What are you reading the week of April 17, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Prolonged Exposure by Steven F Havill ( Bill Gastner / Estelle Reyes-Guzman Mystery #6)

[yankeepants]

1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

[peacebird]

2. Loved that book, it was just wonderful!

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. I read it again recently, saw so much in it that I had not seen

when it was required reading in school all those years ago.
Very nice book.
Been reading a lot of late 1800's fiction of late, find it engrossing and educational.

[fadedrose]

3. SNAKE DREAMS by James D. Doss

My second reading of this in the Charlie Moon series - my favorite.





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[fadedrose]

8. Watch your back, Doss...

If book characters came to life, oh you'd be in big trouble...

Daisy - main character along with Charlie Moon in all his books...

lives "..miles from nearest neighbors-an arrangement best for all concerned. Unlike so many little old ladies whom we hear about, Daisy is not burdened by a sweet disposition. As we shall shortly see, neither is patience to be counted among the tribal elder's virtues, which list (so her detractors say) could be inscribed upon the nail of Daisy's little toe. With space left over for the Preamble to the Constitution and St. Paul's Epistle to Philemon. This is an uncharitable and wholly unwarranted exaggeration. There might be room for either the Preamble or the Epistle, but certainly not both."

He's a mean man...(wonder if he's single, hmm) (oh, I forgot, I'm not)

[AngryOldDem]

4. "A Reliable Wife," by Robert Goolrick.

Just started it this morning.

[SheilaT]

5. Then Everything Changed by Jeff Greenfield.

It's published as non-fiction, but it's an alternate history. First part has JFK being blown up on December 11, 1960. There really was a man in a car nearby who was planning to do just that, but when he saw Jackie and Caroline at the door of the house, he changed his mind.

Because Greenfield is also a political reporter, it's very well grounded in what is known about everyone and everything at that time. The electoral college hadn't even met yet to confirm the election of JFK and LBJ, so there's a potential constitutional crisis immediately at hand. I'm only 35 pages into it so far, and it's very good.

[WaitingforKarlRove]

6. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

http://waitingforkarlrove.wordpress.com/

[pscot]

7. Kristin Lavransdatter

and as an antidote, Naked came the Manatee.

[Sisaruus]

10. How is Kristin Lavransdatter?

It's on my bedside table waiting to be read. Admittedly, it's a little dusty because I've yet to be inspired to actually start it.

[pscot]

11. Kristin rejects the man her father chooses for

her, apparently because his nose is too small. She plunges enthusiastically into sin with a neer-do-well who has a longer nose, but a weak mouth. He promises marriage, but first he has to convice his girlfriend to take their children and go back to her husband. Clearly there is trouble ahead.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Lovely synopsis. LOL.

Makes me want to check out the book.

[fadedrose]

16. Maybe his face was too big and his nose was okay...nt

[pscot]

18. What puzzled me was how a devout young woman,

residing in a convent to get into the proper frame of mind for marriage, became such a connoiseur of noses.

[fadedrose]

20. Contemplating the size of other stuff

is strictly forbidden by the management ....


Noses are still safe, so long as they're clean and not running.

[Sisaruus]

9. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

[Louisiana1976]

12. The Sign by Raymond Khoury

[elfin]

13. Sovereign by Sansom

I really like this series about Shardlake, a hunchback lawyer during Henry VIII's rule. . Always a good mystery, with lots of historical detail about the times and the religious quarrels.

I am on the third of the series, working my way to his newest, Heartstone. Doing it by Kindle as they are a bit hard to find otherwise.

[Mz Pip]

17. The Sugar Queen

by Sarah Addison Allen. I don't think I've ever read a magical realism novel before and I must admit it is much better than I anticipated.

I'm definitely going to check out her other books.

[Luciferous]

22. That's next on my "to-read" list : )

[japple]

19. Finished re-reading Wiseblood (Flannery O'Connor), and am making

another attempt at reading Sarah Blake's The Postmistress, which seems better this time around.

[MaineDem]

21. Reading two - "The Rembrandt Affair" by Daniel Silva and W.E.B. Griffin's "Secret Honor"

Should finish them both in the next day or two then on to "Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest."

[Luciferous]

23. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

[AngryOldDem]

25. Great book.

Hope the movie does it justice because the story and the way Gruen constructs it is just exquisite.

[fadedrose]

24. COLD WIND by C. J. Box

One of my favorite authors - he's a game warden in the Bighorns in Wyoming, always in trouble with his uppers...

Start with his first in the series if you want to have a go at it.









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[Fire Walk With Me]

26. Just starting the speculative fiction book Dervish House by Ian McDonald.