What are your reading the week of March 27, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Dirty Laundry by Tori Carrington

[Turbineguy]

1. Rumpole of the Bailey

John Mortimer.

Again. All of it.

[azul]

2. The Other Brain

by R D Fields

What's the difference between Einstein's brain and Average Joe's?

Or dolphin's brains and that of men, for that matter?

[SugarShack]

3. Reading former senator John DeCamp's book....

[krispos42]

4. Book 4 of "The Lost Regiment" series by William Forstchen...

...and book 2 of the "Worldwar" series by Harry Turtledove

[donheld]

5. The Last Precinct - Patricia Cornwell

[hippywife]

6. Still working on Vineland by Thomas Pynchon and

Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor. :hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. I just finished the immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

and I can not recommend it more highly.

Last week YankeyMCC recommended that I read Lavinia by Ursula LeGuin . I will start reading it probably today or later tonight. I understand that it is LeGuins view of Lavinia who is voieless in The Aeneiad . she is a new author for me so I am anxious to get started.

I look forward to the adventure. Thanks Yankey!

[Louisiana1976]

8. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

[MaineDem]

9. Is this a new one? nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. It's the FIRST Inspector Lynley novel

and it was made into a pretty good Masterpiece Theater adaptation.

[Mz Pip]

10. A Gate at the Stairs

by Lorrie Moore. I'm liking it so far.

[fadedrose]

11. SERVER DOWN by J. M. Hayes

This was really good - great ending. More action packed into this relatively small (l80 pp or so) book then one might get in 400 pp.

If your time is limited and you want to get into some books that are short, action-filled with a bit of humor, try the Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery Series...

Repeating link to save you time:



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

[bigwillq]

12. The Survivors Club

by Lisa Gardner. This is the seventh book of hers that I am reading. I like her.

[fadedrose]

13. Putting it down. Next month it's on my list..

I looked it up....Sounds like a fabulous mystery series. Not at all familiar with it. Why not stuff it into the Fiction Books in a Series list?

[footinmouth]

14. Right now - Game Change

Before that I just finished "The Help", I highly recommend it.

[AngryOldDem]

19. Game Change is a good read. n/t

[fadedrose]

15. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson

A couple of months ago, I got this from the library, opened it up to who knows what page, read a terrible rape, and a page or so later, the girl getting her revenge on the rapist. I decided I didn't want to read it based on that.

However...since so many people liked the book I figured it must be me so I am trying it again. This time I started on page 1, with no snooping in the middle of the book. I am on page 55 and find that there is a decent story and am getting engrossed in it. I think it's getting good and it does seem to be a mystery, not just a porno sex book.

[MaineDem]

17. The rape plays a big part in the saga

I've read the first two and I'm taking the third on vacation with me.

[fadedrose]

22. I liked the first one...

The rape - ya, it had to be done, but not just to show how nuts the guy was, but also to show that Salander had no faith in the justice system. Unfair treatment was the only kind of treatment she got and she learned how to take care of herself because she knew nobody else would. It explains her actions all thru the book.

I was at the grocer's tonight and saw three Larsson books on display, and just had to peek to see if my buddy, Mikael Blomkvist, was in the sequels, and he is!!!! I'm so glad..

Enjoy your vacation.

[MaineDem]

16. "Blood and Honor" by WEB Griffin

Second in a series. It's okay but the narrator of this audiobook is pathetic. Now that I'm used to his cadence it's gotten better.

[AngryOldDem]

18. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

For the first time in a long time, this is a book that I'm having trouble putting down. Very absorbing.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. "To Dream of the Dead" by Phil Rickman is my bedside book

It's the latest in his Welsh border country series, with its main character being a women Anglican priest who has a pagan teenage daughter and a lover who's a washed-up rock star trying to make a comeback. I started reading the series before taking a trip to the area in 2006, and I own the whole series.

My current purse book is a collection of short stories and novellas by Peter Robinson, author of the Alan Banks mysteries.

[Onceuponalife]

23. Three Days To Never by Tim Powers

A good, fun read. Involves a father and daughter on the run (in 1987) from two opposing groups of wackos (Israel's Mossad and a paranormal group) trying to recover a lost invention of Einstein's that can erase a person's existence. Time travel, teleportation, psychic powers, telepathy...you name it, it's in here. Even a woman who can only see out of other people's eyes! The narrative is a lot more normal than that sounds, though.

[fadedrose]

24. TWICE A SPY by Keith Thomson

I started this book Saturday, and got so frustrated with this guy's sentences that I sped thru and got to the end in 2 hours.

Such a nice idea for a mystery - a retired CIA guy with Alzheimer's with former employer afraid that he might give away all their secrets...bad guys and good guys are both after him..

To me the author sees the reader as an enemy, the same way that a guy who writes instructions for assembling children's new toys hates the parents who buy the toys...

Oh well.


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