What are you reading the week of August 26, 2012?

[DUgosh]

Bloodroot by Amy Greene

2012 book #130

[Jim__]

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

I'm going to take a class inn Ulysses this fall and have to read this in preparation. Love the way Joyce uses language.

[Mz Pip]

2. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles.

Set in NYC in the 30s.

[fadedrose]

3. ELEVEN DAYS (1998) by Donald Harstad

This is the first of 5 books in a mystery series that takes place in Iowa. Main character is Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman.

This is about satanic cult murderers (very gory). These and serial killers are my two least topics. But it's written in the first person in a nice style so I'm going to stick with Carl till we catch them crazy people...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/H_Authors/Harstad_Donald.html

Book 76 of 2012

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I just finished it!

I actually had discovered him via a later book, Known Dead. I like his breezy conversational tone and enjoy the journey as much as the plot.
His writing is getting tighter, pacing more even in later books. Too bad there are only 4 so far.

[fadedrose]

13. I liked the book

because of the way he writes. I have Known Dead but can't start it for a week or so.
Have other stuff to read, and got a new pc and am going crazy with lost passwords, etc... That darned motherboard could have warned me she was going to jump ship and I would have copied them all down....

Thanks for the rec...

[SheilaT]

4. The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras

by J. Michael Orenduff.

It takes place in Albuquerque, and I live n Santa Fe. I usually love books set in a place I know pretty well.

Some years back I picked up a book and on the first page the Nine Mile Woods is mentioned. It (which is a fictional name) is alongside the Nine Mile Creek, a real creek, which flowed through the small town in upstate New York that I lived in as a child. Yep, the book took place in that town, although the author renamed it, and names various other places right around it that I knew well.

I just love a book like that.

[fadedrose]

5. I looked it up, sounds interesting...

5 books in "The Pot Thief.." mystery series and I see one got the "Lefty Award" for humor. I wonder if they all have some humor.

Sounds like it's up my alley . . .except I don't know if I have to study Pythagorus to appreciate the book....hmm, was Pythagorus a funny guy?

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/O_Authors/Orenduff_J-Michael.html

[SheilaT]

7. No, you absolutely do not need to

study up on Pythagoras. The humor is entirely situational to what's going on. Trust me, just read the book. I'm planning on reading all the other pot thief books myself.

[fadedrose]

14. My library doesn' have it..

Nor does any library in Michigan - a group called MELcat.. It comes in pocketbook, no hardcover..

The librarian is a doll and will attempt to get it out of state. I normally don't read pocketboods, but these have such good reviews on Amazon and the books are 9 x 6, so they should be fairly handy to read.

Will let you know how it turns out...

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. If you happen to be into book swaps

I get a lot of books that way.
Only have to pay postage to mail books out in return for points that you use to get more books sent to you.
Average cost is 2.50 per book.
an excellent site is paperbackswap.com
hardbounds, audio and paperbacks.. ( books HAVE to be in good condition)
and bookmooch.com
...not quite as finicky about GOOD conditon, I get a lot of paperbacks from popular authors like Grisham, Kelelrman, etc from them the have hardbound books also.

[Onceuponalife]

6. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy

A bio about my favorite all-time Dodger. After 36 years a Dodgers fan I figured it was about time I read the life story of the player I never got to see play..

[elfin]

9. Exit Music by Rankin

As usual, excellent. Can't believe the last of Rebus.

[LWolf]

10. Handling Sin, by Michael Malone. nt

[SheilaT]

11. The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker.

Very interesting concept. The rotation of the earth starts slowing down, so the days and nights get progressively longer and longer. I'll be very curious to see how she resolves it.

[getting old in mke]

12. _Sharpe's Revenge_ by Bernard Cornwell

Been working my way through the series. I'd read/listened to about half previously in non-chronological order. Now I'm getting the full sweep.

[fadedrose]

16. THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET (2001)

Non-series....mystery....England.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Beaton_M-C.html

My book 77 of 2012.

[Tindalos]

17. That sounds interesting.

I've read quite a few of the Hamish Macbeth books, but that was a while ago.

[Tindalos]

18. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Education Library had another book I was looking for (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs), so I picked up a pile of books that I'd heard of but never read when I was younger.

[fadedrose]

19. BURIED DREAMS (2004) by Brendan DuBois

Fifth in this mystery series about Lewis Cole, a former Department of Defense research analyst, retired in Tyler Beach, New Hampshire:


http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/D_Authors/DuBois_Brendan.html

My book 78 of 2012