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What are you reading the week of September 8, 2013? (Original Post) DUgosh Sep 2013 OP
Widow's Tears, by Susan Wittig Albert northoftheborder Sep 2013 #1
Just finishing MaddAddam JitterbugPerfume Sep 2013 #2
The Lathe of Heaven: Ursula Le Guin LWolf Sep 2013 #3
Working though Asimov's original Foundation trilogy Zorro Sep 2013 #4
The Deep Blue Good-By, by John D MacDonald............nt Enthusiast Sep 2013 #5
Travis McGee is one of the great characters in modern American fiction Zorro Sep 2013 #6
Thanks, Zorro. Enthusiast Sep 2013 #7
Oblivion by Peter Abrahams JonLP24 Sep 2013 #8

northoftheborder

(7,572 posts)
1. Widow's Tears, by Susan Wittig Albert
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 12:23 PM
Sep 2013

Latest of a series of books by author, murder mysteries set in Tx hill country, this one with historical connections to the Galveston Hurricane in 1900.

JitterbugPerfume

(18,183 posts)
2. Just finishing MaddAddam
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 04:03 PM
Sep 2013

which took me on a wild ride into the future.

Next is Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson, which promises to be a wild ride about a thousand years into the past.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
3. The Lathe of Heaven: Ursula Le Guin
Sun Sep 8, 2013, 09:03 PM
Sep 2013

I thought I'd read all of her work, and this one somehow escaped me.

I can't believe it was written in the early 70s. It's as relevant now, if not more, than then.

Zorro

(15,740 posts)
4. Working though Asimov's original Foundation trilogy
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 10:49 PM
Sep 2013

Halfway through the second book Foundation and Empire.

It's been decades since I last read it.

Zorro

(15,740 posts)
6. Travis McGee is one of the great characters in modern American fiction
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 10:13 AM
Sep 2013

MacDonald does capture the sunny and sleazy sides of Florida in that series of books.

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