What are you reading the week of August 8, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Twice Buried by Steven Havill

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Love In The Time of Cholera

[jtuck004]

2. Self delete

[DFLforever]

3. Tacitus: the Annals of Imperial Rome

in English. I'd have to do a lot of reviewing to read him in Latin.

By the way, it's wonderful reading. He tells it like he hears it was. No pussy footing around with this Roman historian.

[1monster]

4. Just finished LORD OF CHAOS book #6 of Robert Jordan's WHEEL OF TIME SERIES.

Getting ready to start book #7 A CROWN OF SWORDS.

There are currently thirteen books in that series and all of those books have nearly 1,000 pages... There are supposed to be at least two more books in the series still coming even though Robert Jordan passed away in September of 2007. (One of the books is a prequel, two more finishing off the series are co-written by Brandon Sanderson.)

[Bobbieo]

5. 'Lion' by Eugene DeMille - Asad Khalil - a cold blooded killer. Guess people like him really exist.

[Glassunion]

16. Good stuff. I just finished #13... In the meantime I picked up Brandon Sanderson.

Great author. I read Elentris while I waited for #13 to come out. Amazing book.

Currently reading #1 of the Mistborn series. Hard to put down.

[1monster]

17. Thanks for the tip... I'll check him out.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. "The Girl Who Played With Fire"...

I really liked "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" so I just downloaded this one into my Nook.

"20 Years at Hull House" by Jane Addams

"City of god" by Augustine

[hippywife]

8. I just looked up

Twenty Years at Hull House and ordered it from my library. Sounds like an incredibly interesting read. How are you finding it so far? :hi:

[TreasonousBastard]

9. I'm only on page 5, so I don't really know yet. It's one of those things I read...

back in high school and have some fond memories of, but very vague fond memories. I found it free somewhere and downloaded it as part of a recapturing of something in my youth.

As much as we complain now, the best of times and the worst of times were at the turn of the 20th century. Technically, scientifically, industrially... we were exploding into a new world, while the human condition was being left far behind. Disease, poverty, violent bigotry, war... the worst we are capable of seemed to be getting worse.

But there were giants back then, and Addams was one of them. She's one of the heroes we should learn from.

[hippywife]

10. I think these times we find ourselves in

and those that lie ahead may rival those times. With regards to advances in technology and personal wealth it seems so many have been to the mountain top and will be hard pressed to survive when they have to take steps backwards when they've known little else; much more so than if they had struggled to gain what they had to begin with. Sometimes making one's kids lives better generation after generation isn't really the best philosophy when it comes to giving them the skills they need to earn what they need rather than make them feel the world is their oyster.

I'm sure there are lessons to be taken from this book about the strength and courage of those that set their hands to truly helping others. I look forward to it.

:hi:

[hippywife]

7. The Stork's Nest:Life and Love in the Russian Countryside

by Laura Lynne Williams.

This really is an interesting non-fiction book of how a young American woman, a conservationist working with the WWF, ends up falling in love with a leading Russian conservationist and living in a small village of only 19 people, most of which live in hovels.

Sometimes there doesn't seem to be much chronology to it, just a stream of consciousness at times. It's like she remembers stories of daily life and inserts them like saying, "Oh, here's another tale I meant to tell you."

It's not a romance or anything just how they live in this remote area and a glimpse into Russian life among people who have so little and seem to need nothing more.

[japple]

12. Sounds good, I'll put it on my list. Right now, I'm (still) reading

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell. It's about how the Italians managed to save 43,000 Jews during WWII. My Dad was in the Italian campaign and was in the area that is the setting for this book. MDR is a wonderful writer and I have another of her books, The Sparrow, on my stack. You might like her.

[hippywife]

22. That book sounds interesting but

I don't know about her others. I'm really not into sci-fi at all. :hi:

[azmouse]

11. "Oil" by Upton Sinclair

[Curmudgeoness]

13. The Maltese Falcon-Dashiell Hammett

I am trying to get through some of the classics that I have never read. So far (1/2 through it), I don't recommend it. Kind of hokey and dialog is so simplistic.

[provis99]

14. My Family and Other Animals, By Gerald Durrell.

Hilarious stuff.

[krispos42]

15. "A Dirty Job" by Chris Moore, "The Fourth Bear" by Jasper Fforde, and "The Mote in God's Eye" by...

Niven and Pournelle.


Damn, I'm multitasking!

The first two are loans from my brother, and they deserved all the praise he gave them! Now I have to go and read all their other books! I had difficulty putting either of them down at bedtime and stayed up a bit too late on more than one night.

The Mote, well, it's an old favorite. Most of my books are still in boxes after moving, so my selection is limited.

[pscot]

18. A Dirty Job was hilarious

I read Fool a while back and didn't like it as well.

[gaiangreentree]

19. Fool

I thought Dirty Job was great, but I agree with you that Fool isn't as good. I think Fool is his worst work todate- a mistake on his part.
Hoping that the next book is in line with You Suck or Fluke.

[fadedrose]

20. DEATH ON THE RIVER WALK by Carolyn Hart eom

[MountainLaurel]

21. The Christian Delusion, ed. by John Loftus

On audiobook, I'm listening to Jen Lancaster's Pretty in Plaid and the first of O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin books.

[hippywife]

23. The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames

I was listening to NPR the other day and they interviewed Kevin Cline. They are making a movie of the book and he is starring in it. It sounded interesting and funny, so I thought I would check out the book. And it is interesting and funny.

It's about a young man who moves into New York from New Jersey and becomes a roommate of an older gentleman who is an "extra man." He knows all of these old women who request his company as an escort and is the extra man at a dinner or event where there are too many women. He is very eccentric and odd which is what makes it amusing.

[hippywife]

24. Just a warning for some:

When I posted this last night I was only a couple of chapters in and there were only hints of some of the narrarator's erotic inclinations. I'm now about half way through and there are some pretty pornographic episodes. I really don't mind but I thought I would let everyone know just in case some of you might.

It will be interesting to see how they handle this in the movie. I'm sure much of it will be left out, but it seems somewhat central to the story.

[fadedrose]

25. PRIVILEGED INFORMATION by Steven White eom

[fadedrose]

27. I thought this was pretty good, not great, but kept me absorbed..eom

[MrCoffee]

26. Gave up on The Passage, now I'm re-reading Radio Free Albemuth

[fadedrose]

28. WHERE ARMADILLOS GO TO DIE by James Hime (eom)

[Curmudgeoness]

33. Tell me about this book. I like the title.

And of course, that is one reason to read a book.

[MaineDem]

29. "The Glass Rainbow" by James Lee Burke

I haven't finished the Alan Furst book I started last week but I was on the list for this one and it came it. Burke paints such a picture of the bayou; I love it!

[Hayabusa]

30. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Just starting it.

[CBR]

31. The Aztec Heresy by Paul Christopher. nt

[WCIL]

32. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

I loved American Gods, but haven't read anything else. It was a toss-up between this and Good Omens.

[MJW]

34. East of Eden by Steinbeck

It will rip your heart out every time

[LWolf]

35. "The Help."

Kathryn Stockett.

It's fiction. It's about times, and events, that I've known about all of my life. 1963, when I was 3 years old. I grew up in the midst of the Civil Rights movement. It's not new.

Yet I find myself angry yet proud, frightened yet hopeful, and full of tears for the fictional characters. So attached to them that I'm afraid to read on, because even though the movement itself resulted in great leaps forward, I'm afraid the characters won't have a happy ending.

I'm about half-way through, and so far, I have to say that it's probably the best I've read so far this year.

[hippywife]

36. It is an excellent book.

Keep reading. It'll be okay. :hug:

[LWolf]

37. I finished it this evening. Ignored an entire afternoon's chores to do so.

And loved it.

:hi:

[hippywife]

38. LOL! I pretty much did the same while I was reading it.

Was very hard to put down even for a few minutes. :hi: