What are you reading the week of June 2, 2013?

[DUgosh]

Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand

2013 book #63

[Mz Pip]

1. Murder on the Mind

By L.L. Bartlett. Got it for $.99 from Book Bub. It's pretty good. Has a Dead Zone theme to it.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Zero Day by David Baldacci

I am on a roll with quick reads recently. His more recent books are not even close to quality of his first book, but at least they are easy to read without thinking too hard.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Not his best effort in my very humble opinion , but head and shoulders above most Sci Fi.


I just ordered two new Peterson field guides....Mushrooms and Edible plants.(wild). this will be a pleasant browsing diversion

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. as I get deeper into Icehenge

I think more and more that it is really GOOD!

[getting old in mke]

6. Isn't it a reissue of one if his very early books?

If so, makes it more impressive!

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. Copyright 1984!

It is his first Martian novel, and very much worth reading. He is a very impressive writer .

[pscot]

15. I was going to request his Forty Days of Rain from my library

but the reviews were extremely discouraging. Have you read anything else by him?

[getting old in mke]

5. _The Midnight House_ by Alex Berenson

Refers to an off-the-books CIA prison in Poland. Berenson is turning into an excellent writer. The first few John Wells books were interesting and thought provoking, but not particularly smooth. Not bad--don't get me wrong--just not as polished as he has become.

Listening: _The Crow_ by Alison Croggon.

2013: 57 and counting.

[Hula Popper]

8. This week

I'll read a few Harlan Coben's books.

[Moe Shinola]

9. The Quiet American, by Graham Greene

I like his style, or anti-style, as he might put it

[fadedrose]

10. A CONSPIRACY OF MURDER (2013) by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Third in the series about Carl Mork, Homicide Detective in Department Q, and his assistant, Assad, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Not as easy author to read, but worth the trouble. I seem to recall that he has 2 or 3 stories all running at the same time that end with some connection. Doss does that too. Haven't started this yet, too much gardening, babysitting, and Seti, but picked it up at the library tonight.

2013:

18th book was THREE SISTERS by James Doss. Can't get enough of him. I've read every popular author of mystery fiction, and there's nobody quite like him..

19th will be subject book, and hope it's as good as the previous ones in this series.

[nomorenomore08]

11. Just started 'The Stars at Noon' by Denis Johnson.

Johnson's one of my favorites, I've read the majority of his books, but this one is a bit atypical for him since it features a female (American) protagonist in mid-80's Nicaragua. Sort of an espionage thriller, whereas he normally writes very "literary" stuff - think Raymond Carver or even Hemingway - with a hint of magical (or spiritual) realism.

[bemildred]

12. "The Golden Notebook" -- Doris Lessing

"Jouney to Ixtlan" -- Carlos Casteneda

[LWolf]

13. I spent the week re-reading a bunch of old books by Elizabeth Peters.

Not Amelia Peabody, but the other old stuff. Vicky Bliss, Jacqueline Kirby, and some others. I haven't really looked at them in at least a decade; probably more, but they are still on the shelf, so I decided it was time to re-love them. I smiled at how dated they seemed, but it wasn't hard for me to put myself back into the time they were written for.

[pscot]

14. An Uncertain Place, by Fred Vargas

Ms. Vargas has sold over 10 million books, and is the most read author in France, Germany and Italy. I've read 5 or 6 of these and Police Commissaire Adamsberg has yet to shoot anyone.