What are you reading the week of February 21, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Another Thing To Fall by Laura Lippman A Tess Monaghan Baltimore Mystery

[Extend a Hand]

1. It's All Over But the Shoutin' - Rick Bragg

[Political Heretic]

2. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

by Alice Oconnor

I don't do fiction too often. And didn't realize I was replying in a fiction only forum (it was on the Latest page)

Sorry :hi:

[DUgosh]

8. It's all good

Thanks for posting!

[WCGreen]

3. aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster...

[Psephos]

4. Memoirs of an Invisible Man, by H. F. Saint n/t

[Mz Pip]

22. I loved that book

One of the best page turners I've ever read. I read it at least 15 years ago and still remember it. They made it into a movie that really really sucked.

[krispos42]

5. "How Few Remain" by Harry Turtledove.

Almost finished it. I just picked up a used copy of "Master and Commander"... a Lounger recommended the series, and the movie with Russell Crowe was pretty darn good, so I grabbed one.

Wound up spending over $30 bucks... always happens to me there!

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

6. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

I have just recently finished Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and decided to go back to the book that started it.

[mvccd1000]

10. Fascinating read

I really enjoyed learning about code-making and code-breaking reading that book. I'll have to check out the other one you mention.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

14. Baroque Cycle is heavy

Cryptology, the fundamentals of modern commerce and currency, and the dawn of modern physics are given equal treatment, set against the smelly, rip-roaring world of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stephenson may have matured since Snow Crash, but his caffeinated style is still strong.

[Political Heretic]

20. "Maturity" is in the eye of the beholder.

[Political Heretic]

11. Snow Crash was my favorite BY FAR of all his books.

I started into Cryptonomicon months ago, but set it aside to do other reading. Like I said above, I don't get to fiction often.

But I like... cherish Snow Crash haha. Just an absolute gem of a book.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

15. Likewise

Both Snow Crash and Zodiac: An Eco Thriller hit me at the right, formative time in my life, and they'll always hold special places in the shelves.

[paparush]

34. "Diamond Age" is another great Stephenson work.

[CBHagman]

7. "What's the Matter with Kansas?" (At long last.)

'Twas CPAC pushed me over the edge.

On edit: Oops. Just realized the question came from the Fiction forum.

[vixengrl]

9. Damascus Gate--by Robert Stone, And I should finish

Galileo's Dream by Kim Robinson, which I got via the Science Fiction Book Club--this isn't a bad book at all, but I also got at the same time, maybe three weeks ago, The Cartamandua Legacy by Carol Berg--this was actually quite a good read! I totally recommend it if you like fantasy worlds. I've also got a compilation from Steven Erikson called The Boook of Dreams and Catalyst by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough--both of whom I've meant to read, and am interested to find collaberating. (My husband insisted on our signing up for SFBC, and sometimes doesn't remember to cancel our selections. Unfortunately, I don't mind spending an extra $40 a month to discover other authors who are interesting reads--I'm *such* a book whore). (Oh, and Anne McCaffrey's stuff with dragons--meh. No, reallly, girl-meh. I tried, but.....No really, I want spaceships and science and not chicks with psychic magic riding dragon powers. I'm not Dragon-people I'm sure I should be respectful of fiction that so many before me have enjoyed--just meh.)

Also--I'm nowhere near finished Remembrance of things Past. I'm not sure if this is just a boring translation, or if the cultural mores that are possibly being satirized are so far from modern mores, that I'm just not getting the jokes. Anyhow, I'm not really "attached" to reading it. I could give a good goddamn about Swann, his wife, any of his kids, the narrator, and anything that might happen besides people opening mail amd being boring about getting together to hear sonatas. I can't relate. Is the point that so many of these people are so superficial and stylish that I can't relate--oh, damn. I am probablky missing the point, and I still can't relate.

[abluelady]

12. Louise Erdrich's Newest

"Shadow Tag"

[timeforpeace]

13. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

[Onceuponalife]

19. One of my all-time SF faves

I'll be reading Judas Unchained in about a week.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

16. The First Family

by David Baldacci
I finished Louise Penny's The Brutal Telling last night and (spoiler)






the ending made me :cry:

[YankeyMCC]

17. Mendoza in Hollywood

by Kage Baker

[radical noodle]

18. Half Broke Horses

by Jeannette Walls.

[azmouse]

21. 'Under the Black Flag' by David Cordingly

It's about the real life of pirates.

Also trying to read 'Crime and Punishment' but for a classic novel it's not very good.

[Mz Pip]

23. Adventure Divas

by Holly Morris and Kill Me by Stephen White.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

24. Hunting Season

by P.T. Deutermann

[mvccd1000]

25. How have I been missing all these new Deutermann books?

I need to get on Amazon. :)

[ceile]

26. Ian Rankin "The Complete Short Stories"

Cotains both A Good Hanging and Beggars Banquet

[hippywife]

27. Hell: A Novel by Robert Olen Butler

Odd but entertaining.

[yellowdogintexas]

28. just finished 'Witches Abroad" and started " Night Watch' Terry Pratchett

MrYellowdog and I have been having a ball with Mr Pratchett

[LearnedHand]

29. I read the entire Diskworld Series through in random order

and then I went back and began reading it by character series (Death, Commander Vimes, etc.) The Night Watch series are the absolute best! Rincewind is probably my least favorite character, even though he began the series. Love the witches. LOVE Reg Shoe!!!

[krispos42]

30. Now I'm reading "Master and Commander".

Picked up a hardcover at the used book store.

[OnionPatch]

31. A few things.

Usually I have a couple going in various stages of completion. I've got almost too many right now.

Fiction:

"Etta" by Gerald Koplin (Have been focusing mostly on this one)
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver
Plus, daughter and I are reading "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

Non-Fiction:

"Bodies of War; World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America" by Lisa M. Budreau
"The Island at the Center of the World" by Russell Shorto

I have a new gardening book on the way, too. Woo hoo! I'll probably drop the others for awhile when it arrives. It's that time of year. :)
"The Sunset Western Garden Book of Edibles" (by Sunset Editors)

[Broken_Hero]

32. I finished Hearts in Atlantis about ten days ago

finished Everythings Eventual about a week ago, and I started book 1 of The War of the Spider Queen, I'm about half way through that one. This week has been hectic so I haven't had much time to dedicate to reading.

[paparush]

33. "They Caryatids" - by Bruce Sterling