What are you reading the week of March 14, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Skeleton Canyon by J A Jance

[yourout]

1. Democratic Underground of course.

[Mojambo]

2. All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman

Really enjoying Haldeman's stuff. Had never heard of him until recently.

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Never heard of him until recently??

Wow. I'm feeling old.

[Mojambo]

4. I haven't really dug into the sci-fi genre that deep.

Found an online list of great sci-fi authors and he was all over it so I picked him up.

[vixengrl]

6. Did you start with "Forever War" ? The last one I read of his

was The Accidental Time Machine. He's awfully good. Camoflage is a pretty good read from him, also.

[Mojambo]

8. I started with Camouflage

Forever War will probably be my next.

[vixengrl]

11. It's a very good read.

n/t

[RufusTFirefly]

9. My mistake. I was thinking of Bob Haldeman. n/t

[saltpoint]

5. Anne Sexton's TRANSFORMATIONS.

[PDJane]

7. Careless in Red

by Elizabeth George.

[vixengrl]

10. Sadly between books--just finished the latest Kim Harrison--

Black Magic Sanction. I liked it. Do I trust Pierce as far as I could throw him--less than Rachel does,apparently. Wish there was more mourning for Matalina--Jenks comes around a bit quickly given that pixies mate for life. I love the universe Harrison has created. Interested to see how Rachel manages further with Trent and Al though--both very complicated characters, possible big bad villians, but they have special relationships to Rachel--mutual understandings. I like how she is developing these characters slowly, and letting us guess at their intentions.

Have not gone back to Proust. Reads like homework. Actually--yikes! I am truly between books! I've realized that the Steve Erickson book I started is like, book nine of a series that I don't even feel like getting the first several of, and the "Catalyst" book from McCaffrey and Scarborough was fun--but wait, it's another stupid series! I hate that I read genre sometimes--it's all about series'.

I'm almost open to someone forcing a book on me right now. I need someone to reccomend a self-contained novel that doesn't suck.

[Dogmudgeon]

12. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt">The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

--d!

[Zoigal]

13. Christopher Hitchen's "God Is Not Great" and "Berlin-A Novel" by Pierre Frei...z

[YankeyMCC]

14. The Life of the World to Come

by Kage Baker, still working through her Company Novels

I'm having fun with them, I particularly liked "Sky Coyote"

I do think the stories worked better as short stories. Perhaps because she does such a good job with eh characters, maybe not such a good job with the science and technology in some areas. Great in some but not so great in the fantastic or speculated technologies associated with time travel, some authors find a good balance in how they present such fantastic technologies making it easy to suspend disbelief for the sake of the story and she does a good job, but I think stretched out to novel length the weaknesses show a bit.

[TexasProgresive]

15. George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Book one of A Song of Ice and Fire.

[hippywife]

16. The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig

Just finished his Mountain Time book Friday night, and read The Promised World by Lisa Tucker all in one day yesterday.

The Sea Runners has been difficult to get into but I'm working on it. Not his usual fare, which I've come to love.

[abluelady]

17. "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann

[Mz Pip]

18. City of Thieves

by David Benioff. It takes place during the fall of Leningrad.

[Jim__]

19. Did Leningrad actually fall?

Are you talking about the German siege during WWII? I didn't think Leningrad actually fell even though million(s) starved. Maybe the Germans just wanted to starve the residents and didn't actually try to take the city, but I thought the city never actually fell.

[Mz Pip]

20. I think you're right

Someone described it to me as taking place during the fall of Leningrad but I think seige is probably a better description.

I just started it and people are starving all over the place.

[fadedrose]

21. CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE by Edna Buchanan

Couldn't make any headway or gather up any interest so I quit at page 68. This is Buchanan's series about Britt Montero, reporter, in Miami.

I prefer Buchanan's series books about police Sgt. Craig Burch, Miami.

[japple]

22. Connie May Fowler's When Katie Wakes eom

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[hippywife]

24. Wow! Wonder what post 23 said? n/t

[fadedrose]

25. LOVE KILLS by Edna Buchanan (ugh)

I really liked Buchanan's COLD HIT SQUAD and SHADOWS, both a new series of hers about cops. Couldn't wait to get the newest of the cops books, LOVE KILLS, and it was described as the cops meeting BRITT MONTERO, heroine of the author's other series.

I don't like the Britt books, too much like soap operas. LOVE KILLS is mostly about Britt, hardly anything about the cops, and I gave up on it somewhere around page 40, after scanning it to see how much more "cops" there was in it.

Bitterly disappointed.

[fadedrose]

26. SNOW BLIND by P. T. Tracy

Good - interesting and the story moves without boring parts..