What are you reading the week of February 17, 2013?

[DUgosh]

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

2013 book # 18

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Soon to finish "The Blackhouse" by Peter May as my purse book

My bedside book is Anne Perry's "A Sunless Sea."

[fadedrose]

2. I posted in the wrong place...

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So I'm changing to something more suitable to discuss under your post. I notice that a lot of your books are what I like reading, and just finished one by Peter James. It has a bit of humor, lots of action, and I wonder if you've read it.

I have two problems with it and wish someone else was reading it so I could bet their opinions - questions about the plot.

As long as I'm on this topic, Cotterill & James both do a bit of "spirit" stuff altho science is important to both. And, they have nice characters and tricky plots, usually having some contact with the supernatural and ghosts.

I have to suggest James Doss' books to you. His books feature all those qualities, and being set in Colorado in and on Indian reservations, they're not like NY or LA gangster stories, they're almost like in a foreign country (the Indians do have their own government). Some of his books are paperbacks, are on Kindle in Amazon, and can no doubt be downloaded at your local library. Just a suggestion.

Thanks for all the good ones you've put me on to...

[pscot]

6. What do you think of The Blackhouse?

Have you read anything else by May? He seems to be incredibly prolific and has several Chinese Krimis to his credit

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. I'm enjoying The Blackhouse, especially for its portrayal of Hebrides Island culture

and for the way he gradually reveals things via flashback.

[fadedrose]

12. Uncle Edgar is real...looked him up

What a great name...

[fadedrose]

13. My original post was in the wrong place, so I just edited it to extinction..sorry

[Lost-in-FL]

3. GD

[getting old in mke]

4. _Mastiff_ by Tamora Pierce

YA fantasy in Tortall, although the Beka Cooper books seem to me closer to mainstream fantasy than, say, the Alana books.

In an odd twist of fate, it turns out that Tortall (and Circle of Magic) is something that someone my 23 year old daughter is "internet dating" and I have in common. Fun YA reads, but really nice if you catch one of Bruce Colville's "Words Take Wing"/"Full Cast Audio" renditions of them. Well, frankly, anything I've listened to of theirs over the years has been fun. They started out doing BC's own stories and Jane Yolen's and kind of grew from there. Similarly we started out listening when the the girls were preteens and kept going from there.

Audio: _Last Act in Palmyra_ by Lindsey Davis. Falco #6. Falco and Helena Justina head east, getting kicked out of Petra and hooking up with an acting troupe in the Nabatean empire. I've always loved the pictures of the entry to Petra...seems like it should be the most mysterious place ever.

2013: 13 and counting

[northoftheborder]

5. Flight Behavior, by Kinsolver

Well written and interesting, so far, just in first chapters.

[pscot]

7. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

“Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation
Deep space is my dwelling place
The stars my destination

This will probably set me off on a SciFi jag.

[fadedrose]

9. DANCING WITH THE VIRGINS (2001) by Stephen Booth

DANCING WITH THE VIRGINS (2001) by Stephen Booth

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This is pretty good so far, l/4 of the way thru. The first Booth book I read was a couple of weeks ago, Black Dog. It had a good story but was too long with unneeded and lengthy descriptions. Others must have felt that way and told the author because in this book, the 2nd in the series, the story starts on page 1 and doesn't quit. Dialog is decent too.

"Ben Cooper, a detective constable trying to fill his police sergeant father’s shoes, and new partner, Diane Fry, recently transferred to Edendale’s force, in the Peak District in England"

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Booth_Stephen.html





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[fadedrose]

10. DEAD SIMPLE (2003) by Peter James

About Roy Grace, a Detective Superintendent of the CID, in Sussex, England.

This is first in a series of 8:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/J_Authors/James_Peter.html

Good, but I have questions ???


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[fadedrose]

11. THE BLACK BOOK (1993) by Ian Rankin

John Rebus, a detective sergeant in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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

THis is 4th in the series, but there are 2 books that I passed up because they're not one-story books - they're short story collections...


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