what are you reading the week of September 5, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Slipknot by Linda Greenlaw

[Donnachaidh]

1. Firefly by Piers Anthony

pretty good so far. Just finished The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larrson -- AWESOME book.

[northoftheborder]

10. Still reading Girl With Dragon Tattoo

About two-thirds through, hard to put down, They are hot on trail of solving the crime! Salandar is really a unique and fascinating character.

[Donnachaidh]

14. Just started The Girl Who Played With Fire

And it looks as if it's going to be BETTER than Tattoo. And Tattoo is awesom all the way through.

[amerikat]

2. I just finished The witch of Hebron

Post apocalyptic novel set in the town where I live.

Excellent read. But I may be prejudiced because it takes place
in my own neighborhood.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x555046

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. The bookseller of Kabul

by Asne Seierstad.
Very matter of fact, powerful look into the life of a family in Kabul.
I plan on getting her other books, she is a terrific writer.

[amerikat]

4. i'll put tht on my list.

Thanks

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. It is a fast read actually, yet had great depth, very moving.

I can also strongly recommend A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Kaled Hosseini.

[MaineDem]

8. I've never cried so much reading any book as I did reading this

A great book but I had tears streaming down my face.

[hippywife]

19. I came away from reading that book

with a clear understanding of their culture and the reasons why we need to leave there immediately.

[fadedrose]

5. MURDER IN THE AIR by Bill Crider (eom)

[fadedrose]

12. Nice little book..

Only 250 pages. Sheriff Rhodes with the usual likeable silly characters involved in a case involving noodling, an illegal way of catching fish in Texas, and too-big chicken factory with lots of problems.

[ocd liberal]

6. Wesley the Owl

by Stacey O'Brien
True story of CalTech employee who has an opportunity to raise a four day old barn owl in 1985. It's quite charming!

[MaineDem]

9. Finishing "The Glass Rainbow" by James Lee Burke

Then it's on to Christopher Reich.

[MaineDem]

15. I meant "Rain Gods"

Silly me

[Sheepshank]

11. Impact by Preston

hated the plot line, so can't say as I highly recommend it. Yet, I loved all the others he authored and co authored with Childs.

[fadedrose]

13. Just starting STAR ISLAND by Carl Hiaasen (eom)

[abluelady]

16. "Fever Dream" by Preston and Child

[hippywife]

17. Just finished several.

It was a long weekend where I wasn't feeling very good so lots of time to read.

The fav was The Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper. Excellent book.

Bloodroot by Amy Green was good.

Read the Wake series by Lisa McMann (or Wheezy as fellow DUers know her.) They were okay. I wasn't thrilled by them, but then I'm not their intended audience. An older teen might feel different.

:hi:

[japple]

20. So glad you had a long weekend for R(est) & R(eading). Will

put those books on my lists. I liked Wake, but haven't read Fade yet.

Have missed you on C & B and hope you're up to snuff before long. Did Bill do the cooking?

[hippywife]

24. We didn't do much of anything

including cooking. It was an exhausting weekend as neither of us was feeling very good. Some kinda thing going around here and we both got it.

I really am loving J. California Cooper. I had reserved another of her books and Bill picked it up for me on his way home tonight: Life is Short But Wide. Looking forward to digging into it tonight.

:hi:

[closeupready]

18. "Pyramids", a Discworld book.

Terry Pratchett.

[japple]

21. Read Lehane's Mystic River over the weekend. It was okay, but

I figured it out long before the end.

Started Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye yesterday. So good so far.

[fadedrose]

22. Maybe you're just bright...

Looked up Mystic River and it sure got a lot of awards...aside from having a surprise ending, was it any good as far as dialog goes?

Awards shown at:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/L_Authors/Lehane_Dennis.html

[japple]

23. Yes, he's a very good writer and his character development is

excellent. Dialog is very good, realistic. I liked his book, The Given Day much better, but that's just because of the historical aspects of the story, and also because it was chosen by my book group. He really does his research and makes you feel like you're in the story along with the rest of the characters. I want to read Shutter Island, too.

[fadedrose]

25. Starting AN UNFORTUNATE PRAIRIE OCCURRENCE by Jamie Harrison

Just starting An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence. This is Jamie Harrison's 3rd in a series about Sheriff Jules Clement in Montana. There's a fourth, then she mysteriously doesn't write any more after 2000. Wish I knew why.

I like using italics for book titles, but the subject line won't let me do it. Caps and quotation marks are probably equally wrong for book titles, so bear with my caps. Am not screaming, honest - they just help me see my stuff easier.

[fadedrose]

32. This was good

The author writes as though she was constantly interrupted while she wrote these books. Many thoughts, mostly incomplete, unexpected bits of information here and there - took a lot of concentration to get through. Many humorous thoughts the author attributes to the sheriff, whom I really like - Jules Clement. Takes place in Colorado.

One bit of advice - if you read this (good idea to start with the first one, The Edge of the Crazies, 1995), start keeping a sheet with the names of the families, their kids, cousins, etc. It makes it easier to keep track. I recommend the three I read so far, although Going Local,1996, wasn't quite as good as the other two.

I have one more to read, Blue Deer Thaw, 2000, and then am thinking of writing the author to find out why she hasn't written anything since then.

[krispos42]

26. Just finishing up the 'The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde n/t

[terrya]

27. "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen

I just started it. I've been looking forward to reading Franzen's new novel. Excellent so far.

[Onceuponalife]

28. finally reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

After I'm done I will watch the Starz miniseries adaptation which I have recorded. Only about 100 pages into it but already really engrossed.

[bikebloke]

29. The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva

[JitterbugPerfume]

30. As I Lay Dying--Faulkner

and it is depressing the hell outta me!

I just finished The Girl That Kicked The Hornets Nest, and thought I needed a complete change of pace---well, I got it!


the Dragon Tattoo trilogy was the most awesome thing I have read in a long time.

[WCIL]

31. I just started Matterhorn

bu Karl Marlantes. It is a novel of the Vietnam war, and was well-reviewed in my last issue of Bookmarks.