What are you reading the week of March 1, 2009?

[DUgosh]

I'm reading Jeff Abbott's A Kiss Gone Bad

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall-Smith,

HILLARIOUS!

[elocs]

2. I'm listening to "The Stolen Child" by Keith Donohue which I posted about last night:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=208x16508

[patrice]

3. I picked up The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, again. It's beautifully compelling, but a little too heav

y for too much at one time, at this particular point in my life right now.

At Swim Two Boys, by Jamie O'Neill, on top of the stack by my chair.

[madaboutharry]

4. I am reading

"Girls' Guide to Witchcraft" by Mindy Klasky. It is a riot.

[monmouth]

5. "The Associate"...Grisham...n/t

[Mist]

6. Ken Follett's "World Without End"--It's so big I'm discovering new wrist muscles. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. haha. but - it was easy just to read a couple chapters each night

and pick back up. Love the way he writes - shifting from one mini plot to another and back again.

Sorry to say, I didn't love this book though. To me, Pillars of Earth was 100 times better.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. The first Stephanie Plum novel. n/t

[Warpy]

9. You're going to love Grandma

and the gun at the dinner table.

[DUgosh]

10. Sally Sweet

Lula, Morelli and Ranger. Ahhhhh what characters.

[Warpy]

8. I just finished Tony Hillerman's last book

and will now start on Tamar Meyers's recent three.

I'm sticking to fluff because it's still so difficult for me to read. I can read 20 minutes before the headache comes crashing in.

[DUgosh]

11. I love the fluff ones

I tried some G A McKevett last week. I read Cooked Goose and Sugar and Spite.

[canis_lupus]

12. Finally getting around to Scott Smith's "The Ruins"

I had seen the movie, but the book really hits me as an indictment of Bush's "wars" where the main characters are trapped in a foreign culture where they face peril because they don't know the language or local customs.

[Sequoia]

19. I read that book about 2 years ago.

I really liked it. Pretty scary. Haven't seen the movie.

[Sequoia]

20. In His Sights

by Kate Breenan (not her real name) about a woman who breaks up with a guy who stalks her endlessly. Then I guess it's back to "Team of Rivals". Man alive, that's a huge book to read. About as long as The Illiad.

[roughsatori]

13. re-reading Rimbaud's letters and Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell).

and Henry Miller's The Time of the Assassins. My favorite book about Rimbaud. Though it is really about Miller finding himself in Arthur Rimbaud.

[ReliantJ]

14. Robert Kennedy

His Life by Evan Thomas and some 49ers books

[Jim__]

15. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace.

I've just read about the first 200 pages, and I find it hard to put down. The book goes from extremely intense to laugh out-loud funny. In one chapter a 21 year old woman who has tried to commit suicide for the 3rd time is interviewed by a doctor. Her description of her symptoms is the most horrifying description of depression that Iv'e ever read. A few tens of pages later, a tennis instructor is describing his philosophy of tennis and life to a person who is clearly unable to understand either, and I am laughing out-loud as I read it.

[Are_grits_groceries]

16. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

This is his first novel. He wrote a book about being a doctor in Appalachia called "My Own Country." He treated a lot of AIDS patients there. He is a marvelous writer.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Two simultaneously:

Phil Rickman's The Smile of a Ghost, which is part of a borderline supernatural (you're never quite sure) mystery series that takes place on the border between England and Wales, with a woman Anglican priest as the main character. I'm enjoying this book because it takes place in Ludlow, one of the most interesting towns in the area. (England in miniature, I call it: a castle, a medieval church, half-timbered houses, cobblestone streets, Georgian houses, a city wall, a farmer's market, council estates, and even a weir.)

Donna Leon's Suffer the Little Children, part of a series that takes place in Venice (Italy, not California). This particular book is about an illegal adoption ring that sells the children of impoverished Eastern Europeans.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. "Confessor" by Terry Goodkind

and when I finish that I have a whole stack of others.

[pscot]

22. Jingo by Terry Pratchett

n/t

[tigereye]

23. The Fortune Teller's Daughter by Lila Shaara, an old and dear friend of mine

Three Cups of Tea by Gregg Mortenson


Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler (I hope to finish it soon, I read a bit each day)

[Onceuponalife]

24. The Watchmen graphic novel

Alan Moore's brilliant anti-hero epic of "costumed adventurers" from the 40s to the 80s. I'm halfway through and when I'm done, then I'll see the movie.

Also reading The Shaping of Middle Earth, part of Tolkien's "Middle Earth histories" edited by his son, Christopher. Plus I'm struggling through Jacqueline Carey's Banewreaker novel, which reads like she is trying to emulate Tolkien somewhat. Only problem is, only Tolkien can write like Tolkien. No one else should even try.