What are you reading the week of February 10, 2013?

[DUgosh]

The Case Of The Deadly Desperados by Caroline Lawrence

2013 book #15

[fadedrose]

1. STRIP JACK (1992) by Ian Rankin

I am so happy to see you. I posted alone to draw attention to my dilemma of where to post.

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

About Det. Sgt. John Rebus, Scotand...

My 9th of 2013

[DUgosh]

3. I'm here!!!!

just late, so many books so little time!

[LWolf]

2. Beautiful Creatures.

It's taking forever, and not exactly riveting me to the story. If it weren't for some students who want to talk to me about it, I wouldn't bother.

[backtoblue]

9. interesting setting, visually stimulating, but definitely not a page-turner

fortunate for you that you have three more books to go! : )

[LWolf]

10. Thanks for the reminder.

I need something good to break it up. I'll be digging through the rest of my pile.

[getting old in mke]

4. _Captain Alatriste_ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

First of several in 17th century Spain and environs. I've read his _Club Dumas_ and _The Fencing Master_ and enjoyed them + went through a couple of Napoleonic military series last year (Sharpe & Aubrey/Maturin), so I think I'll like moving back in time three-quarters of a century as well.

Question for those in the know: In his present day books, a character drinking a bottle of gin and starting another happens regularly. I'm guessing that in Spain and/or France a bottle is something other than a US fifth? At least I hope so. Otherwise I'd think the stories would be really short: Page 1: our hero drinks a bottle and starts another. Page 2: our hero dies of alcohol poisoning...

Still listening to _Poseidon's Gold_ by Lindsey Davis.

[pscot]

5. I'm more than halfway through volume 2 of Baron Skidelsky's biography

of Maynard Keynes. I started it in about 1998. Volume 3 awaits, if I live that long. I also just picked up Pigs in Heaven, by Kinsolver.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Bedside book: "The Ruffian on the Stairs"--a man goes through his grandfather's papers and finds

more questions than answers.

Purse book: "Black House"--a police detective returns to his isolated Scottish island hometown for the first time in 18 years when a murder in Edinburgh seems to have parallels with a murder committed on the island.

[fadedrose]

7. CLUBBED TO DEATH (1992) By Ruth Dudley Edwards

This is 4th in the series. It's about "Robert Amiss, a young Englishman prone to mishaps as he explores different jobs in contemporary London, England."

I'm not sure if I need a Real English Dictionary, or an English slang Dictionary. Hard to understand till I read the whole sentence, paragraph, etc., to know what the author means by some of the words used that are totally new to me in spite of having read many English novels...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/E_Authors/Edwards_Ruth-Dudley.htm

Book 10 of 2013

[DearHeart]

8. Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund

novel about Marie Antoinette

Amazing and beautifully detailed, but then I like that in a book.