What are you reading the week of January, 30th?

[hippywife]

I haven't heard from DUgosh but I guess I can put this up for everyone. I hope she's okay.


I'm reading, when I have the time, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.


:hi:

[Lint Head]

1. Keith Richard's Life.

[femmocrat]

2. The Fall of Giants.

One of my kids got it for me for my birthday. I just started it, but it's good so far. I wish I had time to sit and read it straight through.

[virgogal]

3. Moonlight Mile---Dennis Lehane

[lob1]

4. The Bible According to Mark Twain.

[canoeist52]

5. "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis

mmmm...time traveling

[foxfeet]

6. Dead in the Family

A book in the Southern Vampire series, featuring Sookie Stackhouse. I wanted something fun and trashy and it delivered.

[Mz Pip]

7. The Girl who Kicked a Hornet's Nest

It's a continuation of the second book. It's very involved and complicated. I'm about half way through. Then it's on to Mennonite in a Little Black Dress.

[eablair3]

19. Just finished that last weekend

Just finished this third book last weekend. It was well worth the read. Good stuff.

Anything in particular cause you to choose Mennonite in a Little Black Dress as the next?

[Mz Pip]

20. Book Club choice

It would not have been my pick but it's supposed to be interesting. We'll see!

[eablair3]

25. True Grit by Charles Portis

True Grit is what I ended up starting this week. Wanted to read it before seeing the Coen brothers remake, although I've read they are quite different. It looks like it will be a short one, which will be nice.

A book club I follow is currently reading The Elegance Of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. I may try that one afterwards.

I've seen a couple of the Stieg Larsson movies, and am real glad I read the books first. But, I am looking forward to seeing the third movie, too. And, I guess Hollywood is coming out with remakes, as well, ... directed by David Finchem, iirc.

[japple]

30. I put True Grit on my list, too. I LOVED, LOVED his Dog of the

South when I read it many years ago.

[eleny]

8. Just finished Sharon Fiffer's latest mystery - Backstage Stuff

[juajen]

9. Dean Koontz. NT

[peacebird]

10. loved "A Walk in the Woods"! Currently re-reading "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear hippywife!

I'm just sitting down to read a book written by a friend of mine: John Morgan Wilson.

It's called "Spider Season" and it's the newest in his series of Benjamin Justice novels. He's written 10 novels, and many of them feature this protagonist, who is based on himself.

It's very cool reading a book written by someone you actually know, and who has done well. He's won the Edgar Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.

:hi:

[fadedrose]

12. DEAD SOUL by James D. Doss

Sad story, Charlie haunted by unsolved crime, funny part with rattlesnake.


Hippywife - DUgosh did ask you to take over last time, so I was hoping you'd go for it till she comes back...:)






7th Book of year

[abluelady]

13. Alice Hoffman's "The Red Garden"

[notesdev]

14. Steal This Book

and appropriately enough, I stole it

[azul]

15. Seth Speaks

through Jane Roberts

An old friend gave it to me last week. Most peculiar, and for some reason I seem to fall asleep when I read it. Even with glasses on.

[The Roux Comes First]

16. In Homestretch on Jance's First Joanna Brady, i.e., Desert Heat,

listening to Jeff Edwards' Torpedo, and also enjoying The Compleat Cruciverbalist, on the subject of crosswords.

I too greatly enjoyed Walk in the Woods (along with a handful of other Brysons) as well as To Say Nothing of the Dog.

[MineralMan]

17. I'm re-reading Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson.

I read it when I was about 12 years old, and grabbed it again for a reread while at my parents house over Christmas. It's amazing how familiar it still seems to me.

Written in the 1950s, it's the story of a doctor, beginning in childhood pre-WWI. A very human story, it follows him through his life, and very clearly shows the process of a man motivated by greed, who sees his world finally collapse and finds redemption through humbling himself. A good read, and a good movie was made from it. The movie was nominated for several Oscars, but is not available on DVD. Even Frank Sinatra was in it.

[dmallind]

18. Still in my Thursday Next saga reread

Just finished Well of Lost Plots - onto Something Rotten today.

[fadedrose]

21. MAD DOG AND ENGLISHMAN by J. M. Hayes

Didn't care for the story much, but the characters have possibilities. I disliked the pure white pages of the book. A tiny bit of beige or off-white is so much easier on the eyes.

[bluethruandthru]

22. Alone by Lisa Gardener n/t

[fadedrose]

23. THE BIG OVER EASY by Jasper Fforde

Got the 2006 Lefty Award. My first by this author.

















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[dmallind]

27. He's the Thursday Next guy too

Lots of inside humor - the more of hisstuff you read the funnier it gets.

[pscot]

31. Until it doesn't

The Fourth Bear stopped me cold. I couldn't get 30 pages into it.

[Curmudgeoness]

24. Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden. A Walk in the Woods...

is so much more fun. I laughed till I cried when I read that---but then again, I had a mid-life crisis friend wanting to hike the App. Trail at that same time.

[MaineDem]

26. "The Neon Rain" by James Lee Burke

The first Dave Robichaux book. Audible had it on sale and I'd never read it.

[mvccd1000]

28. Still slogging through Sherlock Holmes.

I downloaded the first 8 of them free on the kindle. The first two were great, the third one was pretty good, and the fourth was ok. I didn't really get into the fifth one, "The Hound of the Baskervilles," even though it's supposedly the most popular of them all. Three to go, and I'm still looking forward to them even though the quality has been declining.

Hollywood really did a fabulous job in the recent movie of working several of the more minor characters into the plot in interesting ways. I can't wait to see the second one when it comes out later this year.

[japple]

29. Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell

Stark and beautiful writing.

[eablair3]

32. How is Winter's Bone?

How is this one? A page-turner? I haven't seen the film yet, but know it got excellent reviews. Was just wondering if it's a good read?

[japple]

34. I liked it a lot. It was a page turner for me. Very good writing,

compelling characters, esp. main character.

[KC]

33. Resilience / Elizabeth Edwards