What are you reading the week of Sunday, March 1, 2015?

[scarletwoman]

Good morning, all!

I only made it through 2 books this past week; Evil for Evil by Aline Templeton, and The Lion's Mouth by Anne Holt. The Holt book was slow going, and something of a disappointment for me. Mainly, there's the frustration of the fact that her series has been translated all out of order. So while I've now read every Anne Holt book that's been translated so far, it was quite difficult with this latest to place it in the context of her others - most of which I read quite some time ago. Oh well.

Next up, the two I already mentioned last week; The Ice Queen by Nele Neuhaus, and The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.

Plus, I have two other titles to pick up at the library this week:

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck - a story that takes place in Swedish Lapland in the early 18th century.
Forty days without shadow by Olivier Truc - a story set in the present day in Lapland.

Both of these showed up as recommendations on GoodReads and sounded very intriguing.

So, what are you reading this week?

[Enthusiast]

1. Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, scarletwoman.

Since the last report I have been reading The Black House by Peter May. The Black House was an amazing story. It was both tragic and beautiful. The story was entirely captivating. By the end it seemed like I knew each of the main characters. I purchased the next one in the Lewis trilogy—The Lewis Man but was later notified that it was not available from where I ordered it. I will somehow buy it or order it from the library. Mrs. Enthusiast was as enamored by The Black House as I was.

Thank you, scarletwoman, for discovering the Peter May books for us.

On the recommendation of a family member I'm reading The Girl With a Clock For a Heart by Peter Swanson. I'm only a few pages in.

Mrs. Enthusiast thoroughly enjoyed Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben. After reading Deal Breaker she read The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig which she also enjoyed. Now she is reading Ian Rankin's Hide & Seek. I believe we are both going to like the John Rebus series.

[scarletwoman]

2. I'm always delighted to hear that one of my discoveries has hit the mark for someone else!

Thanks for bringing up The Sea Runners, it looks very interesting! I'm going to add it to my "to-read" list. I'll take a look at Ivan Doig's other titles, too.

Have a lovely week!

[japple]

3. Still going on Oryx & Crake and liable to be with it all week.

I have Sea Runners on my list. Love all the Ivan Doig books.

[scarletwoman]

4. I'd never heard of Ivan Doig before today. It's cool that you know him, too!

If I like Sea Runners, I'll probably order some of his other books.

[japple]

8. Looking forward to your review of Sea Runners (it's on my list.) I have a strong connection

to Montana from Georgia, no less, and will probably be going out to visit this summer! Hope to hear that you love Ivan Doig, too. I have shared his books with folks all over and every one that I've recommended has received a big thumbs up!

[scarletwoman]

15. I have some of my own connections that should make Sea Runners an interesting read for me.

I lived in the San Juan Islands for a year, which are off the northwest coast of Washington state, and I lived in Alaska for 6 years. While I didn't live in the Sitka area, I did a lot of reading about all parts of Alaska, as well as the history of the times when it was 'owned' by Russia.

I'm hoping The Sea Runners makes it to my library sometime this week.

[TexasProgresive]

5. The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Karin Fossum

I finished Sweet Tooth last night and will post my thoughts on it separately for hermetic. As for the Fossum book I am unfamiliar with her and her work but it's the first Scandinavian author I've see in the list of books I can download from my library, and our fiction community keeps reading mysteries from the far north. The farthest north my reading has taken me has been the Shetlands and Alaska in Michael Charbon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union which is a strange but good read in itself.

I bought a Kindle Fire last month and have been limiting my reading to free stuff. It will take a lot of that to pay for this thing. The ebooks available from my library are rather limited and I wonder who selected them.

[hermetic]

6. It's a Rebus week for me

I listened to Ian Rankin's Fleshmarket Alley on CD and that was great. Read by a gentleman with a rich, Scottish brogue.

Now I'm reading The Naming of the Dead. I love how it's about the G8 Summit back in 2005. I watched several YouTubes back then and Rankin's descriptions are spot on. I also love how there's so many musical references, stuff I'm so familiar with. I do hope my library can get more of this series from the big library not too far away. I keep forgetting to ask about that.

I had forgotten about Michael Chabon. I enjoyed his earlier work and now I see that there are 3 newer books to seek out.

I hadn't thought about this before but it seems a shame that these threads disappear after a week. I understand the necessity, otherwise this would become unwieldy. Just have to remember to take notes. I'm so glad TexasPro did a separate post for Sweet Tooth, otherwise I'd have missed it.

[Enthusiast]

13. Hello, hermetic.

The threads don't disappear for me. I use them for reference again and again.

[Paladin]

7. Just finished Stephen King's latest, "Revival." Underwhelming.

This isn't one of King's better efforts; the best part of it is the detailing of being in a start-up rock band, back in the mid-60's. The spooky stuff ain't that spooky (more than you ever wanted to know about electricity), and there's way too much darkness for the slender story to effectively sustain. Can't win 'em all.

[Enthusiast]

14. I agree about Revival, Paladin.

It was alright but I didn't get very excited about it.

[SheilaT]

9. I've started the most recent Tana French book

"The Secret Place". I am in awe of the way she can put in lots of everyday details.

[womanofthehills]

10. "Lila" by Marilynne Robinson

Reading it for my book club -

If you read "Gilead" or "Home" - Lila was the preacher's younger wife. Excellent read.

[Mz Pip]

11. Lost Lake

By Sarah Addison Allen

[getting old in mke]

12. _The Lincoln Myth_ by Steve Berry

Abraham Lincoln and the Church of Latter Day Saints. Who knew? Berry is always a fun roller-coaster, sideways view of history.

Also discovered to my chagrin when putting my name on the list at the library for the latest Alex Berenson John Wells thriller _Twelve Days_ that I somehow managed to miss last years release, _The Counterfeit Agent_. I zipped through several of the earlier ones in January, so I guess I missed the March release.

Got it, and it's next on the stack.

Audio books, I've been listening to the Gentlemen Bastards fantasy series by Scott Lynch.