What are you reading the week of December 4, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

[MarianJack]

1. Seabiscuit...

...An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand.

Loved the movie and I finally got around to reading the book.

PEACE!

[IDemo]

4. Outstanding book and movie both

+1

[abelenkpe]

2. Life of Pi nt

[dimbear]

3. Joseph Smith Fletcher marathon.

For a golden ager, he keeps the bodies piled high. Worthy successor to Conan Doyle.

[IDemo]

5. Then Everything Changed, by Jeff Greenfield

Historical fiction, with alternative scenarios from the JFK election forward.

Also, "Devil in the White City", an account of the men behind the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and of a serial killer who took advantage of the situation to perpetrate numerous Jack the Ripper-style murders of young women.

[annabanana]

6. LOVED that whole series!

The movie was Meh.. SURELY it could have been better cast.

[Burma Jones]

7. Instructions for my Colonoscopy Prep

And Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

[napoleon_in_rags]

9. Drink the Golytely cold. And use the lemon flavoring packet.

This is the common advice I have heard from nurses.

[Burma Jones]

16. No Golitely this time

Just Miralax and Bisacodyl and a couple of gallons of Gatorade......

The Doc swears it will work.

The first scope I had involved Golitely, the subsequent four have not.

One of them involved a drug called "Propulcid" a great moment in product naming.

[napoleon_in_rags]

8. Valis, by Philip K. Dick.

Just finished Ubik. Seen most of the movies, but this is my first exposure to PDK's writing. Love it, love it, love it!

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. I just ordered Valis

I have read a lot of PKDs books but somehow missed this one

[mvccd1000]

10. "Blood Island" by H. Terrell Griffin

Showed up as a free book for kindle, so I tried it out. Liked it enough that I'll probably end up buying some of his others. :)

[MaineDem]

11. "Hornet Flight" by Ken Follett

Somehow I missed this when it was new.

[fadedrose]

12. COFFIN MAN by James D. Doss

I think this may be his best one yet. It's a terrific book to start the series with, even tho it's the 16th. Funny as hell when it's not scary.


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[fadedrose]

27. I loved this book......nt

[Louisiana1976]

13. "Quicksand" by Iris Johansen

[RagAss]

14. Just finished King's 11/22/63.

[Enthusiast]

17. Did you like it?

Thanks.

[RagAss]

18. Yes...King hit it out of the park !

I could not put this book down...he weaves even the lesser known facts regarding Oswald and the lead-up to the fateful day. Also, he bends the mind a bit when it comes to the complexities of time travel.

Read this one

[Enthusiast]

20. Great!

I'm on the list for it at the local library.

[MaineDem]

21. I agree.

I thought it was great and I couldn't put it down either.

[pscot]

15. The information: A history, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

Also Tropic of Chaos by Parenti, Bite me; A Love Story by Chris Moore and, inevitably, Have Mercy On Us All by Fred Vargas. I think this is the 5th one by her in the last few weeks.

[Moe Shinola]

19. The collected poetry & prose of Dorothy Parker...

...all of it! In one volume.

[YankeyMCC]

22. Mountains and Rivers Without End

by Gary Snyder

[JitterbugPerfume]

24. The Best American Science and Nature Writing

editor Freeman Dyson

I am kinda' a science nerd

[ellie]

25. You Believers by Jane Bradley

[elfin]

26. Just finished Tiger by Vaillant

For a Natural History Book Club.

Now almost finished with An Invisible Orchard - all about the amazing science and and history of human uses of seeds.

A beautiful small book.

Both are non - fiction, but Tiger could be adventure fiction, as I posted earlier.

Look forward oto A Death at Pemberly by PD James (out soon) to get back into fiction.

[fadedrose]

28. DEATH OF A CAD

A 1987 book, 2nd in the Hamish MacBeth Series.....takes place in Scotland about a police constable...

Book 91

[fadedrose]

32. Short book, 200 pp, enjoyed...

[MaineDem]

29. Starting a new (to me) author - Charles Todd

A Matter of Justice. An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery.

[raccoon]

30. IN COLD BLOOD. For maybe 4th time. nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

31. Finished one last night, haven't started another. Help me decide.

The last two books I read were 1Q84, and 11/22/63. They're both huge tomes. They were both enjoyable to me. Does anyone happen to have a suggestion that would serve as the last book in this trinity?

Thank you.

[fadedrose]

33. AGATHA RAISIN AND THE POTTED GARDNER by M. C. Beaton

This is the 3rd in the Agatha Raisin series. She's a retired advertising agent, divorced, somehere in her 50's, in Cotswolds, England.

Very enjoyable so far.

Couldn't get the first 2 books of the series. Not available anywhere.


http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Beaton_M-C.html

Book 92

[fadedrose]

34. Finished and thought it was pretty good...

Short book - 200 pp - and I have so many to get to that I'm trying to pick off my short ones first. It's hard to concentrate with a pile of 8 books that need to be read...

Don't know what's next. Hard to get into something more challenging because of christmas shopping and babysitting and getting ingredients for baking, looking thru cookbooks, cleaning, etc. Don't feel like putting up a tree this year. Too many aches and pains. The family would rather have presents and food and put up their own decorations...

[DUgosh]

35. I love Aggie

I think the first book is called the Quiche of Death, introduces her pretty well. I like her later books better when Aggie isn't hung up on James Lacey anymore.

[fadedrose]

36. I'm glad that Lacey plays a smaller part...

He makes me nervous that Aggie will do the wrong thing..again. He's gotten a bit creepy to me since they accidentally kissed on the lips when she turned her head into it...I'm on the Walkers of Dembley now, just started it. Waiting to post it when you get yourself over to DU3.

Try the Hamish Macbeth series - you'll like it. I'm doing both and am grateful that the books are short because there's so damned many of them. :)