What are you reading the week of September 2, 2012?

[DUgosh]

White Heat by M.J. McGrath - Edie Kiglatuk #1

2012 - book # 131

[seabeyond]

1. susan mallery series. not a favorite of the different series she has

but i get hooked on a story regardless.

[drm604]

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde,

and I'm listening to a Librivox audio version of Moby Dick by Herman Mellville during my daily commute.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Bedside book: "Believing the Lie" by Elizabeth George

Purse book: The Snowman by Jo Nesbo.

[pscot]

4. The Next One to Fall, by Hilary Davidson

Last year I read her 1st, The Damage Done, and it was very good.

[getting old in mke]

7. It won a whole bunch of awards, too.

[fadedrose]

5. KNOWN DEAD (1999) by Donald Harstad

Second book in the Carl Houseman mystery series in Iowa, rec'd by dixiegrrrrl...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/H_Authors/Harstad_Donald.html

Book 79 of 2012

[PDJane]

6. "The Great Silence" by Juliet Nicholson

and Robin McKinley's "Deerskin". Also "Beyond Outrage" by Robert Reich and "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" By Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, but that is nonfiction, of course.

[SheilaT]

8. Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

[fadedrose]

9. Looked it up

and find it's a mystery, and it's the 3rd non-series book that Flynn has written....have you read the first two?

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/F_Authors/Flynn_Gillian.html

Let us know if it's any good....

[SheilaT]

10. Yes, I have read them.

Her books are not as formulaic as so many are. Genuinely different characters and themes. I'm only 55 pages into Gone Girl, but so far it's very good.

[getting old in mke]

11. _Sharpe's Devil_ by Bernard Cornwell

...and with this my read/re-read (it had been spotty before) of the Sharpe series will be done.

[Tindalos]

12. Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

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He's a gentleman thief and is considered the French Sherlock Holmes.

Edit: Why do I feel like I've read this before? It seems so familiar. Was it on TV?

[Tindalos]

17. I have read this before.

I'd completely forgotten. It's still good the second time.

[dimbear]

18. Danger: addictive.

I believe I've read all of them, and that's a lot of words........

Interesting how his character changes over the years.

[Tindalos]

19. Lol. Yes

It hooked me right from the start. He's a fascinating character. I'll have to check out the other books now.

[ceile]

13. "Known to Evil" Walter Mosley

[Paladin]

14. "Canada" by Richard Ford

Well-written novel, in which the narrator, a 15-year old boy in 1960-era Montana, ends up in Saskatchewan after his parents attempt a bank robbery and get caught. Feels like what a present-day Charles Dickens would have written, if he'd had the opportunity to read Capote's "In Cold Blood."

[bemildred]

15. "Justine" -- Lawrence Durrell

And Thoreau, again.

[fadedrose]

16. THE PERFECT PARAGON (2005) by M. C. Beaton

16th Agatha Raisin mystery - England...

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

Book 80 of 2012

[fadedrose]

20. Strongly recommend this series

The stories are okay, but the Agatha Raisin character is worth getting to know. With all her faults, I feel protective of her.