What are you reading the week of July 31, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Uncommon Clay by Margaret Maron. Deborah Knott "judge knott" series. Reading an old favorite.

[pscot]

1. Crime Fraisch, by Alex Campion

All the French think about are food, sex and crime. And Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. I'm reading it as a primer on what the future holds.

[fadedrose]

11. I take it this is a horror story? nt

[pscot]

16. Crime Fraiche is decidedly not

Barbara Tuchman's book is a history of the beleaguered and godawful 14th century; a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks things can't get any worse.

[Onceuponalife]

2. Bone By Bone by Peter Matthiessen

The last volume in the Killing Mister Watson trilogy, this is outstanding historical fiction about notorious Florida outlaw E. J. Watson who was killed mysteriously in 1910.

[mvccd1000]

3. I don't know where to start...

I slid my kindle into my back pocket and broke it last week. I called Amazon and they sent me a brand new one for free (even after I explained that it was my fault!), so I've got 6-7 new books that I found during my "off week" that I've started reading. (All of them are $0.99 - $2.99 books that showed up in my recommendations.)

- The Lost Coast, by Barry Eisler. The first short story he claims to have written, and it has quite a surprise twist in it.
- Becoming Quinn, by Brett Battles. Short story regarding "the cleaners," Quinn and Durrie.
- Quick Fixes - Tales of Repairman Jack, by F. Paul Wilson. I don't think I've read any Repairman Jack books yet, and these stories are supposed to be a good intro. We'll see if I've found a new series...

Several others, but I may not get to them this week, so I'll save them for next week. :)

[fadedrose]

5. I just learned that you can't beat Amazon

I dealt with two different sellers to get my Charlie Moon series - Alibris and Amazon. The books from Alibris were so-so, one even had food in it, but 3 were okay.

Amazon's dealers sent me an email that the condition was changed from good to very good, same price. Out of the 7, I'd say that 6 were NEVER USED. I like Amazon.

Good luck with your new hickey.

[fadedrose]

6. Delete

[fadedrose]

8. Delete

[Little Star]

4. "The Shaman's Bones" by James D Doss

B-)

[fadedrose]

7. ALONE AT NIGHT by K. J. Erickson

Just starting after 40 attempts, you know, the debt ceiling thing....

Gratefully R'd....




Book 56

[fadedrose]

24. Didn't finish, really didn't hardly start...

Found out it was about serial killers...I don' do them.

Sent back Haig's book, forget title, about Iraq war. I don't do that war.

Sent back something else, serial killer...

[fadedrose]

25. FOR THE LOVE OF ELENA by Elizabeth George

The best of hers was the first, The Great Deliverance, and the 2nd wasn't so bad.

This one is soap opera. People having sex and cheating. Normally this is a part of all mysteries, not the reason for the book.

Finished the whole long book, skipping over descriptive paragraphs, unfortunately not about sex, just buildings and streets...

Would make a terrific movie for LIFETIME TV. All men want is sex and use women. I don't know how I would know that cause I never watch that station (except for beloved Golden Girls if I happen to pass them channeling thru.



This was Book 56

[Forkboy]

9. Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson

The winner of every major science fiction award, Kim Stanley Robinson is a novelist who looks ahead with optimism even while acknowledging the steep challenges facing our planet and species: a clear-eyed realist who has not forgotten how to dream. His new novel offers his most audacious dream yet. At the heart of a brilliant narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is one man, the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei.

To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. And if that means Galileo must be burned at the stake, so be it.

Yet between his brief and jarring visitations to this future, Galileo must struggle against the ignorance and superstition of his own time. And it is here that Robinson is at his most brilliant, showing Galileo in all his contradictions and complexity. Robinson's Galileo is a tour de force of imaginative and historical empathy: the shining center around which the novel revolves.

From Galileo's heresy trial to the politics of far-future Jupiter, from the canals of Venice to frozen, mysterious Europa, Robinson illuminates the parallels between a distant past and an even more remote future—in the process celebrating the human spirit and calling into question the convenient truths of our own moment in time.

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. that is the next book I am reading

I loved The Year of Salt and Rice.

[Forkboy]

13. Yay! Glad you liked it.

:loveya:

[lumpy]

22. Is this written in a fictional format? Thanks.

v

[Forkboy]

23. Yep...science fiction through and through.

The last chapter I read last night was about "manifolds in manifolds" within time/space, string theory, hyper dimensions...made my head hurt. :)

[Odin2005]

27. I read that book a month ago, very awesome!

[MaineDem]

10. I think I'll start "Sacred Stone" by Clive Cussler

Those books are pretty much formulaic but I feel like a mindless read right now.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. still reading The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

I ran around all last week with my girl friend Jo, going to museums , etc because we hadn't done anything all summer so I didn't read much, although I bought three books Stories of Brown County , a book of short folk tales, The Common Good , a picture book of old abandoned buildings around Indiana by John Bower and Art Nouveau 1889---1910

[sueh]

15. An Irish Country Christmas by Patrick Taylor

Its been on my "To Read" list for quite some time
and finally found a copy at nearby town's library.

[Louisiana1976]

17. The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry.

[MaineDem]

20. I haven't gotten this one.

I think I'm getting tired of the format. His books are all so similar but interesting.

I'm curious to know how you like it.

[fishwax]

18. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

And, if I get to it, Ross Macdonald's The Drowning Pool.

[Broken_Hero]

19. The Regulators

by S. King, I'm only about 70 pages in, its not bad. I finished Blood Canticle the other day, not a bad one, a lot of rehash of Merrick and all the Mayfair/Witching Hour stuff, so I skimmed a lot midway through when the Vamps/Witches were sharing their stories.

I give Blood Canticle a 4 out of 5 stars, not bad, a decent mixing of witches/vamps, just wish there was a bit more vamp going on.

[mvccd1000]

21. "Dust Devils" by Roger Smith

The best description of read of this book is:

“Roger Smith is the master of the coolly-described nightmare.” DER SPIEGEL (Germany)

Coolly-described nightmare might be the best way to convey the mood of this book, set in South Africa. What a different set of values from anything I've experienced! I think I'll pick up his other two, as well.

[Little Star]

26. Just finished The Shaman Laughs....

2nd book in The Charlie Moon Series. I'm really enjoying the Ute Indian Charlie and his Aunt Daisy.

Yeah! I calmed myself down enough today to finally do some reading! That was fun!

I need less politics for a while I think!