Those Books

[nightdog_barks]

Okay, phinnia ... here's what I've read (since January of this year) and titles I've mentioned (bought, read in the past, etc.). *g*



READ

A Mercy -- Toni Morrison
Ghost Road Blues -- Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Stories -- Everyman's Pocket Classics
Maps & Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands -- Michael Chabon
The Maytrees -- Annie Dillard
Out Stealing Horses -- Per Petterson
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Lowboy -- John Wray


TALKED ABOUT

The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey -- Edith Hall
Giants In the Earth -- Ole Rolvaag
The Women's Room -- Marilyn French
Fear of Flying -- Erica Jong
Olive Kitteridge -- Elizabeth Strout
Lush Life -- Richard Price
The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Tom Wolfe
The Echo Maker -- Richard Powers
The Day of Battle: The War In Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 -- Rick Atkinson
Tobacco Road -- Erskine Caldwell
Albion -- Peter Ackroyd

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

i think it may well have been Olive Kitteridge, just looking at them all. <3 thank you~!
(although the handmaid's tale was Margaret Attwood? although there may have been two books with the same name of course.)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

ATWOOD, YES! Hee, I don't know why I was thinking Alice Munro. Canadian Women Writers for $200, Alex.

Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer this year -- it's a collection of short stories, linked by the title character. I thought it might be the one you were thinking of.

*hugs*

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

Oh, Geez! I would love to read as fast and as often as you do, again!
*sighs longingly to have stable head back*

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Actually I'm just now getting used to reading again. I used to read a lot, and then it really slowed down for a while because the intarwebz were taking up all my attention.

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

The intarwebz seems to be easier for me to read than books for now...still analyzing that particular piece of information, so it's a big WMD for me.

You may not read as much as you once did, but it's about as much as I once read...having three boys and all. Before them I was learning to make art. hee

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to make one of those annual reading lists, but I tend to read the same books over and over for a while so it would look like I was not making much headway -- or that I'm a slow learner. :P

The mister is reading, and much enjoying, This Republic of Suffering. I'm trying to keep my twitchy little fingers off it until he's finished. Via Masterpiece Mystery on TV, I've dived into the works of Swedish detective fiction writer Henning Mankell, and he's really very good. (For some odd reason, I love to read translations of Nordic police procedurals. I don't really like American ones, though.)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Hee -- I've got a Norwegian police procedural I haven't read yet. It's by someone named Karin Fossum.

Have you ever read any of the Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maj_Sjowall_and_Per_Wahloo) series, with their Swedish detective Martin Beck?

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Is it "When the Devil Holds the Candle"? That one's pretty good. The translation's a bit stiff, but once I got into it, I read it straight through in two nights.

I've heard of the Martin Beck series but haven't gotten into it yet.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Nope, this one's called Don't Look Back. I was ordering something else from Amazon and the Amazon-gnomes suggested I might like this. I think it's the first book in Fossum's "Inspector Sejer mysteries."

The Martin Beck series is good, but obviously dated. It's been years since I read it -- I believe there was a movie made of one of the books, with Walter Matthau -- I think it was The Laughing Policeman, which is a great, great title. *g*

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

"When The Devil Holds the Candle" is several years after "Don't Look Back." I got it from salebooks.com as an inexpensive remainder, which is a good way for me to test out whether or not I'll like a series.

Barnes & Noble is tempting me severely tonight with the blandishments of something called the "Reykjavik Thriller Series." Why must it be Iceland, which I've always wanted to visit, when I just spent a zillion bucks on a new roof?

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I'd like to visit Iceland, but whenever I say that, Mr. N gives me this incredulous look. Hee. He wants to go to Prague.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

This is exactly why I started my Media Posts, to have everything together in one neat spot.