What are you reading the week of August 19, 2012?

[DUgosh]

The Wedding Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini - Elm Creek Quilt Novels Book # 7

2012 book # 126

[Mz Pip]

1. There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell

by Laurie Notaro

[SheilaT]

2. Redshirts

by John Scalzi.

[TexasProgresive]

3. The Last Coyote, Michael Connelly

The 4th or 5th of his in a row. The last was "The Black Ice." getting old in mke made the comment that I was on a slippery slope reading Connelly. He's right.

[getting old in mke]

4. Frankenstein

Been following along with a F&SF course over at http://coursera.org.

[TexasProgresive]

8. Also known as The Modern Prometheus

Shelly's book has long intrigued me. I see it as a metaphor of the industrial age- with the monster being the dehumanizing that mechanization brought to society.

[AngryOldDem]

5. Two books

Finishing "The Absolutist," a World War I novel by John Boyne -- a very unassuming story on its face, yet is powerful read concerning morality and ethics (both in terms of war and sexuality) in the trenches.

Toward the middle of "The Stand," uncut version. It's nice to have a book that I can pick up, read a little, and come back to.

[YankeyMCC]

6. An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad

[Onceuponalife]

7. The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt

Just finished The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke. What an outstanding piece of speculative fiction. I had trouble putting it down. This is one of Clarke's first novels that I happened to find in a used book store. I am sure all his early novels are out of print but I hope I can find some on Kindle.

Next up is The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. "The Falcon at the Portal" by Elizabeth Peters. Book 13 out of 19.

[fadedrose]

14. Wow, never heard of this lady, but she has written a LOT of mysteries

I looked this up here:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/P_Authors/Peters_Elizabeth.html

She is really old, born in 1927 and still going!

Have you read any of her other stuff? What did you like best? I've been going into a lot of countries lately through books, but can't remember going to Egypt yet...only in Abbot & Costello and Indiana Jones movies

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Yes, she has since she writes under a couple of names. She is really Barbara Mertz.

She has two series of mysteries as Elizabeth Peters and I don't know how many as Barbara Micheals.

Here's her offical site: http://www.mpmbooks.com/thebooks.html

I'm going to both Jordan and Egypt in November, so wanted to read the entire Amelia Peabody series.

[getting old in mke]

17. Read a couple of the Vicky Bliss books

Wouldn't go out of my way to read more. But, wouldn't avoid them if they were convenient.

Peabody, as Emerson would say, is always on my list. Even in the muddlier later years when they are sort of ensemble messes, I still find enjoyment. Plus, a series I share with my youngest.

Have you read any of Tasha Alexander's Lady Emily series? I've only read the first one and it seemed like it might head into Amelia's territory.

[Teamster Jeff]

10. Up Jumps The Devil by Michael Poore

[fadedrose]

11. DEATH OF A MAID (2007) by M. C. Beaton

23rd in the Hamish Macbeth mystery series, takes place in Scottish Highlands.


Book 71 of 2012

[fadedrose]

12. CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER (2012) by Tom Franklin

Anyone not knowing - this mystery takes place in Missisippi, spelled:

M - I - crooked letter, crooked letter - I - crooked letter, crooked letter, I - humpback, humpback - I.

Used to know that as a kid but forgot all about it...

My book 72 of 2012

[fadedrose]

13. KNOTS AND CROSSES (1987) by Ian Rankin

John Rebus, Detective Sergeant in Edinburgh, Scotland... mystery. This is the first book in the series...


http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/R_Authors/Rankin_Ian.html

My book 73 of 2012

[SheilaT]

16. Trigger by Robert J. Sawyer

What happens when an EMP in a limited area happens at the exact same time a kind of quantum physics experiment is taking place. Explores how people behave when they can suddenly access all of the memories of one other person.

Sawyer has written a bunch of stuff, and I've liked it all. This is his most recent.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. "No Mark Upon Her"

Deborah Crombie's latest.

[fadedrose]

19. THE DEADLY DANCE (2004) by M. C. Beaton

15th in the English Agatha Raisin mystery series. M. C. Beaton must really chuckle to herself when she writes of these characters she's dreamt up for this addictive series...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Beaton_M-C.html

Book 74 of 2012

[Alameda]

20. Just finished Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest

I've read all three of The Millennium series now. I thoroughly enjoyed them. I do think Ms. Salander is a wonderful character. As some others have said in some of the other threads, the first does start slow, but they really do pick up. I'm glad I got all three of the books so as to be able to read all of them.

[fadedrose]

21. DEATH OF A GENTLE LADY (2008) by M. C. Beaton

24th in the Hamish Macbeth mystery series that takes place in the Scottish Highlands...

My book 75 of 2012