What are you reading the week of April 18, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Roux Morgue by Claire M. Johnson

[saltpoint]

1. I just started a compilation of the first issues of Thor comics,

beginning with Journey Into Mystery no. 83.

Thor is awesome, ladies and gentlemen.

[Dr. Strange]

20. Starring Anthony Hopkins as Odin.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369

[saltpoint]

22. Dr. Strange. A name I could trust anywhere, by the way.

Long time no see.

Thanks for that link. I knew a film was in the works, but didn't think to look at imdb. Those folks do excellent work over there.

The new film sounds like it has some brains and brawn both.

:hi:

[Beako]

2. My Mortal Enemy, apparently.

[Mojambo]

3. Listening to The Road on audiobook

The guy they got to read it is just perfect for the book.

He has the most bleak, hopeless voice I've ever heard.

[Arctic Dave]

4. Unbearable Lightness of Being.

[graywarrior]

5. Alice in Wonderland

[Psephos]

6. The Giver, by Lois Lowry n/t

[Supply Side Jesus]

7. Spook Country - William Gibson

Love his work

[mochajava666]

34. If you are a Gibson fan,

Have you read the series by George Effinger starting with "When Gravity Fails"?

The author drank himself to death, but he wrote 3 great books before he cashed it in.

[lordsummerisle]

8. State of Confusion

by Bryant Welch

[old mark]

9. I found some of my old "Spenser" paperbacks and so far I have read the first 3

in order, and am halfway through #4. I have #5 lined up, and am looking for the rest - I think I have most of the series but I don't know exactly where. I always took them pretty lightly, but they are fun to read and it has been several years since I read any of them.
I miss Parker.


mark

[Bobbieo]

10. 'Power Of The Sword" by Wilbur Smith. 2nd novel of the Courtneys Of Africa.

[Hardrada]

11. The Stars My Destination

by Alfred Bester

[jtuck004]

12. Deer Hunting With Jesus

[WCGreen]

13. Sam Sheppard's ne collection of short Stories

[abluelady]

14. "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" by Helen Simonson

[hippywife]

15. I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

by Susan Straight. Recommended by japple. :hi:

[japple]

19. Hope you like it. I'm still slogging through TEXAS! BTW, I think

it is the follow up to that book (The Getting Place) that has the episode about Oklahoma.

[hippywife]

21. Texas was one of my least favorite Michener works

so I understand the feeling of slogging. If you haven't read The Covenant it's one of my favorites of his. You might really enjoy it. Very eyeopening with regard to South Africa.

I just passed the point where Marrietta loses her virginity. It's still okay, I'm interested in seeing what happens to her, but it's a little work to read because of the dialog.

:hi:

[japple]

24. Susan Straight really does an excellent job with the dialect.

I really appreciated it because I was born in the area that is the setting for most of this book. It gets easier as you get further into the story.

I will see if my library system has The Covenant. I'm debating on whether to abandon Texas and go to something else. I have a copy of Tinkers and a copy of Abraham Verghese's book, Cutting for Stone on my pile.

Have you read any of Valerie Martin's books?

[hippywife]

27. It is getting easier and I am enjoying the book.

I have read Valerie Martin's books, too.

My next two are waiting at the library: J. California Cooper's Family : a novel and Asne Seierstad's The bookseller of Kabul.

I heard an interview on NPR tonight for George, Being George: George Plimpton’s Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals — and a Few Unappreciative Observers. That sounded interesting, so I'll be looking for that next, maybe. Never can tell. So many good books come along all the time. LOL

http://www.amazon.com/George-Being-Acquaintances-Rivals-Unappreciative/dp/1400063981

[fadedrose]

16. NOWHERE TO RUN by C. J. Box

Taut adventure . . . just about half-way through.

I love C. J. Box...recommend you read all his Ranger Joe Pickett books, and start with the first one. Enjoy.

[azmouse]

17. "The Sun and The Moon" by Matthew Goodman

I'm really enjoying it.

[LWolf]

18. A stack of books for my classroom library.

Nothing especially noteworthy.

I'm almost done, and then I'll be reading some better books.

I'm looking for some good stuff for my after school reading club. We've done some great books this year, but I'm running out of ideas and need new, fresh material.

They are more advanced readers, who have already read much of the usual middle school stuff. We've read historical fiction, some classics, some decent older novels for their age group, and the "Hunger Games" and sequel.

We need some fresh, new, CURRENT material to see us through to the end of the year. Suggestions?

This is a group of 7th and 8th graders; it has to be books their parents won't throw fits about.

[japple]

25. Stuck on Earth by David Klass

http://www.bookpage.com/books-10013130-Stuck-on-Earth

[vixengrl]

23. Just finished "Shalimar the Clown" by Salman Rushdie--

I think this might have been his best, or at least, the novel of his I liked the best. I just got Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ in the post today. So far, it's actually a book very intimately connected with what the Christian gospel actually says, even if the story itself differs from the actual Biblical story.

Still haven't wrapped up that Reading Lolita in Tehran. It's not that it isn't good, it's just that I keep getting distracted by books I want to read more.

[Onceuponalife]

26. The Last Aerie by Brian Lumley

The second book of the trilogy involving the twin sons of Harry Keough, Necroscope.

[yellowdogintexas]

30. I really like his stuff. nt

[fadedrose]

28. THE BLUE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT by Jonathon King nt

I thought it was okay . . . am reading the sequel next.... about a former Philly cop who moved to the wilderness in Florida.

[yellowdogintexas]

29. still on "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters"

not much reading going on obviously

[YankeyMCC]

31. "Sons of Heaven" by Kage Baker

[fadedrose]

32. A VISIBLE DARKNESS by Jonathon King

The first 125 pages made me sleepy. Too many adjetives and too many strolls down memory lane...

But, after that, it became very engrossing and I kept reading till I was finished (short book, about 245 pp or so) without once falling asleep.

I liked the first book, THE BLUE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT, a lot more, but am looking forward to the next 3 in the series...

[mochajava666]

33. Mind Catcher by John Darnton

First half of the book was slow, but the last half might be good enough to justify the first half.

Before that, I just finished the last book of the "Saga of the Seven Suns" series. That was very good.