What are you reading the week of March 20, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Sand Sharks by Margaret Maron

[Skink]

1. The Savage City. TJ English.

[FeelingBlue]

2. Sorry, wrong post.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Queen Lucia, by E. F. Benson.

A British writer with a sly sense of humor, his "Lucia " books were used as a marvelous Brit tv series
"Mapp and Lucia".
Highly recommended for Anglophiles especially.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

17. I had the whole Mapp and Lucia

series in paperback years ago. Got donated to the library before one of my moves
Saw some of the Brit TV stuff too
Great for Anglophiles

[fadedrose]

4. STONE BUTTERFLY by James D. Doss

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"R"

[fadedrose]

29. I just got back from Spirit Canyon, Colorado

Doss's books aren't just a reading experience, I actually go there and most of the time don't want to come back (even if I do need a dictionary once in a while to figure out what you're talking about).

Love ya, Mr. Doss, and hurry up with the next Charlie Moon book....am almost done reading you twice as it is...

[lordsummerisle]

5. Old Man's War

John Scalzi

[elocs]

6. "party of one: The Loner's Manifesto" by Anneli Rufus.

I embrace my inner loner as I prefer my own company to that of others and although I am not antisocial I am by preference nonsocial, yet as a loner I am in good company with the likes of Michelangelo, Newton, and Einstein.

[applegrove]

7. I loved that book.

[elocs]

9. I'm still reading it. Finding that I have definite schizoid traits

has really helped me to understand much of my life and the choices and decisions I have made. This book was highly recommended by one of the sites I had visited. When I finish it, this book will be about the only one I have read in the past couple of years (reading quickly puts me to sleep).

[applegrove]

11. I loved learning about how it was a cross-cultural trait amongst groups of teenage boys that

they attack a girl who remains clanish (interested in her family) rather than boycrazy. Explained highschool for me. I was so shy and quiet. I didn't look back on that group of boys. I just walked away (at least I knew that much). Withdrawing and rebuilding my life on better friendships with real people helped me out of my shell.

I can't remember much else from that book. I read it a while ago.

[JDPriestly]

8. Griftopia by Matt Taibbi -- really great description of the steps

that led to the economic meltdown of 2008

[NBachers]

10. Just finished The Sentinel by Robert Crais

[YankeyMCC]

12. "The jewel in the crown" by Paul Scott

[The Philosopher]

13. I'll be starting off with

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. If I can finish it this week (I have the ability, but I've been a horrible reader lately) I'll move on to:

A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty both by Edmund White
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Luna by Julie Anne Peters

and finally A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. If I can read all those in a week, I'll be really happy.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. Just finished two good ones

The Penelopiad
by Margaret Atwood, a view of Penelope that is audacious and slyly funny . Tt presents the tired old tale of Odysseus in a whole new light Margaret Atwood is one of my all time favorite authors

The second one is a new author to me , Harlan Ellison. It is I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream , a collection of short stories to curdle your blood . I love Sci fi, and these are GOOD.

[YankeyMCC]

15. Have you read "Lavinia" by Ursula K Le Guin

Another retelling of an ancient story, the Aeneid.

It was so good it prompted me to write only my second in my life, fan letter to an author.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_(novel)

Cool thing was that she wrote back, just a hand written Thank you.

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. no I haven't

but I will! She is an author I have always intended to read and this looks like a good place to start

[TheCentepedeShoes]

18. Today was library day

A Lonely Death by Charles Todd and
The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
Both set post WWI, one in England the other in New York
Also reading at my leisure (cause they're MINE)
The Vikings (non fiction) by Robert Ferguson and
The Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman

[MaineDem]

19. "The Secret Servant" by Daniel Silva

I'm reading them in order. I should be ready for the new one when it's released.

[Dr. Strange]

20. WATCHERS and WAKE

[Luciferous]

21. Finishing up The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and I'll

probably go buy the second book tomorrow since they don't have it at our library...

[mvccd1000]

22. Steve Hamilton (Alex McKnight)

Recommended to me by someone on another forum, I ended up getting through all seven of them in the last week. The last one, "A Stolen Season," was pretty harsh. (Still a good read, just not a light-and-airy, happy ending-type story.)

[bluethruandthru]

23. Strange Fits of Passion - Anita Shreve n/t

[Casandia]

24. Ursula K Le Guin - books with dragons

The Earth Sea books. Very good series

[Little Star]

25. The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver.....

It is #7 in the "Lincoln Rhyme Series". This is a great psychological thriller series and I am enjoying it very much.

Here are the books in order for anyone else who likes to read a series in order:

1) The Bone Collector (book much better than the movie which starred Denzel Washington & Angelina Jolie)
2) The Coffin Dancer
3) The Empty Chair
4) The Stone Monkey
5) The Vanished Man
6) The Twelfth Card
7) The Cold Moon
8) The Broken Window
9) The Burning Wire

[hippywife]

26. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.

so far, I've been a Pynchon virgin and this was on the sale rack at the library for a buck, so why not?

I'm only done with the first chapter so far. I find it both bizarre and interesting. :hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. I read it a while back

and yes--it is bizarre and interesting !

[JitterbugPerfume]

28. The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

I started it last night and literally could not put it down.

[fadedrose]

30. ONCE A SPY by Keith Thomson

Book 22

[fadedrose]

32. Not totally happy with this book..

As long as the author was talking about the characters lives in any aspect, I liked the story. But when he was detailing rooms, weapons, buildings, I was lost and had to read sentences two or three times to make any sense of them. Finally, I learned not to take these sentences seriously and didn't bother to understand them. I think what he did was take a bowl full of nouns and verbs nobody uses and throws them together into a sentence.

That said, I liked the character, Charlie (30) and his retired CIA father, Drummond, who has Alzheimer's disease. Makes for some light moments, and I will read the sequel hoping that Thomson's need to be fuzzy isn't as strong.

[pscot]

31. I'm in one of those zones

where nothing pleases me. I'm reading Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers. Maybe the Icelandic bards next.

[fadedrose]

33. SERVER DOWN by J. M. Hayes

This is 5th in the series, just started it. I kinda like this Mad Dog and Englishman series. A new one is coming out in July.


Link:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/H_Authors/Hayes_J-M.html


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