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What are you reading the week of January 8, 2012? (Original Post) DUgosh Jan 2012 OP
The Curse of Chalion Melissa G Jan 2012 #1
"The Detachment" by Barry Eisler MaineDem Jan 2012 #2
Just starting 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King - my Christmas gift! NRaleighLiberal Jan 2012 #3
Just finished it. AngryOldDem Jan 2012 #16
AGATHA RAISIN AND THE QUICHE OF DEATH by M. C. Beaton fadedrose Jan 2012 #4
I love Aggie DUgosh Jan 2012 #6
"Shakedown" by Joel Goldman mvccd1000 Jan 2012 #5
Started the 'Hunger Games' trilogy last night - so far so good! jannyk Jan 2012 #7
Purse book: "Northwest Angle" by William Kent Krueger Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2012 #8
Berlin Game, by Len Deighton Moe Shinola Jan 2012 #9
A new Translation of the Iliad by Stephen Mitchell YankeyMCC Jan 2012 #10
Still working my way through ellie Jan 2012 #11
Started another one: "Night over Water" by Ken Follett MaineDem Jan 2012 #12
Susan Hill NJCher Jan 2012 #13
Next up is The First Tycoon, T. J. Stiles. closeupready Jan 2012 #14
I'm just starting ohheckyeah Jan 2012 #15
"When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops" by George Carlin AngryOldDem Jan 2012 #17
A trick of light by Louise Penny elfin Jan 2012 #18

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
4. AGATHA RAISIN AND THE QUICHE OF DEATH by M. C. Beaton
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 11:30 PM
Jan 2012

This is the first in the Agatha series (England) and the book from the library was marked "Storage."

It's a yellowing brittle paperback and I can't wait till I'm done with it. It's the first in the series, and I've already read several.

Have to look up your choice to see where Loon Lake is...

This is Book 2 of 2012.

Happy New Year DUgosh and thanks...



Edited for spelling & found out Loon Lake is in Wisconsin

DUgosh

(3,055 posts)
6. I love Aggie
Sun Jan 8, 2012, 12:53 AM
Jan 2012

She grows on you. I loved the Quiche of Death too. The Loon Lake book is a free Nook Book. It's really good. I like the aging characters. Happy New Year to you too Faded Rose!

mvccd1000

(1,534 posts)
5. "Shakedown" by Joel Goldman
Sun Jan 8, 2012, 12:15 AM
Jan 2012

New (to me) author with several books out there, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest.

Takes place in Kansas City and has plenty of references to the locale, which is nice because I've never been there. I enjoy following along on google earth when a new spot is mentioned.

Protagonist is an FBI agent who's been forced out on medical leave because he's started getting stress-induced shakes at inopportune moments. The murderer is revealed in the beginning of the book and so far (1/2 way through) it's been an interesting ride watching the FBI (and the suspended agent) trying to figure out who it was while he tries to stay off of their radar.

It was in the low-price bin for kindle on amazon, and I've been very pleasantly surprised; it's much better than many of the offerings in that price range. It does have one annoying quirk on kindle; every place the letters "fl" appear together the kindle displays a question mark instead. I've almost learned to read right past it without even noticing! (They fly right by in a ?ash.)

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
8. Purse book: "Northwest Angle" by William Kent Krueger
Sun Jan 8, 2012, 11:11 PM
Jan 2012

a Minnesota author. A mystery portrayed as taking place during an actual event, a mega storm of straight line winds that devastated a huge swath of the Minnesota-Ontario boundary waters.

Bedside book: I started The Quincunx, but I wasn't in the mood for it, so I switched to Louise Penney's "A Rule Against Murder."

Moe Shinola

(143 posts)
9. Berlin Game, by Len Deighton
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 04:18 AM
Jan 2012

also, Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake, Iron Sunrise and Accelerando, by Charles Stross. Recently completed are SS-GB by Deighton and, just now, Alongside Night, by J. Neil Schulman.

NJCher

(35,660 posts)
13. Susan Hill
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 12:23 AM
Jan 2012

Howards End is on the Landing.

The book starts out: "It began like this. I went to the shelves on the landing to look for a book I knew was there. It was not. But plenty of others were and among them I noticed at least a dozen I realised I had never read."

Susan Hill is a British writer and this is her account of a year of not buying books. Instead, she went back through her library and re-read books. She also read books she'd purchased but never read. She categorizes them (example: detective novels, women's books, travel writing).


Cher

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
17. "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops" by George Carlin
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 06:42 AM
Jan 2012

Some of the stuff, meh.

But I am loving his rants about the English language and euphemisms.

(Also reading in tandem David Sedaris' "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim".)

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