What are you reading the week of August 1, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Dark Angel by Linda Howard

[lordsummerisle]

1. Spies For Hire

Tim Shorrock

[tulsakatz]

2. the passage

[Arctic Dave]

3. Aunt Phil's Trunk, Volume One

It's about Alaska history.

[Skink]

4. Lay the Favorite.

a gambling memoir.

[frylock]

5. one flew over the cuckoo's nest

ken kesey

[Onceuponalife]

6. One of my all-time faves!

I even use the name of the protagonist as my screen name on another board lol.

[Mac1949]

7. Just finished the three volume Gulag Archipelago,

so now I'm running through the Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell for something lighter. And of course the occasional Asterix.

[abluelady]

8. "Crossing the Mandelbaum Gate"

a memoir by Kai Bird.

[CBR]

9. On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks nt

[bluethruandthru]

10. Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter n/t

[japple]

11. Mary Doria Russell's Thread of Grace. eom

[azmouse]

12. "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

For some reason I just never got around to reading this book before. It's fascinating.

[Paladin]

24. Probably My Favorite Book Of All Time. (n/t)

[housewolf]

30. I was _maybe_ a freshman in high school when I read that book

Wow, was it compelling! It's a book that's stayed with me all these years.

[Paladin]

31. That Was About The Time I First Read It.

I've probably read it a half-dozen times since then; I always seem to have a well-worn paperback copy of it around.

One thing that pleases me is seeing "In Cold Blood" on the required reading sections of the local book stores at the beginning of the school year---glad to see that kids are getting to read something more intriguing than "Silas Marner"....

[Curmudgeoness]

13. Pigs In Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

So many great quotes in it I can't keep up. Her humor is a little twisted.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. "Collapse" by Jared Diamond

Very sobering. That's my dinner table book.

My purse book is "Girl in a Box" by Sujata Massey, part of a series of mysteries that takes place in Japan.

My bedside book is The Insight Guide to South America.

[pscot]

15. The Discovery of France by Graham Robb

Teachings of Don Juan, by Carlos Castaneda and The Guns of August, by Barbra Tuchman. And not making a lot of progress on any of them. A wicked summer cold is playing hell with my concentration.

[fadedrose]

16. SHADOW OF THE WOLF TREE: A Woods Cop Mystery by Joseph Heywood

Joseph Heywood & William Kent Krueger are two authors who write mysteries about the UP of MI...around Lake Superior...tense stuff.

[fadedrose]

28. Un-understandable plot, too many characters, but finished it...

because I wanted to see whodunit. Author made up more characters for this story than even live in the Upper Peninsula :) where it takes place. He threw their impossible names into a hat and introduced two of them in each of the 65 or so chapters. However, Detective Grady is likable and it's a good thing he's smarter than me cause I couldn't figure out how he figured out the clues....and he's smarter than the author who left many unanswered questions. :)

[femmocrat]

17. Almost done with "This Side of Paradise".

I bought four books on Saturday-- 2 are fiction. I'm going to read some non-fiction next.

[AngryOldDem]

20. Are you a Fitzgerald fan? n/t

[femmocrat]

21. I loved "The Great Gatsby."

I always wanted to read all of his novels. This is only the second one for me. I thought it would be good background before going on to the others. My son is a high school English teacher and we are on a Fitzgerald "binge". LOL

[AngryOldDem]

22. Been there, done that.

Make a point to read his short stories -- there's a good anthology published by Scribner with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley -- as well as "Tender Is The Night."

[Sequoia]

18. Patty Reed's Doll

The Patty Reed's Doll is a children's book I found for sale in the library cast-off-book-bin. I had just finished the big book "Chronicles of the Donner Party" and saw this. When the Reed's bogged down in the Great Salt Lake Desert they had to leave everything behind. Patty Reed was 8 years old and none of the children could bring their toys. Patty had quite a few dolls but this old banged up wooden one her grandmother made for her was special so Patty tucked it into the folds of her dress and off the party went and got stuck at Donner Lake from Halloween to March of the next year.

[AngryOldDem]

19. "The Dress Lodger" by Sheri Holman.

Just started it and already it's intriguing.

[MaineDem]

23. "Red Gold" by Alan Furst

I've read his latest two so I'm going back to read the older ones.

[WCIL]

25. Queenpin by Megan Abbott

Picked it up at the library. A mid-level woman in the mob (in what seems like 50's-60's Las Vegas) takes a young girl on as her apprentice, then they have reason to suspect each other of trying to bring the other down. I really enjoyed it, and at only 180 pages it was a quick, easy read. I recommend it.

[hippywife]

26. The Stork's Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside.

Actually, I'm just getting ready to crack it open. It's non-fiction about an American woman, Laura Lynne Williams, who travels to Russia to help conserve wildlife and falls in love.

http://www.amazon.com/Storks-Nest-Life-Russian-Countryside/dp/1555916295

I finished The Two Old Women by Velma Wallis earlier this evening before dinner. Enjoyed that very much.

:hi:

[YankeyMCC]

27. The Big Knockover

- A collection of Dashiell Hammett stories - good stuff!

[housewolf]

29. Just finished "The Dark Tide" by Andrew Gross, starting "Outlander" by Diana Gobaldon

I had a free download to my Kindle for "The Dark Tide" a while back so I decided to give it a try. It was quite readable and enjoyable. Would like to read more of his books. "Dark Tide" was a little bit mystery, little bit thriller, little bit romance - very light reading, but I found it rather compelling and enjoyable. Last night I started "Outlander", and am looking forward to reading more of it as well as the sequels.

[Mz Pip]

32. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Seems like everyone else has already read it so I thought I'd better get in on the action.

It's pretty good IMHO.

[Dulcinea]

33. Same here.

I'm enjoying it immensely. I wish there was a real Salander so I could hire her.