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

[DUgosh]

Amazing Gracie by Sherryl Woods

2012 - book# 72

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes.

It's a fascinating chronicle of how the world's most famous anatomy text came to be. It includes biographies of the two authors, plus the supporting cast of people in their lives.

Bill Hayes has written two other books: Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir and Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood.

He is a compelling writer! I highly recommend all his writing.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. I remember years ago

buying the Greys Anatomy coloring book. It was such fun! I occasionally get out my big fat Greys Anatomy and just browse through it.

This sounds like a book I would like to read

Thanks for the recommendation.

[YankeyMCC]

2. The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad

[MaineDem]

3. FACELESS KILLERS by Henning Mankell

The first Wallender book.

I've seen the Branagh series so I thought I'd give the books a look. So far so good.

[fadedrose]

7. I read this one, and the next

The Dogs of Riga. Both well written mysteries. Haven't gotten any further in the series because it's maybe a bit too gloomy for me. I need some smiles here and there...

[MaineDem]

8. I remember the character in the tv series being very conflicted and moody

This first book is pretty good. It's an audiobook with the same narrator as the Reacher books so I "see" Wallender more as Jack Reacher than Kenneth Branagh.

[fadedrose]

10. Try the one I just posted by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Matt819 listened to it back in 2011 and he liked it..

[MaineDem]

11. Thanks; added it to my wishlist

Thanks for the recommendation.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. I prefer the original Swedish series (shown on MHz Worldview, which

takes up one of the public access channels in Minneapolis).

Branagh's Wallander looks and acts like he just crawled out of an alley on Sunday morning. Krister Henriksson, who plays Wallander in the Swedish-made series, is much truer to the books and while obviously depressed, he seems more like a normal person.

[MaineDem]

20. I'll look for it

Thanks.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. It's on Amazon Instant Video, but at a high price per episode

Watching one episode might not break your budget, though.

[fadedrose]

24. Where are you MaineDem?

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You haven't posted for 2 weeks....you okay?

[getting old in mke]

4. _A Darker Place_ by Jack Higgins

Sean Dillon rides again.

[mvccd1000]

12. Cool - Dillon's one of my favorite characters

Is it up to par with the old ones?

[getting old in mke]

22. Not much Dillon

Fun read.

We do get the tale of Roper's past and details of the bomb that put him in the wheelchair.

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. Just finished(last night)

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. It is a dark , perverse and fascinating book , written by one of the best novelist of my generation. I am now reading Outer Dark , also by McCarthy.So far it is the equal of his other books that I have had the privilege to read(even though they give me nightmares, bemildred!)LOL

[fadedrose]

9. THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES (2011) by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Wonderful book, so far, anyway. Checked in "Search" and the only other person I found who "listened" to it was matt819.


Carl Morck, Dept Q, Old Cases - takes place in Denmark

book 38 of 2012

[matt819]

13. Only a couple

Just stared Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham, the latest in the Joe O'Loughlin series. I've read a few of these and have liked them. This one's off to a good start.

I've been on a Mike Carey marathon these past few weeks, now listening to the fourth (of five) in the Felix Castor series. Carey is a fantastic writer. Castor is a ghost hunter/exorcist in London in the middle part of the first decade of the 21st century, and the dead are rising, as ghosts, zombies, demons, and more. You won't be disappointed. Ok, you might be. So sue me. The first three books were narrated by Michael Kramer, and his narration just sucks you in. Together with Carey's writing, you can really lose yourself in the story. Numbers four and five are narrated by Damian Lynch, and I'm not happy with his approach. By the way, while the books are probably okay as free-standing novels, it's best to read them in order. Check his page on wikipedia for the details.

[mvccd1000]

14. "The Destroyed" by Brett Battles ("The Cleaner" series)

The latest Jonathan Quinn book. Quinn has been laying low and is just getting drawn into the story in Chapter 6, but it has the usual enjoyable writing so far. After a spate of not-so-great reads, it's nice to get back to an author I really enjoy.

[matt819]

16. These really are trashy.

And yet I've read all of them, except the latest. Go figure.

[fadedrose]

15. HIDDEN MOON (2007) James Church

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2nd in the Inspector O series. Takes place in North Korea.






Book 39 of 2012

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Yes, wonderful series

I've got his latest one, The Man with the Baltic Stare in my bedside queue.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. Bedside book: Mozart's Last Aria, Purse book: Ashes to Dust

In Mozart's Last Aria, Mozart's sister Nannerl goes to Vienna to find out what happened after she receives word that he has died. She finds out that he was in trouble with the authorities due to his Masonic connections (the Masons were considered dangerous revolutionaries).

In Ashes to Dust, one of Yrsa Sigurdardottir's Icelandic novels, lawyer Thora goes to the Westmann Islands, which suffered a volcanic eruption in 1973, because her client doesn't want his family's former home excavated, and at first glance, it's understandable: four bodies and a detached head are found in the basement. The client claims innocence, but then the woman who is part of his alibi is murdered.

[fadedrose]

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