What are you reading the week of May 30, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Contrary Blues by John Billheimer

[ClassWarrior]

1. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

NGU.

[Cattledog]

2. "Call me Ted"

Ted Turner's autobiography.

[golddigger]

3. The Power of Positively Not Thinking...by Golddigger

[bpcmxr]

4. The Confusion -

- Volume 2 of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

[MindandSoul]

5. "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. . . .fantastic!

[Scuba]

6. Glenn Beck's new book...

...just kidding. Some mystery that I won't bother to recommend.

But I will recommend "The Places in Between" Rory Steward's chronicle of walking across Afghanistan and "Truck" by Michael Perry.

[Speck Tater]

7. Revisiting an old friend: Ridley Walker by Russel Hoban. nt

[azmouse]

8. "Everything Matters!" by Ron Currie, Jr

[azmouse]

15. Gave up on it. It stank.

That's the 3rd time this year that I had to give up on a book because it was awful.

[SheilaT]

9. "The House at Riverton"

by Kate Morton.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. Some old Anne Perry - the William Pitt series from way back.

I don't care for the Monk series but I really like the Pitt series.

And a Stepehn White book about the Mormons. I lived in Salt Lake for about 6 or 7 years and boy he has it nailed. You simply have to live there to begin to understand what a different world Utah really is.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. If you like books with a Mormon background as seen by a non-Mormon

try Robert Irvine's mystery series from the 1990s. They're out of print, but the detective is a lapsed Mormon who delves into all the nefarious goings-on in the Salt Lake City area, much of which has to do with the Mormon Church.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. Thanks. I'll see if the library has any.

That name sounds familiar. I may have read some of those.

[JitterbugPerfume]

11. I am hoping to finish up a couple of books

and start Cannery Row . John Steinbeck was an amazing writer and I have no idea how I managed to miss this one

I am finishing Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy . It kind of gets bogged down in places, but on the whole is a fascinating book . It was written in the late 1800s and is about his idea of what the world is like in yr 2000. Belamy is credited with starting the new Progressive movement.

I still have the last few pages of And Another Thing by Eion Colfer, the sixth in the Hitchhikers Guide series

[fadedrose]

12. Finished THE BURYING PLACE by Brian Freeman

a few minutes ago...

This book had everything I don't like in a book - serial killer, baby abduction, and soap opera sexual laisons..very little humor.

Trouble is, this guy writes so well that I keep reading and getting more and more depressed. The descriptions are good, but not overbearing, and there's lots and lots of dialogue, which I do like.

I sure hope Mr. Freeman can find a way to salvage these formerly wonderful characters that are now so screwed up.

[fadedrose]

13. Looked up the reviews in Amazon - sounds like a good series..eom

[abluelady]

14. "Something Red" by Jennifer Gilmore

[WCGreen]

16. A collection of short stories about New York city from the New Yorker...

Cool...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. I'm still reading "Blood and Bamboo" from last week, but my "purse book" is

Natsuo Kirino's Real World, a novel about troubled Japanese teenagers somewhat reminiscent of the movie The River's Edge.

[Onceuponalife]

20. The Meeting of the Waters by Caiseal Mor

Book One of The Watchers. I don't know if this is a trilogy or longer series. Kinda obscure, based on Irish folk tales, there are mortals and immortals. Pretty interesting so far. There are only two immortals (Gods?) left with their wits. All the others have succumbed to "wasting sickness" a result of boredom from having been alive too long, I guess (only 70 odd pages into it). The two survivors can save themselves by manipulating the mortals into warring with each other.

[hippywife]

21. The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

This one is much easier to read. Like Love Medicine it's written from the perspective of different characters involved in the story but, unlike Love Medicine, it doesn't jump around on the time line so it's easier to follow.

[japple]

22. Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone and Tracy Chevalier's

The Blue Virgin.

[fadedrose]

23. DEAD MAN'S ISLAND by Carolyn Hart

Mystery series character: Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, a 70-something reporter in South Carolina

l/2 way thru....

[DUgosh]

24. I like those too