What are you reading the week of July 17, 2011?

[DUgosh]

First Grave On The Right by Darynda Jones - Charley Davidson book #1

[my2sense]

1. just finished reading

"The Help".

[Petrushka]

2. My daughter left her copy of "The Help" on an endtable today. I read the first chapter.

I'm hooked and hope my daughter hurries up her reading or leaves the book on an endtable again. Meantime, I'll be reading two non-fiction books:
1) A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright by James Wright, Anne Wright, & Saundra Rose Maley; and,
2) Collected Prose (Poets on Poetry) by James Wright & Anne Wright.

[Little Star]

6. Did you enjoy it?

I really liked that book!

The movie will be released on Aug 12, 2011. A bunch of us gals, who have read the book, are going to have a girl's movie night.
Here is the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC2nP1RPAx4

[mahina]

3. The Astonished Man by Blaise Cendrars

So far it is excellent.

[roody]

4. Gulliver's Travels

[Broken_Hero]

5. still in Blackwood Farm by A. Rice

haven't touched it for a week though, I'll try to cut through it this coming week though.

[fadedrose]

7. CAPITOL OFFENSE by William Bernhardt

This is the 17th of this series.









R'd...



Book 53

[fadedrose]

15. Dependable -

Not great literature by any means, but Bernhardt writes a neat story. Some of the series are better than others. I didn't care for the ending of this one so much till I found out about the last chapter changing the ending, and I liked it....

Don't read the last chapter first.

[pscot]

8. The grave gourmet by Alexander Campion

and The forgotten genius : the biography of Robert Hooke, 1635-1703 by Stephen Inwood. I got interested in Hooke as one of the Characters in Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. The Moral Landscape,

How Science Can Determine Human Values by sam Harris.

I just started it last night
My understanding of it is that he claims to tear down the wall between scientific fact and human values. He goes into good and evil, right and wrong and how the moral landscape is affected by how we view them.

Harris has a PHD in Neuroscience

This is not a book I expect to finish in a couple of days , although it is less than 200 pages .

[MaineDem]

10. Finished Janet Evanovich's new one; now reading, reluctantly, "TheGirl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"

Reluctantly because I don't want the series to end. But I love the book!

[DUgosh]

11. I agree

I haven't read # 3 yet, although it has been downloaded into my ipod for months, I just don't want to know what happens to dear Lizbeth. I'd rather have her live on in my imagination.

[MaineDem]

13. That's exactly how I was

I've had it in Itunes for ages.

It starts right where the last book left off.

[Onceuponalife]

12. A Separate War and other stories by Joe Haldeman

[japple]

14. Sharyn McCrumb's The Songcatcher. It's for my book group. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. "Unseen Academicals" by Terry Pratchett.

[Mz Pip]

17. Burn by Nevada Barr

So far so good. It's set in post Katrina New Orleans.

[fadedrose]

18. BLACK SWAN by Chris Knopf

This is 5th in the series about Sam Acquillo. Not bad - this is the kind of book I like to read in between waiting for the ones I really want to read to come out. Gotta keep reading :)





Book 54

[fadedrose]

19. Didn't finish

The print reminded me of my manual pica typewriter when it needed a new ribbon. It wasn't impossible to read, just uncomfortable. Of the 7 books I have on hand - Bernhardt, George, Haig, Erickson, Gidney, etc., it was the very lightest. And I wasn't caring for the narrator - book is written in first person. First person is good when the person is a bit humble and good-natured about his shortcomings.

Got to 100 and wished I watched Dave Letterman instead.

[LWolf]

20. "The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag,"

by Alan Bradley.

See more here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=208&topic_id=26083&mesg_id=26088