What are you reading the week of September 30, 2012?

[DUgosh]

The Scent Of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard

2012 book # 148

[applegrove]

1. "Company of Adventurers" by Peter C. Newman. About the Hudson's Bay

Company, the oldest corporation in North America.

[Onceuponalife]

2. A Dark Matter by Peter Straub

Finished The Court of the Air and am now reading this Peter Straub horror novel. I have enjoyed the Straub books Koko, Floating Dragon and, especially, Shadowland. And, of course, the two he wrote with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. I can tell early on that this one will be hard to put down!

[pscot]

3. Lincoln, by Gore Vidal

I like it a lot.

[closeupready]

10. A friend of mine is also reading this, and is also enjoying it.

Will you also be my friend?

[pscot]

11. Mon ami!

I started reading Vidal when he died. I'm sorry I waited so long. He really found his metier when he turned to American history. Lincoln is brilliant, both as novel and as history.

[closeupready]

12. I guess "Lincoln" is one of a trilogy - "Burr" and "1876" being Vidal's

other two parts of that saga.

[Teamster Jeff]

4. Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

3rd book of Sandman Slim series

[getting old in mke]

5. _Princeps Fury_ by Jim Butcher

Fifth book in the Codex Alera. Read the first two in a rush. Then rested a couple of months. Read the next two. Rested. Back for the final two.

Not exactly groundbreaking fantasy, but fun and entertaining.

[fadedrose]

6. THE SNOWMAN (2010) by Jo Nesbo

Just barely started it and am engrossed already. I forgot how much I liked Harry Hole, a police detective in Oslo, Norway.

This is 4th in this mystery series, but I need to go back and fill in 2 books up to the present, but I did read the 5th. New one coming out October 2, 2012

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/N_Authors/Nesbo_Jo.html

Book 91 of 2012

[fadedrose]

15. Couple of things I couldn't figure out due to lack of concentration....

but tonight, I got on track again, and I'm telling you, the last few scenes in the book were really, well, can't say just good, but taut, super exciting, and would make a helluva movie.

I should go back and read the middle and try to figure out who the guy was who was working on Harry's walls to remove mold. I'll give it a break and get back to it in a few days. I need some Hamish Macbeth to relax me after that serial killer book.

Anybody who read The Snowman and knows anything about that guy would save me a lot of time if you would tell me what you know.

[We are Devo]

7. Black Flowers by Steve Mosby

Val McDermid recommended this author on her twitter feed.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Almost finished with "The Serpent on the Crown" by Elizabeth Peters. It's book

18 out of 19. Guess I'll have the entire series done by the end of next week.

[closeupready]

9. The Alexander Cipher - interesting story and

a fast read - I should be done by the weekend, which for me, is fast.

[Peregrine Took]

13. The White Lioness by Henning Mankell.

I'm addicted to him.

[bemildred]

14. "USA" -- John Dos Passos.

A 1000+ page trilogy. Good stuff.

[skippercollector]

16. Silas Marner

I've read so many classical books this summer! I was picking them up very cheaply at book sales, garage sales and antique shops. The latest one I've finished was George Eliot's "Silas Marner," originally published in 1861. I read Eliot's novel "Adam Bede" earlier this year.
"Silas" is shorter and less complicated than "Adam," and also funnier. There is a dry wit that appears periodically, making you snicker.
Both of these novels deal with the same situation, an unwanted child. But "Silas," unlike "Adam," has a happier ending.
I am finding Eliot to be an easier read than Charles Dickens, who seems a bit pretentious at times.