What are you reading the week of April 8, 2012?

[DUgosh]

Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie -Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James book #5

2012 book #60

[MaineDem]

1. BURY YOUR DEAD by Lousie Penny

Book #6 in the Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines Series.

[swimboy]

2. Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger. Really atmospheric. Final sixty pages--no idea where it's gonna take me.

[fadedrose]

3. CURSE OF THE POGO STICK by Colin Cotterill

5th in the series about Dr. Siri and his associates. Am enjoying it.


http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Cotterill_Colin.html



2012, Book 31

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Land of the Painted Caves

the last of the Clan of the Cave Bear series. I got it for my birthday

[Little Star]

5. Enjoy....

I liked that series a lot. But it was my husband's favorite series, he loved it.

[pscot]

6. I'm going to read it

in memoriam. I'm sorry for your loss.

[Little Star]

7. Thank you pscot.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. I really enjoyed it! It gets a bad rap in reviews.

It's funny, when I think back... I began the series in a high school anthropology class at age 15. Through the series I was married, had children, moved, lost a husband, and finally finished the series at 41. Kind of amazing.

[matt819]

8. Can't seem to make my way through any of them, but here goes

Reading:
Catch Me, by Lisa Gardner - latest in the D.D. Warren series, a bit of a ho hum start
Taken, by Robert Crais - latest in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, again, ho hum - maybe it's me?
Micro, by Michael Crichton - okay enough
Poison Flower, by Thomas Perry - another series, this one of Jane Whitefield. I really like the character, though the stories get a bit far-fetched.


Listening:
Just finished listening to Zero Day (Baldacci) and Victims (Jonathan Kellerman). Baldacci introduces his version of Jack Reacher. He's damn near a twin to Reacher. Victims was okay, but, as above, the latest in a series, and I think it's maybe a little tired. All the repeat characters are just so damned predictable.

[fadedrose]

9. SCARECROW RETURNS by Matthew Reilly

I read the first three a few years ago, and ICE STATION was a real page turner, a riveting macho book andt I liked it. And after 25 pages the newest is exciting again.

Shane Schofield (Scarecrow), leader of a team of Marines - the Seals play some major parts here and there.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/R_Authors/Reilly_Matthew.html

I also read Temple by the same author and my notes say that I didn't finish it because I didn't like it. It's not part of the series tho



Book 32 of 2012.

[getting old in mke]

13. I remember _Temple_

and being underwhelmed. It was one long action sequence with no time to speak of for characters or wonder. Sort of like if the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" had been extended to two and a half hours of Indy running from the big rolling ball without exposition.

I haven't read anything else by him because of that.

[fadedrose]

14. Exactly

But Ice Station was his best.

One of the things a guy might take some interest in is the guns. So many types that I was lost. I don't know a beebee gun from an AK147......

[fadedrose]

16. Everytime I got too confused by alll the action....

I would skip paragraphs here and there. Especially the type where the hero threw the gizmo northward, and from the east came the bad gas, fromt stack, blah blah blah..and almost quit.

But I got hooked and stayed with it with a smile. Only Scarecrow and Mother (short for mthfckr) could get away with it....

I needed something escapy like that this week....

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. still reading Freethinkers

by Susan Jacoby

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" by Lorna Landvik

An excellent read that I picked up at a garage sale. Could not put it down and just finished it tonight. Anyone who lived through the 60's/70's/80's/90's, or is in a book club, or is tight with their neighbors, or is an activist, or has broken out of an abusive relationship will enjoy this one. I was startled at how good it was.

[YankeyMCC]

15. Just finished " Maggie: A Girl of the Streets " by Stephen Crane and started

"The Son of the Wolf" by Jack London

[fadedrose]

17. THE MEMORY OF BLOOD by Christopher Fowler

9th and newest mystery in the Peculiar Crimes Unit Series....with Bryant and May in London....someday I may try some of Fowler's standalone books.


http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/F_Authors/Fowler_Christopher.html


Book 33 of 2012