What are you reading tonight DU? Me, "This Body of Death" by Elizabeth George.

[applegrove]

She's changed format with some of her recent books...mixed it up a bit. I hope this one is like that too.

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1. I'm reading the Zombie Survival Guide

[Ptah]

2. Thin Air by Robert B. Parker

Starting the whole Spenser series again.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. I like Spenser.

I love Hawk.

But I can't stand his girlfriend. Kind of ruins it for me.

[nolabear]

3. Dupe (I gotta fix that twitch)

[nolabear]

4. Swamplandia! (Yes, with an exclamation point)

It's getting a lot of attention. I like quite a lot. It's somewhat gothic Southern, told from the pov of the youngest dautghter in a family that runs an alligator-wrestling show in the Florida Swamps that's just barely holding together. And it appears to be an allegory for going into the Underworld to rescue one's beloved from death. I'd bet a movie is in the offing.

[Patiod]

6. PM me when you're finished, Nolabear

I've been itching to talk to someone who's read it.

Will be interested in hearing what you think of the last half.

Did you read "St Lucy's Home for Girls Who Were Raised by Wolves"?

[nolabear]

14. Okay, I will. No, haven't read the short stories yet but I might.

Now I'm more intrigued than ever.

[Iggo]

5. A couple of them.

I tried reading four books at a time last year, but it took me all year. Knocking it down to two at a time.

My backpack book is "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi. It's science fiction about a retiree who joins the army and heads out to the stars to fight our never ending war against the alien races we are competing with for the few scarce planets that are fit to live on. The army only takes old people 'cause they have life experience...and they're never coming back.

My bathroom/bedtime book is "A Clash Of Kings" by George R.R. Martin. Swords and sorcery. Politics and war. It's the sequel to "A Game Of Thrones", which series drops next month on HBO. Multiple protagonists to choose from, almost all of them sworn enemies. First book ended strong, and I'm cracking the second book as soon as I log off here. Should be fun.

[Patiod]

7. Big E.George fan, but heard "This Body of Death" was only OK

But I like the characters and the series so much that I'll read it anyway, once the hammock is out for the summer.

[bikebloke]

9. Three Seconds by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom

Scandi noir.

[hifiguy]

10. I am re-reading Al Gore's

"The Assault on Reason." More pertinent then ever these days.

[LaurenG]

11. "Season Of The Harvest" by Michael Hicks

So far its really good and has a 5 star review. i just finished "Wrecker" which had a pretty good review but I didn't like it at all.

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. I have no Mouth but I must Scream

by Harlan Ellison

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20. I read that, and its a computer game too. nt

[specik39]

13. no 158

thx alot

[NewJeffCT]

15. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

just started it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Just finished "The Merry Misogynist" by Colin Cotterell

part of a series of mysteries that takes place in Laos, with the country's only medical examiner as the main character.

[tigereye]

18. I've read one of those- enjoyed it!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. "Hellhound On His Trail" by Hampton Sides.

It's a reconstruction of James Earl Ray's movements prior to and after the assassination of MLK.

[tigereye]

19. I liked that one better than the previous few

The conflicts between him and the new supervisor are rather interesting. I'm still kind of mad at George, though.

[old mark]

21. Re-reading an old Nelson Demille book on TWA flight 800...

called Night Fall...I like his work.

mark

[Faygo Kid]

22. With the 150th anniversary, re-reading Catton's "Army of the Potomac" trilogy

OK, I have read it before; it's been years.

The man could flat-out write.