Books you're currently reading???

[infinite monkey]

Cool, I'll check out options! I have a bit of personal time I need to use, so I could probably snake an hour and a half lunch. We can tawk!

[Gravdigr]

Loius L'Amour's "The Warrior's Path"

[classicman]

Hey Grav. I got a bunch of my old Louis L'Amour books out of my parents basement over Christmas.
They've been down there for years. I'm gonna start rereading some.

[wolf]

Dana, I've put Jeff Noon's Vurt onto my TBR pile, I'll let you know what I think.

I'm continuing to read Doctor Who novelizations, have made it up to Pertwee, just finished Cave of Monsterswhich was based on the first Silurians episode, now reading Ambassadors of Death.

I borrowed Kathryn Stockett's The Help from crazynurse's daughter, liked it more than I expected to, but I still wasn't entirely pleased with it. It is charming and poignant, without being overtly sappy, and really focuses on the strengths and foibles of the women, both black and white, involved. The white women tended to be two dimensional caricatures, all hair styles and silver patterns, but I guess less of their story was being told.

I'm currently reading Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - Mark Stevens.

[Lola Bunny]

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

[Clodfobble]

Just finished The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. A really interesting take on a futuristic war, with a focus on how near-light speed travel screws up the soldiers' subjective timelines, so they go fight on the front for a couple of years but the laws of relativity mean they return to Earth 50--or 500--years in the future, depending on how much accelerating and decelerating they did. I highly recommend it.

[glatt]

Yeah. That's a good one.

[wolf]

1-1-12 meant that I can get another lending library book amazon, so I'm on to the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire

[TonyE]

Dunkirk by Sean Longden. The true story of the 41,000 British soldiers who were left behind after the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by glatt

Yeah. That's a good one.

ditto

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by wolf

Dana, I've put Jeff Noon's Vurt onto my TBR pile, I'll let you know what I think.

I'm continuing to read Doctor Who novelizations, have made it up to Pertwee, just finished Cave of Monsterswhich was based on the first Silurians episode, now reading Ambassadors of Death.

I borrowed Kathryn Stockett's The Help from crazynurse's daughter, liked it more than I expected to, but I still wasn't entirely pleased with it. It is charming and poignant, without being overtly sappy, and really focuses on the strengths and foibles of the women, both black and white, involved. The white women tended to be two dimensional caricatures, all hair styles and silver patterns, but I guess less of their story was being told.

I'm currently reading Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - Mark Stevens.

Oh, yes, let me know what you think of Noon.

Broadmoor Revealed is an excellent book. Really well-written. I have a side interest in criminality and social resistance in the 18th and 19th centuries.

At the moment I am still working my way through some Pratchett audios. Basically, I started out with the intention of just listening to those stories with Sam Vimes as the central character. Then I decided I'd also include any of the stories that have Vimes or the Ankh Morpork City Watch in them at all.

Started out with Men at Arms, as I'd not so long since listened to the radioplays of the first Vimes book (Guards, Guards). Then changed my mind, went back and listened to Guards Guards after all :p

Am now just approaching the end of The Truth , which is a brilliant look at the growth/role of the press. Great characters, excellent story, and just enough of a Vimes appearance to make me happy I particularly like the central character in this story: William deWorde.

Next up: Nightwatch. Probably my favourite of the Vimes stories. This one has Vimes as its central character and plays with time travel (under the watchful gaze of some temporal monks).

[infinite monkey]

Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson. They hadn't even put it on the new arrivals shelf yet but it showed available on the computer.

The librarian said they had just catalogued it and got it from the back for me.

Brianna, is there a real life Jackson? Because he is so...just so.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson. They hadn't even put it on the new arrivals shelf yet but it showed available on the computer.

The librarian said they had just catalogued it and got it from the back for me.

Brianna, is there a real life Jackson? Because he is so...just so.

YAY! I'm so glad you got it and hope you love it - but read all her others - they are just wonderful.

I don't know about a real-life Jackson but isn't he just so?!

Fell in love with Kate and Jackson at the same time.

I read BLAME by Michelle Huneven which was stunning and "Let's Take the Long Way Home" by Gail Caldwell - a memoir about her friendship with columnist Caroline Knapp who died in 2002 at age 42 of lung cancer. it's a book that I can only describe as clear light and breathtaking views.

get both. You'll love them.

[infinite monkey]

Thanks for the suggestions. They will go on my list.

I did read the first three jackson books. Her writing always pulls me right in.

I just read Maine by J Courtney Sullivan. I really liked it.

[Trilby]

I just googled Maine and it looks like my kind of read.

I'll try at the library tomorrow.