What are you reading the week of May 27, 2012?

[DUgosh]

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

2012 book # 82

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Another Pan

3/4 of the way thru... it gets a 3 of 10 :|

[mvccd1000]

2. "Cold Truth" by Joel Goldman

3rd book in the Lou Mason series. Attorney who lives and works in Kansas City. The author works a fair amount of locale and the occasional bit of history into the novels, which I find interesting, never having been to that area.

The books are fun reads, so I'm enjoying this series.

[mvccd1000]

12. Fun read

The Lou Mason series started out good and has only improved through books 2 and 3. I finished Cold Truth yesterday and downloaded the 4th book last night.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. Still reading2312

by Kim Stanley Robinson .It is a pretty long book. Next I will read a book about the Argonne forest battle in WW1 that my father in law was involved in , or Antarctica by KSR, or maybe something altogether different!

[Mz Pip]

4. I'll finish The Passage

then because I started it and I am curious as to what all the fuss is about I'll finish 50 Shades of Grey. It's pretty awful but I can laugh at the bad writing, I guess.

[Kablooie]

6. The Passage is very interesting but disappointing in that it's just the first of a series.

The story doesn't resolve itself.

[Mz Pip]

7. I think the second book comes out

this fall. It's supposed to be a trilogy.

I'm finding the middle of The Passage kind of dull. Too many characters, none of them particularly well developed. Maybe it will improve.

I've got a long plane flight on Wed so it will probably do for a 6 hour flight.

[Kablooie]

5. Executive Orders and Wild Swans

[dimbear]

8. All of the Mr Moto books by John Marquand.

We start in 1935 and go thru to the early 50's. I assure you the books are nothing like the movies, the books are in fact quite sympathetic to Japan's empire. It gives an eerie feeling to the read, knowing that Marquand was so good a writer, so educated, and so very, very wrong. (Excuse that allusion.)

It crossed my mind that given the immense popularity of the Saturday Evening Post where these first ran, the readers may well have included Eleanor and FDR.

[Princess Turandot]

9. Re-reading 'Mucho Mojo' by Joe R. Lansdale...

The second in his Hap Collins & Leonard Pine series, the East Texas version of Spenser and Hawk. Except they don't dress as well. Or eat as well. And their witty repartee is a bit raunchier. And Hap (the narrator) is a convicted draft dodger. And Leonard is a gay vet, with a pet armadillo named Bob.

[Melissa G]

11. Is it better to read them in order

or do they stand alone well?

[YankeyMCC]

10. "The Warmth of other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson

[mvccd1000]

13. "Deadlocked" by Joel Goldman

I'm really liking this Lou Mason series, set in Kansas City; "Deadlocked" is the fourth in the set.

I have several other books waiting to download, but I keep bypassing them to continue with the Goldman novels.

[mvccd1000]

14. Another good one

Now I'm going to go back and re-read the three Jack Davis books by Goldman, as they fell after the first four Lou Mason books. I seem to remember Mason mentioned in passing during the Davis books, but I'd never read those four, so he didn't sink in.

I just noticed that there was a fifth Lou Mason book published last year, so I'll read it after I go back through the Jack Davis books.

Bonus: after following along with the locations of these books on google earth while reading them, I almost know my way around Kansas City.

[fadedrose]

15. BAMBOO AND BLOOD (2008) James Church

3rd in a series of 4 - Police Inspector O in North Korea, good.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Church_James.html

Book 46

[fadedrose]

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17. CAST, IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (1975) Simon Brett

First of 17 books in a series about Charles Paris, actor, who likes to solve murders...England....

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Brett_Simon.html

Book 48 of 2012

[fadedrose]

18. DEATH OF A CELEBRITY (2002) M. C. Beaton

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Beaton_M-C.html


Book 18 of Policeman Hamish Macbeth in the Scottish Highlands....




Book 47 of 2012

[bemildred]

19. Earth Abides -- George R. Stewart (second time)

Also "Silenced" -- Allison Brennan and "Comeback" -- Richard Stark (Donald Westlake).

And I re-read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig for the 5th or sixth time.

Busy week.