What are you reading the week of December 5, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Jump by Tim Maleeny

[Hawkeye-X]

1. I am expected to get Kindle gift certificates this week

not sure if I want to spend on Amazon, but I do love Kindle on my Samsung Epic.

Just finished reading "The Cure" by Robin Cook - very good book.

Hawkeye-X

[mvccd1000]

11. Barry Eisler

Well, I WAS reading him... I knocked out the 2nd and 3rd John Rain books in two days. That series started off great and has only picked up speed from there. I just started "Stripped" by Brian Freeman - it's the second Jonathan Stride book I've read. I'm about 1/4 of the way in and liking it so far.

[fadedrose]

12. Brian Freeman's titles appeal to me...

will probably try him in a month or so.

Did you read the first one? I just looked it up and Immoral has all kinds of awards.

[mvccd1000]

13. Yes, I read that one last month.

I only gave it a 3 on my 5-point scale, but I started "Stripped" yesterday and I'm already almost 1/2 done. I'm really liking this one, and I'm glad I got to know the characters in the first book. I'd say it's worth the read.

[fadedrose]

17. Boy do I feel dumb

I picked these two books up at the library, went thru and realized that I read both of them - not only that, I read the next two, Stalked, and The Burying Place. Not great, but good. Worth the time.

Actually, it was the author's picture in the back that made me recognize the books immediately...

[mvccd1000]

22. Stripped

Finished it last night, and gave it a four out of five. I'm glad there are some more coming up. I agree with your assessment; not great, but a good read. Thanks for the tip!

I'm leaving on a trip right now and picked up a few books from the take one/leave one rack at work, all by authors I haven't tried yet. I'll let you know how they turn out.

[fairfaxvadem]

2. No Idea!!

I'm swimming in new books right now, have at least 10 that I have lined up...want to read them all immediately but will have to pick and choose. I even found a few more in my bookcase that I ordered at the end of the summer that I haven't read yet.

I need to stop with the home improvements and just veg out and read the rest of the winter. But not until I finish with the last bedroom...I swear, it never ends.

[tabatha]

3. Introduction to California Chaparral

Hardly ever read fiction.

[jannyk]

4. 'The Righteous Men' Sam Bourne described as a 'turbo- charged

thriller' and 'Country Driving' by Peter Hessler - the New Yorker Beijing correspondent for 7 years, tells tales of driving around China.

I'm finally finished with Follett's 'Fall of Giants', which I thoroughly enjoyed.

[roody]

5. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

[Hawkowl]

6. self delete

[abluelady]

7. "Consequences" by Penelope Lively

[Onceuponalife]

8. Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card

The seventh (I think) in the Ender series. I'm zipping right through it like I do all of Card's books. Expect a new book from me next week. :smoke:

[pscot]

9. Solar, by Ian MEwan

Well written satire but it left me dissatisfied. I'm reading The Ask, by Sam Lipsyte. The protagonist needs a dope slap. Several, in fact. Not sure I'll finish it.

[fadedrose]

10. Just finished A DEAD MAN'S TALE by James D. Doss

I finished the last page and searched the blank white page at the end hoping for another sentence or word to appear, but alas nothin.

I still have two books to read - The Girl with the Dragon.. and Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan, and to tell the truth, I don't feel like reading either one of them. I'd rather request a few of the first Doss books and reread them. Am hoping for the next one to come out soon.

Here's some of the background of this writer. He works at the Los Alamos Research Lab and that has to be a factor in his imaginative style.

http://www.mysterynet.com/doss/author.shtml

Make me happy, somebody, please and start reading this crazyman's books. I can see Dugosh liking this, maybe Centipede Shoes and just maybe, Raccoon. But I wish more of you would try it. Maybe it's just me who is weird.

His first book was about Scott Paris, Sheriff, with only a tiny bit about Charlie Moon and Daisy, but his second book, and all after, star Charlie, his aunt Daisy and Scott. The first book was not a real humorous one, but did have its moments.

[MaineDem]

14. Still working on "The Emperor's Tomb" by Steve Berry. n/t

[japple]

15. Requiem By Fire, Wayne Caldwell, who also wrote

Cataloochee. Both are about the establishment and early days of the Great Smoky Mountains.

[terrya]

16. "Cleopatra - A Life" by Stacy Schiff.

Absolutely fascinating.

[fadedrose]

18. THE SHAMAN SINGS by James D. Doss

Am rereading the whole series. This was the first.

[fadedrose]

21. Finished my 2nd complete reading of this book...

Now it's on to Charlie Moon!!!

Was it good? Read it yourself and find out. There's no guarantees on whether you'll like something I like or not.

[AngryOldDem]

19. "Eighteen Acres" by Nicholle Wallace.

These days are stressful so I'm doing some light reading. Surprisingly, it's very good, and Wallace is getting some revenge at having had to deal with Sarah Palin.

[hippywife]

20. Non-fiction: Stuffed-Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk

It's a Nancy Pearl pick I heard about on NPR. About 100 pages in, really small book, just okay.

[AmandaMae]

23. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

[krispos42]

24. "Lost in a Good Book" by Jasper Fford and "The Two Georges" by Harry Turtledove n/t

[fadedrose]

25. THE LOCK ARTIST by Steve Hamilton

I've only read one of Hamilton's books that I liked, and not even that much. But I'm on page 35 or so of this, and don't like first person writing by this author. Too much I, my, me, and sentences for the most part are too short and choppy. Sequence of dates and occurrences are not to my liking either. A nice thing about first person writings is when the author is bright enough to make himself at times seem stupid or hoodwinked cause it makes him a a bit more likable.

Am stuck with it till my 2nd series Doss book, The Shaman Laughs, comes in from another district. For some reason, my district library and its satellites don't have the 2nd book in hardcover. Don't care for soft covers any more for reading at home, so the day it comes I'll drop this one like a hot patootie. I have the 3rd and 4th series Doss books but I want to keep them in sequence this time around.

Now go on with whatever you were doing and stop wasting your time with my going on and on and on....

[fadedrose]

26. This book fits my description of a crappy book....

After suffering up to page 70 or so, read the last page, decided this was a major waste of time. Wish somebody else would read it (from the library, don't buy it) to confirm whether my crappy antenna is working.