What are you reading the week of February 20, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Dead Silence by Randy Wayne White

[applegrove]

1. I'm reading the article on Scientology from the New Yorker. Excellent piece.

[midnight]

2. K&R....

[inademv]

3. Reality is Broken By Jane Mcgonigal

then I'll finish A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

[socialist_n_TN]

4. A novel called "The Waters Rising" bu Sheri S. Tepper..........

She's a new author for me. I just checked it out from the library today.

I've also got a couple of books on order from the main branch. One by Trotsky on the arts and the revolution and one with some writings by Marx. I haven't read any Marx or Trotsky since the early 70s. It seems an appropriate time to reaquaint myself with my revolutionary roots. :)

[fadedrose]

5. Just started SHADOW MAN by James D. Doss

Just a bit into it - good - my second reading...

R'd

[fadedrose]

12. Great book (13th)

Lots of funny stuff, scary stuff, whatsgoinonstuff....

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. I am re-reading The Poisonwood Bible

It is the story of a missionary family in Africa , and a picture of Africa in the not to distant past.

[Mz Pip]

7. The Imperfectionists

by Tom Rachman.

[benld74]

8. Jim Butcher - Drsden Files - Been reading these since HAlloween - GREAT!

A wizard investigator, with demons, the nevernever, little tough blonde detective friend, BOB the talking spirit in a skull, his White Council of Wizards, Vampires - The Red Court(old blood feeders) - The White COurt(feed on peoples emotions, the Black Court(you dont wanna know),
Great writing, character development, plot development

GREAT!!!
13 books with another out in July 2011

[MaineDem]

9. "The Shooters" by WEB Griffin

I have been hooked on the Presidential Agent series.

[AngryOldDem]

10. "Pigs In Heaven" by Barbara Kingsolver.

I don't know why I've passed by Kingsolver all this time -- this book is an absolute joy to read after slogging through some absolute disasters lately.

Looking forward to reading more of her works.

[JitterbugPerfume]

11. you wont be disappointed

everything I have read by her is an absolute treasure.

My sister used to live in Fishers! It is a beautiful community.:hi:

[fadedrose]

13. PRIVATE SECTOR by Brain Haig

Just barely started. Great dialog, as usual for Haig...

[Vehl]

14. The way of kings by Brandon Sanderson

It seems to be an awesome book..even though I have but just started on it.

I loved his Mistborn Trilogy, so I have great hopes for this one as well. :)

[japple]

15. Rick Bragg's latest: All They Ever Had. Very good, very sad.

n/t

[Luciferous]

16. The Mortal Instruments Trilogy by Cassandra Clare. For some reason I've been into

YA books lately... next up is probably Hunger Games because my daughter just finished it and said I should read it.

[The Roux Comes First]

17. Just Finished Listening to Mrs. Pollifax on Safari

The second (not 2nd in chronology) of the series by Gilman I have had the chance to savour. This time, since it was audio, spouse got to enjoy it too. I have another in hand and chronological #2 on the way from the library.

In the meantime I finished Peter Mayle's French Lessons, an enjoyable food-based meander around various French galas (e.g., snail-eating event!). Quite entertaining. I also finished Daniel Levitin's This is Your Brain on Music earlier this week.

I am into the latter stages of listening to Stuart Woods' Run Before the Wind, an exciting suspense tale based around the construction of a racing sailboat in the face of ongoing Irish/Brit violence.

But my real focus at the moment is on Emma Larkin's Finding George Orwell in Burma, a great memoir written under a pseudonym due to the repression that was and is such a sad aspect of life in now-Myanmar.

I'm well above 50% on the fict/non-fict scale so far this year, largely thanks to Nancy Pearl, who put me onto some new mystery threads I had previously overlooked. My recent history has me relatively even on the f/n-f.

Thanks to the audio books and help from a co-worker with those, I may set a PB for the first two months of the year. I think prior was 15.