What are you reading the week of February 21, 2010?

Another Thing To Fall by Laura Lippman A Tess Monaghan Baltimore Mystery

by Alice Oconnor

I don't do fiction too often. And didn't realize I was replying in a fiction only forum (it was on the Latest page)

Sorry :hi:

Thanks for posting!

One of the best page turners I've ever read. I read it at least 15 years ago and still remember it. They made it into a movie that really really sucked.

Almost finished it. I just picked up a used copy of "Master and Commander"... a Lounger recommended the series, and the movie with Russell Crowe was pretty darn good, so I grabbed one.

Wound up spending over $30 bucks... always happens to me there!

I have just recently finished Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and decided to go back to the book that started it.

I really enjoyed learning about code-making and code-breaking reading that book. I'll have to check out the other one you mention.

Cryptology, the fundamentals of modern commerce and currency, and the dawn of modern physics are given equal treatment, set against the smelly, rip-roaring world of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stephenson may have matured since Snow Crash, but his caffeinated style is still strong.

I started into Cryptonomicon months ago, but set it aside to do other reading. Like I said above, I don't get to fiction often.

But I like... cherish Snow Crash haha. Just an absolute gem of a book.

Both Snow Crash and Zodiac: An Eco Thriller hit me at the right, formative time in my life, and they'll always hold special places in the shelves.

'Twas CPAC pushed me over the edge.

On edit: Oops. Just realized the question came from the Fiction forum.

Galileo's Dream by Kim Robinson, which I got via the Science Fiction Book Club--this isn't a bad book at all, but I also got at the same time, maybe three weeks ago, The Cartamandua Legacy by Carol Berg--this was actually quite a good read! I totally recommend it if you like fantasy worlds. I've also got a compilation from Steven Erikson called The Boook of Dreams and Catalyst by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough--both of whom I've meant to read, and am interested to find collaberating. (My husband insisted on our signing up for SFBC, and sometimes doesn't remember to cancel our selections. Unfortunately, I don't mind spending an extra $40 a month to discover other authors who are interesting reads--I'm *such* a book whore). (Oh, and Anne McCaffrey's stuff with dragons--meh. No, reallly, girl-meh. I tried, but.....No really, I want spaceships and science and not chicks with psychic magic riding dragon powers. I'm not Dragon-people I'm sure I should be respectful of fiction that so many before me have enjoyed--just meh.)

Also--I'm nowhere near finished Remembrance of things Past. I'm not sure if this is just a boring translation, or if the cultural mores that are possibly being satirized are so far from modern mores, that I'm just not getting the jokes. Anyhow, I'm not really "attached" to reading it. I could give a good goddamn about Swann, his wife, any of his kids, the narrator, and anything that might happen besides people opening mail amd being boring about getting together to hear sonatas. I can't relate. Is the point that so many of these people are so superficial and stylish that I can't relate--oh, damn. I am probablky missing the point, and I still can't relate.

"Shadow Tag"

I'll be reading Judas Unchained in about a week.

by David Baldacci
I finished Louise Penny's The Brutal Telling last night and (spoiler)






the ending made me :cry:

by Kage Baker

by Jeannette Walls.

It's about the real life of pirates.

Also trying to read 'Crime and Punishment' but for a classic novel it's not very good.

by Holly Morris and Kill Me by Stephen White.

by P.T. Deutermann

I need to get on Amazon. :)

Cotains both A Good Hanging and Beggars Banquet

Odd but entertaining.

MrYellowdog and I have been having a ball with Mr Pratchett

and then I went back and began reading it by character series (Death, Commander Vimes, etc.) The Night Watch series are the absolute best! Rincewind is probably my least favorite character, even though he began the series. Love the witches. LOVE Reg Shoe!!!

Picked up a hardcover at the used book store.

Usually I have a couple going in various stages of completion. I've got almost too many right now.

Fiction:

"Etta" by Gerald Koplin (Have been focusing mostly on this one)
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver
Plus, daughter and I are reading "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

Non-Fiction:

"Bodies of War; World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America" by Lisa M. Budreau
"The Island at the Center of the World" by Russell Shorto

I have a new gardening book on the way, too. Woo hoo! I'll probably drop the others for awhile when it arrives. It's that time of year. :)
"The Sunset Western Garden Book of Edibles" (by Sunset Editors)

finished Everythings Eventual about a week ago, and I started book 1 of The War of the Spider Queen, I'm about half way through that one. This week has been hectic so I haven't had much time to dedicate to reading.