031. But Baxter goes beyond that and dares to imagine where evolution will takes us up to 500 million years in the future. (Hint: it's not pretty) Wonderful characterization from the sci-fi veteran Baxter, as he delivers, through his fictional narrative, vignettes that show how certain species have evolved over different parts of the world. Recommended!

Now reading "The Family Trade" by Charles Stross, about a woman who suddenly discovers that she is a part of a mafia-type family that lives not only in the "real" world but also in a medieval alternate Earth but with modern devices such as AK-47s!! First in a series.

[japple]

15. Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion by Elizabeth Crook.

Very good book.

[closeupready]

16. Utopia, by Lincoln Child

Been sitting on my bookshelf for ages, and found myself bored with "Hour Before Dark" and sure enough, I'm sailing through this, as I knew I would. He and his partner, Preston, are just about the best action writers today.

[hippywife]

17. Confinement by Carrie Brown

It's a little slow starting. Hasn't really drawn me in too much yet but I can tell it's gonna be another sad one.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

19. The Grass Crown

by Colleen McCullough from the library
Also got Republican Gomorrah from the bookstore

[timeforpeace]

20. The Great Book of Amber, Roger Zelazny. Absolutely incredible, a classic.

[hippywife]

21. Working by Studs Terkel. n/t

[Sequoia]

22. The Poseidon Adventure

I found an old copy from 7/73 this past summer and finally read it since I had no more library books to read. It's actually quite good and sometimes scaryish. In the book are more survivors but you never know how they made it out all fresh and clean looking while the main characters climbed through hell to be saved.