What are you reading the week of September 25, 2011?

[DUgosh]

The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames - Cheeseshop Mystery #1

[closeupready]

1. Dance of Death, Preston/Child.

[Autumn]

2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

[whistler162]

3. Listening to the audio book..... very interesting.

[tgearfanatic234]

4. death of a salesman

[broiles]

5. Michael Moore

Here Comes Trouble. Almost finished--great read.

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[ellie]

6. Still The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

It isn't a long book but for some reason I just can't finish it.

[secondwind]

7. Night Train to Lisbon/Pascal Mercier. Excellent!

[marginlized]

8. Jack London, Tom Wolf, David Deutch, Steven Baxter

In the middle of Wolf's "Kool Aid Acid Test" mainly because the Magic Bus movie is making the rounds and even though "I'm thinking of Neal Cassady, I'm thinking of Neal Cassady..." I'm not enjoying this read so far. But then it's a product of it's time.

Not so London's "People of the Abyss" which I'm just now finishing. London's writing is just clear and punchy and concrete, and his Abyss is as riveting today as it was when it was written.

David Deutch's "The Beginning of Infinity" is what? Physics? Philosophy? Common Sense? All of the above? As densely argued as can be and still a compelling read. Well maybe not the chapter on the history of the apportionment problem, but aside from that.

What can I say? I read SciFi. I just finished Baxter's "Flood" and "Arc". I liked the former. And, as a sequel, Arc is disappointing. I've read Baxter's "Evolution" and I had hope that he would spring board off the premise setup in Flood into something interesting. Oh well.

[hlthe2b]

9. Admittedly, The Rogue by Joe McGinniss (I needed the catharsis)

and was frankly curious if McGinniss could make this a compelling tome. To his credit, it is well written and was a very quick read as I stopped for coffee each morning on my doggy walks...

Now, like McGinniss, I feel exorcized and want nothing more than to never hear the name Palin (or any of her grifter family) again.

[fadedrose]

10. TRACK OF THE CAT by Nevada Barr

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[skippercollector]

11. Son of the Shadows

By Juliet Marrillier

[quakerboy]

12. Finished 2, working on 2

Just started "the sword of knowledge" omnibus by Cherryh, Asire, Lackey and Fish.

Still trying to plod through "audacity of hope"

I will add another book in this evening. I have an Upstairs novel, a downstairs novel, and a "serious" book.

Just finished Terry Brooks "Princess Of Landover" and Robert Aspirins "Myth Alliances"

[Louisiana1976]

13. Some time ago I read

The Long Quiche Goodbye and enjoyed it.

Now I'm reading Now You See Her by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge.

[getting old in mke]

14. The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

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[MountainLaurel]

16. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

A YA book about, well, a 19-yo burger flipper who finds out he can raise the dead.

[fadedrose]

17. WHITE CORRIDOR by Christopher Fowler

This is 4th in the Bryant-May Mysteries series about the Peculiar Crimes Unit of the London Police. I enjoy this series - great characters and humorous witty dialogue.



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[Wheezy]

18. I just finished Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

A fictional account of exiled Lithuanian family/village as they travel from camp to camp all crammed inside boxcars to Siberia under Stalin's reign in 1941. Written by the daughter of a survivor. One of the most moving/horrifying/heartbreaking books I've read in a very long time. Great for teens -- gives them an idea of what else was going on in the world around the time of WW2/Holocaust.

[MaineDem]

19. "Warlord" by Ted Bell. An Alex Hawke book.

I find the author a bit right wing but the stories are usually entertaining.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

20. I just finished the last Harry Potter book today

I know, Harry Potter isn't the stuff of deep thought. But my wife and kids have read all the books and seen all the movies, so I wanted to catch up. I won't apologize for admitting that the books were great fun, and that I kind of wish I was reading the nonexistent #8 right now. I read all of these on an iPad, in case anyone tracks such things.

Does anyone have a good book recommendation? It doesn't have to be Fantasy/Science Fiction, as that's not my normal genre, but it could be.

thank you.

[pscot]

24. I'm just starting book 2 of the Potters

As you say, catchup. Robin Hobb's Tawny Man trilogy is a pretty good fantasy read.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

29. thanks, I'll look at the trilogy

I hope you enjoy the Potter books.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

21. How on earth did post #15 get deleted?

Deletions are the stuff of general discussion. Was someone "reading" Hustler letters this week? How does a fiction post get banned? Anyone want to fight about it? :)

[Mz Pip]

22. He got the granite pizza

probably not from anything posted here though. :shrug:

[Mz Pip]

23. The Lock Artist

by Steve Hamilton. Not part of the Alex McKnight series. It's about a mute young man who has a gift for picking locks.

[fadedrose]

25. THE DAWN PATROL by Don Winslow

Surfing - PI Boone Daniels and friends....

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[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. Bedside book: Zulu, purse book: Kindle version of original Sherlock Holmes stories

Zulu is a very dark, complicated, and disturbing mystery, originally written in French by Caryl Ferey, about a Zulu police detective who investigates the murders of two affluent young white women who appear to have been involved in the drug scene. Some horrifying moments, but it gibes with what I've heard about present-day South Africa otherwise.

I realized that I had never read all the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and they're available free on Kindle, so I'm reading them on my iPhone, which has now become my "purse book carrier."

I had forgotten or never known that A Study in Scarlet had a Mormon connection.

[MaineDem]

28. I'm reading Sherlock on my Phone

It's my bedtime reading. It doesn't bother my husband like reading with a lamp does.

[fadedrose]

27. BLOOD SACRIFICE by Gary Alexander

A mystery of the Yucatan (1993)...

Just started it and it's not as gory as I thought it would be - about Luis Balaam, an ex-traffic cop in Yucatan - he's 5'3" and a real Maja with a nice sense of humor..Next book is called Dead Dinosaurs1994, just 2 books in this series.

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