Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat are you reading the week of January 29, 2012?
Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson - Kerry Kilcannon book #2Bear with me folks I'm posting a little early this week, I'll make up for it by being a little late next week.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)I saw the movie, so now I'm reading the book.
MaineDem
(18,161 posts)I've never read any of the Bond books. It's wonderful!
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,219 posts)My bedside book is "The Missing World" by Margot Livesey.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)"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)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)...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.
YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)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)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)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.
JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)I recently bought an Alice in Wonderland pop up book . Embrace your inner child..
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Book 2 of the series
Book 10 of the year
matt819
(10,749 posts)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
Little Star
(17,055 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)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.
Mz Pip
(27,921 posts)It's excellent.
Kablooie
(18,788 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)So am I . . .
ceile
(8,692 posts)I've read a couple of the Wallander series and they're quite good.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)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