What are you reading the week of November 14, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Presumption of Death by Perri O' Shaughnessy

[Roma]

1. Decision Points. This is books: fiction right?

Found the ebook torrent already.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

3. lol... same.

Hehe

[ncrainbowgrrl]

2. The Bush book.

And no- I didn't buy it.

[matt819]

4. A bunch

Just finished Fatal Undertaking by Marc (I think) Decastrique. Pretty good series about an undertaker who's a sheriff's deputy in NC. Fun reads.

In the middle of Saintly Remains by an Indiana writer, Tony Perona. Never heard of him before - just saw it in the library. Pretty good read.

Justing finishing up the audiobook of Edge by Jeffery Deaver. As a thriller, not bad. But the book sounds more like a lecture than anything else. Maybe it's the reader, but I also think it's the writing. Just dull. And the seemingly intellectual protagonist overthinks everything and gets most of it wrong. For all the resources at his disposal, he overlooks stuff that a decent street cop (at least in novels) would deal with right away.

Also still making my way through Under the Dome. Enjoying it, but it's a fill in.

[fadedrose]

19. The first two sound interesting, may give them a try...eom

[jannyk]

5. Just started Ken Follet's 'Fall of Giants'. Will probably be reading it...

...next week and the week after that. It is an epic tome and weighs a ton - very hard to read in bed (my favorite reading spot).

I loved "Pillars of the Earth', wasn't as fond of the follow up 'World Without End'. So far I like this one, but progress is slow because it is so heavy and my arms get tired long before I'm tired of reading it!

[MaineDem]

14. I loved it

I can't wait until the next in the series comes out. Not until 2012 though.

[fadedrose]

6. MORTAL ALLIES by Brian Haig

This is the second in the Major Sean “Bulldog” Drummond, a lawyer in the army's Judge Advocate General Corps, mystery/courtroom series.

[mvccd1000]

7. How did you like the first one?

I've read his first 6. I have a couple more in my Amazon watch list, waiting for them to show up in used paperback for $0.01.

[fadedrose]

11. I really liked the first and the second....

"Drummond" writes in first person narrative and makes me feel like an insider. His perspectives are always humorous and I like him a lot.

When I started this close-to 500 pages I figured it would take me a week to finish, but I did it in 2 days. His writing just flows and he keeps all 500 pages interesting. Crashed from two much fall cleanup in the yard and spent the whole day reading :) and the book was exciting but relaxing.

I'll be getting more. Was surprised that he's the son of Alexander Haig, and if I'd known that before I ordered the books, I probably wouldn't have without your recommendation. He seems to have a slight left tilt....Thanks...

[mvccd1000]

16. You're welcome.

I'm not a big fan of novels that slant either way politically, and he does seem to keep things quite apolitical, especially given his lineage and his own military service. I just added his latest two to my wish list for Christmas. I hope he writes fast enough to stay ahead of me. :)

[Scuba]

8. Steig Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo". Excellent....

Good mystery. Well developed characters. A socialist setting (Sweden). Fun read.

I'll also recommend "Known to Evil" by Walter Mosely.

[japple]

9. The Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver. I read it when it was

first released and am reading it again for my book group.

[tigereye]

26. great writer- love her books and characters

and her book about slow food and growing your own is quite good, too. Animal Vegetable Miracle?, I think.

[japple]

28. I've read and loved all of her books. The Lacuna is my newest

favorite book.

[pscot]

10. Bad things Happen, by Harry Dolan

I'm about half way through and it's quite good. I hope the ending holds up.

[fadedrose]

20. I put this one on "request" at the library (eom)

[pscot]

22. I waited 2 months for it

It's very meta. A mystery about mystery writers killing mystery writers.

[fadedrose]

24. Holy cow! It's in...so is THE REVERSAL (Connelly)

Some good reading ahead ;) Will pick them up tomorrow...

Also coming soon is one of my alltime favorites, James Doss - I'm 2nd on the list for his new one, A Dead Man's Tale. Can't wait...

[fadedrose]

12. Starting tonight, AH, TREACHERY! by Ross Thomas

Didn't know when I ordered this that it was about politics - which so far seems dirtier than the spies I met in my last book in Korea ;), and that's sayen a lot..

[fadedrose]

17. Very confusing plot

And not worth the trouble of trying to understand it. Mostly a military/political money scheme, complicated as a real life scheme :)
Takes place after the Reagan/Bush years when Dems were coming back into power.

Short book, not enough info about the characters - nobody to like. I wonder why the author wrote this book.

[krispos42]

13. "Starman Jones" and "Time for the Stars" by Heinlein

Some of it holds up remarkably well.


Now from a political standpoint, his bashing of guilds and government reminds me somewhat of the current idiots controlling the House.

[MaineDem]

15. "American Assassin" by Vince Flynn

May not be the most progressive book but I do enjoy the read.

[hippywife]

18. Re-reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

I read it when it first came out and last year read the sequel. Thought it would be good to re-read the first book after a couple of decades. LOL

[YankeyMCC]

21. The Lizard Cage by Karen Marie Connelly

Just started it last night. I'm not familiar with her and I read that this is her first novel, although she's written other non-fiction and poetry, and she has certainly hit the mark with grabbing the reader, at least this reader, right from the start with her first attempt.

[terrya]

23. "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James.

Not as forbidding as I thought James would be.

[fadedrose]

25. Just started on THE CRUELEST MONTH by Louise Penny

Great to be back in Three Pines, Quebec.

Nice to see Insp. Armond Garmache and his crew again.

This is not an easy series to read. The characters talk to each other and I often don't know what they're talking about for several pages. But it's worth the trouble. Am on page 50 and am totally absorbed...

The author knows how to write mysteries. Recommend...

Centipede Shoes recommended this to me...

[tigereye]

27. Still Life by Louise Penny - very good mystery, a series I haven't read

Just finished Critical Care by Theresa Brown, a new nurse and a woman in my book group! On tap for book group we have Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, and I just got Lit by Mary Karr. Love her writing.

I just finished Stanley Booth's bio of the early Rolling Stones - it was very earthy. I want to read Keith Richard's Life next - it's on my list. I also got I'll Sleep When I'm Dead- Warren Zevon bio by his ex-wife, since I was in a rock and roll bio mood.

:hi:

[Onceuponalife]

29. Sentry Peak by Harry Turtledove

Yet another of his alternate civil war tales.

[Curmudgeoness]

30. Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

I can't say I recommend it, extremely depressing. But of course it is written well and sucks you in. Just too dark for me.

[fadedrose]

31. CRYSTAL DEATH by Charles Kipps

It's about Conor Bard, a homicide detective in New York City. This is the second of the series, the first is Hell's Kitchen Homicide, which I haven't read yet.