What are you reading the week of January 20, 2013?

[DUgosh]

When Zachary Beaver Came To Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

2013 book # 8

[Teamster Jeff]

1. "Standing In Another Man's Grave"....Ian Rankin

Newest Rebus novel

[elfin]

5. OOH, Rankin is coming to my city on his tour

Hope to snag a personal signed copy.

Reviews are good, but who cares, it's REBUS.

Hope you liked it.

[WCGreen]

2. A Confederacy of Dunces

[Nay]

21. I think I'm in the minority, but I hated that book. How did you like it?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

3. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain

I just started it this morning, after finishing HHhH, by Laurent Binet--neurotic historical fiction.

[elfin]

4. Just finished "What it Takes" by Richard Ben Cramer

Not fiction, but for once the pundits telling of this upon Cramer's all too early death were right.

The BEST political campaign book EVER, and I have read many. Long, but so worth it.

The '88 campaign in such detail with deep personal research with many parallels to the present, that it is a highly recommended read for all.

Got it for Kindle. The used book prices reflect the recent attention, but may abate.

Lots on GWH Bush, and many new insights on Biden.

[getting old in mke]

6. _Venus in Copper_ by Lindsey Davis

Third Marcus Didius Falco novel. Falco goes to prison. His mother frees him. Falco moves. Titus comes to dinner, unexpectedly--with the Praetorian guard. Helena Justina proves that a Senator's daughter can go slumming with a PI. And one client is suspected of poisoning another client.

Life hard in AD 71.

Also, _Goliath_ by Scott Westerfield, third in a YA Steampunk/WW I trilogy. Plucky boy and plucky girl disguised as plucky boy take on the empires--German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, British, Ottoman, you name it!

[LWolf]

7. "Gone Girl"

by Gillian Flynn

[DearHeart]

8. The Amber Room by Steve Berry

[getting old in mke]

9. I like Steve Berry

and LOVE his "here's what's real and mysterious and here's the shit I made up" epilogues.

[DearHeart]

11. Haven't gotten to the epilogue yet.

But, looks like it'll be really interesting! Thanks for the heads up!

This is the first Steve Berry book for me, but definitely not the last. Love books like this...action, intrigue, historical things & people mixed in with fiction. Worked in a bookstore for years and always meant to pick one of his up and actually read it, but the real history books always took precidence. But, now I find that I love historical fiction. Who would've guessed, huh?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Purse book: "Fatal Winter" by G.M. Malliet

Second in a series about a former MI-5 agent who becomes a country vicar.

Bedside book: "The Man on the Balcony" by Maj Sjövall and Per Wahlöo. I really enjoyed the "Beck" Swedish TV series, shown on MHz Worldview recently, so I decided to read the original books, most of which were written in the 1960s and 1970s.

[fadedrose]

12. THE GUARDS (2001) by Ken Bruen

About Jack Taylor, dismissed from the Garda Síochána (Irish police) for drinking, now finding things for people in Galway, Ireland, since “private eye” sounds too much like “informer” to the Irish. First book in series of 9 so far.

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

5 of 2013

[dimbear]

13. A remarkable dark book by Stefan Zweig, "Beware of Pity."

Zweig is a strangely masterful writer, IMHO. Knowing the author's own fate and ethnicity just makes this story more eerie.

It is a disturbing book.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. The Help.

[womanofthehills]

15. "Flight Behaviour"

new book by Barbara Kingsolver

[pscot]

19. What do you think of it?

I'm well down on the hold list.

[bluestater1966fgs]

16. 1984

One of the most insightful and poignant books I've read in my whole life. Get better with each reading.

[fadedrose]

17. THE SHAMAN'S GAME (1998) by James D. Doss

4th the Charlie Moon Series (17 in all).

My least favorite of the series - it's about Sun Dancers and it makes me feel sad for some reason. I read Tony Hillerman's books and he did several with a Sun Dancers subject. It's an ancient ceremony where, if they complete the dance, they may see the spirit and become empowered. It takes days and most don't finish. Young Indians don't hold with it, but the old believe in its power.

Been reading a lot of books, mostly good to fair, and it's so good to be back in a Doss book again, even if it's my least favorite. It still has humor, scary stuff, and much I never knew both mythical and actual blended beautifully, and the characters are like family to me.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/D_Authors/Doss_James.html

Book 6/2013

[fadedrose]

20. This is 2nd reading, and it got better, no, it got really good...

I think I read it in too big a hurry to see who the killer was, and missed so much fine writing. A longer life, and maybe I could sqeeze in a 3rd reading...

I have all 17 books now. Got 3 from Alibris and 2 from Amazon this week. All were cheap and all are excellent. Brand new, all of them, except they are fairly old. I bought one copy of The Shaman Laughs for the library. It's the only one they are missing and I had to get it thru interlibrary loan to read it the 1st time.

Highly recommend this series...If you like Colin Cotterill, you will love this one too.

[Mz Pip]

18. The Paris Wife

Fictional novel of Hemingway's time in Paris with his wife Hadley.