What are you reading the week of December 27, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Until Proven Guilty by J A Jance

[timeforpeace]

1. Reaper's Gale, book 7 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen, best epic fantasy ever written after LOTR.

[silverweb]

9. Hmm... I'll have to check that series out.

:hi:

[timeforpeace]

11. Steven Erikson leaves George RR Martin and Robert Jordan in the dust. Even Stephen R. Donaldson

compares Erikson to Tolkein. Most books (9 so far, absolutely no dimunition of quality like Jordan after book 3) over 1000 pages. It just gets better with ever book.

[silverweb]

16. Fantastic.

I'll be visiting my favorite used book store next week and will definitely look for the beginning books to start with. :hi:

[marginlized]

2. Bike Touring Guide

Sierra Club Guide to bike touring.

[Doris32r]

3. A Study in Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A friend has been bugging me for years to read some Sherlock Holmes. I just saw the new Holmes movie and it was so different from the other movie versions I have seen that I finally decided this would be a good time to go to the library and check out a couple of the actual books :)

[MaineDem]

5. The stories are awesome

I re-read them every so often.

[MaineDem]

4. "Careless in Red" by Elizabeth George

The latest Inspector Lynley mystery.

[Mz Pip]

14. It's good.

Lots of characters, as usual for George.

[MaineDem]

15. I agree, LOTS of characters

But good.

[devilgrrl]

6. China Lake by Meg Gardiner.

Total crap, as in, poorly written.

This review from Amazon sums it up:

"This mystery is a real summer beach book. It is meant to be taken to the beach and left on the sand. Maybe some surfer will use to light a fire.

Actually, it is a bit of a hoot at times. The author liberally uses adjectives to the point of gluttony. Women have "masses of toffee-colored hair" Men sport "tousled ebony curls."All the women are cooly professional meddlers except for the fat, sweaty, brain-dead females of the congregation, while the men are either defense lawyers with noble goals, strong in their disabilities or heroic fighter pilots with piercing blue eyes and sea-burnished skin. Unless, of course, they are the evil fundamentalist groupies who have pustulent skin, greasy hair and braying voices.

Maybe the author should stick with "bodice-rippers" and leave serious thriller writing to the professionals who can actually draw characters."

http://www.amazon.com/review/RQM0GB0VJM4XI/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

[abluelady]

7. Philip Roth

"The Humbling"

[silverweb]

8. Just started a new one:

Tropic of Night, by Michael Gruber. So far, excellent.

[Dr. Strange]

10. By the Sword by F. Paul Wilson

[Wheezy]

12. I have way too many books started:

I read mostly young adult fiction, which is just like adult fiction only without the bullshit. (just kidding...quoting a NYC librarian on that one)

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead -- getting lots of acclaim in the YA world. Possible Newbery Award contender?
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Nailed by Patrick Jones

All four are great so far. Now I need to pick one and stick with it to get this book pile tackled.

Just finished OPEN by Andre Agassi and I loved it. Next non-fic up is Ted Kennedy's COMPASS.

[Mz Pip]

13. Olive Kitteridge.

by Elizabeth Strout. So far it's pretty good. It won the Pulitzer and there have been times when I've read a Putlizer Prize winner and went :wtf:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Deborah Crombie's latest mystery (Can't remember the name at the moment)

Anyway, the plot concerns a man who is murdered several months after his wife disappears. Why was he killed, where is his wife, and what will be the fate of their little daughter?

[fadedrose]

18. A COLD DAY IN PARADISE by Steve Hamilton

About a former Detroit cop now living in the UP, MI.

Pretty good...

[fadedrose]

19. Just started WINTER OF THE WOLF MOON, Steve Hamilton

This is second in series. Good, so far..

[Onceuponalife]

20. The Indian Agent by Dan O' Brien

The further adventures of "contract surgeon" Valentine McGillycuddy, the new Indian agent for the Pine Ridge Agency in the Dakota Territories circa 1870s-1880s.

Just finished Dan Simmon's Hyperion which was absolutely brilliant. It's really seven stories in one. My favorite was "The scholar's tale."