What are you reading for the week of August 14, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley - (love me some) Flavia de Luce Book # 3

[kickysnana]

1. Freshwater Road by Denise Nichols n/t

[Ozymanithrax]

2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

[Mz Pip]

3. The Laws of Our Fathers

by Scott Turow. Got it in a thrift store. Was looking for a good crime novel for reading on the deck.

[TDale313]

4. A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin

[didact]

20. +1 - where do whores go?

eom

[movonne]

5. Tortilla curtian....t.c. boyle

[japple]

11. I LOVED THIS BOOK! Even though there are some very unlikable

characters, the story is wonderful and the writing is, as with all of T C Boyle's work, remarkable. I'm going to re-read it soon.

[Ishoutandscream2]

6. Went to my socialist public library today

and checked out Vonnegut's "Slaugterhouse 5". I have never read it, and I decided to check it out after hearing it was banned at a school district in Missouri. I'm not particularly a fiction fan, but I am halfway through, and enjoying it.

[Odin2005]

7. Still on "First Man in Rome" by Colleen McCollough

So far, Sulla fucks his M-I-L, then kills her! :wtf:

And the Julii Caesari are a strangely egalitarian family for it's time.

[YankeyMCC]

8. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

[fadedrose]

9. Still reading FULL DARK HOUSE by Christopher Fowler

It' pretty good, but I'm not quite half-way thru yet, that point where most of the time the book gets really good.




R'd :applause:



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[jannyk]

10. Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools - Victoria Twead nt

[japple]

12. Tom Franklin's book, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. It's a mystery

which I am not usually drawn to, but this one called out to me.

[fadedrose]

13. I liked RED HERRING.....

I liked the first one and this one better than the second. His newest,
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, is due out November 1. Have it on my request list and I'm first. :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Just finished "The Middle Passage" by Charles Johnson

It's about a freed slave who through an odd series of circumstances ends up as part of the crew of a slave ship that is taking the last survivors of a mysterious tribe to America. I was expecting a straightforward account of the slave trade, but this book has strong elements of magic realism.

[MaineDem]

15. "The Midnight House" by Alex Berenson

Not bad but slower than the previous books int he series.

[fadedrose]

16. THE WATER ROOM by Christopher Fowler

What a difference between the last book I read, Full Dark House, and this one. This one is very readable, and though I'm only on page 17, it's a lot easier to follow.

I did like Full Dark House and recommend it to anyone wanting a different kind of mystery. Common British words for everyday things in America provide more color.












Book 59

[LWolf]

17. Glad to see you're enjoying Flavia!

I found her in June, and read all 3 books in 3 days.

[MaineDem]

19. Those books are on my Wish List at Audible.

I'm looking forward to meeting Flavia.

[LWolf]

18. Hourglass, by Myra McEntire. nt

[Wheezy]

21. Good one. How do you like it? n/t

[LWolf]

23. I enjoyed it.

As a middle school teacher, I read a great deal of YA material. I like to keep up with what my students are reading. Some YA stuff is too "mature" for me to put into the classroom library or recommend, but I allow them some choice in what they read outside of class for our regular book discussions.

It's not often that they find something I haven't already read that we can talk about.

I especially want to keep up with brand new stuff that may evolve into the next blockbuster "must read" series. I read a bunch of new stuff, some with good potential, this summer.

As for "Hourglass"....time travel is a fascinating subject, and paranormal abilities are "hot" with readers right now. The "chemistry" thing will certainly appeal to adolescents, lol. There were enough unanswered questions and unresolved issues to set it up for more, and I understand a sequel is written but not yet published. Whether or not it will be a good series depends on what McEntire does with the characters, of course.

[Wheezy]

24. Awesome.

I have the book here at the house but I haven't had a chance to crack it open yet. Love that you do a lot of reading to keep up with the students. That's really fantastic.

I bet they'd like MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN. Just heard there will be a sequel. I think it's probably fine content for middle school.

[LWolf]

25. lol

I just picked up Miss Peregrine etc. from the library yesterday; it's in my stack. ;)

[Wheezy]

22. Libba Bray's BEAUTY QUEENS

I've read the first 3 pages so far and laughed out loud at least twice. It's kind of a Miss America pageant meets Lord of the Flies. Nice satire.