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

[DUgosh]

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for the good read recs all year.

[gratefultobelib]

1. The 19th Wife. Only so-so but I'm sticking with it!

[japple]

17. I read that earlier this year and liked it very much. Towards the

end, the understory kind of got in the way and I remember skimming parts. There was a lot of interesting history, though, and having lived in Utah for awhile, it spoke to me.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. I have enough of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series (21) to

keep me reading them for the next year. A guilty pleasure.

[Kber]

3. Bram Stoker's Dracula

Never read it but thought with all the Vampire hype out there that I'd go back to the original source.

(And it's a $0.99 download on Amazon for the the Kindle.)

[Mugweed]

4. The Book of Genesis, Illustrated by R. Crumb

The Books: Fiction category fits quite nicely. I love Crumb's work and hope he does all Old and New Testament.

[jdadd]

5. I'm reading 1984 George Orwell

Again.....

[Dr. Strange]

6. Well, since it is Christmas...

Lamb, by Christopher Moore.

[applegrove]

7. The Atkins diet book.

[Enthusiast]

8. Rough Country, John Sanford. nt

[groovedaddy]

9. "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann - 100 pages in, pretty good so far. n.t

[silverweb]

10. Finishing "Cryptonomicon."

It has recently been keeping me up late, which is bad for me but a great review for the book. Should be done pretty soon.

[hippywife]

11. Just started The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver n/t

[japple]

16. Hey HW. I'm still reading that one, too. As I said earlier, it was

slow going for me at first, but now...it's wonderful. So much history that I need to investigate, esp. the parts about the Bonus Army. Let me know when you get to that part.

[hippywife]

19. I'm only about 30 pages in

and it's interesting so far. I'll get back to you on the Bonus Army section. :hi:

[WCGreen]

12. Chronic City by Jonathan Letham...

It's his best book yet...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. "Notes from a Small Island" by Bill Bryson is my "purse" book

and it's a laugh-out-loud funny account of a long-time American expat journeying around the UK.

My current bedside book is Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill, the latest in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, about a hilariously raunchy Yorkshire police detective and his university-educated partner.

[benld74]

14. Th3rteen by Richard K. Morgan, Have loved all of his books

[YankeyMCC]

15. Song of the turtle : American Indian literature, 1974-1994

edited by Paula Gunn Allen

[abluelady]

18. "Her Fearful Symmetry"

by Audrey Niffenegger. If you like ghost stories, it's a good one.