What are you reading the week of April 5, 2009?

[DUgosh]

I'm reading Death Tidies Up by Barbara Colley

[Adelante]

1. City of Refuge by Tom Piazza

A novel set in New Orleans during Katrina. Only about 50 pp in, at this point, but it seems good.

[likesmountains 52]

2. I just ordered that from my local bookstore. I heard about it on NPR

when they were discussing the finalists in the Tournament of Books.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. Bedside table stack:

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith

[cliffordu]

4. Gravity's Rainbow...For the umpteenth time.

[Wwagsthedog]

5. Bernard Cornwall

The Pale Horseman. Definitely escapist.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

6. Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen

The collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural crisis. I am not too far into it but surprised by how readable it is. I think I will learn a lot from this book.

[azmouse]

7. Mr Capone by Robert Schoenberg

The author is a bit long winded but there is some interesting history in the book.

[YankeyMCC]

8. "Pump Six and other stories " by Paolo Bacigalupi

A collection of his short stories

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Bacigalupi

I can't recommend him highly enough a very talented writer. His stories have a definate issue focus, the environment, but that hasn't taken anything away from his stories, plot and character, all of it is good regardless of whatever environmental message he's trying to send (although in the interest of full disclosure his environmental message is one I fully applaud)

[MrCoffee]

9. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

[Wheezy]

10. Hello Junk Mail by Ted L. Nancy

It's funny.

[jannyk]

11. World Without End - Ken Follett

(and next week too - it's a doorstop size book!)

[fadedrose]

12. The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp

I actually started to read this a year ago, but it's so darned long that I had to return it. There are so many places where this book could have ended and a series book started with the same characters.

It's the author's first book, it's amusing, has very likable characters, two LAPD detectives; but it's too long. When I got to page 500 something, I could tell that hardly any one had ever gone that far before, but I was determined. There's 632 pages, but to be fair, there are over 100 chapters, each requiring a blank page.

I liked the plot, it's just that the author had so many ideas that he couldn't leave out any of his thoughts (something like this post :))

I read it again because I see he has a third book out, Flipping Out. So I got the second book, Bloodthirsty and will get the third soon. I love series books when I like the characters.