What are you reading the week of July 15, 2012?

[DUgosh]

Can't Wait To Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg

2012 book # 104

[dimbear]

1. The Deruga Case, Ricarda Huch

I'm on a German detective thriller binge.

From 1919, I think. Huch had quite the life.

[Moe Shinola]

2. World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler...

...his first post-peak oil America novel. Also reading the Arthur Golding translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses(from the 1500s), Virgil's poetry(Eclogues, Georgics & Aeneid in 1 volume, translated into the most wonderful english verse), & The Once and Future King, by T.H. White.

[bemildred]

3. "Blue Mars" -- KSR

I am struggling in places with reconciling the neurotic tendencies of his protagonists and their occasional bursts of superhuman intelligence and rationality. I have noticed this in others of his books.

[bemildred]

14. "Antarctica" -- KSR nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. All The Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy.

Not his best effort , but interesting.Maybe this opinion is slightly shaded by the fact that I have been feeling blah for a while--sore throat , congestion etc.

[pscot]

5. The Time Travelers Guide to Midieval England, by Ian Mortimer

and The Death of Kings, the 4th in a series set in the reign of Alfred the Great, by Bernard Cornwell. I finished The Alienist a couple days ago. I liked it better than I first thought I would.

[fadedrose]

6. AGATHA RAISIN AND THE FAIRIES OF FRYFAM (2000) by M. C. Beaton

This is the 10th out of 23 (so far) in the Agatha Raisin series.

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

This was just the book I needed after finishing The Ballad of Frankie Silver, which was good, but after going thru two sad hangings I needed something more cheerful..

DUgosh - how far did you get in the Agatha Raisin series? This one had a pleasant surprise -- be sure to read it...

Book 60 of 2012...

[DUgosh]

11. aggie

I've read them all, waiting for the next installment. I like Aggie better when she is not besotted by James Lacey.

[fadedrose]

12. She grows on you....

I hope the author comes up with someone for her.....I read the reviews of the next two in the series and it seems the lovely marriage doesn't last very long...I was disappointed to see that but will still go on with the series...

James was, is, and always will be, a jerk.

[elfin]

7. The Crown by Bilyeau

Brit history mystery.

Am gobbling up mysteries during this summer. Baldacci, Coben, Slaughter, Freeman etc. This one should add a bit of historical context. Early into it and so far, very well written

[Mz Pip]

8. In the Woods

by Tana French. Irish crime fiction

[freesqueeze]

9. Death of the Heart - E. Bowen

It made Time's top 100 list ... it's ok.

[getting old in mke]

10. Two books by high school classmates

_The Boy Who Loved Robbie Douglas_ by Jeffrey Dennis. Young gay man coming of age in a very closeted environment -- fundamentalist, blue collar, Illinois industrial town in the mid-60s-70s.

_Other Oceans_ by Andrea Jones. Book two in her Jungian riff on Peter Pan. Book 1 was _Hook & Jill_ (Wendy's pirate name was "Red Handed Jill."

[fadedrose]

13. THE DEVIL'S STAR (2005) by Jo Nesbo

I was disappointed to see that the villain in the first book is still a pain in Harry's rear and am getting tired of him. Also, this book's about a serial killer , and I don't like serial killer stories. Plus, the book is just too long, sometimes very confusing, maybe due to the translation from Norwegian to English.

I started it anyway and got interested in it; I was going to take it back to the library without reading it. But Harry Hole is such an interesting character that the story pulled me in. This is the third in the series about Harry Hole, a cop in Oslo, Norway.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/N_Authors/Nesbo_Jo.html

Book 61 of 2012.

[fadedrose]

16. Good book

Plot, characters, etc., everything was good, except that I think it needed some editing. The last 200 pages I'd give 5 stars, but it was a struggle to hang in there till I got to the point where I couldn't put the book down...(450 pp).

[elfin]

18. One of his best

was disappointed by The Leopard, but still a favorite author. Have read all.

[Rowdyboy]

15. Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis...a detective novel set in Rome during the reign of Vespasian (70 AD)

Marcus Didius Falco is the sleuth and he's a hot tempered, irreverant in-your-face kind of plebian who circulated in the uppere crust society of ancient Rome. Its well written and fun (and the first of about 15 books in a series that I expect to read).

[getting old in mke]

17. I've read the first three

(I think--it was a while ago) and also enjoyed the exploits of Falco. Have you read any of Steven Saylor's Gordianus the Finder series? They're set about 150 years earlier.

[Rowdyboy]

19. The last book I read before "Silver Pigs" was Saylor's "Catalina's Riddle"....I'm going to the

library tomorrow to get his first in the series-I think its called "Roman Blood". I enjoyed both tremendously but of the two I kind of favored Gordianus. In the last three years I've read and then reread Colleen McCullough's "Masters iof Rome" 7 book series which focuses on the politicians so it was interesting to me to see some of the same events told through the eyes of a common man.

Once I get into a series I won't be satisfied until I've read them all-lucky I live two blocks from a cooperative library!