What are you reading the week of July 5, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Dead of Night by Randy Wayne White

[terip64]

1. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Kingsolver n/t

[hippywife]

17. I loved that book!

Totally changed my life. :hi:

[bbernardini]

2. Bone In The Throat - Anthony Bourdain

[barbtries]

3. rules of prey

john sanford

i have a couple of later preys to read when i finish this, and the easy way to quit smoking still in its package waiting for courage.

[fadedrose]

9. I quit 2-l/2 years ago...

It wasn't easy. I did it cold turkey, no tapering off.

I did it by reading my head off, burying my head in a pillow when I felt the urge and fell asleep. I bought and used at least ten giant bags of cough drops and had one in my mouth constantly - cherry and menthol...store brand.

A week or so ago, Michigan's Dem Party sent an email to me asking me to support the proposed non-smoking ban in ALL workplaces. I told them to leave me the hell alone, that my life is not the same without a smoke, there's no joy in anything anymore, and I asked my doctor to let me know when I had a month left to live so that I could buy 15 cartons of cigarettes and smoke AT LEAST 4 packs a day, and I don't care whether my family visits or not.

Nothing is the same, but I am proud of myself for quitting. At 71, I don't know why I even bothered to quit. Bible says I should have died last year....

Good Luck and keep trying, so you could be one of the millions of miserable people in that giant quitters club who walk around like lost souls.

s

[barbtries]

11. thanks for weighing in

and good on you for pulling it off. i'm almost 54 and way healthier than i have any right to be after 30 years of puffing away. what stops me from opening the book and just reading it? man i don't know.

[tavalon]

4. Everything You Know Is Wrong

I am unsure whether I like the book or not.

[fishwax]

5. A Good Day to Die, by Jim Harrison

[sueh]

6. The Whitechapel Conspiracy by Anne Perry

It's one of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series.

[fadedrose]

7. TILT A WHIRL by Chris Grabenstein, unusual style...

This a cop-killer-mystery that's different than most I've read. It's fiction written in the first person by the young partner/sidekick (Danny) of Officer Ceepak. Easy to read and mild humor. Am on page 148 out of just over 300 pages. My first read by this author.

[applegrove]

8. The Secret Life of Bees.

[Onceuponalife]

10. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

[gauguin57]

12. Catching up with "Forever," by Pete Hammill.

Felt like reading something about New York.

[fadedrose]

13. EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE to page 43, Margolin

That's all I have the patience for...

Am starting something else later...

[sueh]

14. My Anotonia by Willa Cather

[Enrique]

15. "Arthur and George" by Julian Barnes n/t

[BOSSHOG]

16. Phantom Prey by John Sanford

His Prey books are always a pretty good mystery murder read.

[hippywife]

18. I finished two books.

One was three Anne Tyler books in one: Earthly Possessions, Morgan's Passing, and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. The other is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.

I'm waiting on two more books from the library but they may be a while because of holds so I'll probably just reread something I already have around here while I wait.

[japple]

24. Hi HW, what did you think of Olive Kitteridge? I put it on my list

based on a review on NPR.

Nice to run into you over here!

[fadedrose]

19. Finished CRUEL JUSTICE by William Bernhardt, very good....nt

[Flying Dream Blues]

20. The Little Book, by Selden Edwards...I couldn't put it down

http://www.independent.com/news/2008/aug/07/making-selden-edwardss-novel-em-little-bookem

In general, not a huge fan of the time travel theme, but this book is really something. The protagonist, Wheeler Burden, travels back in time to fin de siecle Vienna, meets Freud and many other people meaningful to his former life in the present. It kept me guessing and was really entertaining. I highly recommend it.

[canis_lupus]

21. Gentlemen Callers

It's a look at Tennessee Williams' use of gay characters in his plays that's part critique and part social history of the theatre in the '40s, '50s and '60s. It's actually quite good and surprised me with little "hints" I didn't pick up in some of Williams' plays.

[closeupready]

22. Just finished Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

I didn't like the ending, and don't think I'll put his other works on my must read list.

Next up will probably be "Still Life with Crows", Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child.

[closeupready]

23. So actually, I decided to try Michael Laimo's "Deep in the Darkness"

It's a pretty good beginning.