What are you reading the week of July 7,2014?

[TexasProgresive]

I'm into In the Woods by Tana French. At page 67 and quite caught.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. "And The Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini

I loved his other two books, "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns", so expect this one to be good as well. I'm about 1/3 of the way into it.

[LoisB]

2. An oldie: "Candide" by Voltaire.

[IDemo]

3. "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Just finished it an hour ago. Fantastic novel based on the intertwining stories of young people on the German and French sides during World War ll. If you read his short story "The Shell Collector", the style will be familiar: all narrated in the present tense, vivid depictions of characters and Nature. This is one you can count on losing a lot of sleep over because you can't put it down, and if you're like me will find yourself reading more slowly as the final chapters come just to make it last.


http://www.anthonydoerr.com/books/all-the-light-we-cannot-see/

[Enthusiast]

6. This has captured my interest.

Thanks, IDemo.

[IDemo]

7. A review that says it much better than I could

The author has quite the gift herself:

I always thought, or imagined, that there were these invisible lines trembling in our wake, outlining our trajectories through life, throbbing with electric energy. Lines that sometimes cross one other, or follow in parallel ellipses without ever touching, or meet up for one brief moment and then part. A universe of lines crisscrossing in the void.

Anthony Doerr's astonishing new novel "All The Light We Cannot See" follows the complex arcs of two such invisible lines through the lives of Werner Pfennig, an orphan boy in pre-World War II Germany and Marie-Laure Leblanc, a blind girl living in Paris with her father. Through riveting flash forwards and flash backs, the novel charters the course of their lives as they struggle to find out wether it is possible to really own your life when it is swallowed by the black holes of history. One is driven by a deep love of science while the other is inhabited by the power of books. In the midst of the rise of German fascism and the birth of the French Resistance, how does youth manage to stay true to its essence?

A war story, a coming-of-age story, a philosophical fable, this is a novel that constantly oscillates between the moral uncertainties of life and the chiselled precision of the natural world that surrounds us. Between the political morass of war and the stupendous beauty of organisms, the ocean, the human brain.

The language is so fantastically precise - Anthony Doerr does things with verbs that make entire paragraphs sing - that the visual component of this book is quite astounding.

More - http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/743345915?book_show_action=true&page=1

[Enthusiast]

8. Thanks, IDemo.

I'm going to include All The Light We Cannot See on my library request list. I am lagging behind at the moment.

I bookmarked the Good Reads site.

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Dark fiction for me.

There are uncountable evils lying in wait, ready to consume the souls of mankind. From alien civilizations bent on human destruction, to demonic incursions from beyond the event horizon, to the horrifying malevolence that lives within us all, Equilibrium Overturned grabs you by the throat and drags you screaming into the heart of darkness.

Exploring terrifying dystopian societies, post-apocalyptic survival, the whitewashing of our own terrifying past, and supernatural worlds both near and far, Equilibrium Overturned offers 14 shocking revelations into the true origins of evil. Come with us on a journey into malignant terror that will drive a nail through all that remains of your own humanity.

http://www.amazon.com/Equilibrium-Overturned-Heart-Darkness-Awaits-ebook/dp/B00L8H2LJW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1404734996&sr=1-1

[Enthusiast]

5. I'm reading Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler.

This is the first appearance of the Dirk Pitt character. It's from 1982.

[japple]

9. Soldier From the War Returning by Thomas Childers