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

[DUgosh]

Maximum Security by Rose Connors

Marty Nickerson Series book 3

[Justitia]

1. Ancient Sorceries & Other Weird Stories - by Algernon Blackwood (eom)

[applegrove]

2. "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson.

[HardWorkingDem]

3. The Glass Rainbow....James Lee Burke....nt..

nt

[MaineDem]

12. I'm on the waiting list for this. n/t

[Paladin]

22. I Just Finished It.

It's very good---like all the books in the series---but it's also very, very dark. Lots of references to death, all the way through to the very last paragraph......

[Onceuponalife]

4. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

The mass market PB not the larger Trade PB. After reading Cryptonomicon a little while ago, I am pretty amazed by Stephenson's intellect and writing skills. One of my new favorite authors.

[TNDemo]

5. The Help

Can't remember the author without going to the other room to find the book and I'm too lazy.

[Little Star]

9. I am just about 3/4 of the way through "The Help" I LOVE IT!

Kathryn Stockett is the author and it is her first novel. I can hardly put it down.

Are you enjoying it?

[abluelady]

6. "The Lake Shore Limited" by Sue Miller

[LWolf]

7. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

by Phillip Pullman. I finished it this morning. It was a disappointment. He started with an interesting premise, and I think I followed the way he developed his idea, but it was poorly done.

I'm still trying to decide if having Mary give birth to twins (Jesus and Christ) was an effective metaphor. It could have been, I guess, if it were well done.

While I understood the ideas he was trying to communicate, it was awkward, ineffective, and dissatisfying. A surprise after reading some of his previous work.

Next: the most recent installment in the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I can always count on Dresden to brighten the day.

[frylock]

8. "Tell-All" by Chuck Palahniuk

[YankeyMCC]

10. The Aeneid

I plan to follow that up with ULG's Lavinia

[peaches2003]

11. Finishing the Millenium trilogy

10 pages to go in "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest". I hate it to end, but understand there may still be a 4th book eventually. He left an almost-finished 4th Girl novel and if the family can settle the ensuing legal hassle there is a chance it will be completed by another author and published. Don't miss the Swedish movies! I've seen "Dragon Tattoo" and plan to see "Played with Fire" this week. I don't want to think how the Americanized 2012 DT movie could be ruined Hollywood-style. Daniel Craig is a good choice for Mikael though.

[MaineDem]

13. "Sizzling Sixteen" by Janet Evanovich

Mindless brain candy. But I love the series. True laugh out loud stuff although quite formulaic.

[fadedrose]

14. THE NIGHT OF THE DANCE by James Hime

Unusual mystery, a lot of it is in the Redneck language (somewhat similar to English :)) Takes place in the Republic of Texas. :)

Lots of dialog, some funny, some sad...

One of my favorite lines:

"She is ugly enough to make a freight train take a dirt road."

[bluethruandthru]

15. The Spire by Richard North Patterson n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Slowly working my way through a 2006 science-fiction anthology.

[matt819]

17. Faithful Place (Tana French) and Hour Game (Baldacci) (nt)

[hippywife]

18. The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard.

I just started it the other night. 110 pages in and it's so far a very good book. Murder mystery set in a small Kansas town.

[bluethruandthru]

19. Looks good!

I checked it out on Amazon and it seems like my kind of book. Thanks!

[hippywife]

21. Finished it. Loved it. Could not put it down.

Well, except when I had to go to work. It was a slow-paced, very fast read if that makes sense. The book isn't very long and it takes her so long to actually get to the murder you begin to wonder how the story will be resolved in the little of it that's left. It does get a tad rushed at the end, but it is a surprise. I dare anyone to guess who dun it before it's actually revealed in the book. Never saw it coming at all.

Enjoy it. I think you will. :hi:

[fadedrose]

26. I'm gonna get this one too..

also will try the one she wrote just before this one - in 2006. It won all kinds of awards - THE VIRGIN OF SMALL PLAINS. It's non-series, just like Rain and Lightening...

[hippywife]

27. I requested it

from the library today, too.

[japple]

20. Just finished the wonderful book by Garth Stein: The Art

of Racing in the Rain. Highly recommended.

[fadedrose]

23. SCARED MONEY by James Hime

Only read up to about page 100. Couldn't get into this one, although I liked the book that precedes it, THE NIGHT OF THE DANCE, which I read earlier this week...I thought this book was crummy.

Anyway, library notified me that interlibrary books by Steven Havill and John Billhemer are in, so I decided not to bother finishing SCARED MONEY.

[fadedrose]

24. HEARTSHOT by Steven F. Havill

Nice read. Unusual because the hero, Undersheriff Bill Gastner, is NOT 6'5" like a lot of book heroes, he's 5'8" - both ways ;).

[hippywife]

25. Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

I just started it last night and am half way through it. I pretty much feel about it as my librarian said she did while she was reading it and I asked how it was. She said, "I'm not hating it." LOL

It just something to read at the moment and is an okay story. This makes the fifth Ann Tyler I've read. I do like her writing but am not always enamored of her characters.

[fadedrose]

28. BITTER RECOIL by Steven F. Havill

Finished this Saturday...lots of stuff reminded me of novels by Tony Hillerman...names like the Indian Begay, Pueblo, and Gallop, N.M. Gastner is likable.

Like Havill, James Doss lives in New Mexico, but he writes about Ute Indian Police Chief Charlie Moon in Colorado. The mingling of reservation and state/county police made me miss Doss' novels so I think I'll start all over again with him and his crazy Aunt Daisy (a shaman).