What are you reading the week of January 2, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Sullivan's Justice by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

[closeupready]

1. Peter Mathiessen's "The Snow Leopard".

I cracked it open a couple months ago, but got distracted.

[demosincebirth]

2. The Help.

[Little Star]

9. That is one of my favorite stand alone books.

Enjoy!

[demosincebirth]

16. My wife bought the book...she liked it a lot. We lived in Ga., during that era.

[WCGreen]

3. The Madonnas of Echo Park....

by Brando Skyhorse

[Mist]

4. I've been re-reading much of Andrew Vachss' Burke series. Not exactly holiday reading. Oh, well.

[Paper Roses]

5. After about 45 years or so, I am reading 1984 again.

I was in the attic yesterday and found the old book tucked away. I think I hated the book when I first read it. It seemed confusing and too convoluted, too impossible.

I am only about 1/3 of the way into the novel and I'm already shaking my head in disbelief.
The rest should prove to be interesting since I remember very little from my original reading.
Very thought provoking.

[krispos42]

18. I read it for the first time last year.

Chilling, isn't it?

[GeorgeGist]

6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Jules Verne

[fadedrose]

7. THE KINGMAKER by Brian Haig

Am rereading one or two Doss books with a book or two inbetween. The Shaman Laughs was very good. Had forgotten so much.

I like this author, Haig, and he was recommended to me by someone on this board - thanks - I like Haig a lot.

This will be 2nd book of 20ll....

[mvccd1000]

19. It's hard to tell which is my favorite...

... I gave them all 5 stars (out of 5) in my rating system, but I think the next one you'll come to in the series - "Private Sector" - was one of his best. I've read the first six, and I'm ready to start "The Hunted," which someone was nice enough to load on the Kindle I got for Christmas. :)

I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also on my Kindle). It turned out to be a pretty good story, and I think I'll order the next two in the series after I finish the Sean Drummond book.

[fadedrose]

23. This is my third..

I love his way of telling the story, although I liked the first two better (Viet Nam & Korea's: the ill-fated gay romance and the trial of the soldiers who were attacked and got revenge).... it's hard to understand the crime is in an espionage case. But they (Drummond and Katrina) are going to Russia on the next page, and I think the crime will be easier to see.

[fadedrose]

25. Correction

Secret Sanction took place in Bosnia (Viet Nam).



Mortal Allies took place in South Korea, Defense Minister's son murdered because he was gay . . . and things have picked up quite a bit since they got to Moscow in The Kingmaker.

Looking forward to reading them all.

[mvccd1000]

27. You may want to skip out of order...

I just read "The Hunted." It's the first non-Sean Drummond book, and I think it will be the first one I don't give 5 stars to. (I'll probably give it 4 stars.)

It's more of a historical fiction account of how corrupt elements in the USSR/Russia and in the US affected one man during the fall of communism and Yeltsin's reign in Russia.

It was an interesting peek into a very turbulent time, but not a light and easy read like the Drummond books. At the end of it, though, he mentions that it was inspired by someone (who became the protagonist of the book) who contacted him after reading "The Kingmaker." This individual thought Haig would have some interest in writing his story, and that's how the book came about.

BTW, he also mentions his friend Nelson DeMille as an influence. I had always noted that similarity as I read Drummond in action; it's nice to see it confirmed.

After reading that dramatic story, it will be nice to jump back in line with "Private Sector" and pick up Sean Drummond at his best.

[fadedrose]

29. Next one will be the 4th

Private Sector takes place in D.C. Am looking forward to it. Maybe I'll go back to the Russians in the future sometime...

[MaineDem]

8. "The Concrete Blonde" by Michael Connolly

An old Harry Bosch book I never read.

[Little Star]

10. I love the Harry Bosch series. I'll pull mine out in another

year or two and re-read the series. There is a new one out (The Reversal) that I need to pick up.

[fadedrose]

13. Library sent an email, REVERSAL is in...

I want to read the whole series again too - and, ta-ta, Box has a new one coming out, COLD WIND or something like that - I think in March....:)

[Little Star]

22. Can't wait for Box!! Thanks for the heads-up.

[fadedrose]

12. This is one of the best ones..... eom

[TheCentepedeShoes]

11. When Christ and HIs Saints Slept

by Sharon K Penman (about 2/3 finished) and
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (kinda weird story)
I want to read The Vikings (non-fiction) and can get it from the library, but looks like it would take awhile to finish
The bookstore has it for $32 and I could get it cheaper from Amazon, but combining a trip thu Amazon territory with my credit card would do more damage than that

[WolverineDG]

21. I love the Penman books

I just finished "Time & Chance," the 2nd novel in that series.

dg

[hippywife]

14. Don't Sing at the Table : Life Lessons from My Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani.

Non-fiction. It's just maybe a little better than okay. I'll finish it, but not enthused enough to have my nose stuck in it all day.

Also:

Snow Play : How to Make Forts & Slides & Winter Campfires, Plus the Coolest Loch Ness Monster and 23 Other Brilliant Projects in the Snow by Birgitta Ralston. Checking it out to see if I want to buy it for my niece.

[Goblinmonger]

15. Beloved by Morrison.

Read other of her stuff, but not this one. I am working my way through the rest of the Pulitzer winners I haven't read. Morrison writes so beautifully that sometimes I have to just stop and take a break to let it all sink in.

[krispos42]

17. "The Well of Lost Plots" by Jasper Fforde, and...

... "Worldwar: In the Balance" by Harry Turtledove.

[WolverineDG]

20. Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis. I read one of his earlier novels & wanted to read Main Street to compare/contrast.

dg

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. The Dead of Winter, by Rennie Airth,

who needs to hurry up and write some more books.

[AngryOldDem]

26. Just finished "The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth" by Barnaby Conrad.

An excellent, excellent historical fiction read inspired by Sinclair Lewis, whom Conrad worked for at the end of Lewis's career, in the 1940s. This book is extremely readable -- and plausible -- and the Afterword detailing how the story came about is just as fascinating.

I came across this on the 14-day-loan shelf at the library and could not pass it up. I highly recommend it to those who like historical fiction.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. I will read it. One of my all time favorite books about Booth

is:
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)
James L. Swanson (Author)


Like the one you mention, it reads like a novel. I read that this is because there was so much information, records, diaries about the assassination that it allows authors to write this way.

[fadedrose]

28. THE HUCKLEBERRY MURDERS.... by Patrick F. McManus

It's a Bo Tully mystery, the 4th in a series. Takes place in Blight County, Idaho.

[fadedrose]

31. This was my 4th book of the year

It was a very short book, 250 pp, and I didn't care for it. Stupid plot about illegal marijuana farming. All the females in the book are attracted to Bo and he knows it and it got tiresome.

[closeupready]

30. Hollywood Babylon, by Kenneth Anger

Gossipy but good. Old, too, but I always wanted to read it and never got around to it.