What are you reading the week of January 23, 2011?

Case of Lies by Perri O'Shaunessy

..got it as a gift for my daughter at Christmas.. she raves about it and it gets great reviews online. Now I'm eager to check it out...!

..DNA and the origins of knowledge..

" The first time an Ashaninca man told me that he had learned the medicinal properties of plants by drinking a hallucinogenic brew, I thought he was joking. We were in the forest squatting next to a bush whose leaves, he claimed, could cure the bite of a deadly snake. "One learns these things by drinking ayahuasca" he said. But he was not smiling."

First paragraph of chapter "Forest Television" Great book..

droll and very concerned with cultural and emotional aspects of Judaism.

Also Blood in the Cotswolds for my Brit cozy fix.

Would love to hear what your book group has to say. I found it very funny--did you?

by Alice Sparberg Alexious. I'll finish it later today, and then I'll probably start The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch, since I won't be able to renew it.

I also have about six other books currently out from the library, some started, some not. So many books, so little time.

in the header.

if I did it right. I just wish the edit time were a little longer.

My old eyes have an easier time grasping the title in caps, and like you, I like the italics in the body/message...

The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway and The Fourth Bear, by Jasper Fforde. I finished Shadow of the Wind last night. I liked it a lot.

having read two out of sequence and thoroughly enjoying them.

Just finished "Killing Floor" a few weeks ago.

I got to page 62 and decided to finish it later in the week. It was fair so far, but I got a hankerin' to visit the Columbine, Charlie Moon's ranch. Will come back to this....

This is the author's first novel. It's not bad, characters need a little more defining, and needs some incidents outside the storyline. It's a series about Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard, private investigators in Cleveland, Ohio.

I'll try the next one and see how it goes.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/K_Authors/Koryta_Michael.html

Book 7 of 20ll for me..

So far so good, am on page 92 in my 2nd reading of this book.

Book 6 for this year.

A treasure. Loved dialoges between Charlie Moon and the FBI guys, Charlie and his aunt Daisy, Daisy and her girlfriend, Charlie & Scott, Charlie and anyone. I wish there'd been 3 or 4 more murders just to listen to Charlie explain how he'd solved them. Smiled and chuckled throughout the book except where it was spooky. I always say this, but this time I mean it, this was my favorite book.

by Stieg Larsson

I accidently ordered the Large Print edition from the Library. I think I may be happy with the mistake though :)

on the way home.

All non-fiction which is really a change for me but I've been hearing so many good stories and recs on different NPR programs lately:

12 Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
The Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo by Vanessa Woods
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (been meaning to read this for a long time, but just haven't gotten around to it for some reason)
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson (that was based on a rec from someone here, so I thought I would get it and A Walk in the Woods, and I'm waiting on At Home after hearing about that on NPR. It's going to be a little while on that one.

I'm also number two in line for a returned copy of Fannie Flagg's new novel, I Still Dream About You.


I now have a hobby that's taking more of my idle time so I'm going to have to do lots of bed time reading. ;)

Not too far into it but I've actually, literally laughed out loud at one point. He's damn funny. :rofl:

I'm enjoying it.

All of them, starting at the beginning. I downloaded them free for kindle... I'm up to the fourth one; "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes."

I'd forgotten how enjoyable they are.

Fleet of Worlds, Juggler of Worlds, Destroyer of Worlds, Betrayer of Worlds, plus William Gibson's new one, Zero History.

It's the second of a trilogy in which the story of a sociopath is told in reverse chronological order, the first book in the present day, the second one in 1970, the third one in the 1960s.

by Willa Cather.

Much to my surprise; I usually read fairly recent novels. Even more of a surprise, after thinking "how boring!" about the first few pages, I like it a lot. It's simple in some ways but deep, and has marvelous worldbuilding of the Southwestern landscape. Not sure how to evaluate the claim that Cather is the most important American woman novelist, but fortunately I don't have to, since I'm not part of the English/American lit establishment. Still, I always feel proud of myself for discovering and reading a canonical work on my own <G>, esp. if I enjoy it.