What are you reading the week of January 1, 2012?

[DUgosh]

How to murder your Mother In Law by Dorothy Cannell - Ellie Haskell series

[applegrove]

1. I don't have a book on the go. I have several to go with. I think I'll choose a novel. I feel like

escape.

[MaineDem]

2. "The Last Assassin" by Barry Eisler

I'm not sure why I like these books about an assassin.

But there's something about an author who has a character talk about Congress trying to ban gay marriage instead of doing things that are important.

[mvccd1000]

4. The Rain books are addictive

I've read all of them, plus the short stories that are available on kindle. One of my favorite current authors.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

It got off to a slow start, but has now picked up speed. I like it!

[fadedrose]

10. People! Don't look yet, but guess how many posts CPeggy has!!

I was amazed....

[fadedrose]

11. CAPeggy, you will love this by the time you finish the book

Don't give up, and manage to get the 2 that come after...

Just hoping the movie doesn't spoil the books for me...














92,000????!!!!!

[backtoblue]

27. I watched the foreign version of that film

It was so horrifically graphic that I had to turn it off. I don't know how far you are into it yet, but the movie depiction (foreign with caption) was absolutely disgusting.

[fadedrose]

28. I'm afraid to see the movie

But I kinda feel that I have to.

Worried that it will not be as good a story as the books, or, as you put it, horribly graphic. After the book rape, I got interested in her photographic memory, computer hacking to help in her work or helping others, and her love for Michael Bloomkvist (sp)...

I know it has to be awful so that Salander has a good reason to hate and find revenge. But seeing it is a lot more emotional than reading it....

[backtoblue]

31. The foreign film

didn't explore her mind or give many details other than blackmail and rape. It was all subtitled, so that may have something to do with me not understanding the storyline.

I might have to read the book now from hearing the reviews from posters, but I'm a bit apprehensive.

You're right, though. Seeing a scenario affects us way more than reading it. I must've gotten it backwards this time! lol

[getting old in mke]

5. _Kim_ by Rudyard Kipling

Read a Holmes pastiche recently, _Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years_ by Jamyang Norbu, in which Holmes hooks up with characters from _Kim_ in India and Tibet between his "death" at Reichenbach and return in "The Empty House."

Last time I read _Kim_ was in a "Classics Illustrated" edition (remember them?) 45+ years ago, so I figured maybe I should read the actual book.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. I used to read the "Just So Stories"to my kids

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in spite of his misogyny , I enjoy his writing.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson

It is the second book in the environmental disaster saga , following Forty Signs of Rain. In places it has scientific jargon that is kind of hard to follow , but we read to become informed , as well as to be entertained and Robinsons books do both. Thank you Forkboy for introducing me to him!

[YankeyMCC]

8. The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London

I'm working my way through a collection of his works. I find myself having to recommit with each chapter in the last few novels, and slog through the racism of the characters. I feel now like I should finish because there are many of his stories I enjoy and I like the style of story telling (among other styles I like), I want to get the full sense of who Mr London was or at least what he was really trying to convey about race if anything.

[Warren Stupidity]

9. IQ84 by Haruki Murakami.

Odd book.

[russspeakeasy]

12. 11/22/63 by Stephen King

It's a 900 pager, but well done...It's the first one of his that I have liked in a long time.

[MaineDem]

13. That's how I felt, too

I really enjoyed it.

[matt819]

21. 600 pages in

Enjoying it. Hard to say it's "one of his best," since he's been so varied over 30 years, but it is a page turner.

[LWolf]

14. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

- Ursula Le Guin

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Just finished "The Vows of Silence" by Susan Hill, one of her Simon Serailler novels

Also reading "V is for Vengeance" by Sue Grafton as my "purse book"--actually an e-book on my iPhone.

I haven't yet decided what my next bedside book will be. If I go by the "queue" on my lamp table, it will be The Quincunx.

[elfin]

24. I loved Quincux- read several years ago.

Intricate, with great historical scene details.

[russspeakeasy]

16. Barry Eisler, The Detachment.....5 stars...

[getting old in mke]

17. It went away in a day for me

I thought he got his act back together, bringing the gang in like that. I thought _Inside Out_ was good, but preachy at the end and that had it more of a polemic than a thriller at times. _The Detachment_ didn't stray from his points but kept the momentum going all along.

[backtoblue]

18. Deborah Harkness

A Discovery Of Witches

So far an intellectual fantasy with lots of details, but not much action...

[Moe Shinola]

19. Alongside Night, by J. Neil Schulman

Also Berlin Game by Len Deighton, Solar Lottery by Philip K Dick and a couple of "best of" volumes of short sci-fi from the 80s.

[krispos42]

20. Working my way through the "Thursday Next" series by Jasper Fforde

I just got the 6th book, so of course I have to re-read the series before I can read it.

[jannyk]

22. The Affair - Lee Child (Reacher)

[elfin]

23. The Impossible Dead by Rankin

Good, but liked Rebus better as the main character.

[mentalsolstice]

25. "Middlesex" and "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

I'm surprised it took me so long to get to Middlesex. I included "Kevin" because I finished it several weeks ago and my husband is now reading it and we're constantly talking about it, with me trying not give too much away. He has just now got a bug for reading fiction, maybe because he'll be retiring soon. It's so fun to discuss books with him now and watch his imagination take him away. Reading for pleasure wasn't very encouraged in his family, it was considered a lazy activity. Whereas reading for entertainment was everything to my mom.

He finished TGWTDT right before the movie, and enjoyed seeing the movie after having read the book. Now some of the women in his office are encouraging him to read "The Hunger Games" series, it's probably not for me, but I think it would be great if he tried it out.

[fadedrose]

26. NEMESIS by Jo Nesbo

Book No. 1 of 2012.

This is the 3rd in the Harry Hole mystery series. Takes place in Norway.

[LARED]

29. The Hunger Games series nt

[MaineDem]

30. "A Share in Death" by Deborah Crombie

A new series for me. I like it.

[TBF]

34. She's my favorite -

I've hunted down all of hers to read & there's a new one coming next month.

[MaineDem]

35. I'm glad to hear that

Thankfully, Audible has quite a few of her books.

[bikebloke]

32. Conqueror by Conn Iggulden

Kublai Khan builds empire with sibling conflict.

[TBF]

33. "Breakdown" by Sara Paretsky

I've been a fan of hers a long time and especially appreciate the work she puts into characters and scenery. I feel like I'm right there on the streets of Chicago detecting along with her ...

[joeybee12]

36. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens...nt

[CanonCityGecacher]

37. Books are wonderful

I just read a couple of the Jack Reacher books. (I love the Reacher Series) Yesterday I downloaded Sue Grafton's book G is for Gumshoe to my Kindle and am enjoying it very much.

[fadedrose]

38. Welcome...

We all love books too. I read all of the Reachers till now, and Grafton's maybe thru G.

Found so many new authors reading this group. It's a favorite place of mine.

[CanonCityGecacher]

39. Swan Peak

Swan Peak by James Lee Burke is a book I listened on an audio book a while back. I enjoyed it. I like the Dave Robicheaux character. I may get some of those books and start to read them. I'm a bit new to reading fiction. I was always one of those who loved to read electrical theory books... But now I'm hooked on good fiction.
Yes, its great to take a look and see what others are reading. I never really go by book reviewers. They often seem out of touch with the average reader.