What Are You Reading the Week of 28 April 2012?

The 28th: Harper Lee

Terry Pratchett

Alistair MacLean

The 29th: Jill Paton Walsh

Elmer Kelton

The 30th: Annie Dillard

Larry Niven

Alice B. Toklas

The 1st: Bobbie Ann Mason

Joseph Heller

Terry Southern

The 2nd: E.E. "Doc" Smith

James Redfield

Stephen J. Cannell

The 3rd: Machiavelli

Norman Corwin

Andy Adams

The 4th: Graham Swift

David Guterson

Allison Rushby

You are, in advance, welcome for starting the thread.

The Lucky Strike was terrific! Don't care to read anything I've got on hand, so I'm watching The Universe marathon on History. It was that or go back to bed.

You are reading all those! My my I guess I'll go get my pile and fess up to the multiple book marked volumes in my life, too. Might remind me to get back to it: Reading, that is.

Richard, we do appreciate the time and effort you take to start us us off every week. You do a great job! Without your start to this thread, I'd have had no idea that tomorrow is Harper Lee's birthday! Happy Birthday, Ms. Lee!

Currently, I'm reading Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse. I'm really enjoying it!

I am reading The Tainted Relic

>4 bookwoman247: You know, Bookwoman247, I get so many thank-you's every week for doing something I enjoy doing that I feel terrible that I would miss someone if I tried to acknowledge them all.

So I think, if I just say it at first, folks won't feel it's necessary to thank me, since they've already been acknowledged! I'm not fishing for compliments or thanks. It's a community here, and I like to do my obsessive lit bit of community building with this.

OK, duh. I just disclosed for all of LT to see that I do not read every word in front of me. I see you are giving us information, not reading all those authors. You are a dear, Richard, to not thump me on my little pointy head.

Then how about a weird cyber hug: ((((richard))))?

I have broken my fiction stagnation and disinterest with possibly one of the best novellas (or short novels - I'm not quite sure where the boundary is) I have ever read. Not even sure it would be everyone's cup of tea, but I found it in the dollar bin at one of my local libraries. It is Fat City by Leonard Gardner. It reminds me a bit of both Hemmingway and Steinbeck and yet, he has a style all his one. I cannot put it down, but am trying to savor it. My faith in fiction has been renewed. I think I just have to avoid much of the over-hyped, popular stuff as it has just been so disappointing. I enjoy the "craft" of writing, very much, so will seek out more along those lines.

Only about 50 pages into The Hamlet by Faulkner. I'm very much enjoying it. Just haven't had as much reading time as I'd like.

>7 maggie1944: I knew you'd figure it out without being called on the carpet, which is almost always a bad idea to do to someone you like.

>8 CarolynSchroeder: cyber-*smooch* for Carolyn, thanks!

>9 rocketjk: You run a bookstore! How can you possibly have *time* to read when you're feeding the reading habits of others?

#10> Yup. Sad story, but true. My reading time is cut about in half since I bought the store. A lot of it has to do with my added commute time, plus I no longer have a nice mellow lunch hour to read through.

I'm reading The Sun Also Rises for the first time and, although I enjoyed the first 30 pages, I'm currently ready to chuck it out the window of a moving car (but it is a library book, so I shall refrain). Much more enjoyable is my first Alison Weir nonfiction, The Lady in the Tower: Anne Boleyn. I'm also listening to The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, which is very interesting.

Aw, happy birthday Harper Lee! Thank you Richard.

I'm rereading The Green Mile Part 5: Night Journey by Stephen King. I finally start spring break today so I'm looking forward to some extra reading time!!!

Reading Timeless, Packing for Mars on the iPod, Full Dark No Stars on audio in the car, and Bodies Politic, the latest Marcus Corvinus mystery, on Kindle and wishing I could read all of them simultaneously because there are so many more that I urgently want to read sitting on the TBR shelf crying out to me.

Thanks to all who make this community so wonderful. I'm reading The Cross and the Switchblade by Davide Wilkerson. As an aside, I have to share something I discovered this week. I like to read but don't do as much as I would like, but I LOVE to read aloud to my SK/Grade 1 students. I become quite dramatic with actions and facial expression, and of course, just the right intonation. I had a student teacher who (although very smart) did not share this particular talent. The students wiggled and squirmed and visited when she read a story. When I read, all you hear are their comments/predictions/reactions to the story! So....that's my little contribution to the world of reading. I hope they all grow to love the world of books as much as we do!

Lamplight, it's such a talent to be able to read aloud engagingly. Good for you, and good for your students.
Richard, I didn't know Harper Lee was born on both the 28th and the 29th. She must have been a very big baby.
Currently reading:
Audiobook: Caleb's Crossing and I once again finished a hopeful episode only to be thrown into religious oppression. Must think calming thoughts
Paper: The Kitchen Man by Ira Wood and a little graphic compilation: Library Mascot Cage Match by Gene Ambaum
Nook: The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage that Forever Changed the Fate of England by Susan Higginbotham it was free on Nook Friday, and there's a new challenge to read a book about the Tudors, so there you are. I'll never be able to keep straight who's who, but I hope I'll like the story anyway.

Happy, happy birthday to Harper Lee, who wrote my favorite book ever. And I sincerely don't care that it's a supposed "one book wonder." If I write only one book in my entire life, let it be just half as good as that one.

Finished Empress yesterday. Should finish The Book of Jonas today (very good) and may finish as well Logavina Street (good, but not nearly the power of Nothing to Envy). That will force me to return to We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, a very well written book, but the content makes it tough to read and I'll finish off A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, which is much better written and more interesting than I feared it might be.

I'll try to set up the thread one of these weeks, richard, but you know it's appreciated when you do it. :) Da nada.

I'm reading Cinderella Smith: the More the Merrier, which was a free book (Members' giveaway?). It's fine, but it is not like Beverly Cleary's works.

I also am reading a commentary on 1st and 2nd Corinthians, but am thinking of switching to Job, since that's where I'm at in my Bible this week.

I'm not sure what else I'll read this weekend, but I'll be starting Tea With the Black Dragon as part of a group read for May...

Ack! Is it MAY already????????

I've been sucked into Bobby and J. Edgar the Historic Face-Off Between The Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America. It isn't very well written and the author has, unfortunately, adopted some of the mob slang(what the hell is a 'candy butcher'?)which renders him almost incomprehensible at times but it is a fascinating story. I used to think Robert Kennedy was 'the good one' but I've come to believe that he was no better than any of them. I skim some of the blah-blahings about who paid off whom but the best part is when Hoover(a loathsome little man) and Robert Kennedy go toe to toe. It is nice to see Hoover squirm even if Bobby is a jerk too. I'm really not sure I would recommend this book.
I've also got Infinite Jest on the back burner. I've been having trouble staying focused on any book this past week. It is me - not the books.

I've finally written my review of an antique race-relations novel that *should* have won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Voice at the Back Door by Elizabeth Spencer. It's over in my thread...post #181.

15 lamplight
I teach first grade too and I love reading to my class. I have an outlet for all the years I did theatre in school. One thing that always cracks me up is when I use a crazy voice for a character and the kids ask, "Why does she talk like that?!" (not even realizing that it's me changing my voice) It's so much fun to see them get lost in the story that way.

The Water Woman
A Virtuous Woman

She wrote my most favorite book ever, or nearly, too. And, I feel certain that it was definitely not a "one hit wonder". I believe that it was her choice not to have anything else published, not because she didn't have anything else in her.

Oh, and when I stated "most favorite, or nearly", it was because The Outsiders is maybe equal, or definitely very close.

Sheesh! Whose birthday did I give to Harper Lee tomorrow, I wonder? Took her off the 29th. *ponders*

#16 Thanks for the tip on The Stolen Crown, Joyce. I was able to get it free for my Kindle too! I haven't read Higginbotham yet, but I read her blog sometimes and enjoy it.

Just started The house of a thousand candles and found the first chapter thoroughly charming. #15, enjoy the David Wilkerson. I love that book.

I finished Cinderella Smith: The More the Merrier and enjoyed it. You can read my review on the book's page. :)

Then I decided to start reading Tea With the Black Dragon (actually, a reread) and was enjoying it, but my antihistamine put me to sleep about chapter 6.

I finished Fat City by Leonard Gardner and thought it was great, a real undiscovered American masterpiece really. Although, I understand there is a movie version. But it was very depressing.

I am now reading Catching Fire upon begging and pleading of my niece. It's not really my thing, but she wants to talk about it and anything that gets a child reading like those books do for she and her friends, well, I'm all for it. So far it's a little better than the first one. I think seeing the movie helps me enjoy it more, for whatever reason.

enaid ~ I understand about Infinite Jest ... it is my favorite book I cannot seem to finish. I'm not sure what it is even, but I am not going to give up. I'll pick it back up at a different time, maybe with less(er) distractions, etc.

28 Ah Carolyn you are such a good aunt!

Okay, I began Started Early, Took My Dog for M & M. Atkinson really is one of my favorites. I finished Under the Skin. OMG! I also started You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories and will be cracking open Zoo Station, another M & M read. Whew!

Carolyn- Yes, Fat City is also a terrific movie, from the early 70s, with a very young Jeff Bridges. I forgot that it was 1st a book. I'll have to track that one down.
That's a classic cover too:

I'll add my recommendation for seeing the movie version of Fat City. Jeff Bridges, yes, and also a fine performance by Stacey Keach. I knew the book's author, Leonard Gardner, a little bit when I was in grad school at San Francisco State University. An interesting fellow. He went on to, among other things, work as script editor for the TV show NYPD Blue. He also wrote the screenplay to the movie, by the way. The movie was directed by the great John Huston. The book's terrific, absolutely.

April is Autism Awareness Month so I'm reading Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin. I read the first chapter this morning which has been interesting.

I met Temple Grandin last year after her lecture and got this book autographed.

I finished and REVIEWED John Green's heartbreaking and yet somehow uplifting novel The Fault in Our Stars.

Now I'm reading Broken Glass Park by Alina Bronsky.

Jim- Thanks for chiming in on Fat City. The film is another John Huston gem. I need to track a copy of the book down.

Msf59 ~ I'm happy to give you my copy (I don't have any readers in my 3D life who I think it would appeal to - but I generally give away almost all of my books). It's an oldie version, seems to be from Canada, but it's in good shape. I got it for a dollar at the library, I am happy to pay it forward. Drop me a note if you are interested. Media mail is only a couple bucks. Of if you feel uncomfortable with that, if you have something cheapo you'd like to swap, that's cool too.

Thanks for all the information on the movie, folks, I will definitely check it out.

I'm reading Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision. Did the Pulitzer Prize Fiction judges simply not read this book? Beautiful stories . . . each one a gem . . . they remind me of how I feel about the stories of Alice Munro and William Trevor.

This weekend I finished Dead reckoning by Charlaine Harris, a nice Sookie Stackhouse novel. I am also reading The Master of Heathcrest Hall by Galen Beckett. My new "trainbook " or "handbagbook" will be Devil's punch.

Reading The Mill On The Floss and listening to State of Wonder.

#40 NovaLee . . . they remind me of Munro's stories not so much because they're like her stories, but because of their quality and the sense of each being a little masterpiece. She creates a world and very distinctive characters who touch you so deeply, and in only 10-20 pages . . . they leave you a little breathless. You're left thinking, How did she do that to me? And they continue to work on you long after you've finished reading them.

I'm reading Birdsong and Game of Thrones, but mostly Game of Thrones. I just can't put it down. I know I'm late to this party, and I can see why they're so popular. I'm really worried about one character in particular - he's my second favorite, and so noble and honorable and trustworthy and good that I'm sure he's going to be murdered before the end of the book and that will upset me.

Finished an ER book, Masters of the Planet. It was an excellent overview of where paleontology is now in understanding the origins of modern humans. It has been some 20 years since l last visited the subject and I was impressed by the progress and the discoveries that have been made over that time.

Thanks for the tip on Binocular Vision. I had not heard of Edith Pearlman either.

I'm about to start Memory of Love which I have heard great things about and am anxious to start.

>39 mollygrace:. Mollygrace- I read Binocular Vision a few weeks ago and absolutely loved it. Each story was just so finely crafted that I found myself stopping to reread passages because they were so beautiful. I wondered the same thing about the Pulitzer committee.

ETA: I read and loved The Memory of Love last year. Enjoy!

Cruising through Mariana by Susanna Kearsley. It feels like a bit of a rip-off of The House on the Strand at the moment but it's enjoyable nonetheless and a quick read.

Well, word must be out re: Binocular Vision as it's checked out for the foreseeable future @ my libraries (I have three local that all pool together). I wonder if it is available for Nook (as BN is out of it too). I'm about 100 pages into Catching Fire and it's quite possibly the worst book I have read in ages (and it's funny, like ALL of the things were were told to avoid in fiction writing class are common place in there - and I don't excuse it because it is YA fiction), yet, because I do indeed love my niece and need to cast my vote ASAP whether I'm on "Team Peeta" or "Team Gale" ... I trudge through it. Oy. The good news is she borrowed my Anniversary Edition of Anne Frank (which I actually got in Amsterdam at the Anne Frank House) and she saw the play too (and loved it) ~ so redeeming things do filter in to the children!

Finished Tea With the Black Dragon (what a joy to reread!) and then picked up an LT recommended book, Indian Captive. It's based on the life of a woman who was taken captive by the Seneca in the mid 1700s. She told her story at one point, and the book covers her first two years living with the Seneca tribe.

Very good book, recommended.

I started and finished Lehrter Station by David Downing. This is not the best of the John Russell series, but once again Downing has managed to create an atmosphere in which it is possible to see the ruined city and experience the difficulties of daily life where utility service is sporadic at best, and the currency is cigarettes, and the Black Market is the only commerce. Add in the millions of displaced people and the chaos is complete. While the spy part of the novel is nothing earth shaking the setting takes center stage. Read the book to find out about life after the war where every standing house has at least three families sharing a kitchen and no heat and little running water.

I continue to read David Copperfield and Finding George Orwell in Burma. The Orwell book is really good. And so timely.

Started The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka last night.

I've reviewed Katherine Boo's urgently necessary call to arms Behind the Beautiful Forevers, which I hope all here will read, in my thread...post #131.

#54 I'm on the waiting list for that one - only 11 more people before I get it. I was #36 on 2/17/12, so should get it in May.

I hope it's sooner rather than later. What a tale.

Currently reading Herbert Marcuse’s classic tract on the loss of freedom and individuality in modern society, One-Dimensional Man. Not a thrill ride but I do have a soft spot for philosophers who like to rock the boat and tip sacred cows.

Currently reading A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt. I've had this book for several years but apparently never read it. I like finding surprises like that on my shelf.

Yes, DMO, it's great fun to find surprises on one's shelf. Although, it doesn't happen often on mine. I'm usually the sort who can't rest until they're read.

Thanks fuzzi, I've added "Indian Captive" to my wishlist. I can hardly wait.

Just re-read Beauty by Robin McKinley for the umpteen millionth time. It's just as good as ever.

I have a little over a chapter left to go in Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg. When I finish, I'll enjoy a long, warm bath.

I finally read The Devil in the White City and finished it today. I loved it!

Started The Song of Achilles and it's sucked me right in.

>62 Copperskye: Oh boy oh boy Joanne, I really really want to know what you thought of it when you're done!

Finished the lovely State of Wonder, and will start listening to Gulliver's Travels.

Last night I read Escape From Reason by Francis Schaeffer, and found it fascinating.

However, it's sort of 'deep', so I'm going to read it again...and again if necessary until I understand it thoroughly.

Richard, the appreciation is genuine. I know you weren't fishing for thanks!

I finished Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse, and raced through and finisjhed The Lives of Shadows by the wonderful Barbara Hodgson.

Now I've just started Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works by Aphra Behn. I'm not at all far in, but it should be quite interesting.

I finished and reviewed Caleb's Crossing, The Kitchen Man and Fade, Sag, Crumble. I've started listening to Foreign Bodies, and while I've never yet read Henry James I don't find it to be depressing. I guess that comes later. Finally I get to start reading Salvage the Bones.

# 67 Henry James is, in my view, one of the great nineteenth century novelists, Citizenjoyce. True, he doesn't use one word where twenty or thirty will easily do; and many's the time when I've had to reread a passage because he lost me somewhere along the way. However, for me, no-one gets inside a character like James: he really knows what makes people tick. The book that won me over after years of indifference was The Aspern Papers. If you give Henry a try, I hope you find it a rewarding experience.

Foreign Bodies, from what I read, is Cynthia Ozick's retelling of Henry James's The Ambassadors. She definitely doesn't have his verbose style, but I can't say how much else they share. I have some of his books. They just sit here looking disappointed that I never pick them up. Must plan on that in the future.

#67 Concerning Henry James: Like cappybear, I also admire The Aspern Papers and I've read many of the short stories. My favorite is the ghost story, "The Jolly Corner." I've also spent quite a bit of time reading about James and his extraordinary family. Whether it's Jean Strouse's excellent biography of his sister, Alice, or Leon Edel's multi-volume biography of Henry, or Colm Toibin's novel about him, The Master, I've found that they draw me into that world and help make the novels and stories more accessible. He'll never be "easy", but he's also not to be missed.

I'm reading Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back by Frank Schaeffer and I'm listening to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

I finished and REVIEWED Alina Bronsky's riveting debut novel, Broken Glass Park. Next up is Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier.

Gosh, it's been ages since I've posted. It's been a very weird 7 months, but it's almost done and I get to resume my life soon.

I'm reading Add More Ing to Your Life on my kindle, and The Adolescent and Death Remembered in book form between learning all about nuclear reactor operation and trying to keep myself and the dog fed.

Still reading and thoroughly enjoying The autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George. He's in between wife no. 4 and no. 5, so lots of wonderful reading still ahead of me.

Reading and loving The Marriage Plot.

#72
I have Broken Glass Park. Maybe this would be a good one to add to my May Murder and Mayhem list? I heard good things about it when it first came out, and you just reminded me that I do have it and should read it sometime.

Hey sanja, welcome back!

My brother in law is a nuclear engineer, is that what you're learning to be? After he retired from the Navy (submarine officer), he went to work in the private sector, and has had a great job working for a power company.

Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works by Aphra Behn really didn't work out for me, so now I'm reading The Travels of Ibn Battuta by Ibn Battuta. So far, comparing it to the travels of Marco Polo I prefer Marco Polo. Ibn Battuta does not seem to be as observant or as interested in the places and people he's seeing. Perhaps because he hasn't left the ME or North Africa yet much of the culture is probably still familiar to him.

Hi fuzzi, thank you!

I'm an electrical engineer. This class is to get my Senior Reactor Operator Certificate. The SROs who have a license run the reactor and are legally responsible for it. When I get my Cert, I will have all the same technical knowledge but not the power and responsibility. I'll just get to work on bigger projects for upgrading and improving the plant.

I'm starting the month off with a couple of books for May's Murder & Mayhem, Lennox by Craig Russell is the first in a series set in the gritty city of Glasgow in the 1950's. I also have started The White Russian by Tom Bradby, in which the main character is a St. Petersberg City Police Inspector in 1917 and is investigating a double murder.

>76 benitastrnad: Benita - why didn't I think of posting on the Murder and Mayhem thread?? But yes it certainly would fit in. And it's such a good book too.

Added My Favorite Fantasy Story edited by Martin H. Greenberg to the list of books I'm working on. The other two are The Secrets of Ordinary Farm by Tad Williams and Eyes Like Leaves by Charles de Lint.

I finished The Tainted Relic (A Medieval Murderers collection) and also The Black Corridor by Michael Moorcock. I am now reading Earthjacket by Jon Hartridge

Having finished The Kenneth Williams Diaries I've moved on to The Illustrated Pepys. Alfred Einstein, in his book about Schubert made the bold assertion that "people who are completely happy do not as a rule keep diaries." (The composer kept one for a few months in 1816.) Is anyone completely happy? On the other hand Robert Latham, in his introduction to the Pepys book believes "that he wrote from a need to organize and discipline himself...he was by nature obsessively and compulsively systematic."

Someone bought me a diary for Christmas in 1973 and I've kept one ever since, though I'm not sure why. I wouldn't want to stop, though.

Just started Sister: A Novel by Rosamund Lupton

I finished listening to the YA novel Forgotten by Cat Patrick. This one is forgettable. Only average. The premise is that a 17 year old goes to bed every night and while sleeping forgets her past. However, she can remember the future. (Don't ask me if this is plausiable. It isn't.) This makes the herione a self-righteous prig who goes about saving her friends from their very foolish mistakes. There are much better YA novels out there. Get one of them to read.

I've just finished The Travels of Ibn Battuta by Ibn Battuta.

Now I'm on to The Blessings of a Good, Thick Skirt edited by Mary Russell. Armchair travel seems to be my thing these days.

(82) seitherin, please be sure to tell me/us about the Tad Williams book. I've read a number of his older tomes, but lost interest with the Otherland series, and have not read anything he has written since those were published.

Finished The Postmistress yesterday early afternoon--touching read. Started Comfort Food on audio while doing post-op walking at the Y yesterday mid-afternoon; so far, so good. Light and funny, just what I need while walking. Last night I started Words to Eat By, for which I have high hopes!

I was so sad to finish Willem's Field by Melinda Haynes, I just loved the ending, it was full of very colourful characters.

I have now started on, and liking lots Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe is a very small village community in the Orkney Island of Hellya.

In addition to The Lady in the Tower: Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir on my Nook, I started two new books in print tonight: The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones and Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden

>91 DevourerOfBooks: I'll be interested to see what you think of The Uninvited Guests. I've heard some good things about it and it sounds pretty good.

I just finished The Song of Achilles and what a treat! I never thought I would find a book about Achilles and Patroclus and the Trojan War to be so wonderfully entertaining, but wow, I couldn't put it down.

Next up, probably, is When the Devil Holds the Candle but it may suffer in comparison.

Next up, probably, is When the Devil Holds the Candle but it may suffer in comparison.oh it probably will Joanne. I know the next two after it fell flat for me.

>93 brenzi: The next two, Bonnie? Oh well, worth it. What a great read!

I finished Foreign Bodies, and, while I can't count it as one of my favorite books, it is very interesting, especially the treatment of Jewish WWII refugees. I'm going to have to read more of Ozick's work. Now I've started a re read of O Pioneers! for my RL book club.

#84 cappybear - it sounds as if you might enjoy The Assassin's Cloak the best anthology of diary excerpts I know.

Am reading Jasper Fforde's Eyre affair--kind of amazing that I haven't gotten to it before now.

84 - Cappy - Your post sounds like a great beginning for a separate thread asking who keeps diaries!

I've posted my review of the Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction work, The Swerve, about the ongoing impact of the rediscovery of an ancient poem called On the Nature of Things. It's a wonderful book, and the review's in my thread...post #190.

I've also written my review of the fantastical, magical-realistic novel of WWI, called Flanders: a novel, by Patricia Anthony, in my thread...post #182.

I started reading the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny about a week or so ago....just started the sixth in the series Bury Your Dead and so far it's fabulous.

I also wrote my review of Bitter Seeds, which alt-hist novel I Pearl Ruled at page 58. It's in my thread at post #211.

>101 litasbooks: So happy to see you aboard the Three Pines Express, Lita!

>101 litasbooks: Welcome to the Three Pines Club; sounds like you want to join the rest of us in the 75 Group on the bus to Three Pines. I'm anxiously awaiting the publication of the next one The Beautiful Mystery on August 28.

I will be spending the weekend with Ariana Franklin and A Murderous Procession.

@101: Glad to hear you're enjoying Bury Your Dead! That was my first Louise Penny and still my favourite for that reason. At the moment I'm reading its predecessor, The Brutal Telling.

I also have The A.B.C. Murders going on audio and have stalled on The Forest, by Edward Rutherfurd. That was probably a slightly too demanding book for vacation reading.

#102, 103, 105...I didn't know there was an express! Woohoo!! I am thoroughly addicted to this series...only something very special could see me stop reading Dr. Siri in the middle of the series.

#104...love the Ariana Franklin series...saddened that there won't be any more from that very talented author.

I just collected Silk by Alessandro Baricco from my local library, I will start ASAP.

New thread is up!

I'm struggling with a review, so I decided to do it early.

>101 litasbooks:, litasbooks.......my entire RL book club are fanatical fans of the series.....not as book club selections, but as joyful reading on the side! I want to take a road trip to Three Pines and stay at the bistro, see the artwork, and attend dinner gatherings after long conversation with the wise and wonderful Inspector!

#109 hemlokgang...LOL that would be wonderful wouldn't it?

#107 Hope it gives you as much pleasure as it did me. Can I just say that I did consider abandoning it at several points but what seems annoying resolves itself beautifully - keep going.

#111 I have finished reading Silk and I must say that it was a very unusual little novel, quite magical, for me it read like a fairytale. Thanks for the recommendation.

I am now a little way into The Road Home by Rose Tremain, she is a favourite of mine, I just loved Music and Silence and The Colour.

I finished a slim little volume of poetry read by the author Adrienne Rich it's called Voice of the Poet Adrienne Rich and contains poems from throughout her career. I'm not much of a poetry reader, but some of these really got to me. Now, to go in an entirely opposite direction, I've started an audiobook of the YA novel The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens read by the delightful Jim Dale. I can't remember whether or not I heard of it here, but I'm enjoying it very much. It has a Harry Potter vibe, or is that just because of the narrator? I've also started on Nook Gillespie and I.