What Are You Reading

[Lancealot]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow Vol. 1 & 2. The DC Archive editon of the Silver Age Superman comics.

 

[dhermann1]

Two O'clock Eastern War Time

Excellent novel. I have two 1st editions. John Dunning is one of my favorite madern authors. His Bookman series ranks with the best in modern crime fiction. If you run across more of his books, they're worth a read. You're correct, Lizzie should enjoy it. Carter

I just finished it! I'm out of breath with excitement! What a great book! I need to go to Alibris immediately!

 

[Salv]

This afternoon Amazon UK delivered a box with seven Hard Case Crime novels:

- The Guns Of Heaven by Pete Hamill
- The Last Match by David Dodge
- The Peddler by Richard S. Prather
- Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill
- The Vengeful Virgin by Gil Brewer
- Songs Of Innocence by Richard Aleas
- Fright by Cornell Woolrich

Before I get on to those I'm going to re-read the complete Elvis Cole series by Robert Crais. I'm currently on the third, Lullaby Town.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

This is mildly embarrassing to post.

I am known among my friends as a reader of mysteries written by women and featuring a woman detective or crimesolver: Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski, Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, Muller's Sharon McCone, Barr's Anna Pidgeon, Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, Jance's Sheriff Joanna Brady, plus several other lesser known authors. Also, women mystery writers with male detectives, including the venerable Josephine Tey.

Yet, I blush to say, I have never read an Agathie Christie novel of any kind, not even a Miss Marple. I've seen some of the movies made of her work, and saw one play (The Mousetrap) but have not sat down to read her.

Well, that is going to change: I went to a second-hand bookshop and picked up a slew of Christies, including The Mirror Cracked, Nemesis, A Caribbean Mystery, What Mrs. McGillicudy Saw, and The Body in the Library. Also a couple of books featuring Hercule Poirot.

So, will be busy for a few weeks.

karol

 

[Harp]

- Fright by Cornell Woolrich

A most tormented soul.

 

[goldwyn girl]

Swing by Sailor, Catherine Dyson
True stories from the war brides of HMS Victorious.
I picked it up while I was back home in Australia last month, it's wonderful

 

[towndrunk]

Finishing up Orientalism by Edward Said. Interesting book. It is a discussion about western stereotypes of the east. most notably the near east and the consequence of this bias in academia over several centuries up to the present day.

also in the middle of Revolutionary Rehearsals edited by Colin Barker. Haymarket Press. A collection of five essays on post-war working class revolutions in France 1968, Chile 1972, Portugal 1974, Iran 1979, and Poland 1980. For this one I am attending an ISO (International Socialist Organization)
meeting every Saturday afternoon to discuss each essay in a round table style forum. It's fun really.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

The city where I live is doing The Big Read, where everybody reads the same book. This time it is The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett which is a pretty cool choice.

 

[carter]

The Hemingway Book Club, Kosova by Paula Huntley

She taught ESL classes to a Kosovar Albanians for a year while her husband worked pro bono with the UN to help create/build a modern legal system in Kosovo.

This book is the result of her journal during that time.

 

[Harp]

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. My niece recommended it.

 

[Edward]

I'm currently reading The Devil in amber, a novel by Mark Gatiss. This is the second novel about Lucifer Box, a portrait painter, dandy, and English secret service assassin. The first Lucifer Box novel, The Vesuvius Club, is set in the early years of the 20th century, this second in the 1920s. Plenty of comments referring to the clothes peppered throughtout, and Box is a great character, equal parts Oscar Wilde and Bond as we imagine he should be. A third is bieng planned (probably set in the 1950s), and the VC is currently being adapted for television by Gatiss.

 

[Lancealot]

Just started Something From The Nightside by Simon R. Green. Another Phillip Marlow type set within a fantasy realm of London's suppernatural side.

 

[WH1]

reading Rat Pack Confidential
finished PG Wodehouse collection "Life with Jeeves" includes Right Ho, Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves, and Very Good, Jeeves. An excellent collection and a pleasant diversion. Have started on Cocktail Time also by Wodehouse.

Also very excited about the recent purchase of the entire Thin Man collection on DVD.

 

[Harp]

reading Rat Pack Confidential
finished PG Wodehouse collection "Life with Jeeves" includes Right Ho, Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves, and Very Good, Jeeves. An excellent collection and a pleasant diversion. Have started on Cocktail Time also by Wodehouse.

Geez...you're not reading The US Army Official History of Ft Polk, Louisiana?

 

[WH1]

Geez...you're not reading The US Army Official History of Ft Polk, Louisiana?

the only good thing about Ft Polk, Louisiana is it is not Ft Bliss, Texas.
Although you haven't really lived until you have seen an old cajun lady cuss out an Iraqi "insurgent" in his native tongue. Surreal moment!

 

[Harp]

the only good thing about Ft Polk, Louisiana is it is not Ft Bliss, Texas.
Although you haven't really lived until you have seen an old cajun lady cuss out an Iraqi "insurgent" in his native tongue. Surreal moment!

lol lol lol The Home of the Infantry....

 

[carter]

Originally Posted by WH1
the only good thing about Ft Polk, Louisiana is it is not Ft Bliss, Texas.
Although you haven't really lived until you have seen an old cajun lady cuss out an Iraqi "insurgent" in his native tongue. Surreal moment!

Originally posted by Harp
lol lol lol The Home of the Infantry....

I spent some of my (not mispent but somewhat squandered) youth in the red clay of Ft. Polk. And I do mean "in".

Lovely wet nights under a shelter half under a tree under generous helpings of deluge.
Shaving with cold water.
MRE's. YUM!
Barracks life in the "3rd Herd".
Field-stripping a 45 and reassembling blind.
A 45 puts a BIG exit wound on a 50 Gal metal drum filled with water.
Field-stripping and reassembling an M-16. Over and over and over...
Flash suppressors cause M-16's to JAM.
Firing Korean War surplus mortar rounds at "retired" military vehicles.
The sound of fins falling off a mortar round just before it impacted 50 yards downrange. (whop, whop, whop, BOOM!) (I'll never forget that sound or how quickly we hit the dirt after the 1st experience.) (The joys of old ordnance)
The day I left for Ft. Benning and jumping out of airplanes!
WHOOPEE!

Those were the days.

E5 - 11C40
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I almost forgot:

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee

 

[Harp]

Those were the days.
E5 - 11C40

I volunteered for SF just to get outta there....lol

 

[cassylynn]

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I almost forgot:

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee

Excellent Choice :eusa_clap J.R.R. Tolkien was and still is, in my opinion, the greatest author in literary society. (Along with his fellow "Inklings" one of which was C.S. Lewis) For an author to develop 12 languages, 2 of which are fully translatable and 10 partial, and are used throughout all his writings is genius! I guess you can tell which books take up most of my home library.

I am currently reading - "Our Mothers War" by Emily Yellin. An autobiography of first hand experiences of women during WWII. Also, I am chipping away at Emily Posts "Blue Book of Social Etiquette". Circa 1954. To bad etiquette has, for the most part, been thrown to the wayside.

 

[Mid-fogey]

My Current...

...read is Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick.

My last two before that were A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. These were leather bound and gold edged books I found in a WalMart for 6 dollars each. They had a variety of those books there and I wish I had bought many more.

These days it takes me forever to get through a book. I drag through them in until I go on a business trip. Then I fly through them.