What are you reading the week of March 8, 2009?

[DUgosh]

I am laughing through Christopher Moore's You Suck

also listening on tape Strangled Prose by Joan Hess

[azmouse]

1. The Last Full Measure by Jeffery Shaara

It's the final book in a trilogy about the Civil War.

[Onceuponalife]

11. kewl

I love Shaara's books and also his father's (Michael?) book, The Killer Angels.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Apocalypse Watch by Robert Ludlum

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on page 407 out of 645

[enlightenment]

3. Just finishing up Rafael Sabatini's 'The Sea Hawk'.

Read 'The Historian' last week (whimpers to an overdue close).

[endless october]

4. Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction.

[lordsummerisle]

5. Power of Now by Tolle n/t

[BluePatriot21]

6. This Land is Their Land

just also finished the Lt Harold Moore follow up book to "We were Soldiers Once...and Young."

[defendandprotect]

7. Still working on ....

The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs ---

Taking on the System by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga/DAILY KOS

The Shadow Factory by James Bamford

also caught up with a lot of old movies in the last month ---

The Great Debaters with Demzel Washington --

Camden 28

Real Women Have Curves

Still haven't seen MILK . . . !!

[Staph]

8. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by HW Brands -- fascinating parallels between FDR and BHO, and proof that Republicans don't change. Father Coughlin is a skinny Rush Limbaugh with a religious vocation.

[pscot]

21. I read that about a month ago

I liked it a lot. The perfect antidote to Goodwins No Ordinary Time.

[frylock]

9. trying to finish gravity's rainbow..

trying real hard.

[WCGreen]

10. I finished Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mellon and just started

Ulysses by Joyce...

on edit, I feel it will take more than a week...

[closeupready]

12. Tap, Tap by David Martin.

Creepy fun.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

13. Just finished House of Leaves

I got it because it was so highly recommended here (well, maybe in the Lounge) as "the scariest book you'll ever read." I normally devour books--never more than a few hours to read one because I can't stand to put them down once I'm engrossed--but this thing took me forever, like almost two weeks. I've never experienced anything like it. Felt like my brain seized up on me. First, I made the mistake of reading too much stuff online, so I ended up paying more attention to how the book was written than the story. I'm not so sure it would have made a difference in my enjoyment, though. I felt like it took forever to get established and really get into the story and then the actual house part really took a back seat to the guy presenting it.

It was interesting, but. . . not really scary at all. In the end, I think it just left me feeling depressed. For days. I wonder if they ever figure out how to condense it into a movie, if I might enjoy it more, which is totally contrary to how I usually see things.

Maybe I did it wrong, huh? :P

[fadedrose]

14. The Minervan Experiment & Thief of Time

MINERVAN EXPERIMENT is 3 novels in one volume. They were written by James P. Hogan. Science Fiction. Just finished yesterday. Interesting and absorbing story about how man came to be on this earth although it takes place in modern times. The book shows its age because the main characters all smoke, on the spaceships, running computers, etc., anytime they want.

Just started Tony Hillerman's THIEF OF TIME today. So far, good.

[fadedrose]

23. Finished SICK PUPPY by Carl Hiaasen yesterday..

Good one...

[Wickerman]

15. dupe, sorry

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[Wickerman]

16. The Reserve - Russell Banks

Been reading a lot of non-fiction lately, it'll be nice to get into some fiction from a favorite author.

[YankeyMCC]

17. Moonrise by Ben Bova

part of the "Grand Tour" series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_(novel_series)

[BOSSHOG]

18. The Last Heroes by WEB Griffin

Volume One of his Men At War Series. I discovered Griffin late but do enjoy his yarns chock full of real live characters and plenty of action.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

19. Just finished

Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child - arctic expedition finds ancient creature frozen in glacier and some genius decides to thaw it out. You know, the kind of thing that never turns out well
Also have mysteries all set in the 30's
Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
No More Dying by David Roberts and
Selesian Station by David Downing

[Upton]

20. Celebration...Harry Crews

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Phil Rickman's The Smile of a Ghost and Garry Disher's Chain of Evidence

It's the seventh in a series of supernatural (or maybe not) mysteries that take place on the Welsh border near Hereford. The main character is a woman Anglican priest with a Pagan-leaning daughter and a lover who is a psychologically damaged former rock star.

I got interested in the series before I spent a week in Hereford (a little known but lovely city) for a music festival, but this book takes place in another town that I visited on that same trip, Ludlow in Shropshire.

That's my nightstand book.

My purse book (the paperback that I carry around for those odd moments) is Garry Disher's Chain of Evidence, which is about a search for a neglected little girl who has been abducted by a pedophile. It takes place in Australia, and it's part of my project of reading as many foreign mysteries as possible, both as vicarious travel (since I can't afford the real thing) and to help keep a wonderful mystery/sci-fi bookstore (Uncle Hugo's/Uncle Edgar's) alive.