What are you reading the week of February 13, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs

[RandySF]

1. "Frostbite" by David Wellington

Decent werewolf book. Not too gory, but there's certainly no "Jacob" in the story. Wellington also wrote a vampire series (13 Bullets) as well as his hallmark Zombie novel, "Monster Island".

[patrice]

2. Do audio books count?: H.L. Mencken's book on the philosophy of Nietzsche. nt

[DUgosh]

11. Yes! Audio too.

Most of the books I read are audio. I still turn pages when I can tho.

[patrice]

13. I was surprised to see that Mencken had written on this subject; the title is The Philosophy of

Friedrich Nietzsche. I haven't picked up any of Mencken's characteristic sarcasm. Perhaps it's one of his earlier works, so he's treating his subject pretty straight, maybe even with a bit of enthusiasm, but I can't be certain of that without going to the primary source and I don't read German!

[patrice]

15. oooppss! That's not fiction. nt

[applegrove]

3. A biography of Mordecai Richler by Charles Foran.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Love Reichs!

fascinating! Meanwhile, just finished a James Patterson (Tick Tock) and am reading more easy tripe mystery/cop crap to stave off the winter days....sometimes gotta read books that 3 pages is enough to get to sleep and make the brain shut up :)

[drmeow]

5. I just finished

The Curse of Capistrano, The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley ... it was not what I expected and things have only changed marginally.

[fadedrose]

6. THE WITCH'S TONGUE by James D. Doss

Bout a half-way thru. My 2nd reading. Better than the first, I think.

Been play'in solitare for a half-hour, wondering if DUGosh was going to show up tonight; was reading before that, one-eye in my book, and the other on the clock, and the suspense was killing me. I should get a life....

(Wonder if she knows how addicted some of us are, like spoiled children)

R








Book 11 of 'll

[DUgosh]

12. lol

I did not know. I was thinking that I did this mostly for selfish reasons so I could get recommendations for new books to read! I'm happy that you look forward to it too. I have good news, the ice has thawed in the toilet bowls! Who knew this would make me soo happy.

[fadedrose]

26. Author generous with his plentiful dialogue

And I enjoyed every bit of it. Charlie solves a very confusing crime, as usual.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. "The Hidden Brain"

by Shankar Vedantam. Just started it, but it's pretty interesting so far...

[patrice]

14. Very provocative title, that. I'm going to have to check it out. nt

[mahina]

8. Just finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

The first half was great, and I'm usually not able to stay interested in fiction.
The second half reminded me why.

[PDJane]

9. Finished Death of the Liberal Class this week....lots to think about

Read a couple of Elizabeth George books, I Shall not Hate by Dr. Izzeldan Suleiman, re-read Full Catastrophe Living by John Kabat-Zin, and am currently reading Deceiver by C.J. Cherryh.

[fishwax]

10. I'm hoping to get to Sinclair Lewis's Free AIr this week

Have some work to do before I can get to it, though ... :kick:

[hippywife]

16. One fiction and one non-fiction.

The non-fiction is Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods.

http://www.bonobohandshake.com/

The fiction is the working manuscript of a novel of a friend and fellow DUer.


Loving them both. :D

[MaineDem]

17. Finishing "By Order of the President" by W.E.B. Griffin

I just downloaded the next book in the series, "The Hostage" and will read that (listen to it) next.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

18. Finishing Time and Chance

this week (maybe)
I like the Henry/Eleanor story but I think the structure of the books (action moves from place to place and advances in time in a less tight sequence) allows me to put it down and come back easily

Picked up Unholy Awakening by Michael Gregorio (pen name of two people) at the library yesterday
Vampires? Doubt it

Read Hell Hollow by I Can't Remember last week
Weird doings in spooky Tennessee woods
I liked the characters: the kids, the mid gen, the oldsters
Not Stephen King, but I don't really care for S King anyway

[hippywife]

19. That Michael Gregorio series sounds pretty good.

Have you read any of the others?

I have so many books already to read and now no time to read, I'm missing out on good stuff.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

21. No, first one

Saw it on the New Books shelf at the library
Will see how it goes and try other titles

[hippywife]

22. I hope you'll come back

and let us know how it is. :D

[TheCentepedeShoes]

33. I couldn't get into it

Maybe just the wrong book at the wrong time, happens sometimes

[pscot]

20. Generosity : an enhancement

by Richard Powers. I'm also reading a book of poems by Tony Hoagland. I started the Romanov Prophecy, by Berry, but put it down 30 pages in. It's a dreadful book; lame in concept, sophomorically written.

[AngryOldDem]

23. Stephen King's latest, "Full Dark, No Stars."

As much as I may complain about him anymore, I can't pass up a new book.

This one is another in the long-story format, a la "Different Seasons" and "Four Past Midnight." I just finished the first story -- "1922" --and it was okay. Nothing great; nothing that I haven't seen King do before.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. "The Secret Speech" (a novel about the Stalinist era) and "The Insight Guide

to Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan" (what better thing to read in Minnesota in February?)

[japple]

25. Todd Johnson's The Sweet By and By n/t

[fadedrose]

27. PLAINS CRAZY by J. M. Hayes

Just started it. Series about Mad Dog and Englishman, brothers - sons of a Cheyenne woman and different fathers. Takes place in Kansas, current times.

[fadedrose]

29. Pretty good...

This is the 3rd of the "Mad Dog and Englishman" series. I read the first, had to get it thru interlibrary loan. The second book, Prairie Gothic, came in but it was a paperback, very yellow and so brittle that I didn't want to read it, so I requested another if there's one available. Will finish the series:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/H_Authors/Hayes_J-M.html

Good dialoge, plenty of it, 7 or so main characters, all busy doing something the others are not knowing about or involved in, till the end. All kinds of screw-ups, some parts were lol for me.

[fadedrose]

30. (Book 12) nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

28. I have been reading

The Best American Short Stories 2010. I love reading short stories at night when I can't sleep, and these are good 'uns

[closeupready]

31. John Dickson Carr's Curse of the Bronze Lamp.

nt

[TheCentepedeShoes]

34. Where did you find it?

I read some of his stuff year ago but thought most now out of print

[hippywife]

32. Finished the new Fannie Flagg book yesterday.

"I Still Dream About You" It was good, but I like Billie Letts best in this genre, really.

Still working on Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods, nonfiction. It's pretty interesting.

:hi:

[Luciferous]

35. I read Devil Bones last week. It was pretty good.