What are you reading the week of October 17, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Move to Strike by Perri O'Shaughnessy

[fadedrose]

1. RED HERRING by Archer Mayor (eom)

[fadedrose]

14. Finished

Speed-read the last 100 pp or so... too much DNA and lab stuff - it was tedious - many pages of it...what wasn't tedious was boring.

I think I remember that Joe Gunther, big Vermont cop, served in the Korean War - Viet Nam too, I think.

In my mind he's just too old and Archer should create another character.

[msedano]

2. a couple of good ones

lost city radio - daniel alarcón
dirty havana trilogy - pedro juan gutiérrez trans natasha wimmer
sudden fiction latino - ed robert shapard et al
plus some poetry

mvs

[madmax]

3. A very scary read

My obit! ;)

Seriously, I'd like to know if anyone has read any good Civic's type books suitable for a H.S. Soph. My grandson sux at Civics. :(

[fairfaxvadem]

4. Biography of the Queen Mum...

It's quite the tome, but then, she lived a long life. It's less interesting for the "royal" bit than it is for the historical background of WWI and WWII and the intervening years, from the British perspective. I'm just up to the post-WWI era, Queen Elizabeth II is a toddler, and no mention yet of "that woman," Wallis Simpson. The duties of the Duke and Duchess of York, as they were then, was exhausting - no wonder they looked forward to cocktail hour. It's pretty dense reading, not a page-turner, but I'm determined to finish it, even if it takes only getting through 10 pages a night. Heavily foot-noted and just a lot of information to digest. I appreciate the perspective it offers.

[Onceuponalife]

5. The Great Big Book of Tomorrow by Tom Tomorrow

Chronicles Dan Perkins' (aka Tom Tomorrow) career up to 2003. "Sparky" and This Modern World have been musts for me for years.

Also starting Rules Of Ascension by David B. Coe.

[YankeyMCC]

6. Ivanhoe

- Never read it before, saw the BBC miniseries via Netflix recently and decided to pick it up.

[abluelady]

7. "To Kill a Mockingbird"by Harper Lee

Haven't read it in over 35 years, and I'm enjoying it again.

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. still The Autobiography of Mark Twain

The information about General/President Grant is very interesting.I am reading this book with Google close by!

This is a huge book in every aspect.

[pscot]

15. Twain convinced the gemeral to write his memoir

which, if you haven't read it, is well worth your time.

[azmouse]

9. Re-reading "Frankenstein".

[JeffersonChick]

10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

I was #86 on the hold list at the library. Finally got it! Love the political aspect of the book too.

[japple]

11. T. C. Boyle's, The Women. About the women in Frank Lloyd Wright's life.

Verrrry interesting....

[Mz Pip]

12. The Sweetheart Season

by Karen Joy Fowler

[hippywife]

18. That sounds kinda good.

How are you liking it, Pip?

[Mz Pip]

19. just started it

but so far so good. It's done with humor and I haven't read a humorous book in ages so I am hopeful that this one will deliver a few laughs during what seems to be a fairly dismal time.

[Broken_Hero]

13. Finished

The Shining on Sunday, and finished Misery yesterday. I don't have anything planned for the rest of this week though, I think I'm going to take a break for a week or so.

[LWolf]

16. Schooled, by Gordon Korman.

It was chosen by the students that attend my after-school book club for our first read this fall. It's funny as hell, but I'm looking forward to my students learning something positive about "hippies."

[fadedrose]

17. THE FOUR LAST THINGS by Timothy Hallinan

Got an old-yellowed soft cover of this book thru interlibrary loan. How good it is to be back with Hallinan again - this old series is about PI Simon Grist in LA, CA. Finished up with Poke Rafferty last week.

I love his nonsensical humor.

[getting old in mke]

20. Andrew Grant

_Even_

(Also, found while searching for _Even_, ran across the freebie _Andy Grant's Luck_ by Horatio Alger :) )

[MaineDem]

21. "Fall of Giants" by Ken Follett

Excellent read! Can't wait for the next in this series.

[AmandaMae]

22. A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

[hippywife]

23. Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham.

Actually finished it earlier.

Two British families set out on holiday. Each seemingly unconnected to the other have been offered the free use of a friend's Spanish villa. Same friend, same villa, same week.

It's a light, quick read. I would recommend it to anyone looking for more of a summer read.

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