What are you reading the week of May 15, 2011?

The Little Sleep by Peter Tremblay - (Mark Genevich PI book #1) This is a likeable flawed character.

Just finished Roughing It - Mark Twain (what an odd book).

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I did. :party:

Share your thoughts on it when you finish.

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do finish it. All the best laughs are closer to the end. And the worse of it. I will forgive you if you skip over some of the fifty pages (or at least it felt like it) or Galt's speech to the world. Agh.

it all balances well and all on my ereader. The Big Rich tells the story of Big Texas oil which spawned fox news amung lots of stuff. Star Island is crazy (Hiaason), and Sixkill is another Spenser for Hire.

C.J.Cherryh's Betrayer, the latest in the Foreigner Series, Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded--and What We Need to Do to Remake Them by John Perkins, Propaganda by Jacques Ellul, Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said, Dead and Buried, Wet Grave, Graveyard Dust, Dead Water, Fever Season, A Free Man of Colour, Sold Down the River, Die Upon a Kiss, Days of the Dead, all by Barbara Hambly; a bunch of cast-offs which I am grateful to have!

Trying a new-to-me author.

Very dreary weather and some mild disappointments have made me needful of mental chicken soup, so I'm choosing a Doss book again, comfort food for the old soul. After this, some tough mystery..

R






Book 38

I finished this book tonight and was sorry there weren't more pages. In the first book of the series, Doss' main character was a widowed cop from Chicago who went west go get away from it all. It was his first mystery, and I guess he needed somebody to provide a clue, so he pulls this Ute Indian lady out of a hat who tells her dream, and who has a nephew who has all of 3 lines at the end of the book.

All succeeding books were mostly about the nephew, Charlie Moon, and his aunt. With each book, this seems more like a satire on cowboy-indian mystery westerns because of the author's comments all through the book. He's a regular wiseguy. Every book starts out with some poetry, small talk, and then the story sort of finally starts. Unique style.

keep us posted...

What can I say, I liked narcoleptic Mark the PI. He was injured in a car accident, now disfigured he is unable to control falling asleep for only several minutes at a time.

will finish book 2 of The Hunger Games trilogy today ... And, it'll be on to the third and final part after that, "Mockingjay"

And short stories by Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson.

This was one of the few that I missed.

It's time for a reread here....the one about fishing contests, right?

because there is so much Skink in it. He almost lost me when Skink didn't show up in a book.

The Shape Shifter, Hillerman's last Leaphorn mystery, on the speakers. I was intrigued to just learn that Arthur Upfield, he of the Bony aborigine mystery series, was a primary inspiration for Hillerman.

My first Lippman book...I don't read much "crime fiction"...I hope this is a good one...

Robert Redford.

The beauty of serial fiction.....this 3rd book finds Salander in the hospital recuperating from being shot and buried alive. How wonderful to have read the books that came before this and know the characters, good ones and villains...

I wonder about a couple of the characters in the 2nd novel (?) where a hurricane was coming and Salander went out to save her young friend and were on their way back to the hotel when they saw a hotel guest trying to kill his wife. She stopped him and the wealthy wife survived; he didn't. And I wonder about Salander's sister, so far not seen.

So much material for another sequel - hope somebody writes it...





Book 39

But there were things I liked and will remember about 1 and 2.

Hate to finish cause there's nothin after this...

Was sorry to not have any more Lisbeth Salander to read.

Takes place in Sweden right before Christmas. Interesting things about that cold land...snow removal from roofs with giant icecicles crashing. Dark at 4pm and very cold. Gingerbreak men and straw goats. I don't usually have much patience with most novels but this one is a real winner.

It's officially science fiction but is more like an historical novel with an SF twist (time travel). It's quite good.