What are we reading in July?

I've just started Where'd You Go, Bernadette for the GeoCAT. So far so good! What are you reading this month?

I just started A Discovery of Strangers by Rudy Wiebe for GeoCAT. In the first chapter he writes only of caribou and wolves. It really gives the feeling of the vast cold land. Fabulous so far.

I'm reading Armadale, and I'm listening to The Big Sleep for this month's MysteryCAT.

Just finished The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers, and will probably start Dangerous Work, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, for the GeoCAT. I also have a Doctor Who ebook on the go: The Dalek Generation, by Nicholas Briggs.

Almost finished with Due or Die by Jenn McKinlay and have also started The Maltese Falcon, The Goldfinch, and Crossing to Safety.

I'm enjoying Kraken which I've been meaning to dive into when I have lots of quiet time for it. Mieville's amazing!

I'm starting the month with The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith and Boston Noir which is edited Dennis Lehane. And I have an ER book The Late Starters Orchestra by Ari Goldman.

I am reading Cetaganda for the Vorkosigan Group Read, The Towers of Silence for the Raj Quartet Group Read, and The Wilderness Family, enjoying all three.

I'm reading Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen.

I'm enjoying Dead Man's Walk which is a prequel to the masterpiece Lonesome Dove. It' s not fair to compare any western to Lonesome Dove, but this is a good entry in the series. Gus and Woodrow are very young Rangers, fighting Comanches, and Gus has just met Clara for the first time.

I just finished Mr. Mercedes, a page turner, and I started The Lace Reader.

I'm reading The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes which is interesting -- a time traveling serial killer! I'm also reading Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride for the MysteryCAT.

I'm working on Hunted, but it's a slow-moving installment, so I'm letting Jerusalem: A Family Portrait cut in line.

I'm still working on Armadale, but I picked up The Cincinnati Red Stalkings to read over the weekend. Baseball and the 4th of July seem to go together. I'm listening to the audio of Fahrenheit 451 for this month's RandomCAT challenge.

I've just begun Richard Stark's The Hunter for the noir/hardboiled MysteryCAT.

I finished The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott today and have now picked up The Big Sleep. I also have No Horizon Is Too Far and The Way to Minack on the go as well.

I'm enjoying my ride along with Gus and Woodrow in the second book in the Lonesome series, Comanche Moon. Since I enjoyed Dead Man's Walk and this book so much, I've decided to reread Lonesome Dove as well.

I'm not sure about the last book in the series. Streets of Laredo, my mind pictures it on my mother's bookshelf at one point (it's not there now) and I don't remember if I read it or not.

I'm reading I Will Repay by Baroness Orczy and really enjoying it so far!

I just finished The Lace Reader and am now reading Getaway. I have a vacation theme going this month so far.

I'm about to start The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley, my pick for the RandomCAT.

>18 christina_reads: - I read that earlier this year and really enjoyed it too!

Getting ready for a business trip to Manila for a week with lots of reading planned to help pass the really, really long flight. Possibilities include:

Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The One Plus One by JoJo Moyes
Book Clubbed by Lorna Barrett
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova

Love my ipad - so many books to read and I won't have to carry them around. Actually, three of those are paperbacks just in case my ipad decides to die. Would hate to not have something to read.

>22 LittleTaiko: Wow, that's a long flight! You've got a good plan - ebooks with paperback back-ups - and a variety of genres so you can pick one to suit your current mood and level of distractions. I'm not sure my iPad's battery would last through a flight to Manila. I think it has a 10-hour span, although it seems to hold the charge longer in airplane mode.

I'm enjoying both the espionage plot and the historical aspects of Mr. Churchill's Secretary. It's moving along at a nice pace.

I'm dividing my time between Antarctica, with Le Sphinx des glaces, by Jules Verne, and Ancient Rome, with Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome, by Steven Saylor.

After reading and loving Retribution Falls earlier this year, I'm going to read book #2 in the series, The Black Lung Captain!

I just finished The Hanover Square Affair, and am continuing on with The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, A Storm of Swords, and Mere Christianity. I might decide to read another Asterix story just to break it all up a bit.

I am currently enjoying the second volume in Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy and I have just started Borderlands an Irish police procedural.

I'm reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot for a book group. Interesting history/biography.

I am still plugging away at The Brothers Karamazov, which was a group book for June! I have listened to the audiobook of Code Name Verity which I didn't care for, and read Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op book, Red Harvest.

I'm reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and I'm listening to The Well of Lost Plots.

Trying to read The Wasp Factory but can's say that I'm enjoying it that much. Also partway through Crossing to Safety by Wallace Segner.

Not much time to read as I'm back in SC and we are busy visiting friends and family. I'm reading How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran, which is a good book to be read in small segments. I'm also reading Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace, but I may set it aside until I have time to concentrate on it for longer stretches.

>33 RidgewayGirl: - Hope you enjoy your trip home, Kay.

I lost track of this thread somehow. Since the two I mentioned at the beginning of the month, I've only managed two more this month: a short story by John Dunning Bookscout and The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett. And I'm currently reading Dying Light by Stuart MacBride. I also have Boston Noir edited by Dennis Lehane, but it's due back at the library and I'm not sure I want to renew it or not.

Enjoying another visit with DI Rebus in Set in Darkness. This one revolves around the construction of the Scottish Parliament buildings, which we saw on our trip to Edinburgh last year, so there's a lot of "I'VE BEEN THERE!" going on while I read :)

I'm reading Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell and Sixth Grave on the Edge by Darynda Jones.

I' m really enjoying The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress as well as Death in the Clouds.

I'm reading Landline by Rainbow Rowell. I was going to save it as a treat for my birthday next week, but I just couldn't wait any longer! I inhaled about half of it last night, so I expect to finish it soon. :)

RE 38: Happy Birthday, Christina, a little in advance!

>39 sallylou61: Aww, thanks. :-D

For the last three weeks I have been reading The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon. It is a massive book at 1410 pages! I think I will probably finish it over the weekend. Sadly it doesn't fit any of the CATs, but it has been a really good read so far.

>41 Roro8: Getting close, Ro! I couldn't resist and have been listening to Voyager by Diana Gabaldon even though I planned to get to it next month.

I am also reading Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and The Asphalt Jungle by W.R. Burnett.

>42 DeltaQueen50: It's nice to know you are doing a Gabaldon big enormous book too. Does your narrator do the Scottish accent really well?

I picked up Fictitious Dishes at the library for a quick read. Literary passages with composed photos of the dishes on facing page and interesting snippets of information made a quick, fun read. Just started Parnasus on Wheels.

>44 dudes22: Parnassus on Wheels is lots of fun! Hope you enjoy it. :)

I'm reading Exclusively Yours by Shannon Stacey, which is fun and undemanding so far.

>43 Roro8: Ro, the narrator of Diana Gabaldon's books is Davina Porter and she is fantastic. She won the Audies both for her rendition of A Breath of Snow and Ashes and as Female Narrator of the Year. She has been narrating books for over twenty years and her specialty is dialects and accents. I guess you can tell I am a huge fan!

I have read Miles, Mystery & Mayhem, the 3rd omnibus in the Vorkosigan series. Porterhouse Blue followed that -- I love a good academia satire! And now I am reading Mary Barton...

I'm one chapter into Lost in a Good Book for the RandomCAT. I'm listening to The Killer Angels and I have 3 hours to go. It is a surprisingly readable fiction about Gettysburg, but I a lot of the war maneuvering and military discussions are going way over my head.

I'm reading Mary Barton for the group read, Hoosh for the GeoCAT, and listening to The Well of Lost Plots for the RandomCAT. I'm almost finished with the audiobook, and I've got The Prince and the Pauper ready to go next.

I read Exclusively Yours by Shannon Stacey last week, then spent the weekend in an orgy of re-reading. I fell in love with Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Sherwood Ring all over again, then devoured Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door in anticipation of Isla and the Happily Ever After coming out next month!

Just finished the charming The Young Clementina by D.E. Stevenson and am now re-reading Sylvester by Georgette Heyer.

I'm at the beach, reading Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch.

I've just finished Dying Light by Stuart MacBride and am starting The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies by Susan Wittig Albert.

I'm reading Gods of Gotham, The Cuckoo's Calling, and rereading Lonesome Dove.

On vacation now, I have read Northanger Abbey for the random challenge, Pick-up for the noir challenge, and am now reading The Sealed Letter. Also listened to The Strange Case of Origami Yoda in the car and thought it was a funny and entertaining kid's book.

I'm reading In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, which I'm confident will take me into August!

Finished Bleed a River Deep, by Brian McGilloway, and now it's straight onto another mystery, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station, by Dorothy Gilman.

>57 rabbitprincess: I love Mrs. Pollifax and I don't think I've read that one yet! I picked up a copy the last time I shopped at the local used bookstore. Hmm. Maybe I can squeeze it into next month's GeoCAT.

>54 lsh63: I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of Gods of Gotham. I read it recently and thought it was excellent.

I am currently reading The Iron Castle, the sixth installment in Angus Donald's Robin Hood series.

I've finished The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies and also Parnassus on Wheels

I just started The Killing of the Tinkers and I really like Bruen's style, so I'm expecting a good read.

I'm halfway through We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler and it is fantastic so far.

>59 Roro8: Ro, I loved Gods of Gotham, and I am looking forward to reading the sequel very soon! I was in the mood for a little Dagleish, so I've started Taste for Death, technically it was scheduled for next month but what the heck.... I'm still savoring my reread of the adventures of Gus and Woodrow in Lonesome Dove.

I'm reading The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard.

I realized I could possibly squeeze in The Maltese Falcon before July MysteryCAT is over (since it's fairly short), so that one has overtaken The Killing of the Tinkers for now.

Have completely been sucked into Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. Should be able to finish it by the end of the month.

I'm really enjoying An Irish Country Village but since I started it for an Aug Cat, I'll try to delay finishing until Fri. I'll probably start another book for Aug just to delay finishing. Or I'll finish, but wait to post.