What are you reading the week of September 12, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Tunnel Vision by Sara Paretsky

[realisticphish]

1. I just finished reading Alan Dean Foster's "Founding of the Commonwealth" trilogy

(well, rereading)

I'm starting on the Icerigger trilogy next. It had been since I read scifi

[Mz Pip]

2. The Ghost

by Robert Harris.

Pretty timely - deals with a ghostwriter who is hired to write the memoirs of a Prime Minister who is being investigated by the Hague for authorizing torture.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/oct/13/featuresreviews.guardianreview20

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Wow..that sounds...timely.

Tony Blair of course comes to mind.

How is the book? Well done? Apologetic?

[Mz Pip]

10. I'm not finished

but it's certainly not apologetic. It's a political thriller. The first ghostwriter ended up dead from an "accident." Don't want to give anymore away but it is realy a good read.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. I just ordered it on Bookmooch after reading Amaz. review. Thanks!!!!!

I figure if your taste in books is as good as your taste in pics over in the photo forum, I could not miss in getting it.
:hi:

[Mz Pip]

12. Awww

Thanks. :-)

[MaineDem]

13. Very good read. n/t

[DFLforever]

3. Peter Carey's

Parrot and Olivier in America
- Carey shortlisted once again for the Booker Prize.

No comment yet... I'm just a couple of dozen pages in.

[global1]

4. Towers Of Deception by Barrie Zwicker.......nt

[earcandle]

5. Pink Flag by Wilson Neate 33 1/3 series and Two Weeks Under put out by The Conversation Group

Pink Flag canvases the artistic journey from the beginning of
an English punk band called Wire, and was actually the first
Wire CD. A great reminder of days gone by not hard to
recreate.

And the other is a product of one of my clients and I am only
pages into it.  About a fat girl in a tiny office wanting to
steal two weeks to be in some sort of deprivation tank to lose
pounds and gain successful notice in her job... bizarre.  But
I am curious because the client is successful, so I am
thinking, maybe I can learn something?  

911 the event did not cause any action or reaction in me.  I
don't believe in scams and do not follow their stories, unless
of course it is about somebody getting prosecuted for those
crimes. 

hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings.  I of course was in shock
when it happened, and have watched the dismantling of our
rights and privileges and jobs and economy, and the mousey
incompetent responses that just shocked me more.

how about you all?  
I appreciate very very much the efforts of the families and
honor them more than any of our leaders for showing us what
can be done in America when you are educated enough to enact
your rights and freedom of information acts.

thanks for making me think about it.  it was horrifying. and
deceptive. and dangerous and has lingering repercussions. not
to be stoked, but as Dennis said let the truth be told and
those responsible take the heat. 

[abluelady]

7. Minette Walters' "The Devil's Feather"

[japple]

8. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell--SF fans, check it out.

n/t

[Mz Pip]

9. The sequel is really good, too. n/t

[japple]

16. I am REALLY into this book, and will definitely read the sequel.

I've read 2 of her other books, and esp. enjoyed A Thread of Grace.

[MaineDem]

14. Finishing "Rules of Deception" by Christopher Reich

And then I have "Rules of Vengeance" by the same author.

[fadedrose]

15. DOG TAGS by David Rosenfelt

So far, nice. Cleanly written - very little, if any swearing. Rosenfelt's written a lot of books about dogs - Dog Tags is the 8th in a series about Andy Carpenter and his dog, Tara. He has two stand-alones too. These are all mysteries...

Any dog lovers can go here to find out more:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/R_Authors/Rosenfelt_David.html

[DUgosh]

24. I've read Dead Center

I liked it and I've got New Tricks to read.

[pscot]

17. Dorothy Dunnett 's Niccolo saga

She's a brilliant writer; imaginative and historically erudite. Her plots are maddeningly contrived. I've sworn off her a dozen times, but I can't help myself. She has this strange hold over me and I keep crawling back to her. It's embarrassing. I think Mrs. pscot is beginning to suspect something.
:rofl:

[hippywife]

18. The One Hundred Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais

Just started it tonight. Fiction for foodies. :D

http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Foot-Journey-Novel-Richard-Morais/dp/1439165645

Grandson of an entrepreneurial lunchbox deliveryman, Chef Hassan Haji tells of his rise to culinary success in Paris via Bombay, London, and a small town in the French Alps. With a fond, over-the-shoulder regard, he presents the lively family members, friends, and former foes who shaped him as a young chef, leading him to face his destiny and realize that cooking is not only in his heritage but also in his blood and bones. The novel floats along a bounty of vivid food imagery, a twisty-turny river of dishes Indian, French, and everything in between. With an obvious insider's knowledge of the restaurant milieu, journalist Morais delivers a world where Michelin stars determine not only the popular appeal of a restaurant but also the happiness of its executive chef. This novel, of mythic proportions yet told with truly heartfelt realism, is a stunning tribute to the devotion to family and food, in that order. Bound to please anyone who has ever been happily coaxed to eat beyond the point of fullness, overwhelmed by the magnetism of just one more bite.

[pitohui]

19. february by lisa moore ( novel about the ocean ranger disaster)

i thought i would like it more than i did, too much crap about babies in there, it was a chore to get thru, an oil rig disaster turned into chick lit!!! sigh...

i remember tunnel vision, there was more entertainment value there for sure...

if women would stop writing novels about babies it would be a great advance for our gender, i swear, why do we feel obligated to pretend that a simple biological function is interesting, write about 900 books about shitting and then get back to me about how interesting it is, oh shitting isn't interesting? well neither is unplanned baby having

[DUgosh]

23. Tunnel vision

I didn't like it. I'm not going to read anymore VI Warshawski novels for sure.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. Three going at once

Kitchen table book: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (a must-read if you want to know the truth behind U.S. foreign policy for the past thirty years)
Purse book: (just started) By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman
Bedside book: Hangman by Faye Kellerman. Almost finished with this one.

[DUgosh]

25. Love Lippman's

Tess character. By A Spider's Thread was good

[Mz Pip]

21. Spirit of Disobedience

by Curtis White.

Interesting ideas.

[Mudoria]

22. Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

The story of the Comanches in their final days in the 1800's. Brutal read in many respects as atrocities from both sides were standard procedure but it revealed a lot of history I never knew a thing about.

[Fire Walk With Me]

26. Just finished "Blonde Faith" by Walter Mosely and started "Wings of Omen"

by Robert Lynn Asprin. Got both at the local Goodwill.

I DID NOT KNOW that Walter Mosely had stated that he wasn't going to write any more "Easy Rawlins" books, so it came as rather a...surprise. :(

[Broken_Hero]

27. Currently

I'm re-reading the Annals of the Black Company. I finished Bleak Seasons, She is the Darkness, and Water Sleeps this week. I'm about 100 pages in Soldiers live. Before I started my re-read, I read the non-fiction Stephen King book he wrote about Writing. That one was very interesting, as he talked about how he grew up, and some stories of his youth, and how he broke into the writing business.

After I finish Soldiers Live, I plan on reading the Terry Goodkind series that my wife is reading, I can't recall the name of the series, but I know the first book is Wizards First Rule.