What are you reading the week of December 9, 2012?

[DUgosh]

The Girl Who Chased The Moon by Sarah Addison Allen

2012 - book #182

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Just starting "Three Weeks in December"

Highly recommended by a friend, got it but have not yet cracked it.

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Weeks-December-Audrey-Schulman/dp/1609450647

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Bedside book: "The 500," a political conspiracy thriller that I suspect is

uncomfortably close to the truth. (A shadowy company "fixes" things for the rich and powerful.)

Purse book: I just finished "Frozen Assets," another novel about Iceland, but I haven't decided what to read next.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Decided on Stephen King's "11/22/63"

I don't normally like Stephen King's work very much, but I do like time travel novels, and this is an especially thoughtful one.

[northoftheborder]

3. Finally finished "Casual Vacancy". Do not recommend. Awful characters and plot.

I have started "Princess Elizabeth's Spy", by Maclean. Placed in WWII era with actual events and characters included. A fun, light read for a change.

[fadedrose]

4. THE CURSE OF THE PHAROAHS (1981) by Elizabeth Peters

Enjoying the 2nd book of the series about Amelia Peabody, Egyptologist from Kent, England.

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

Book 121 of 2012

[getting old in mke]

5. _Moonraker_ by Ian Fleming

Third Bond book. Don't see myself going through all of them, but maybe the ones prior to when the movies started coming out.

I gotta say, finished _Casino Royal_ one night and saw "Skyfall" the next day. Daniel Craig is just about spot-on perfect (except for hair color) for the Bond inhabiting the early oeuvre.

[Paladin]

6. Michael Chabon's Latest, "Telegraph Avenue"

Couldn't resist, after reading his "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" recently. Gotta love such great fiction, coming from a guy whose regular working hours are from 10:00 P.M. to 3:00 A.M.

[SheilaT]

7. Bowl of Heaven

by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven.

Also, Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland and The Comedy is Finished by Donald Westlake.

The Freeland book requires too much concentration to read at work. I work the information desk at the local hospital, and I have lots of free time so I read, crochet, and work on my novel. But I can't read anything that is serious or engrossing, but need to stick to things that I can keep on putting down.

[fadedrose]

9. THE SHAMAN LAUGHS (1995) by James D. Doss

My 2nd or 3rd reading...forgot so much of it.

It's about Charlie Moon and his pal, Police Chief Scott Paris. They met in the last few pages in the first book of the series. This is the second and they have become friends.

Read, tolerate or suffer thru the first 50 pages for a basic foundation and you will be rewarded by the rest of the book.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/D_Authors/Doss_James.html


My book 122 of 2012.

[DUgosh]

10. me too!!

in honor of you, I've got it on audio. I restarted it four times and almost gave up, but now it's getting good. Fascinated by the dwarf spirit. I love daisy.

[fadedrose]

11. DON'T LOOK BACK (2002) by Karin Fossum

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

This is the first in the Inspector Sejer series that takes place in Norway.

I thought the story idea was very very good, but felt that it dragged a bit. Maybe there needs to be more happening to sustain interest from beginning to end. I skip-read the book, leaving out more than I took in. It could be that the Newtown shootings affected my opinion of the book, I don't know.

My book 123 of 2012