What are you reading the week of July 29, 2012?

[Little Star]

Here is DUgosh's weekly thread for you guys. I haven't heard from her but hope all is well.

[bemildred]

1. "Gods Without Men" -- Hari Kunzru nt

[bemildred]

13. "River Teeth" -- David James Duncan nt

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18. "Farther Along" -- Dennis Harrington

[mvccd1000]

2. "Caribbean Rain" by Rick Murcer

The fourth Manny Williams thriller. Manny is a (former) Lansing, Michigan police detective, now with the FBI. The author is also from Lansing, so I buy and read them to support a hometown guy, even though it can be a strain to wade through the unrealistic dialogue at times. (Like 99% of the times.)

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Still working on Stephen King's "The Stand", uncut version

It will take me some time. But I am enjoying re-reading it.

[BlueinOhio]

4. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

Picked it up a The Half Price Bookstore for $2.00

[fadedrose]

5. KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT (2011) by Colin Cotterill

Cotterill manages to pull off what I think is impossible for a man to do right, and that is to write as a female in the first person.

When I realized that was the case I didn't want to read the book, wasn't enthused about it. I don't know what happened. but started liking the book and loving the characters. Am past half-way and have already ordered the sequel. Jimm Juree is a reporter, and every chapter is led by a confusing George Bush quote - thus, killed by a "whim of a hat."

This mystery takes place in Thailand and shows the wonderful humor and attitudes of the Thai people. I've finished all the Dr. Siri series and hope he does more of them...

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


Book 64 of 2012

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. still reading Origins

by Neal DeGrasse

[YankeyMCC]

7. All souls : a family story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald

[pscot]

8. War and Peace

Free Kindle download from project Gutenberg. They have all those tremendous, 19th century novels available free. And I can carry them around in my pocket.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. "The Ape Who Guards the Balance" by Elizabeth Peters. Book 10 out of 19.

[AngryOldDem]

10. Finishing "Remarkable Creatures" by Tracy Chevalier.

[elfin]

14. Nice book

We read it for a natural history book club.

[LWolf]

11. "The Pact:

a love story" by Jodi Picoult.

Typically depressing from this author, with no happy ending possible.

If she weren't able to wrap her tragedy around some food for thought about human relationships, I wouldn't bother.

[dimbear]

12. Wachtmeister Studer or "Thumbprint" by Friedrich Glauser........

The first of the golden age detective series. Swiss noir. If you like the golden age, take a look at Glauser. Strange man that he was, he is very good.

[elfin]

15. The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Intricate and irreverent and politically relevant, even though it takes place in Italy of the late 1800's.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

16. I'm reading Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel n/t

[fadedrose]

17. DEATH OF A BORE (2005) by M. C. Beaton

21st book in the Hamish Macbeth mystery series; takes place in the Scottish Highlands....

What's nice is that these books are fairly short and sweet. Great characters, and boy are they characters....

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


My book 65 of 2012...

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Did you ever see the tv series of Hamish?

Found them delightful, full of humor and deliciously weird characters.

[fadedrose]

21. Never saw them

I'm looking for something and bumped into this email, don't know how I missed it, but no, I never did.

Hamish is one of my "home ports" that I go back to, especially after a book that was too sad, scary or whatever. Puts me back on an even keel. Same with Agatha, Charlie Moon, the Fowler mysteries and a few others.

[Tindalos]

19. "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi