What are you reading the week of August 28, 2011?

[DUgosh]

The Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George Lynley/Havers book #1

[ixion]

1. Vonnegut's 'Bluebeard'

[ClassWarrior]

2. "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie

NGU.

[Faygo Kid]

3. "A Stillness At Appomattox." Again. I waited for vacation.

David McCullough (you have heard of him) said it was the book that changed his life.

It changed mine, too. Thank you, Bruce Catton.

[applegrove]

4. "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain. Based on Hemingway & his first wife. I'm really enjoying it.

[MindandSoul]

5. "Five Smooth Stones" by Ann Fairbairn

[pitohui]

14. i think i read this 35 years ago!!!

assuming it's the same book (don't remember the author's name) i didn't know it was still in print...maybe i'll hunt it up again, think i had the paperback but i may have passed it on some years ago

[SheilaT]

6. The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt.

It's his first novel, and I didn't even know about it until I saw a reference to it here on DU.

I LOVE all of Jack McDevitt's novels, and if you are even remotely into s-f, you should read his stuff.

Oh, and by the way, The Hercules Text is a First Contact novel. I'm only a hundred pages into it, so I have no idea how it will play out, but it's very good so far.

As an aspiring writer, I need to learn not to feel envious of such writers as Jack McDevitt.

[rainy]

7. Cutting For Stone, it is so beautifully well written and a great story.

Any writers out there who want to read a master's work read this. His sentences are superb. I can't get enough. I'm listening to it now bot will go back and read it.

[applegrove]

9. I enjoyed that too.

[mvccd1000]

8. Rain Gods, by James Lee Burke

Just picked it up, haven't even hit page 1 yet, although I always look forward to his storytelling.

[fadedrose]

10. WHISKEY KILLS by Johnny D. Boggs

It's a sequel to Killstraight which I read last week.

The books are both short, 220 pp. The first is memorable, the Commanche Indian, Daniel Killstraight, is a likable character.




Book 62




R'd, of course...

[fadedrose]

11. I liked this book

This book will make more sense after you read the 2nd and the 3rd...

[AngryOldDem]

12. "Gilead" by Marylynne Robinson

[elfin]

13. Anthill by E.O Wilson

Fiction, BUT lots of natural history info woven into one boy's journey to become an environmental lawyer in Alabama.

Excellent book for the issues at hand and "clean" enough to give your kids to acquaint them with the interactions between nature and human activity.

Wilson (from Alabama) is now at Harvard and has won numerous prizes (including Pulitzer) for his ecological studies as well as his deep research into ants.

[Jaga]

15. Heinlein's "Revolt in 2100"

It seems so appropriate now that Perry is seeking the Presidency.

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. still reading Galileos Dream

an excellent book that you can't hurry through

[pscot]

17. Saturdays's Child by Ray Banks

Very dark.

[ellie]

18. "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee

[fadedrose]

19. THE BODY ON THE BEACH by Simon Brett

Mystery - takes place in England.


Book 63

[fadedrose]

29. I liked the characters in this book

Plot was okay too.

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Re-reading "Dandelion Wine".

[TheCentepedeShoes]

21. The latest Louise Penny

A Trick of the Light

[fadedrose]

22. Have you started it yet?

[TheCentepedeShoes]

23. Yes, read about 4 chapters

Love it

[WCIL]

24. Ready Player One

was in for my at the library this week. So far I am enjoying it.

[MaineDem]

25. "The Help" but I'm not thrilled by it

It's not grabbing me and I'm finding it quite boring - so far.

[Odin2005]

26. Still reading "The Grass Crown" by Colleen McCullough.

I'm put to the start of the War of The Allies, where several Italian states declare independence from Rome after the Roman politician Marcus Livius Drusus, who was trying to give citizenship to all Italians, was assassinated.

[Yupster]

27. The Hunger Games

Just finished the three book series.

Amazingly heroic characters. Enjoyed them immensely. Looking for other stuff by Suzanne Collins.

[MaineDem]

28. "Running Blind" by Lee Child. Another Reacher book.

Actually, it's my favorite Reacher story yet.

I had to give up on "The Help." Maybe I'll go back to it later.