What are you reading the week of June 26, 2011?

[DUgosh]

I Shall Not Want by Julia Spenser Fleming. A Clair Ferguson Mystery

[DebJ]

1. Just began the fourth book in the Game of Thrones series.

Just finished the third book. Martin sure knows how to make me holler "OMG" and "Ohhh nooooo!!! ", especially in the last 100 pages of each book. I never read fantasy before (with the exception of Lord of the Rings, which hubby made me read), but this series is out of sight.

[MarianJack]

2. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer.

I read it about 30 y3ears ago, saw the movie on Netflix recently (good acting in a bad movie) and borrowed it from the library to read again.

PEACE!

[applegrove]

4. I read right after I realized I had a psychopath in my life. It didn't give

me much in the way of information...just stuff on background. Was a good book from what I remember.

[JDPriestly]

3. A very old book. Rebecca West, 1900

Fascinating.

[MarianJack]

5. I Love Old books & Classics.

Remember back in high school when you lit class was reading Dickens, Hardy, Austen, Shakespear and such, there was that one obnoxious pain in the A kid who LIKED it? That obnoxious pain in the A was ME!

PEACE!

[JDPriestly]

8. Me too.

[fadedrose]

11. Your avatar...

What a lovely forgiving nonjudgmental person you are. He was lucky to have you as a supporter...

[kestrel91316]

6. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Multiple thumbs up so far

[Onceuponalife]

7. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

Been wanting to read this for a long time so I'm excited. I've heard Robinson is a humanist Sci-Fi writer so that interests me.

Also have Robinson's Mars series in the wings...

[YankeyMCC]

9. "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi

[Louisiana1976]

10. The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer

[fadedrose]

12. THE DECEIVED by Brett Battles

This is the 2nd of Battles' series of 4, so far, with Jonathan Quinn as lead character - a cleaner upper of government hidden crimes...


Book 48




R, of course...

[fadedrose]

14. This was pretty good...

[japple]

13. Steve Martin's Object of Beauty. I was sucked in from the very

beginning. In addition to his many other talents, he is such a good writer.

[fadedrose]

15. A DEAD MAN'S TALE by James D. Doss

This is my 2nd reading of the so-far last book in the Charlie Moon series. Another comes out 11/8 and I hope it isn't disappointing. In the meantime, I may go for a 3rd reading starting with the first book.

Book 49

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Black Raven by Ann Cleves

A mystery that takes place in the Shetland Islands north of Scotland. (No ponies have appeared so far. :-) )

A teenage girl is murdered, and the islanders suspect a retarded man, who was suspected, but never charged in the disappearance of another girl several years before.

[elfin]

17. Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang

Non-fiction, but reads like a family saga that would ordinarily be fiction. Fabulous and along with "Nothing to Envy" by Demick about North Korea is a WOW of an appreciation for the survival and success of some from such harsh and deadly circumstances caused by ideological despotism.

[Matariki]

18. Just finished Halting State by Charles Stross

It was excellent, geeky fun. Three years in the future, everyone is a LARPER ;-)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W9180A/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

Also finished Embassytown by China Mieville - possibly his best book.

[Broken_Hero]

19. reading Water Deep by Troy Denning

I'm rereading the Avatar series, but I don't have book 4, or 5. After Waterdeep, I got two Anne Rice's to cut through...after that I'm thinking of rereading the Dark Elf set through Passage to Dawn, or the Cleric Quintent

[Broken_Hero]

21. finished Waterdeep, I'm reading The Long Walk

now, by S. King under his Richard Bachman name....

So far, its very interesting, although I'm only 80 pages in its...well, its interesting. :D

[Broken_Hero]

23. finished The Long Walk this morning,

I'm about 100 pages into Blackwood Farms by A. Rice

[SheilaT]

20. Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois.

The Cuban Missile Crisis became a short and intense nuclear war, and this novel takes place ten years later. The main character is a vet who was in Vietnam when the war broke out, did relief work for several years in California, and is now a reporter in Boston, trying to make sense of the murder of a vet, and rumors that JFK is still alive. More than three quarters of the way through and it's very good.

[MaineDem]

22. Having trouble getting into "Against All Enemies" by Tom Clancy

Most of his books are fairly easy to read but I have to keep going back over the same pages. It's been tough.

Maybe it's just distractions (Wimbledon, e.g) but I'm plugging along.

[fadedrose]

24. That often happens to me...

no matter what I'm reading, I "get no satisfaction," and that's when I go to James Doss for what ails me. Am in the first half of A Dead Man's Tale, and had to stop reading it last night because I couldn't stop laughing. And this is my 2nd reading.

Please go to the library and pick it up. Never mind getting the first in the series, because you need quick and effective relief for your reading blah's. If you want to start at the beginning then, then go ahead, but for now, get A Dead Man's Tale.

Guaranteed to work.

[MaineDem]

26. Thanks, I was thinking of switching to the new Stephanie Plum

Mindless, funny, quick read.

I appreciate the suggestion. I'll look into it.

For some reason I hate to stop reading a book. There have only been very few that I never finish. I know I'll get through this one. It just might not be right now, though.

[SheilaT]

25. Now I'm reading Empire of the Summer Moon

by S. C. Gwynne. The subtitle is: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history.

Excellent.

(I finished Resurrection Day, and it remained quite good all the way to the end.)