What are you reading the week of September 18, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Invasion of Privacy by Perri O'Shaughnessy - Nina Reily # 2

[mvccd1000]

1. "The Detachment" by Barry Eisler

Another great John Rain book.

I'd forgotten that I'd pre-ordered it on kindle, and the other day when I went to start a new book, there it was. (One of those great surprises like finding $20 in your coat pocket when you get it out after a long summer without it.) :)

[drokhole]

2. The Illuminatus! Trilogy - by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

[Mz Pip]

3. Voodoo River

by Robert Crais. I'm working my way through the Elvis Cole series.

[pscot]

12. I've read several of those

and the gratuitous mayhem has kind of put me off continuing the series.

[Arctic Dave]

4. Brave New World

I have been meaning to read it for years and finally got around to it. Really awesome sonar.

[drokhole]

5. Love that book!

Huxley is one of my favorite authors. I can't recommend his final novel, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061561797/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0060085495&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1QDC5CXG38ZPPDWETE4G">Island, enough.

[Speck Tater]

6. As part of my project to teach myself Spanish I'm reading Don Quijote in the original. nt

[exboyfil]

8. My 10th grade daughter (2nd year Spanish)

is taking on "The Hunger Games" in Spanish (Los juegos del hambre). The recommendation was to start with something like Clfford, but she wanted to go whole hog. If she can read it by 4th year, then I will be impressed. I told her this is how we learned Latin (translating Julius Caesar which is probably at a comparable level). It is probably a little easier translating something that originally started in English?? She will have the English version to compare to.

[Speck Tater]

9. I started with some kid books, and read as far as the first Harry Potter

along with an excellent book called "Spanish for Reading". The only drawback to my method is that now I can read Spanish pretty well, and I can watch Méxican and Colombian telenovelas and follow them pretty well, but I don't have a clue how to speak or write the language. I couldn't put together an original Spanish sentence to save my soul! So I'm starting formal classes at the local community college next week.

[InkAddict]

32. DELETE - WRONG PLACE

[exboyfil]

7. "American Colonies"

by Alan Taylor. I am Homeschooling my 8th grade daughter in early American History. The book is fairly well written, but since I already have her reading "Undaunted Courage" which I am listening too as well, I am only summarizing the Taylor book for her and using it to supplement her textbook.

[MaineDem]

10. "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

I have never read one of her books. How has this happened? The David Suchet tv series is so good but this book is fabulous. It's an audiobook read by Suchet.

[TexasProgresive]

11. "A Novel: Ireland" by Frank Delaney

[pscot]

13. Fluke, by the irrepressible Chris Moore

Also No more heroes by Ray Banks; Blighty by Steve Lowe; To end all wars : a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild; Why Orwell matters, by Hitchens and a collection of Orwell's essays. Reading maketh a full man, saith Sir Francis.

[DUgosh]

14. Fluke

I'll never look at whales the same again. lol

[pscot]

15. The experience that led Nate's 3rd wife to divorce him

was a definite show stopper. I can't wait for the motion picture.

[fadedrose]

16. A TRICK OF THE LIGHT by Louise Penny

Book 69


R

[Louisiana1976]

17. Double Take by Catherine Coulter

[markbark]

18. 1984 - on the Kindle.

n/t

[lordsummerisle]

19. The Eleventh Day

A recently published tome about 9/11. By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan.

[1776Forever]

20. 1955 book by Milton Mayer, a German clergymen sent to Dachau, They Thought They Were Free

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6

[mvccd1000]

21. "Big Lake" by Nick Russell

Set in the beautiful Mogollon Rim country of Arizona, a small-town sheriff has to solve an armored car robbery/murder that claims the life of his brother-in-law.

[zappaman]

22. a really good mystery set in Rehoboth Beach of all places!

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Silver-Lake-James-Schneider/dp/0615468853/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316471913&sr=1-1

In the Shadow of Silver Lake by James Schneider.
Quite good...

[Curmudgeoness]

23. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Not what I expected, but wonderfully written.

[ChazII]

24. Advise and Consent by Alan Drury. Then

I will watch the movie.

[mvccd1000]

25. "Wet Desert" by Gary Hansen

Hey, it's a slow week at work... that's why I'm listing my 3rd book already. :)

This one seems to be about an environmental terrorist who's going to blow up the Glen Canyon dam and release Lake Powell. (I'm only on chapter 3, but I'm guessing from the title that he succeeds.)

[mvccd1000]

27. Highly recommend this one!

Just finished Wet Desert. What a ride! Highly recommend it if you can find it. (I'm an avid reader and had never run across it until it showed up in my kindle recommendations; it's available in paperback, but it's also only $0.99 on kindle.)

From Amazon:
"Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams. He never imagined he would be swept into a desperate race against an environmental terrorist bent on restoring the Colorado River by blowing up the dams. Left temporarily in charge of the Bureau, Grant must react when the first dam is attacked. He faces the unthinkable task of mitigating the massive flood roaring down the Colorado. The flood will eventually threaten the mighty Hoover Dam, and if Hoover fails, the other dams downstream will fall like dominos. Working with the FBI, Grant uses his engineering skills, river knowledge, and plenty of gut instinct in an attempt to outmaneuver the terrorist. The chase will lead all the way downstream to the Gulf of California in a cat and mouse game where the stakes are high and the potential for destruction is enormous.

Whitney Award Finalist. Compared to Tom Clancey by Meridian Magazine."

[fadedrose]

26. DEATH ON THE DOWNS by Simon Brett

2nd of the Feathering Mysteries - England...





Book 70

[SheilaT]

28. I'm still working on "Becoming Queen Victoria:" by

Kate Williams, and "The Night Country" by Stewart O'Nan.

Stewart O'Nan is an amazing and underappreciated and insufficiently well-known writer. The first book of his I read was "The Circus Fire" which is about the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus fire in July of 1944. Just about everything else he has written is fiction, and so far every thing I've read of his (something like three of his novels so far) has been fascinating and well-written and I've begun recommending him to everyone I know who reads.

[WCIL]

29. I have never read Anne of Green Gables

so I decided to remedy that this week.

[bigwillq]

30. Fragile

by Lisa Unger.

Really, really good.

[closeupready]

31. The Great Train Robbery, by Michael Crichton.

[InkAddict]

33. Shame - Salman Rushdie n/t

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[matt819]

35. Bad Kitty Lounge, One Dog Night, I Don't Want to Kill You