Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[bjones6416]

Couldn't sleep, so I got up and finished the book "A Little Death in Dixie," by Lisa Turner. I think I got it free from Amazon recently, but the Kindle edition is listed at $8.59 right now. I admit that I don't always expect a lot from the books I get free that way, but this one surprised me by being very good. Lots of atmosphere, with even the "good" characters having enough flaws to make them real. If you picked it up when I did, give it a read.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BenG

I'm planning on reading Ray Bradbury's Let's All Kill Constance, so I'm re-reading the other two Crumley mysteries, Death Is a Lonely Business and A Graveyard for Lunatics about a writer in Venice, CA who is a fictionalized version of Bradbury and his detective friend Crumley.

Also planning on reading Green Shadows, White Whale, a fictionalized account of Bradbury's time in Ireland working with John Huston on the script for Moby Dick

I'm reading his "Zen in the Art of Writing" book and interspersing it with the stories he mentions from "Stories of Ray Bradbury" http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Ray-Br.../dp/0394513355

[strangeseraph]

No Plot? No Problem! By Chris Baty. I'm reading it in PAPER format at home but I have it in digital for when I'm on the go. o.o; Yay NaNoWriMo!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by strangeseraph

No Plot? No Problem! By Chris Baty. I'm reading it in PAPER format at home but I have it in digital for when I'm on the go. o.o; Yay NaNoWriMo!

It's almost here!!!!!

[BenG]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I'm reading his "Zen in the Art of Writing" book and interspersing it with the stories he mentions from "Stories of Ray Bradbury" http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Ray-Br.../dp/0394513355

I've had that book of short stories for almost 30 years.

[Rumpelteazer]

I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Not until nearly half way through did it start to interest me, the first half took me 4 days and the second half less than 2 days to read.

Going to start with the fourth book in the Pendergast series Still Life with Crows by Preston and Child after my reader has charged for a while (good excuse to start watching the second series of The West Wing again).

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

Going to start with the fourth book in the Pendergast series Still Life with Crows by Preston and Child after my reader has charged for a while (good excuse to start watching the second series of The West Wing again).

I read it but didnt think it was their best.

Just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind translated from Spanish. Thought it was slow at times but lots of wonderful dialogue and pearls of wisdom.

One problem was the author purposely deceives you into making wrong conclusions.

But overall a wonderful read.

[lilac_jive]

I just started "Warrior" by Zoe Archer, the first in her Blades of the Rose series. It's a historical romance, but with some interesting twists (this one is based in Mongolia).

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by Fbone

The Shadow of the Wind translated from Spanish. Thought it was slow at times but lots of wonderful dialogue and pearls of wisdom.

One problem was the author purposely deceives you into making wrong conclusions.

But overall a wonderful read.

I read that one last year and I agree with you that although slow at times it's a wonderful book. I've got the prequel The Angel's Game in my to-be-read queue, I'm waiting with reading it until I'm in the right mood to read something a bit slower.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now I'm onto the last of "The Girl Who" books: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.

Which was a straight continuation from the previous novel, and was also an enjoyable read.

Next: Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber. The first of the classic Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser fantasy series. But I've never read them before, and I bought them last May (2009) so it's about time I found out if I like them!

I got mine from fictionwise during a sale, but unless/until fictionwise has a good sale, the best place to get them is currently webscription.net where they're $6 each.

Good so far...

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

I read that one last year and I agree with you that although slow at times it's a wonderful book. I've got the prequel The Angel's Game in my to-be-read queue, I'm waiting with reading it until I'm in the right mood to read something a bit slower.

Oooh. Let me know how it goes.

I'm going to wait to read his next one too. It took me 7 weeks to read Shadow.

[GeoffC]

A paperback, Words Fail Me, P. O'Conner - described as

"The other book Bill Strunk would have written if he'd had more of a sense of humour."

[Leslie]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Speaking of illusions, I am reading _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_ right now and there was a line something like, "I've well read my Dorothy Sayers"... thanks to the MRBC I knew what that meant.

BOb

I'm about 30 pages from finishing that one; I couldn't stay awake any longer last night to get it done. I plan on finishing it tonight. Yesterday I finished Bellwether by Connie Willis (audio version). It was a fun light read.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Leslie

..Yesterday I finished Bellwether by Connie Willis (audio version). It was a fun light read.

wouldn't that be a "listen" as opposed to "read"

Welcome to MR btw!

[Leslie]

Originally Posted by kennyc

wouldn't that be a "listen" as opposed to "read"

Welcome to MR btw!

Uh, probably. LOL I always have the desire to point out when they are audio books for some reason. I think I feel they don't count as "real" books because I have the pleasure of listening to them while folding clothes or dusting furniture. Hee hee.

**Edited to add, thanks for the welcome, Kenny!