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

[DUgosh]

No Defense by Kate Wilhelm - A Barbara Holloway Legal Mystery

2012 book # 195

Happy New Year Folks! May you read many great books in the coming New Year!

[Little Star]

1. Happy New Year DUgosh & everyone else too!

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Happy New Year, DUgosh!

I am still reading The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough.....slow slow going, especially at the beginning when I was flummoxed by all the names, but it is a good book.

[pscot]

3. Seven Men of Gascony, R.F.Delderfield...also

Born in Africa, Martin Meredith

Africa, 1500 to 1900 Constance Jones

Africa Since 1800, R.A.Oliver

[getting old in mke]

4. Trying to squeeze in...

_The Pallbearers_ by Stephen J Cannell (Shane Scully)

and

_Witches Abroad_ by Terry Pratchett (audio)

as the last two of 2012...

[fadedrose]

5. THE SHAMAN'S BONES (1997) James D. Doss

Third in the Charlie Moon series, and also my third time reading. I have totally forgotten what it's about, but I recall that my favorites were after the 4th.

Took back about 7 books to the library without reading more than a few pages in any of them. Just couldn't get interested in any of them, but Doss won't give me a problem. I'll enjoy seeing my print friends again.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/D_Authors/Doss_James.html

Book 1 of 2013

[SheilaT]

9. What I like best about the library.

For a number of years I bought pretty much all the books I wanted to read, but didn't always get around to reading them. Now, thanks to being somewhat less affluent, I've rediscovered the joys of the library. I frequently return books unread, and don't feel guilty about it.

[fadedrose]

15. I love my library

After I borrow a book, if I really like it and don't want to part with it - that's when I go out and buy it. The more people borrow, the happier they are.

[fadedrose]

16. Huh?

Blue Cup is a very very old Ute shaman who wants to catch a bad man, also a Ute -

"But first there was a more powerful magic to attempt. He would go to the great black stone that had fallen from the sky. The stone that had the marks of many powerful men. Blue Cup's lips made a serene smile. Softly he began to hum his favorite melody.

Ode to Joy

[fadedrose]

18. Just finished this about an hour ago...

It was better this time than the other times I read it.

I may read it again if I live long enough. I'd like to remember some of the interesting phrases like "..a swarm of molecules, driven by pressure," is just the wind blowing....

Such a mixture of unschooled but charming superstitious characters and the scientific causes of conditions is so fascinating to me..

I hate that the author died.

[SheilaT]

6. Sacrifice by S. J. Bolton.

I'm nearly done and so far it's excellent. This is her first book, and she's got three or four others out, and I'll probably read them also.

[tosh]

7. Almost done with

A Dance with Dragons (the 5th book of A Song of Fire and Ice / Game of Thrones ) and wondering what to read until book 6 is released.

[Paladin]

8. "Mad River," John Sandford's New Novel....

...featuring Virgil Flowers, Minnesota criminal investigator/muskie fisherman/serial divorcee. This one isn't quite as funny as the previous Virgil novels---it's more of a police procedural, involving the pursuit of some young mass murderers. It took me a while to get this book from the library: by the time I reserved it, there were a hundred people ahead of me. I hope there's a Virgil movie in the works, and that it does the character justice.

[Little Star]

10. Doesn't Tom Selleck play Virgil? My memory ain't what it use to be.

[Paladin]

11. Selleck Played Jesse Stone, A Cop In A Small New England Town.

And he did a good job of it. I stand to be corrected, but I don't think he's done Virgil. I think Owen Wilson would be a good fit for the part.

[Little Star]

12. Your right and..

Mark Harmon played Lucas Davenport of the Prey series.

[getting old in mke]

13. That sounds like a good casting.

Haven't seen it, though.

[Little Star]

14. I think it premiered on USA channel back in early November 2011?...

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They've only done one (Certain Prey?) movie so far as I know. It was good but not as good as the book tho.

[Paladin]

17. Anything That Gets Harmon Away From The Execrable "NCIS" Is A Positive.... (nt)

[pscot]

19. Sacre Bleu, By Christopher Moore