What are you reading the week of March 18, 2012?

[DUgosh]

Girl on Fire by Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games book #2

2012 - book #47

[northoftheborder]

1. I've started "The Hobbitt". I've never read it, believe it or not!

[Laurian]

2. Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green

A relationship novel that is pure escapism.

[russspeakeasy]

3. Just finished John Conneleys "The Drop".

Please don't waste your money or time.

[Little Star]

5. Oh no! I love the Harry Bosch series...

Have you read all the other ones in that series? I haven't read this one yet but they had a free offering of the first 11 chapters for Kindle so I ordered that just because I could, lol.

[russspeakeasy]

8. Yes, I have been an avid reader of the Bosch series...

IMHO, this one is pretty weak. I'd be interested in yur thoughts, if you read it.

[matt819]

10. I had the same feeling

I've liked the Harry Bosch series. The characters have developed over time, for better or worse, have moved along in their careers. Etc. But this one just seemed a bit stiff. Maybe it's the overall sense that Connelly may be trying to depict, that Harry himself is getting on, stiff, cranky, etc. But it struck me as forced.

[MaineDem]

6. Michael Connelly?

I read great reviews. What didn't you like?

[russspeakeasy]

7. Yes the first name is michael

Way too many coincidences for me. And their outcomes were predictable....But thst's just me.

[fadedrose]

12. I felt the same

about the last 3 novels . . .

[MaineDem]

4. NECESSARY AS BLOOD by Deborah Crombie

Book # 13 in the series. Only one more after this.

[fadedrose]

14. Cheer up

She'll probably have another one out this year or soon thereafter. And you can start the series all over again...

Since you read book books, look up James D. Doss and read about Charlie Moon. You have to read the first 3 books out of 16 before you really appreciate him.....(the first one isn't about him), and the titles have virtually nothing to do with the stories...

Try Colin Cotterill too, about Dr. Siri, a coroner in Laos...sounds terrible, but quite good actually...

Both are at:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/index.html

[MaineDem]

15. Excellent. Thank you.

I'll look at those.

[matt819]

9. The Burning Soul, by John Connolly

Not Michael Connelly.

Also, still listening to The Stand. I'm not sure if it ever ends.

[Goblinmonger]

11. Beloved by Morrison

Been on a list to read (working my way through the Pulitzer winners) for some time. I love reading Toni but something always seems to come up, so I'm reading it this week. So far very powerful.

[fadedrose]

13. A SHARE IN DEATH (1993) by Deborah Crombie

Starting this one today. It's the first in Crombe's 14-book series about Scotland Yard Supt. Duncan Kincaid and Sgt. Gemma James. Takes place in England

(We know all this from MaineDem already, I know)



http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Crombie_Deborah.html



Book 25

[fadedrose]

16. ANARCHY AND OLD DOGS (2007) by Colin Cotterill

Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 70-something national coroner, Nurse Dtui, and Geung, a developmentally challenged morgue assistant, in 1970s Laos. A lot of humor you would not expect with this topic.
This is book book 4 of 8 in the series so far.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Cotterill_Colin.html

Book 26 of 2012

[bluescribbler]

17. A Handbook of American Prayer - Lucius Shepard - Concord Free Press

n/t

[fadedrose]

18. AGATHA RAISIN AND THE WELLSPRING OF DEATH (1998) by M. C. Beaton

Book 7 of the Agatha Raisin series.....







Book 27 of 2012

[skippercollector]

19. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Go ahead and laugh if you want, but I just reread Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull from 1970. I'd read it in junior high school in the 1970s, but remembered almost none of it. I had gotten a bunch of used books for Christmas last year that had been purchased at Half-Price Books, and this was one of them.
If you've never read it, it's the story of an outcast seagull who wants to soar in the heavens like an eagle rather than flap his wings with the flocks at the beach stealing food. Two angelic-type birds visit him and take him to what I guess is seagull heaven. Jonathan learns to soar and then returns to Earth to teach other outcast seagulls about flight and about reaching what sounds like Nirvana. There are grainy black-and-white photos of gulls in flight accompanying the story.
The story seems to be a combination of Jesus' Transfiguration and of Buddha obtaining enlightenment. It's a very simply written story, only 127 pages with large type and lots of photos. Almost too simple, I think. Completely ignoring the religious aspect of the novel, the characters--I guess you would call them that--seem to be rather stereotyped and I found Jonathan annoying and arrogant and self-centered at times.
The most interesting parts of the book were the technical aspects, the information about how seagulls actually fly, and then Jonathan's attempts at soaring and speeding miles overhead.