What are you reading the week of June 5, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Suspicion of Guilt by Barbara Parker Gail Connor book #2 ( Miami Legal Thriller)

[Brickbat]

1. "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.

[elfin]

29. Read that some time ago

Loved the underlying concept.

[TheWraith]

2. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.

Planning on rereading all of A Song of Ice and Fire ahead of the release of A Dance With Dragons on July 12th.

[elfin]

30. Couldn't get into the HBO series

Have samples on Kindle for the books. Remain undecided to click the "buy" button.

[Flying Dream Blues]

3. Just finished New York by Edward Rutherfurd nt

[Vanje]

4. Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver nt

[Bluenorthwest]

5. That's next, the recommends are wildly good...

Right now, plays, August:Osage County by Tracy Letts. Among others.

[dhill926]

9. GREAT book........n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

22. I loved that book

I think it is one of her best,and I have read most of her books.

[AngryOldDem]

39. Good choice.

If you haven't yet, be sure to read the rest of her books.

I recommend both "Prodigal Summer" and "The Poisonwood Bible."

[digonswine]

6. Jude the Obscure--depressing as hell.

[Lost-in-FL]

7. "The Bell Jar" and finishing "Things fall apart" and...

"A Movable Feast".

[LongTomH]

8. "Forty Signs of Rain" by Kim Stanley Robinson

First book in his "Science in the Capitol" trilogy.

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. is it as interesting as The Years of Rice and Salt?

[sueh]

10. Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood

[MarianJack]

11. First I'm Finishing...

..."A Patchwork Planet" by Anne Tyler. Next up is "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (finally after seeing the movie about 700 times). Since I read "Nicholas Nickleby" before the Tyler book, I'll probably do a Grisham next for some brain resting and simple.

Remember in high school the one pain in the arse obnoxious kid who liked reading the classics? That pain in the arse obnoxious kid was ME!

PEACE!

BTW, on edit, I re-read "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow about every other Labor day weekend. I consider it the best American novel of my lifetime. Every time I read it I get something new!

[Little Star]

12. Red River by Lalita Tademy...............

I read Tademy's "Cain River" and really enjoyed it, but I've been struggling with this one for weeks. Can't seem to get into it. I took it away with me on Memorial Day weekend and was so busy I didn't have time to open it. So now I'm back at it hoping it will get better, lol.

As an aside: In GD I posted a link to some pictures my husband took while we were on our Memorial Day long weekend up to Maine's Acadia National Park. Here is a link to that post if anyone would like to look at some pictures: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1228318

[fadedrose]

13. RELIC by D. Preston and L. Child

Just passed half-way, and it's getting good again. There must be a rule that the 2nd quarter of a book must be boring, not just this book, all books. Peeked at amazon's reviews of the coming books in this series and was happy to find that many of the characters in Book 1 will be back now and then. Pendergast is very likable.


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[elfin]

31. I thought that was a fun read eom

[KC]

44. I'm reading

Fever Dream by Preston-Child
I'm really enjoying it.

[fadedrose]

45. You're way ahead of me..

I'm doing Reliquary, the next in the series, in a week or so.. When all was said and done, I liked Relic.

[KC]

46. I just picked

up Fever Dream in the grocery store. I've never read anything by the author(s) but I am
enjoying this book.

[fadedrose]

47. Here's the list:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Child_Lincoln.html

You'll find the oldest ones at your library website..

[KC]

49. Oh wow!

I really did mess that series up, but it sure won't hurt to start from the beginning LOL

Thank you !

[mvccd1000]

14. Finished "Air Marshals" by Marcus Wynne about 2 minutes into this week.

And while I helped a new person get settled in to his room this morning, I found a left-behind copy of a Paul Levine book (Illegal) that I hadn't seen yet. I'll start on that one after work tonight.

[vinodxx]

15. Sherlock Holmes

I am reading the complete stories/novels of Sherlock Holmes

[mvccd1000]

16. Welcome, vinodxx

I did that earlier this year, after I got a kindle for Christmas and found that nearly all of them were available for free. (Amazon wanted to charge for one title, but I found it free on Project Gutenberg or somewhere similar and downloaded that version, instead.)

It's interesting spend a week or two and read through a series that took him decades to write. (You can clearly see some of the stages the writing passed through.)

All in all, an enjoyable way to kill some time. I can't wait to see the second movie; I thought the first was a very interesting adaptation of the series.

After you finish, post back with your favorites. I had some that I liked and some that I didn't, but I don't want to leave any preconceived notions with you as you dive into them.

[MaineDem]

17. I got them for my iphone

Haven't read those stories in years but I've started reading them when I go to bed and they're just as entertaining now when the storyline is known. (I can't read them without seeing Jeremy Brett as Sherlock though.)

[fadedrose]

19. Welcome...

Didn't notice that this was your first post until mvccdl000 drew my attention to it.

Everybody's welcome, of course, but it's nice to have another mystery reader on board....

How'd you find us?

[Curmudgeoness]

18. Testimony of Two Men by Taylor Caldwell. Wow.

This is so full of thought provoking comments. I am constantly stopping and saying Wow, I have to reread that paragraph.

[fadedrose]

20. Is your book seclection any good, DUgosh?

Haven't heard of her - you gonna put her in the series list? Please do or she'll be lost information in a couple of weeks...

[DUgosh]

41. I've read two of her books now

I think she is more of a "romance" novelist with a tiny bit of legal jargon. lol. Don't bother with the list unless we all start reading trashy romance and then I'm sure there are better romance novelist than her.

[fadedrose]

42. My Dear....

There's nothing trashy about romance...that's all I read when I was much younger, preferably with lots of sex. Skip the legal stuff.

But at 72-7/8 years of age, I've given up hope in the romance department and am instead just trying to figure out how to catch killers. After 53 years of married...what's the opposite of bliss?....never mind.

I put her on the list anyway. I hate to see any series author slip thru the cracks. I was shopping there today and found a guy named Battles and another one that Little Star mentioned, something about some precinct in NY..

[DUgosh]

50. lol

[zappaman]

21. BORN UNDER A LUCKY MOON

A really moving and funny novel by a first-time author.
Kinda chick-lit, and yes, my wife turned me on to it, but I really am enjoying it.
Funny, sad, emotional, and just all around a good summer read.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_23?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=born+under+a+lucky+moon&sprefix=born+under+a+lucky+moon

[JitterbugPerfume]

24. I am not reading anything right now

I just returned home after two months and everything needs attention , especially my cats--Lilith, cat-Mandu and y old woman cat Tansy.


The Help is waiting patiently beside my bed , waiting to be read

[pscot]

25. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

I'm not a big fan of war novels, but Matterhorn is well written and realistic. I'm about halfway through, and it's a page-turner.

[pscot]

35. This is a great novel

Easily the best I've read in the past couple years. As I was reading I kept thinking about Tolstoy's desccription of Austerlitz. It's that good.

[fadedrose]

26. THE DOGS OF RIGA by Henning Mankell

This is second in Kurt Wallander mystery series. Takes place in Sweden..


Just started a few pages ago.




Book 44

[fadedrose]

43. Nowhere as good as the first

Skip-read a lot, beginning was fine, last 50 pp or so, good.

I somehow feel that the problem is not the author's; I don't think the translator has a feel for the characters' personalities. Too many plain flat declarative sentences, all approximately the same length. No !'s anywhere...

In the Steig Larsson books, the translator had such a grasp on the characters you'd have thought he was the author. Reg Keeland - just looked it up, not exactly a household name. He must be very modest because his name was hard to find.

[AngryOldDem]

27. "The Emperor's Children" by Claire Massoud

Allegedly a New York Times Review of Books book of the year.

I'm a little over 100 pages in and I'm amazed at what passes for good fiction these days.

If anybody out there has read it, please give me a good reason to keep reading.

[Jim__]

32. I read that book and thought it was great.

If you didn't like the first 100 pages, you're probably not going to enjoy the rest of it (it's been a number of years since I've read it, but I don't think it changes radically after the first 100 pages).

[AngryOldDem]

38. I gave up on it.

I guess, to me, it was just so pretentious that it was annoying. Or maybe it was because I wasn't in the proper frame of mind this week to read it.

I'll give it another go later on.

[elfin]

28. Fnished ""Worth Dying For by Lee Childs

Then gobbled up "Hell's Corner" by Balducci. Both good and true to the author's genre.

No settling into "Stone's Fall" by Ian Pears.

Deep in thriller-diller and historical saga territory until summer company begins to arrive.

Love the library.

[Sequoia]

33. Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War (NF)

by Andrew F. Smith

Recycling salt for one thing.

[MaineDem]

34. "The Unlikely Spy" by Daniel Silva

While waiting for the new Gabriel Allon book due in July.

[mvccd1000]

36. I just started another Silva.

I haven't picked up many paperbacks since I got a kindle for Christmas, but I had a paperback copy of "Moscow Rules" sitting around waiting for me, so I finally picked it up. I'm enjoying it so far!

[MaineDem]

37. I loved that. I love all his books. This one I'm reading is different.

It's almost reading like a LeCarre instead of a Silva. Set during WWII. So far so good.

[Fire Walk With Me]

40. "Striptease" by Carl Hiassen.

Thanks to the DUers who recommended this one specifically. :hi:

[Curmudgeoness]

48. I just love Hiassen. What a kook! And so right on with

criticism of "progress" at the expense of the environment.