What are you reading the week of December 19, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger

[jwirr]

1. The Black Plague by Stephen Porter. Read a novel that had plague

in it and wanted to know more. One thing I have learned is that government funded health care started in most countries in Europe as early as the 1400s. Take that you freepers!

Sorry wrong title. Should be "The Great Plague".

[AmandaMae]

2. Still reading The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

[texastoast]

3. The Hiram Key

Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas.

It's about Freemasonry.

[wtmusic]

4. The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde nt

[Onceuponalife]

20. I love that book

Cheers.

[theophilus]

5. The Autobiography of Mark Twain n/t

[Warpy]

8. That might be my next one

I have the audio book to listen to while I spin.

[Vegetarianist]

6. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

[Warpy]

7. Two things

An audio book while I spin up the last of the lace weight greenish turquoise merino, "Mornings on Horseback" by David McCullough, a surprisingly good and very detailed biography of T. Roosevelt; and "I Still Dream About You," some wonderful fluff from Fannie Flagg that has started off with a suicidal faded beauty queen who owns a dying real estate business. The snark in the latter is thick and syrupy as only Fannie Flagg can manage it.

[krispos42]

9. Almost done with "The Two Georges", by Harry Turtledove..

...and I brought out an oldie but a goodie from the attic "Science Fiction Thinking Machines", printed in 1954. Some of the short stories in there date back to the 1920's!

[fadedrose]

10. Great book, IRON LAKE

Krueger's Cork O'Connor series is good - I read'em all.

[DUgosh]

11. I like it.

Even better than Margaret Coel's - Father Omalley and Vicki Holden series

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I've met the author. He's a Minnesotan and had a signing at

my favorite local mystery bookstore.

[fadedrose]

18. Don't know how many of his books you've read,

but Iron Lake is worth reading, as well as the rest of them.

This book has stayed with me for quite a while. His living "away from home" experience was so poignant and so sad...(avoiding spoiler)

[denbot]

12. Re-reading The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Mote is a great science fiction book I first read around twenty years ago, and I noticed a sequel in the book store last week so I wanted to refresh my memory of the first before picking up "Gripping Hand".

[applegrove]

13. Keith Richards' biography. So far it is pretty interesting..especially for

those who know music and instruments. Lots of technical details.

[Sequoia]

14. The War That Killed Achillies

Great read for fans of The Illiad and the Trojan War.

[getting old in mke]

15. _Changes_ by Jim Butcher

Getting a Harry Dresden fix.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. "My Soul to Take" by Yrsa Sigardurdottir

Another fine Scandinavian mystery writer, this time from Iceland. A lawyer is called in by the flaky developer of a New Age spa to prepare a case for suing the sellers of the property on the grounds that they should have warned him that the property was haunted. But this is definitely NOT a comedy-mystery.

[mvccd1000]

19. I totally scored this week...

I got to my hotel and sitting on a table in the lobby were both a Harlan Coben book (Caught) and a Lee Child book (Worth Dying For) that I had not yet read. Both were already on my wish list on Amazon. I managed to read both while I was there, and put them back on the table for the next person. That saved me a few bucks to download two more selections on the new Kindle I got for Christmas. :)