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

[DUgosh]

Death Qualified by Kate Wilhelm ~ Barbara Holloway #1

2013 book #125

[Little Star]

1. Jonathan Kellerman's 'Mystery'.....

Just have about twenty or so pages left. I'm really enjoying it and have another one of his Alex Delaware series sitting on my night stand ready to go.

[russspeakeasy]

2. Dr. Sleep by Stephen King.

I'm only 100 pages in, but so far, so good.

[LWolf]

3. Profiles in Courage

Which is not fiction, and a stack of kid's books I'm considering for my classroom library. Currently working through The Eleventh Plague.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson

This is not fiction, although I hope that some of it is. I has me laughing so hard at this bizarre woman and her childhood experiences. I now believe that I grew up in a "normal" household for the first time in my life. Funny, but also has places where I am bothered by her mental condition.

[PDJane]

5. Trader by Charles de Lindt.

Great book..

[northoftheborder]

6. Just finished "Mr. Churchill's Secretary" by Susan MacNeal

historical fiction: WWII in London during Blitz, young woman with math talents recruited to help with Code Breaking; includes Bletchly Park activities; a page turner! one book of a series with same main characters and time period.

[getting old in mke]

7. _Rain Dogs_ by Sean Doolittle

Journalist dealing badly with the death of a child a marriage moves back to his native area in western Nebraska to run a campground willed to him by his grandfather. Ends up in the crossfire of drugs and police and old flames and oh just everything, trying to cope with them (not very successfully) by crawling into a bottle.

Enjoying it a lot--midwest noir is a fairly small sub-genre, but Doolittle reminds us that shit happens everywhere.

I read his _The Cleanup_ a couple of years ago and was just as impressed with his sense of place--Iowa instead of Nebraska this time--and while the story's in the western part and I grew up along the eastern edge, he could have been describing 20 miles outside Davenport as much as 20 miles outside Sioux Falls.

[Enthusiast]

8. Glitz by Elmore Leonard

[SheilaT]

9. The Impersonator

by Mary Miley.

OMG is it good.

A woman who looks exactly like someone who disappeared seven years earlier agrees to impersonate that person so as to gain access to a serious fortune. It takes place in 1924. Amazing.

I can hardly wait for more books from this author.

[SheilaT]

11. Responding to my own post here.

This book in the end was very disappointing in that everything was telegraphed too clearly and too far ahead of time. In the end, there really was no mystery to the reader, because you figured out very quickly that the missing girl had been murdered and by whom, and then the ending had a rather conventional as-if-made-for-a-movie scene where our heroine seems to be in mortal danger but of course gets rescued and in the end all is well.

The most interesting aspect is the vaudeville stuff and the brief onstage appearance of some of those performers who went on to huge fame.

[Little Star]

10. Just finished Craig Johnson's As the Crow Flies....

It was my least favorite of the Longmire series so far. But I've started his A Serpent's Tooth (9th in the series) and am really enjoying it so far. He makes me chuckle out loud at some points