What are you reading the week of April 21, 2013?

[DUgosh]

Hand of Fate by Lisa Wiehl ~ Triple Threat book # 3

2013 book # 43

[bravenak]

1. Time travel romance.

Rowena through the wall. It is funny and raunchy.
And " journey towards a preordained time " by Renata Mcmann. It about Jesus from a atheist perspective. Basically Mary was a time traveler in the first century and gave birth to Jesus.
They go back and forth through time, inadvertently acting out the bible. And he surfs.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. "Winter of the World" by Ken Follett

Just started it. I had been fifth on the reserves at the library, took my last book back and asked how close I was to the front on this book, and they had it in a pile to call me. Good, I loved the first book in the Century series.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Follett is my favorite author - have read everything. This one has a different feel to it - not

intense - still very good...but more of a slow simmer.

[Curmudgeoness]

16. Are you in the middle of reading it now too?

I am enjoying it....I don't need intense to enjoy a book (although Key to Rebecca was nail-biting intense). I just love historical novels, and I am glad that Follett has decided to tackle them. I am about 3/4 through now. Terrible times in the world.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Me too. No...finished it. Key to Rebecca was a great, great book ! A Dangerous Fortune

Pillars of Earth, and Eye of the Needle are my favorites.

[getting old in mke]

3. _The Black Box_ by Michael Connelly

Figured I should join that bandwagon!

Listening: _Rimrunners_ by CJ Cherryh. Space opera in the Alliance/Union universe.

2013: 36 and counting

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Did you like it? Have read most all his books and saw that was out. I love

detective books. I kind of switched over to the Jack Reacher books (Lee Child)...but he isn't near as likeable as Harry

[getting old in mke]

10. Yes.

I like the fact that Harry is aging, too. Sorta like me.

Although to be honest, in that LA I'm more of an Elvis Cole/Joe Pike fan. Elvis shows up in one of Connelley's books and Harry shows up in one of Crais's I guess that's what happens when you allow authors to become buddies.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Interesting. Never heard of Crais....will go pick up. Thanks !

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. which of Crais's books to you recommend to start with?

[getting old in mke]

15. Series starts with The Monkey's Raincoat

He also has some nice standalones. Two Minute Rule. Demolition Angel. His latest, Suspect, has a K9 team where both the man and dog are suffering from PTSD.

But Elvis and Joe are the core fun. West coast Spenser and Hawk.

[ananda]

4. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

The life of Mind is so appealing to me after so much World this week.

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. Escape From Kathmandu

by Kim Stanley Robinson

This book has the rescue of a Yeti by our heros, the burial of Mallory on Everest to keep an expedition from finding him and putting him on display, an illegal climb to the top of
Everest to free a Lama from the tyrannical rule of a more powerful Lama, a trip to Shambhala where everyone has the flu and lots of other fascinating and strange happenings. I think I have said it before , but it can't be said to much I LOVE KSR!!!!
By the way my big orange long haired Maine Coon mix male cat is named Cat--Mandu

[Hula Popper]

6. Donald Westlake's

Bad News, about a master criminal in NYC.

[demosincebirth]

7. the Story Teller, by Jodi Picoult

[SheilaT]

8. Tenth of December

by George Saunders.

What an amazing collection. He writes about very strange people and it works.

[SheilaT]

13. True Believers

by Kurt Andersen.