What are you reading the week of January 10, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Out Of The Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer Fleming

[randr]

1. Winter reading

The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky
A Collection assembled from the lost WPA files, pure Americana

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
A new author and chapter of SciFi---outstanding!

[Goldstein1984]

2. Two books:

"Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto" by Stewart Brand
"Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann

[krispos42]

3. "The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump"... again

I'm on my 2nd copy of the book. I read the covers off the first one!

And I have 5 books en route from Amazon :woohoo:

[ashling]

4. Rising Tide

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry

[MaineDem]

5. "True Compass" by Ted Kennedy

One of the few non-fiction books I've read in a while.

It's excellent.

[abluelady]

6. "White Tiger"Aravind Adiga n/t

[azmouse]

7. "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger

[azmouse]

12. I gave up on this book.

It's awful.

[rantormusing]

8. Pet Semetary and Starman

:evilgrin:

[japple]

9. I finished Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna earlier in the

week, then today I finished Anne Tyler's latest, Noah's Compass.

All of Barbara Kingsolver's books are great, although this is now my favorite of them all. Noah's Compass seemed like a snack by comparison, although a tasty one.

[abluelady]

11. Finished "Nah's Compass" Last Night

I tought it a delicious snack! But I'm a big fan of hers. Haven't read anything by her I didn't like. Love Kingsolver, but have not been able to get ino "The Lacuna." I'm detemined to try again.

[japple]

14. I think I've read all of Anne Tyler's books. My favorite just might

be Searching for Caleb. The grandfather is one of my all time favorite characters.

[abluelady]

15. My Favorite Was

"Ladder of Years." I appreciated her feeling neglected, especially when the reporter asked the husband for a description, and he didn't know the color of his wife's eyes!

[applegrove]

10. The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith. I'm about to start it.

[fadedrose]

13. NORTH OF NOWHERE by Steve Hamilton

This was pretty good. It's the 4th mystery in a series about Alex McKnight. I liked the first 2, A COLD DAY IN PARADISE, and WINTER OF THE WOLF MOOON, but didn't like the 3rd book, THE HUNTING WIND, as much as the others.

Takes place in the UP of Michigan, interesting characters, light humor..

[YankeyMCC]

16. Voice of the Turtle

[raccoon]

17. ALAS, BABYLON by Pat Frank. For the umpteenth time. nt

[devilgrrl]

18. The Hell Benders by Ken Hodgson

It's a decent western based on the infamous Bender family that murdered wayward travelers in 1870's Kansas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders

[BOSSHOG]

19. RAIN GODS by James Lee Burke

Love ole James Lee and Rain Gods is incredibly violent and written as if poetry.