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What are you reading the week of August 11, 2013? (Original Post) DUgosh Aug 2013 OP
Mine cyberswede Aug 2013 #1
I just finished The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss. ZombieHorde Aug 2013 #2
How'd you like the first two books in that series? :) Little Star Aug 2013 #3
I really like them DUgosh Aug 2013 #4
At the City's Edge, Marcus Sakey pscot Aug 2013 #5
Randy Wayne White - Captiva. Enthusiast Aug 2013 #6
Just finished "Finished" by H. Rider Haggard Zorro Aug 2013 #7
Barbara Mertz. LWolf Aug 2013 #8

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
1. Mine
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 11:04 AM
Aug 2013
The Vanishing Man by R. Austin Freeman (free Kindle book)

The Nine Taylors by Dorothy L. Sayers (regular book for when my iPad is dead)

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (reading it to my daughter)

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table - Puffin Classics edition (reading with my son)


ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)
2. I just finished The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss.
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 12:29 PM
Aug 2013

It is the sequel to The Name of the Wind. So awesome.

pscot

(21,037 posts)
5. At the City's Edge, Marcus Sakey
Sun Aug 11, 2013, 08:22 PM
Aug 2013

I also have a Lee Child and a couple of police procedurals ready at the library.

Zorro

(16,312 posts)
7. Just finished "Finished" by H. Rider Haggard
Mon Aug 12, 2013, 09:15 AM
Aug 2013

I've been through a number of his works lately -- they're classics and free Kindle downloads.

He really does know how to spin rousing Victorian era yarns about Africa.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
8. Barbara Mertz.
Tue Aug 13, 2013, 10:34 AM
Aug 2013

I've been reading her since the 70s. I'm rereading everything I've got by her to honor her life and life's work.

This morning I finished Search the Shadows, published under her "Barbara Michaels" pen-name.

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