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DUgosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 12:06 AM
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What are you reading the week of May 9, 2010?
Bloody Mary by J A Konrath book 2 in the Jack Daniels series recommended by wcil thanks.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 12:10 AM
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1. History of Britain by Nennius.
Edited on Sun May-09-10 12:12 AM by aquart
Sometimes I just feel sorry for him.

I see this is the fiction section. Well, so is most of the History of Britain by Nennius. Possibly all of it.
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 12:16 AM
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2. Katharine Neville's "The Fire". David Baldacci's "Deliver us From Evil"
and Stuart Woods "Lucid Intervals"

I hate "BOTMC". I sometimes read crap and buy it because my husband didn't say "No" timely enough.
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drmeow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 12:25 AM
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3. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 12:48 AM
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4. FDR by conrad black
I remember reading nennius long time ago. :)
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lordsummerisle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 12:58 AM
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5. Back Issues
of Reason Magazine
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Bobbieo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 01:36 AM
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6. 'Deep Black - Sea Of Terror' by Stephen Coonts - the takeover of
two British ships - one a cruise ship, the other is transporting uranium to Japan - by Muslim and Japanese terrorists. Copyright 2010.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 03:16 AM
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7. The Family -- finally.
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abluelady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 09:40 AM
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8. "City of Thieves" by David Benioff
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WCIL Donating Member (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 11:46 AM
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9. I'm glad you like it
I am on the waiting list for Bloody Mary at the library, but I sure enjoyed the first one. I am still hoping someone will tell me just exactly how depressing The Help is and if I should finish it or return it. I hear great things about it, but this can't be a happy ending for everyone book and I'm not sure I'm up to it right now.

I started an old Jeanne Kalogridis book called Covenant with the Vampire, which looks like it will be part of a series. I am up next on the holds list for a couple of YA novels which should come in this week.
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DUgosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 11:05 AM
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19. It's worth waiting for.
Better than the first one if thats possible.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 11:52 AM
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10. "Under the Dome" by Stephen King
It has a good beginning that pulls you right into the story. It's also a fast read so the over 1000 page length isn't a problem.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 06:39 PM
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11. About to start "Deliver Us from Evil" by David Baldacci
I read all his books.
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NEOhiodemocrat Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 09:45 PM
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15. I read all of his also, really like his stories
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:53 PM
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12. "Not less than Gods"
by Kage Baker

Last one in the Company series.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 09:50 PM
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13. Ground Zero by F. Paul Wilson
Repairman Jack!!!
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NEOhiodemocrat Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 09:44 PM
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14. Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag
and The Disciple by Stephen Coonts
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 11:33 PM
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16. HOUSTON HOMICIDE by Bill Crider & Clyde Wilson eom
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:48 PM
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17. I just finished Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Thanks to rowdyboy for the recommendation. A very good book. I now have his Queen of Bedlam on request from the library. I would have ordered it sooner but I didn't know I was going to spend the last couple of days home sick and finish the first one so soon.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 12:51 PM
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21. I've yet to read anything by Robert McCammon.
I've always wanted to read Swan Song, but can't find it at the library. :(
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 07:46 PM
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24. I'd never heard of him
until rowdyboy mentioned the book Queen of Bedlam. So I picked up Speaks the Nightbird, which is the first in the series of three. They really are mystery novels set in the late sixteen hundreds to the early seventeen hundreds, with one central character who is the protagonist in all three.

The first one easily held my interest. It's set in 1699 and is about a woman in North Carolina who is accused of being a witch. Very long, too - over 700 pages, but it was interesting enough that I started it Friday evening and finished it Tuesday afternoon. I was sick Monday and Tuesday, so I stayed home and was able to read most of it then.

:hi:
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:12 PM
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18. The Amber Spyglass from Phllip Pullmans's His Dark Materials series
He's a terrific and amazingly imaginative writer, and, ironically, a very spiritual one.
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:48 PM
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20. Just starting THE FIFTH FLOOR by Michael Harvey eom
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Onceuponalife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 06:50 PM
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22. I'm slumming this week and reading an Eberron novel
The Left Hand of Death. It's actually not bad.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 05:07 PM
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23. Cutting for Stone
It's long so I'll probably be reading it for the next couple of weeks.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 10:59 PM
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25. it's not fiction, but I'm reading Edith Wharton's "A Motor-flight through France"
:kick:
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 06:03 PM
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26. The Boys From Santa Cruz
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