What are you reading the week of April 1, 2012?

[DUgosh]

Picture Perfect[/u ] by Jodi Picoult

2012 - book #58

[Turbineguy]

1. Ryan's Budget

[Melissa G]

2. Portrait of Jenny

by Robert Nathan.

Had a nostalgic hankering to re read it.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. Freethinkers, a History of American Secularism

by Susan Jacoby, a re-reading.

I just finished Flow my Tears, the Policeman said by PK Dick

[Goblinmonger]

5. How was Flow my Tears, the Policeman said?

I LOVED Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (and BladeRunner--both for different reasons). Thought about adding Tears to my reading list. Would be a good lead-in read for me for the dystopian literature unit I teach in Brit Lit.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. i really liked it, but then I love dystopian Sci Fi.

It is after the second civil war. The police state rules,and if you are caught without ID-----

[Goblinmonger]

4. THE DUBLINERS by James Joyce

It's a re-read, really. May toss in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man if I get enough time to read this week. Just prepping for my 5th read of Ulysses this summer. It's been a few years. Plus I have a couple of my high school Brit Lit students that want to read it with me and I told them to read the two I'm reading this week as prep so I figure I should polish up on them for questions.

Also reading first three graphic novels of The Walking Dead but that's more pleasure reading.

[dimbear]

7. The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont, by Robert Barr.......

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19369

If you loved Sherlock Holmes, as I did, and are sorry that you've read all of his adventures, dip into this rival of Sherlock. Barr was actually a friend of Conan Doyle in spite of his literary larceny, and not a bad writer at all.

[pscot]

8. Chaos, by James Gleick

I read The Information over xmas, then his brief but useful biography of Isaac Newton. Gleick has a breezy style and can talk tech with out getting bogged down in math. I'm also plowing through Bernard Cornwell's oeuvre; the Sharp series and others. This is formulaic stuff, but he writes well and offers a ripping yarn with interesting characters. What can I say. It beats TV.

[LearnedHand]

10. Loved the book!

Love Gleick's writing. Enjoy!

[getting old in mke]

13. I like _The Information_

which had, to my mind, an astonishingly high signal to noise ratio and entertainment value to boot. Though I am a math geek, I'm glad when an author doesn't have to appeal to that in a science writing situation. I'd say Simon Singh does well there, too.

Bernard Cornwell is such a natural storyteller, one of those authors who completely removes himself from the story. By that I mean his pacing and language and just the right degree of description seem to make the tale go from his brain to mine without stopping on the page in between.

[mvccd1000]

9. "No Return" by Brett Battles

This is not a book from "The Cleaner" series; it's a standalone. I'm only about 1/4 of the way into it, but it started off with a bang and has Battles' usual fast-paced, easy-to-read, page-turning style. I'm enjoying it so far. Nice treat after a series of duds.

[Moe Shinola]

11. Listening Woman, by Tony Hillerman. And, in audiobook format...

James Joyce's Ulysses. Wish me luck folks. I'm 3 chapters in and he's already starting to lose me(Goblinmonger, how many times before it revealed itself to you?). I'd include the insurance industry exam textbook and the music theory books I just got but they are homework.

[dimbear]

12. Was It Murder? James Hilton........

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James' adventure into the detective story genre. Or misadventure. Good writer, not quite aware of how detective stories work. (Made one think of that other remarkable book "The Red House." Milne, of all people, wrote a detective story which was a big seller in its day and is surely one of the most outlandish plots ever hatched.)

Some writers have gone very successfully from the genres to the mainstream or back. Not many. They're two different worlds.

Rex Stout was a good example. Zane Grey was humdinger example.



edit to remember a title right---oops

[fadedrose]

14. THE COLD BLUE BLOOD (2001) by David Handler

Mitch Berger, a New York film critic, and Desiree “Des” Mitry, a black police detective, in Dorset, Connecticut...

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



2012, Book 30

[MaineDem]

15. THE BRUTAL TELLING by Louise Penny

Book #5 in the Three Pines Series.

[bemildred]

16. "Almanac of the Dead" -- Leslie Marmon Silko. nt

[YankeyMCC]

17. The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

[MrCoffee]

18. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner

His first novel since 1998, and so far it's everything I'd hoped it would be.

[Zoigal]

19. Reading "The Times Traveler's Guide to Medieval England"

Despite the title, the book is quite interesting. Features every day
life for all classes of folks......z