What are you reading the week of November 28, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Capitol Murder by William Bernhardt

[applegrove]

1. "The Sentimentalists" by Johanna Skibsrud. It won the Giller Prize in Canada for best

Canadian work of fiction. I have not started it but am excited.

[roguevalley]

2. War for Cybertron. :)

[prc73450]

3. in cold blood

[pnorman]

4. The MilleniumTrilogy

http://www.stieglarsson.com/Millennium-series

I have all three volumes in Audible.com format, and enjoyed them immensely! I listened to them in succession, and will probably repeat that in a week or so. They're that good, and the narration is superb! I ordered a few more from Audible.com, solely because they were also narrated by him.

[bluethruandthru]

5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. n/t

[abluelady]

7. The Movie Started in town Friday--Going to See it Later. eom

[bluethruandthru]

8. I loved the first two - books and movies.

I'll wait for the third movie to come out on Netflix. I'm looking forward to the US versions of the movies too.

[pnorman]

11. That's the middle volume in my above mentioned "Millenium Trilogy"

Did you enjoy it as well as I did?

Normally, I'm not all that keen on mystery novels, and am always leery of getting sucked into multi-volume series. Moreover the female protagonist in all three volumes, Lisbeth Salender, was portrayed as an "extreme social misfit". That's something that generally wouldn't have appealed to me. But she most certainly did, and I was looking forward to reading more of her. But sadly, the author died just as the first volume was reaching critical acclaim.

Although it was written in Swedish, the translation was such that I never got the feeling that it was originally not English.

[pscot]

18. Larsen had to die

There's no way he could have capped himself. He left at the top of his game.

[abluelady]

6. "So Much for That" by Lionel Shriver

[Little Star]

9. The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver

I think it's #7 in The Lincoln Rhyme Series.

I heartily recommend this series.

[Zoigal]

10. So do i...z

[MaineDem]

12. "The Emperor's Tomb" by Steve Berry

The new Cotton Malone book.

[fadedrose]

13. All of Bernhardt's books are good

Have read them all - if you haven't, start with the first . . .

A few months ago, I posted that the lady in Nevada running for Senate, forget her name, who said that we should be able to pay doctors with chickens....remember? ..... reminded me of one of Bernhardt's earliest books, where he's just starting out....and some poor client paid him with chickens that he had running all over his office...good book that was.

[Little Star]

15. You made me laugh....

Sue Lowden was the chicken barter lady in Nevada running for Senate. LOL

I'm gonna have to read some Bernhardt on your recommendation.

[fadedrose]

14. THE BRUTAL TELLING by Louise Penny

I put this in last week's list, but was only on page 5 or so, so I thought I'd include this 370 pp book in this weeks' list too.

This book is so far terrific and I'm halfway through.

It makes you keep wondering what will happen next while you enjoy the banter of the goofy characters. If you're up for some French Canadian stuff, give this one a shot.

[fadedrose]

21. Terrific, loved it....eom

[japple]

16. Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind

[pscot]

20. That's a popular title

I'm #18 on the holds list.

[japple]

23. I like it so far, but am only a few chapters in. I got a free copy of

the paperback edition for working for Friends of the Library used bookstore. It's a dream getting paid in books.

Edit to add: I always donate them back to the used bookstore after I've finished, or pass them along to friends.

[closeupready]

17. Lost Horizon by James Hilton.

Enjoying it, but I'm only about 60 pages in.

[pscot]

19. Solar, by Ian McEwan

[fadedrose]

22. Just started BURY YOUR DEAD by Louise Penny

This is the last in the series about Armand Gamache, Chief Inspector, Quebec - 3 Pines, Canada. Great series.

[fadedrose]

25. Disappointed

Too much about Samuel Champlain and their attempts to find his body. Maybe if I lived in Quebec I might have had some interest.

The book has 3 plots - an old mystery, a recent crime, and the search for the killer of a man looking for Champlain's grave (along with many other characters also looking for the grave). The paragraphs run together and everytime it started talking about the grave portion, I felt like the Jehovah's Witnesses were at the door (again) and got to ignoring this part of the book.

The book just before this one, The Brutal Telling, is one of the best I've read in a long time, and the 4 previous to that were very good too.

[fadedrose]

27. In spite of too much Champlain, I am anxious for her next one to come out

I so enjoy Chief Gamache and his crew and the people of 3 Pines. I like her style of writing - humor and unexpected happenings..

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. I thought the Champlain

part became a little tedious, even though I like history mixed with my mystery
Now what I want to know is will Rosa come back in the spring ???

[fadedrose]

31. I sure hope so. Ruth will never be the same..

I hope they all come back. Hoping Olivier will forgive Gamache too. Nice to see that Dominique (sp) is friends with the other girls...my spelling of names is atrocious. I mean the wife of the guy who bought the "haunted" house and made it into a spa..?

Yes, the book was good..just too much searching and the details thereof, especially since they never found the grave.

[fadedrose]

33. Clearing up badly worded sentence...

I knew that they were never going to find a grave that is still historically missing, unless they thought that by rewriting history they would sell more books....just wondered why they couldn't have made up a fictitious historical person and claimed to discover his grave, perhaps on a pizza.

[AngryOldDem]

24. "The Corrections."

I read it once, some years ago, and liked it. Now, it's a boring, interminable piece of pretentiousness. I'm almost at the end, though, so I'm sticking it out. I've tried to like Franzen's work but I'm coming to the conclusion that he's just not my type of author, even though I did enjoy "Freedom" more than "The Corrections."

[hippywife]

26. The Bone Setter's Daughter by Amy Tan n/t

[fadedrose]

28. A DEAD MAN'S TALE by James D. Doss

Picked up two books at the library tonight - Doss' book and The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo. I requested it 7/30/10..

In spite of waiting so long for The Girl.., I couldn't resist picking up the Doss book and starting to read it first. After just a few pages, I've decided that I'm going to go back to the first book, The Shaman Sings, and read them all again, all 15 of them. I really enjoyed all of them.

The only thing I can't figure out is why Doss gave his books these kind of stupid titles. They almost turned me off before I got started. Thankfully, I ignored the titles, and still do. Good stuff inside.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/D_Authors/Doss_James.html

[sazemisery]

29. Fall of Giants ~ KenFollett

I just finished it last night. Not a spellbinding as Pillars of the Earth but still good historical fiction.

[OnionPatch]

32. I'm about halfway through it.

No, it isn't quite as compelling as Pillars of the Earth to me, either, but I'm really enjoying this book. The further I get into it, the more caught up in it I am. The political aspect of it is fascinating to me. And I've not really read much about WWI before so I'm learning some things. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. I hope it will cover the WWII era.