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DUgosh

(3,107 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 09:00 AM Jan 2012

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

Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson - Kerry Kilcannon book #2

Bear with me folks I'm posting a little early this week, I'll make up for it by being a little late next week.
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What are you reading the week of January 29, 2012? (Original Post) DUgosh Jan 2012 OP
"Shutter Island" krispos42 Jan 2012 #1
"Doctor No" by Ian Fleming MaineDem Jan 2012 #2
Still on Willkie Collins' "No Name" as my purse book (It's long) Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2012 #3
THE CORONER'S LUNCH (2004) by Colin Cotterill fadedrose Jan 2012 #4
This was a very good book and I recommend it fadedrose Jan 2012 #11
Mexico Set, by Len Deighton... Moe Shinola Jan 2012 #5
Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad YankeyMCC Jan 2012 #6
almost finished IQ84 Warren Stupidity Jan 2012 #7
60 Days and Counting JitterbugPerfume Jan 2012 #8
Alice In Wonderland hamerfan Jan 2012 #9
not laughing! JitterbugPerfume Jan 2012 #10
THIRTY-THREE TEETH by Colin Cotterill fadedrose Jan 2012 #12
Various matt819 Jan 2012 #13
I love me some Virgil Flowers! How was Shock Wave? Little Star Feb 2012 #14
Pretty good matt819 Feb 2012 #20
Sense of Ending by Julian Barnes Mz Pip Feb 2012 #15
At the moment I'm reading The Democratic Underground. Kablooie Feb 2012 #16
What a coincidence.... fadedrose Feb 2012 #17
"Sidetracked" Henning Mankell ceile Feb 2012 #18
THE TORSO IN THE TOWN by Simon Brett fadedrose Feb 2012 #19

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,219 posts)
3. Still on Willkie Collins' "No Name" as my purse book (It's long)
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 02:50 PM
Jan 2012

My bedside book is "The Missing World" by Margot Livesey.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
4. THE CORONER'S LUNCH (2004) by Colin Cotterill
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 02:58 PM
Jan 2012
"Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 70-something national coroner, Nurse Dtui, and Geung, a developmentally challenged morgue assistant, in 1970s Laos"

This is the first in this mystery series. I picked it up last night along with the 2nd book, Thirty-Three Teeth 2005, recommended by petronius in clyrc's op of Dec. 11. I like Dr. Siri very much.

What is amazing to me is that it is so obvious that these books were never borrowed from the library before. I think maybe people don't warm up to books written about foreign countries.

Anyway the author has a light humorous touch and I think this is the beginning of a new series for me. Am only on page 57, so things could change. Dr. Siri is 72 years of age...

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

Book 9 of 2012

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
11. This was a very good book and I recommend it
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 12:56 AM
Jan 2012

Can't wait to start the next one, Thirty-Three Teeth.

Crimes are solved with science, with a lil' help from Dr. Siri, who is able to "see" things and people that most of us can't see...

(Shades of Aunt Daisy here and there from James Doss' Charlie Moon series (Colorado); and just a tad of Christopher Fowler's Peculiar Crimes Unit Series (London); and a bit of Sharyn McCrumb's Applachian Ballad Series (Tennessee), except that Sharyn's series has very little humour..)

Maybe if any of you know of similar stories, please post..I enjoy the touch of spirits of the dead)

Moe Shinola

(143 posts)
5. Mexico Set, by Len Deighton...
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 08:53 AM
Jan 2012

...also Selected Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Moon Dance, by S. P. Somtow, Lateral Thinking, by
Edward De Bono & The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, by Sax Rohmer. Oh, and still nibbling away at Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
7. almost finished IQ84
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 01:19 PM
Jan 2012

and then I have to go read Haruki Murakami's previous novels, or at least the ones in english, or perhaps I have to learn Japanese .

JitterbugPerfume

(18,183 posts)
8. 60 Days and Counting
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 06:30 PM
Jan 2012

the last book in the trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. The sea levels are rising, weather is erratic , and only science and the dedication of a few good people , including the President of the United States can save us! This one is sometimes to close for comfort.

hamerfan

(1,404 posts)
9. Alice In Wonderland
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 05:06 AM
Jan 2012

Don't laugh. I've never read this before. Turns out I like it a lot. I'm not very far into it, at the Red Queen's croquet party.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
13. Various
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 11:11 PM
Jan 2012

Chelsea Mansions, a British police procedural series
The Night Eternal, the third in the vampire trilogy from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan - so far, an antidote for happiness
Just finished Shock Wave, the latest from John Sandford

matt819

(10,749 posts)
20. Pretty good
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 09:08 AM
Feb 2012

Typical Virgil, though this time he seems to have a plethora of lovely women to choose from, some tripping over him, others more aloof, all very entertaining. And as with all of the Virgil Flowers novels, you just have to marvel at how bizarre life is in the Minnesota back country.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
19. THE TORSO IN THE TOWN by Simon Brett
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 12:53 AM
Feb 2012

About Carole Seddon, a retired middle-aged divorced woman in Fethering, England.
This is 3rd in the series.

It's not bad, but I think I like Agatha Raisin mysteries a bit better - she's written by M. C. Beaton, a bit more humor...





Book 11 of 2012

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