What are you reading the week of May 8, 2011?

[DUgosh]

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce # 2) Thanks Fadedrose, for the recommendation

[Drale]

1. Well

Right now I am trying to catch up on my Comic reading. Not very political but they do take some awesome hits at the right wing.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Al Franken: The Truth :D

[1620rock]

3. "Full Dark No Stars" - Stephen King

[roguevalley]

4. Flipside: The tourist's guide to the afterlife

[movonne]

5. Live Wire by Harlan Coben...

[donheld]

6. Will finish "Book Of The Dead" by Patricia Cornwell and

will follow it up with Scarpetta also by Ms Cornwell. She's the bomb!

[cayanne]

7. Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant

A look at why the working poor and religious right hate liberalism.

[fadedrose]

8. This was recommended to me by gauguin57

several weeks ago in your June 12th weekly read list....

Both of us thank gauguin57..

[DUgosh]

10. Flavia is

delightful!

[fadedrose]

9. A GREAT DELIVERANCE by Elizabeth George

Had to get this through interlibrary loan, and even doing this, there is not a hardback copy in Michigan in regular print, and after ordering two really beat-up falling-apart paperbacks, decided to get a large print edition that one library had in hardback - it was reprinted in 2002.

Anyway, don't like large print, but the author is a good one. She has so far given me 11 words to look up in the first 100 pages, and that is a record high. These are words for the most part I've seen before and am shy about committing myself to a definition out loud, and some I never heard of in my life.

The first 3 books in the series are not available from my local library, but was able to get the next two on loan.

R

PS We ought to have, or should invite, OP's inquiring about words unknown in the book we're reading. Am curious as to how many other dummies there besides me.


Book 36

[fadedrose]

16. Very good book

Even tho there's a list I made of words I don't know, and there's at least 60...

There are a lot of books in the series, and I suggest you read this one FIRST to see how the main characters started out. A lot of "wow"s in this one towards the end....

[MaineDem]

20. It's available on Audible

But it's abridged. I hate to read/listen to abridged versions but maybe I'll take the chance with this book. I enjoy George's books.

[fadedrose]

21. Maybe if I listen I could learn to pronounce these words:

In order of their appearance in The Great Deliverance:

insouciant, obfuscation, malodourous, glaucous, appellations, truculent, androgyny, nonplussed, aquilinity, diablerie, imprecations, antipodal, termagant, querulous, anachronistic panache, malediction, assignation, sartorially, pirouttes, somnambulated, dyspeptic, obsequious, excrescence, exophthalmic, tympanic, sapient, ubiquitous, ostensibly, propitate, abstinent, cachinnation, sardonic, epergne, escritoire, counterpane, pugnacious, lambent, frangible, ululation, soporific, incongruity, diffident, impedimenta, fop, suppurating, imprecation, rebarbative pavane, miasmal, welter, atavistic, ephemeral, maelstrom, deshabille, and stertorous.

Some of these I knew, but not seen them in the context used in the book. The ones I didn't know, I could figure out by their usage. Think maybe I should go to the juvenile section to choose my books?

[pitohui]

24. no, you've done well

this book is early in george's career and i'm guessing SHE was guessing what kind of words to use to set the atmosphere, keep in mind...she is american, so british english is a second language

for example "glaucous" is a word i have never heard in any context other than the color of a bird...it is a shade of blue BTW...so i sat up in my chair to see it in this story...to the best of my knowledge it would never be used to apply to anything other than the color of bird's plumage...it's like when i was in bolivia and the guide (who is learning english) asks me about the word "bay," which he thinks is a color, since on a bird, it's a chestnut orangey color but otherwise would NEVER be used as the name of a color except on a bird's body

george is learning and experimenting her british english, but it's worth the ride

[pitohui]

23. holy cow, i just read this one -- loved it!

my library had it in large print and i just chanced to see it on the shelves...yes, there was some unusual vocabulary there but i'm afraid i just went with context...i thought the same as you, gosh, there's a lot of words in this story that i don't recognize and i don't think it's because i'm unfamiliar w. british mysteries, as i think i've read everything ruth rendell/barbara vine has ever put out there

wonderful story, vocab quibbles aside, this is a great writer, i am reading george a bit out of order, so i have some sad foreshadowing here and there but it actually just creates more texture to the story

i love getting the background on havers, as i just read another where she is the feature, "deception on his mind" -- i like this detective, this is a real woman in this type of profession, not some leggy female like they have on teevee

you can tell this is a first/early novel yet it is so well polished...

[fadedrose]

25. I already have the next two...

I liked it very much too - how about the scenes near the end with Barbara and Lynley, and at the clinic/hospital where the accused was being held, at the church, and other revelations (have to avoid spoilers here)? Wow, wow, wow....

[JitterbugPerfume]

11. I found Animal Farm by Orwell

in my grand daughters books , so I am re reading it. I am still at my daughters house but i will be going home soon after my granddaughters graduation from 8th grade with honors on May 26th which would have been her aunt Melissa's 43rd birthday. It promises to be a very bittersweet day.

[elfin]

12. The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg

Kicking the Tudor mystery addiction -- now into Swedish mysteries.

[MaineDem]

13. Thanks for the recommendation.

This looks like a good read. Another series to start.

[SheilaT]

14. Pox, An American History

by Michael Willrich. It's mainly about the last great smallpox epidemic in this country at the very turn of the 19th - 20th Century.

Probably the single most interesting thing I've learned so far is that in about 1897 a news, far milder form of smallpox suddenly appeared in the southern part of this country. People who got it didn't get as sick as with the regular type, and in fact could remain ambulatory during its most infectious phase, therefore spreading it far more widely than the regular type. The pox eruptions were sufficiently milder than the other kind as to be easily confused with chicken pox. Almost no scarring occurred with this one, and the death rate was only about 1% of those infected, rather than 30% or more.

[bigwillq]

15. Alone

by Lisa Gardner

[closeupready]

17. Blasphemy, Douglas Preston.

nt

[diabeticman]

18. The Seeress of Kell by David Eddings

[fadedrose]

19. NIGHTWALKERS by P. T. Deutermann

I forgot how much I liked this guy. I read the first 3 in the series, and I really liked the first and second the best so far.

If you haven't read any yet, I suggest you do, and start with the first..
The Cat Dancers.




Book 37

[elfin]

22. Thanks for introducing me to yet another author

Like what I see on the Amazon page. Love well written mystery/thrillers.

[fadedrose]

26. You will love all of these by Deutermann...

The author loves this character he's created, and gives him some good plots to work through.

I need to reread all of the first novels. The only thing that bothered me about the 3rd one, which was very good, was that it dealt with a nuclear plant, and I am squeamish about anything nuclear, but a good story it was...

This last one reminds me of a Scooby Doo program - big ole house, strange stuff happening, and Cam always with a humorous thought in his head, usually involving his dogs...all 4 of these books are totally different in story and place, but all are great mysteries...

[fadedrose]

34. Finished NIGHTWALKERS

In spite of light print, this was a good book. Am looking forward to seeing how Cam Richter and his 3 German Shepherd make out in North Carolina.

Hope the author has another one on the back burner and selects an eye-friendly print if he's given some good advice by his publisher..

[eablair3]

27. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Just started it, ... and it's off to a good start!

[eablair3]

30. finis, ... on to Catching Fire

Well, finished The Hunger Games in two evenings, ... on to part two, Catching Fire.

[Little Star]

28. Cane River, Lalita Tademy

One of my daughters insisted I read this book and boy I'm glad I did. This is the same daughter who had me read "The Help" which I also loved.

It is a family saga about four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana. I highly recommend this book.

You can take a peek inside here: http://www.amazon.com/Cane-River-Lalita-Tademy/dp/0446530522

[elfin]

29. Sounds good

Adding to my summer reading list. Love sagas.

[Curmudgeoness]

31. The Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koonce. Thanks

to whoever it was who referred this book in "can't put it down".

[mzteris]

32. Jus finished LONDON

by Rutherford.

Not my usual reading fare (SF&F about 99% of the time!) . . . but my daughter had left it and I had nothing else so, "shrug"....

At first I was a little put off by the "stories", but as I got into the book the story lines grew on me.

AND - most importantly, I learned more about the history of England than I ever knew before!

So - overall - I'd recommend it. Interesting reading.

[MaineDem]

33. Still reading "The Sixth Man" by Baldacci

Just downloaded "The Faithful Spy" by Alex Berenson. That's up next.