What are you reading the week of May 23, 2010?

[DUgosh]

The Lost Bird by Margaret Coel - A Windriver Mystery

[hippywife]

1. Nothing. I have nothing to read today.

I couldn't get my nose outta those McCammon books so I polished them off in short order. I didn't request more books from the library because I didn't think that would happen.

It's for the best, tho. Lots of housework to catch up on. :hi:

[bread_and_roses]

2. I just started "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell"

I need something to take me away from reading the endlessly awful news for a while. Seems quite amusing so far.

[Onceuponalife]

19. I loved that book. n/t

[TexasProgresive]

3. A Feast for Crows-George R R Martin

Maybe he'll finish the series before either of us dies.

[randr]

4. Eaarth

by Bill McKibben
Straight talk analysis of our current environmental condition

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. It is on my list

McKibben was on Democracy Now or maybe Thom Hartmann ( I don't remember which) but I do remember that he was really well informed and interesting.

Maybe he was on with Rachel?My sixty nine year old brain tends to mush it all together LOL

[randr]

12. He lays out a scenario that is very depressing

but I am told he offers hope by the end of the book.

[socialist_n_TN]

5. Stephen King's latest (I think)

"Under the Dome". I say I think cause he's pretty prolific. I suppose there could be ANOTHER King book out since this one. :)

[azmouse]

10. I just finished Under the Dome.

Not bad for a King novel and the ending wasn't terrible. :)

[Stardust]

21. I know this is an old thread, but I'm curious how you liked "The Dome"

I couldn't even finish it. I was a big King fan back in the 80s but it doesn't seem like he's evolved at all. Seems like I grew up but he hasn't.

[abluelady]

6. An Oldie

"Excellent Women" by Barbara Pym.

[hippywife]

7. That sounds really good.

I'm putting that on my list. Thanx! :hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. And Another Thing by Eion Colfer

It is the 6th installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy ,brilliantly written by the late Douglas Adams.

Once again planet earth, in all of its' incarnations, are distroyed by the Volgans.They have orders to distroy every human in every galaxy.

Arthur Dent , Trillian ,Random, Zaphod and Ford Prefect escape by the skin of their teeth with the assist of an unlikely source .

If you like that sort of thing (which I doooo)it is a fun ride.

[azmouse]

11. "The Life of Elizabeth I" by Alison Weir

Just started it. I love history books.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

13. Fever Dream

the latest Preston/Child Pendergast book
And two more I picked up at the library with it
The Ark by Boyd Morrison
The Last Illusion by Rhys Bowen

[fadedrose]

14. STRIPPED by Brian Freeman

The 2nd in this police mystery series, main characters Jonathon Stride and Serena Dial. The first book was IMMORAL, read that last week.

Freeman's a good writer. Lots of talk about sex, but not so much actual sex. There's heavy stuff about sexual preference, interesting plot, takes place in Los Vegas, but, thankfully, Det. Stride is moving back to Minnesota, where IMMORAL took place in the next book (I hope).

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. "Blood and Bamboo" by James Church

the third of a series of mystery novels set in, of all places, North Korea.

The main character, Inspector O, doesn't like the regime, but it's the only world he knows, so he just tries to cope. This novel is set during the famine/austerity period of the 1990s, when people drink hot water to keep warm and try to stave off hunger.

The author, who writes under a pseudonym, is described as "a Western intelligence officer" with experience inside and outside North Korea. (He is probably Canadian or British, then.)

The other books in the series are The Corpse in the Koryo and Hidden Moon.

[pscot]

16. Ulyssess

n/t

[YankeyMCC]

17. The Snow Leopard

By Peter Matthiessen

re-reading it actually

[fadedrose]

18. STALKED by Brian Freeman

Det. Stride is back in Minnesota and I'm glad.

As usual, lots of crimes to solve. I like the characters in this series.

[fadedrose]

20. THE BURYING PLACE by Brian Freeman