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

[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.