What are you reading the week of Aug 9, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Latte Trouble by Cleo Coyle

[juno jones]

1. 'Alexandria' by Lindsey Davis

...and 'Book of Lies' from Richard Metzger and the Disinfo crew.

[pansypoo53219]

2. well, i just finished kevin phillips

american theocracy. still reading my 1891 encyclopedias. wading back into my 1906 famous orations set.

[Speck Tater]

3. Families of the Forest by Allen Johnson

Subtitled: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon.

Non-fiction (I rarely read fiction.)

[WCGreen]

4. Olive Kitterridge by Elizabeth Stout. and

The Evolution of God by Wright.

[Bobbieo]

5. Nelson DeMille's "The General's Daughter".

[hippywife]

7. I read Olive Kitterridge not too long ago.

It took me a few chapters or more to realize that they were short stories woven together about people in the same town. LOL

I did end up enjoying it. :hi:

[hippywife]

6. Finished Nick of Time last night

and now I'm reading Master of Verona by David Blixt as recommended by pscot in another thread. Dante is the central character. I'm only 18 pages in but it seems to be holding my interest. :hi:

[fishwax]

8. The Big Money, by John Dos Passos

[closeupready]

9. Dream Master, by Roger Zelazny.

n/t

[Doctor_Horrible]

10. Girl Sleuths - Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her --- It's not fiction, but ABOUT fiction, so-

that counts for this forum, right?

:hi:

[tigereye]

13. that sounds like a good read!

[Doctor_Horrible]

17. I have to say...It's not quite as good as I was hoping - at least not yet.

[tigereye]

19. I saw a show on PBS, I think, where they were talking about the Ohio newspa-

perwoman who penned some of the early tales. Fascinating!

[fadedrose]

11. Just finishing ICE HUNTER by Joseph Heywood

Pretty good, plot hard to understand, but nice dialog, likable characters.

[tigereye]

12. Wilkie Collins" Woman In White for book group -it's quite good and more

engrossing than I expected.

Aurelio Zen mysteries - wonderfully dark, set in Italy. And People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. I loved her March and this one is also very good.

[azmouse]

14. I love that book.

You may be interested in Collins' 'The Moonstone' too. It's considered the first detective novel ever written.

[tigereye]

18. right, I'm trying to remember if I read that one before, I may have

I went through a heavy Victorian reading period in my late teens and early 20s.


Woman in White has amazing characters, dialogue and suspense - the book makes me uneasy, in about the same way as Stoker's Dracula did. (which we read out loud with our son this spring)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. Marian is an amazing character for Victorian times

You don't usually think of Victorian women climbing out on rooftops in the rain to eavesdrop on someone.

But of course, Walter, the main male character, prefers Marian's insipid and helpless half-sister.

[tigereye]

23. yes, the novel seems kind of proto-feminist in Marian

the Count is so creepy! (I still have about 130 pages to go, and I look forward to seeing what happens to him.)



I thought of you, LL, when I ordered some Michael Dibdin mysteries - Zen is such a great, dark protagonist! Wondered if Donna Leon pinched some ideas from him, or vice versa!

[azmouse]

15. Rereading 'The Summer of Night' by Dan Simmons.

It's one of my favs.

[lovecanada56035]

16. The 120 days of sodom

By the Marquis de Sade

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. Alas Babylon--

a novel about a small town in Florida after a nuclear war. It was written in 1959, but I've never gotten around to reading it till now.

[babylonsister]

28. Is it good? I bought it a few years ago but

haven't read it yet; seemed really depressing.

[fadedrose]

22. Finished WHACK A MOLE by Chris Grabenstein nt

[libguy9560]

24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

As well as 1984.

[fadedrose]

25. Finished HELLHOLE by Chris Grabenstein

I liked it.

[Onceuponalife]

26. Now reading Best American Non-Required Reading for 2006

edited by Dave Eggers. It's an eclectic mix of short fiction, non-fiction articles, quotes and bits and pieces representing some of the best writing of the year. Plus this year's edition contains the complete text of the Iraqi Constitution, so I'm looking forward to reading that.

Also started Melanie Rawn's first novel, Dragon Prince.

[hippywife]

27. Alexandra by Valerie Martin.

It's a really short book and I'm half way through it after starting it last night. She's a really interesting and excellent writer.

[hippywife]

29. Trespass by Valerie Martin.

Getting ready to start it tonight. If it's as good as Alexandra, I'll have it finished in no time flat. Altho, Sunday is a busy day in the kitchen for me, so maybe not. They are short book, tho, too.

[fadedrose]

30. Read 1/4 of MIND SCRAMBLER by Chris Grabenstein

and hated it...