What are you reading the week of March 4, 2012?

[DUgosh]

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

2012 - book #39

[Little Star]

1. Good book. I really liked it and the writers style...

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

[MaineDem]

2. ENVY THE NIGHT by Michael Koryta

Another new-to-me author. So far so good.

I have The Help on my Iphone but, for some reason, haven't been able to get through the first few pages. I'll go back to it, especially since so many people rave about it. But, so far, it hasn't grabbed me.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. The Master Butchers Singing Club

by Louise Erdrich----as if anyone who looks at the posts in Fiction has to ask!!!

I enjoyed The Help very much. Didn't think the movie did it justice at all.

[Little Star]

11. When I saw the movie...

after reading the book I felt almost like "Did they read the same book as I did?"

The movie felt much lighter than my reading of the book. I enjoyed both in their own way. But your right, the movie didn't do the book the justice it deserved imho.

[YankeyMCC]

4. Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Bedside book: Detective Inspector Huss

--the first Irene Huss novel, as shown on MHz Worldview's International Mystery series.

Purse book (eBook on phone): Slash and Burn by Colin Cotterill, one of his series that takes place in Laos.

[MaineDem]

6. Just started my second Louise Penny book, A FATAL GRACE

I like this series.

[Viva]

7. The Inspector and Silence by Hakan Nesser

I really enjoyed it and just as I finished it, I realized that I had a copy of The Return, another book by him, sitting on my bookcase.

It fits perfectly with these last throws of winter (Perhaps I am being overly optimist about winter ending...)

[Little Star]

9. Hi Viva, welcome to DU and to the DU fiction group....

I hope your right about winter ending!

[Curmudgeoness]

12. Little Star is such a good host for this group.....

welcoming you to DU.

So I will have to follow suit.....welcome.

And you are right, winter is over....I saw my harbinger of spring yesterday: Turkey Vultures. Yippee.

[Viva]

27. Well Hello back

And I finished the Return also

I guess there is just something about those Swedish crime novels.
Especially in these days when the winter lingers and all I really want to be doing is putting in the garden

Tomorrow I am off to the library to find some more

[NEOhiodemocrat]

8. Death Benefit

by Robin Cook

[Hun Joro]

10. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

I have blown through the Hunger Games trilogy like nothing I've read in quite a while.

[one_voice]

18. I read them all very quickly too...

I enjoyed them.

[spin]

26. I just finished the first book in the series, 'The Hunger Games' ...

I was up to 6 am finishing the book and downloaded the other two books in the series to my Kindle.

The first book was fascinating and I am looking forward to reading the remaining two.

[hamerfan]

13. The Litigators by John Grisham

So far, so good.

[pamela]

14. I read that.

It was pretty good.

[pamela]

15. Just finished "Defending Jacob"

Stayed up all night to finish and haven't been able to stop thinking about it today. I might start a thread about it later if I can get my thoughts together and write without spoiling anything. I highly recommend it. It has flaws but, in a weird way, they add to the complexity of the book. This would make a great book club read because you definitely want to discuss it when you are finished. It's haunting.

[pamela]

16. I really liked The Help

I can see why it has received some criticism for the "white savior" aspect but I couldn't help but like it. I really love that time period in fiction and like novels set in the South, in general. I do think it was a bit whitewashed, no pun intended, but overall really good.

[MaineDem]

17. IN A DARK HOUSE by Deborah Crombie

And The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. One on audiobook and the other a book book.

[fadedrose]

28. I've been looking for this post of yours....

Was going to recommend an author to you, but didn't think you read book books and that you read only audio or e-books. I only read book books...

Glad I finally found this. It's been a bit of a bother along with all my other ailments.

[fadedrose]

19. DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER (1998) by M. C. Beaton

Book 19 of 2012

[getting old in mke]

20. _Live Wire_ by Harlan Coben

Myron Bolitar rides again.

[Little Star]

21. I really like the Myron Bolitar series....

Win is a great friend, tho a little crazy and Esperanza is a hot shit. It's a fun series, imho. Enjoy!

[getting old in mke]

24. A little crazy?

Full out sociopath, but yep, a great friend. Win also made an appearance in the standalone a couple of years ago, _Caught_.

Have you read his "Mickey Bolitar" YA book? I haven't yet.

[Little Star]

25. No I haven't read Mickey Bolitar yet....

He's Myron's nephew right? I bet it's good. Too many books too little time...........

[skippercollector]

22. The Runaway Jury

Believe it or not, The Runaway Jury (copyright 1996) is the first John Grisham novel I've read. I picked up a nice hardback copy cheap at a garage sale.
If I hadn't seen the movie Runaway Jury twice (once in the theater, once on TV), I would never have understood what was going on! So many characters! Not just the jury, but their families and co-workers. Not just the lawyers and judge, but their assistants and co-workers. It was almost impossible to keep everyone straight.
The plot concerns a civil trial in Biloxi. A woman whose husband died of lung cancer has sued a cigarette manufacturer. If you've seen the movie, the head of the jury, Nicholas Easter (John Cusack) and his girlfriend Marlee (Rachel Weisz), are much more sympathetic characters. They're not that way in the novel. But one thing that the book cleared up that the movie didn't explain was how Nick ended up on a jury for a trial in which he was very interested in the subject matter. In the book, Nick wasn't actually summoned, he just showed up, saying he'd been selected, leaving the court to wonder if it had lost his paperwork regarding the summons.
The writing itself was kind of dry and none of the characters were well-developed or interesting.

[Little Star]

23. Hi Skipper.

Funny you should mention John Grisham. I just re-watched "A Time to Kill" yesterday. It was loaded with great actors like Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson and Sandra Bullock. Great movie!

I've read most of Grisham's books, he's a very good writer. Never read anything of his that I don't like.