What are you reading the week of April 3, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Thistle and Twigg by Margaret Saums

[bigwillq]

1. Same book I was reading last week.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=208&topic_id=24384&mesg_id=24443

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Yellowrocket. It's a book of poetry by Todd Boss.

He is phenomenal!

:hi:

[Petrushka]

3. "Earthquake Came to Harlem" by Jackie Sheeler & "Off the Cuffs: Poetry by and About the Police"

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=jackie+sheeler

Also: "The New World" by Frederick Turner http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+new+world+by+frederick+turner

[sueh]

4. Mary Modern by Camille DeAnglis

[Onceuponalife]

5. The Towers of the Sunset by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

The World of Recluce series.

[bluethruandthru]

6. Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy n/t

[hippywife]

9. That is one of my favorite books of all time.

I loved reading that book. If you haven't already seen it, skip the movie. It's a travesty.

:hi:

[bluethruandthru]

15. I'm really enjoying it.

I've never seen the movie. I was wondering if, after I finish the book, I should watch the movie. I usually like to see how the movie is changed from the book.

[hippywife]

16. You'll be disappointed

because it's soooo different from the book. I hated it within 5 minutes, and it wasn't my idea to go see it.

[japple]

27. I didn't like it either, esp. the role Barbra Streisand created for

herself.

[japple]

28. All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein -- about the holocaust

from the perspective of a young Polish Jewish woman. Very sad.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer

He was on Colbert a while back and I thought he was interesting. I have always been fascinated with people with phenomenal memory . Does anyone else remember Professor Irwin Corey on tv from years gone by with his wild hair and ill fitted suit?

I also thought I would read just the first chapter of The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson just to get a "feel" for the author and guess what? It is impossible to read just the first chapter of The Years of Rice and Salt. I think I have found my new favorite author

Thanks Forkboy and pitohui for recommending Robinson:hi:

[hippywife]

10. I've been hearing NPR interviews with the author.

It intrigues me, too. :hi:

[hippywife]

8. Life by Keith Richards

I finally got my copy from the library and it's in hot demand so I decided to put down the others, which I bought from the library, so I can read this one and get it back since I won't be able to renew it. It's a much thicker book than I thought it would be, but it's pretty good so far. It may not be to some but I've always been a huge fan of The Glimmer Twins. :D

:hi:

[fadedrose]

11. RAIN FALL by Barry Eisler

Just started it and I like the way he writes - sentences come easily to him and flow along which makes for enjoyable reading.

This is the first of the series, and a few people have recommended starting from the begining.

(R)

Link:
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/E_Authors/Eisler_Barry.html




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[Poiuyt]

12. A Hole in Texas by Herman Wouk

About a physicist who worked on the Superconducting Super Collider before Congress stopped funding. Not one of his better novels, but fun nonetheless.

[Jim__]

13. The Pale King - David Foster Wallace.

This is the book he was writing when he died in 2008. The book is incomplete. It was put together
by his agent who, in an introductory chapter, states that there was no indication of what order the
chapters should be in. He also has no idea of what type of edits Wallace would have applied. But,
reading it, I don't care about what may be unfinished. Wallace's insights into human nature are
just so rich that they justify reading the book - the first 70 or so pages of the book assure me that the book has Wallace's touch.

[The Roux Comes First]

14. A Stone for Danny Fisher, thanks to recent rec here,

and The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax for slightly lighter fare. Am listening to Koontz' Velocity solo and struggling with sharing of cd version of Hoag's The Alibi Man with spouse (we don't get much shared time in front of speaker except in case of rare wkends on the road).

[didact]

17. Rebel Buddha

Dzogchen Ponlop

http://www.rebelbuddha.com/the-book/

[didact]

18. I guess I shouldn't have dropped this in Fiction though??

...everyone feel free to mentally file this into whatever category you wish.

[zappaman]

19. BEAUTIFUL, NAKED, AND DEAD

It's by a first-time novelist named Josh Stallings.
A really great old-school noir.

[closeupready]

20. Lee Child's "Killing Floor".

Some of my family members love his work, and gave me their paperback copy to read. I'm only 50 pages in, but I'm not sure if I care for it. Seems a little too typical of the police procedural genre.

Has anyone else here read it?

[DUgosh]

25. I read KF

It was okay, I wasn't crazy about it. I tried another one and only read one chapter. Gave it up after that.

[closeupready]

37. I'm thinking I'm also going to abandon this book.

It's not all that bad, but it's just not up my alley.

[elfin]

21. Dissolution by Sansom

The first in his Sardlake mysteries set in Cromwell England.

Shardlake is a hunchback lawyer who solves vexing mysteries on behalf of Cromwell or the king amidst the turmoil of smashing Catholic power. Lots of history and good writing.

Already read Dark Fire and filling in the series.

[MaineDem]

22. "The Defector" by Daniel Silva

Finishing it up and then I'll move on to "The Rembrandt Affair."

[AngryOldDem]

23. "Mudbound" by Hillary Jordan.

[hippywife]

29. Excellent, excellent book!

One of the best books I read last year. :hi:

[AngryOldDem]

30. I'm about halfway through and I'm enjoying it immensely.

Never heard of it until I came across it as a blurb at the back of Water for Elephants. About four other titles sounded interesting as well, so I have them either in hand or on hold from the library. I am really impressed with Algonquin Books, and it's always a pleasure to come across excellently written fiction.

[hippywife]

31. I found out about it here in the fiction group and

it does have a DU connection:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=208x13767

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=208&topic_id=18706


:hi:

[AngryOldDem]

32. Very cool!

Thanks!

:hi:

[Onceuponalife]

36. Wow

I bought that book a long time ago and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since (along with about 900 other books). Didn't know about the DU connection. Small world!

[fadedrose]

24. THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMAN'S BAG by Alan Bradley

Just started this tonight, and it's very good so far.

Didn't know what to read; tonight I picked up the second Larsson book, also a Lisa Gardner, another Eisler and a Margaret Coel.

Already waiting on the nightstand are a couple of Doss, a Haig, and a Matthew Glass. Have Elizabeth George on request from another library.

The infinite assortment of characters, locations, personalities, humor, and terrors that one finds in fiction amazes me. So much skill required to write fiction that it's a wonder there are so many books to choose from; anyone can find something suitable if he knows where to look - or is lucky enough to have a group like this one to recommend books.





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[fadedrose]

33. The second book in the Flavia series..

was quite good. Flavia's thoughts are a main part of this story - her opinions of everyone and her crime-solving. Only one recent murder and not as scary as the first book. She's a treasure.

[YankeyMCC]

26. The Day of the Scorpion by Paul Scott

Just finish "Jewel in the Crown" last week

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris is my bedside book

Ferraris married a Saudi and lived in Saudi Arabia for a time before getting divorced and returning to the States.

This is actually the second book in the series, which I didn't realize when I bought it, but it has two interwoven plots.

An American woman who has followed her (also American) husband to a job posting in Jeddah returns to Jeddah after a month-long vacation in the States only to have her husband disappear shortly after bringing her back to their apartment.

A Saudi woman, one of two female medical examiners in the country, puzzles over the case of a woman filmmaker whose body has been washed up on a beach.

I love reading mysteries set in countries that I have never been to and am unlikely to visit.

[fishwax]

35. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett

Not as good as his first book (Red Harvest), but good just the same.