What are you reading the week of December 11, 2011?

[DUgosh]

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Murder Among Friends By Jonnie Jacobs - Kate Austen book #1

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Saving Fish from Drowning

Amy Tan

[GP6971]

2. Inferno By

Max Hastings

[fadedrose]

3. AGATHA RAISIN AND THE WALKERS OF DEMBLEY by M. C. Beaton

4th in the series.

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

Book 93

Glad you made it. I'm not the only one who misses you.

[TBF]

4. Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron

[getting old in mke]

5. Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco.

Been avoiding it for years, although I've a fan of _Illuminatus_ since about 1980...no rush, I guess.

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. I read it a few years ago

It was interesting

[DUgosh]

6. Is three day town good?

I have it on my nook wish list. I've read most everying Margaret Maron has written.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. finishing VALIS

just a couple of chapters to go. It is a strange and interesting book if you like Sci Fi. I haven't decided what is next .

[MrCoffee]

32. I read VALIS once a year...I love it so much

[JitterbugPerfume]

33. it is an experience to remember

I didn't want it to end.

[backtoblue]

9. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

I'm loving the Hunger Games trilogy!

[Luciferous]

19. I really enjoyed those books.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

21. I really enjoyed that series

Bought it for my granddaughter for Christmas gift.

[ellie]

10. The Cider House Rules by John Irving

[jannyk]

12. I absolutely adored this book.

[ellie]

22. That's good to hear. I just started it.

I told my fiction prof that I would read it over winter break.

[jannyk]

11. Still Reading 11/22/63 - Stephen King.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

20. Finished 11/22/63 last week

how are you liking it? I didn't feel it was one of King's best.

[jannyk]

27. So far....

...it's.....ummm.....cute?

It's my nightly read as I fall to sleep and it's entertaining enough for that. I'll let you know when I finish.

[hamerfan]

45. I'm halfway through 11/22/63

Okay so far, but I probably should've gotten Insomnia.

[MaineDem]

13. "The House at Riverton" aka "The Shifting Fog" by Kate Morton

Pretty good so far. This is the first book by this author that I've read.

[elfin]

14. Just. Finished An Orchard Invisible

For our natural history book club.

Wonderful small book packed with fascinating info and history of culture changing seeds.

Now must take a reading break to get holiday stuff done. But going to get Leopard by Nesbo as soon as I can.

[motely36]

15. Fever Dream

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Love the Pendergast novels

[DisgustipatedinCA]

16. Under the Dome, Stephen King

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[MaineDem]

17. That's next on my list. n/t

[DisgustipatedinCA]

24. I guess I'm doing this in reverse chronological order.

I just finished 11/22/63, and went directly into Under the Dome. This leaves a big hole in the middle of my Stephen King reading. I've read most of his first 7 or 8 books...Carrie/Shining/Stand/It, etc...up to about the Dark Tower, which I never started. And then I've read his two most recent.

[MaineDem]

26. The only other King book I've read (before "11/22/63") was "Christine"

I'm not thrilled with the creepy stuff. I loved the latest so I'm kinda going in reverse order, too.

[Luciferous]

18. Collected Works of P.G. Wodehouse

I love the Jeeves stories, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

[fadedrose]

23. THE BAD NEWS BIBLE by Anna Blundy

Takes place in Jerusalem....Faith Zanetti is a reporter.

Ensho rec'd the author having read Blundy's 2 later books but had not yet read this one. (will let you know, enscho, whether I like it or not - am on page 20).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=208x27116

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Blundy_Anna.html

[ceile]

25. The Italian Secretary- Caleb Carr

It's a Sherlock Holmes novel. Not bad- a bit slow.

[Chemisse]

28. The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve

[Lost-in-FL]

29. Plato's The Republic (for school) and Simone de Beauvoir "She came to Stay" for leisure. nt

[one_voice]

30. I just finished...

Die For Me--Karen Rose. Not sure what I'm going to read next.

[boston bean]

31. I've been really busy reading DU

I've got to get back to reading some of the 99 cent books or free books I get from:

http://ereadernewstoday.com/

[JitterbugPerfume]

34. Started Forty Signs of Rain

by Kim Stanley Robinson last night, and the next thing I knew it was four AM --that is how engrossing it is! Robinson is very well informed about the science of global warming and his characters are well rounded and interesting . I especially like Charley, the "Mr Mom" guy.

I am sure this book just keeps getting better, and it is the first book in a trilogy YEA!!! I have read other books by him and they are ALL fabulous

[Lydia Leftcoast]

35. Just finished Arnaldur Indridason's Hypothermia (e-book on my phone) and am in the midst of

The Breath of God (bedside book), about a scholar of religious studies who finds evidence that Jesus went to India during his youth. Meanwhile, the fundies are out to discredit him.

[ZenLefty]

36. How to Survive in a Science Fictional Universe.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through. It's drudgery. I can only read 3-4 pages before I feel like putting it down to go clean the cat litter box or sort all my old credit card receipts or something. It may be September before I finish it.

[JitterbugPerfume]

38. Hi Zen Lefty!

It's Good to see another real old timer!

[ZenLefty]

39. Oh, I'm not that old.

I suppose I'm old in "DU years" though.

[JitterbugPerfume]

42. Good to see ya!

[bikebloke]

37. The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen

Time travellers keeping the past from being altered by other time travellers trying to change the future.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

40. The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes

Just finished Under the Dome, by Stephen King. What a hoot.

[MaineDem]

41. Reading a new-to-me author, Barry Eisler and his John Rain series

Just finished Rain Fall and I'm about to order the next one from Audible.

[getting old in mke]

43. In fall 2010, I went to a panel

at Bouchercon in San Francisco that had Eisler, Gayle Lynds, SJ Rozan and Mark Billingham (for the British POV) entitled "Who's afraid of Glenn Beck: Are liberals out in the cold with the current kingmaker of thrillers?" A very, very interesting hour from four liberal authors writing thrillers. Eisler has written on-line pretty extensively--and directly addresses in his books torture in particular. It did make the last 20% of "Inside Out" go clunk--break neck thriller comes to a standstill for an anti-torture sermon--but he managed to work things into the plot better in the most recent one. (Those pages would have been great if taken out of the story as an essay appendix...though if you read him on-line you'll find the same material.)

John Rain is a marvelous character. Ben Treven, his other series character, is fun but less complex.

[MaineDem]

44. Good to know. Thanks!

I'll do some searching.