What are you reading the week of January 24, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

[sam sarrha]

1. Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Nonie Darwish.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEEl8EUDd4&feature=related

[kalli007]

14. Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

Trying to "mature" as a reader.....

eta - Posted in wrong spot.......didnt mean to tag onto someone elses!

[The_Commonist]

2. In Defense of Food - An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan.
Highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/0143114964/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264352269&sr=8-2

Actually, I'm just about to finish it, and the next thing on my list is "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Racing-Rain-Novel/dp/0061537969/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264352418&sr=8-1

[hippywife]

22. Michael Pollan is excellent reading.

One of my favorites. Changed the way I eat because of his writing. :hi:

[old guy]

3. The Skeletons Knee by Archer Mayor

[fadedrose]

19. This wasn't bad....I read all of Mayer's books...

I like his writing..

[randr]

4. The Windup Girl-Paolo Bacigalupi

SyFy at its best.

[silverweb]

5. "The Murder Book"

An Alex Delaware book by Jonathan Kellerman. I picked up "The Clinic" a few weeks ago, since I like medical mystery/thrillers.

Loved it, so now I'm working my way through his other books. This could take a while. :D

[bluethruandthru]

11. Kellerman is great.

You'll enjoy them all. :)

[Dr. Strange]

6. The Rapture by Liz Jensen

http://www.amazon.com/Rapture-Liz-Jensen/dp/0385528213

[fadedrose]

7. Just finished THEREBY HANGS A TAIL

by Spencer Quinn.... I liked it.

[applegrove]

8. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet. A little gory as it takes place in the middle ages but

the characters are well developed.

[MaineDem]

9. Excellent book! n/t

[hippywife]

23. I second that!

I was a really excellent book. The sequel, World Without End, a little easier read. I read Pillars when it first came out in paperback, so I'm not sure if he changed the writing style of it or if I was just a more immature reader at the time, but I remember it as less engaging and easy to read than the last one, more bogged down in detail. But I do remember enjoying it, nonetheless. I may need to go back and read it again.

:hi:

[abluelady]

10. "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

[Onceuponalife]

12. 2/15 the day the world said no to war

Great photo book of protests around the world as King George the W went to war. AK Press.

[old mark]

13. Re-read Cell, Steve King, finished RL's Dream , Walter Mosley, and started

Black Betty, Mosley again. That's since Thursday. Also had re-read a section of The Cold Six Thousand, James Ellroy, but Betty arrived in the mail yesterday and I started right in on it.

Also have a long term project going, Morrison's The Two Ocean War, a naval history of WWII worldwide that is my backup right now.

mark

[YankeyMCC]

15. "We Took to the Woods" by Louise Dickinson Rich

and "Saying Yes to your life" edited by Josh Bartok

[japple]

16. Another Ivan Doig book, English Creek. Good writer, and

I liked some of his other books.

[hippywife]

24. Isn't he fabulous?

I loved English Creek and Dancing at the Rascal Fair. I never wanted them to end.

I'm so glad you are enjoying his books, too. :hi:

[fadedrose]

17. BLOOD IS THE SKY by Steve Hamilton

Not great, but not bad.

[fadedrose]

18. AFTER-IMAGE by Jay Brandon

Got to page 100 and haven't developed a real liking for Chris Sinclair, DA, or at least enough to care about what happens next.

His girlfriend just told him she wants a baby by him, and I think he has a child (age 16 or so) that he doesn't know about yet.

Too much personal life and not enough of something, don't know what. Am taking this one back to the library today...unfinished.

[fishwax]

20. The Blithedale Romance, by Hawthorne

[closeupready]

21. Going to try "The Breach"

though I started it last week, and it seemed a little goofy, from the first chapter, but it has a lot of good reviews on Amazon, so I'm going to try that next. Dig in starting tomorrow probably.

[hippywife]

25. I am still working my way

through the stack of Ruth Moore books I got from the library. Some I like, some not so much.

The Sea Flower and Lizzie & Caroline were just okay. Seemed kind of underdeveloped.

Right now I'm reading Speak to the Winds which I am liking very much. As much as I liked Spoonhandle.

I have one more, Candlemas Bay, yet to read.

:hi:

[closeupready]

26. Scratch "the Breach" - tones of freeperishness, not going there.

Going to try "Crota" by Owl Goingback instead.

[fadedrose]

27. THE DEAD SURVIVORS by K. J. Erickson

This is the second book I've read of hers - about half through.
Fair book, unusual murder plot...

[Mz Pip]

28. Let the Great World Spin

by Colum McCann. Just finished it and highly recommend it.

[fadedrose]

29. THE DEAD SURVIVORS by K. J. Erickson

nt

[terryg11]

30. straw men and heart shaped box

first novel i read by either of those two authors (i think heart shaped box was joe hill's first) and found them both good.
heart shaped box was a pretty original ghost story and straw men a decent thriller, although the switching back from first person for one character and third for everyone else was a bit unusual.

[fadedrose]

31. TRAITOR by Andy McNab & Robert Rigby nt