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What are you reading the week of April 28, 2013? (Original Post) DUgosh Apr 2013 OP
I pulled some tattered old paperbacks LWolf Apr 2013 #1
James W. Hall; Hell's Bay. russspeakeasy Apr 2013 #2
True Believers SheilaT Apr 2013 #3
"The Drift of Man" Collection of Jack London and "Redshirts" By John Scalzi YankeyMCC Apr 2013 #4
C J Box Hula Popper Apr 2013 #5
Another of my favorites! Little Star May 2013 #14
by Jeffrey Ford wet.hen88 Apr 2013 #6
Hey wet.hen JitterbugPerfume Apr 2013 #9
_The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing_ by Tarquin Hall getting old in mke Apr 2013 #7
sounds good wet.hen88 Apr 2013 #10
re read-Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency JitterbugPerfume Apr 2013 #8
anybody ever read Kate Horsley? wet.hen88 Apr 2013 #11
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond series. getting old in mke Apr 2013 #12
Gone Girl Mz Pip Apr 2013 #13
I couldn't put that one down Lex May 2013 #15

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
1. I pulled some tattered old paperbacks
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 10:40 AM
Apr 2013

from the shelves that I haven't visited in a decade or so, and I'm in the process of re-reading them.

My collection of Andre Norton's works.

russspeakeasy

(6,539 posts)
2. James W. Hall; Hell's Bay.
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 12:38 PM
Apr 2013

Hall hasn't written a book I didn't enjoy, but this may be one of his best.
I admit some bias. I am familiar with the Florida locations he writes about which, for me, makes it all the more interesting.
His character, Thorn, also keeps my interest.

wet.hen88

(64 posts)
6. by Jeffrey Ford
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 05:36 PM
Apr 2013

The Girl in the Glass...Discovered author in one of those Years Best anthologies put out by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling. Desperate! for some suggestions on what's new in syfy...on the order of David Brin and Kim Robinson...anyone?

getting old in mke

(813 posts)
7. _The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing_ by Tarquin Hall
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 09:15 PM
Apr 2013

Second in the series of "Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator". Vish and his operatives investigate the rather public murder of a debunker by the Goddess Kali. Also they look into the high-priced ashram of a Godman which his wife and mother investigate the robbery of the kittie from a kittie party. Great fun, and for anyone who has spent time in India, Hall's ear for Indian English will make you nostalgic.

Listening: _The People of Sparks_ by Jeanne Duprau. YA post-world-wide disaster. The people from the _City of Ember_, having escaped just in time, come to the surface to find that non-subterranean life is very different.

2013: 42 and counting.

JitterbugPerfume

(18,183 posts)
8. re read-Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 11:45 AM
Apr 2013

By Douglas Adams


Wild , crazy free form writing about a crazy person. This book is pure Douglas Adams. It has been years since I last read it, and I just started it last night. I needed a break from


THIS

I am also reading


Salt Fat Sugar by Michael Moss . It explains in detail how the so called food industry manipulated our food supply to make us fat , sick and apathetic. This as a scary book that really pisses me off

wet.hen88

(64 posts)
11. anybody ever read Kate Horsley?
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 10:06 PM
Apr 2013

Read The Changeling of Finnistuath and Confessions of a Pagan Nun...very good...am a big fan of historical fiction. Anybody got any good suggestions for that genre?

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