What are you reading in October 2012?

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What are you reading in October 2012?

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1jlshall
okt 17, 2012, 10:00 am

Thought I'd try to get this going again. I recently finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, and Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub. At the moment I've got several books in progress (as usual) -- mainly Mrs. Malory and No Cure for Death by Hazel Holt (I love that series and I'm trying to finish it up this year), Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott, and The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig.

2geneg
Redigerat: okt 17, 2012, 2:11 pm

For fiction I'm reading Waverley by Sir Walter Scott.

For non-fiction I'm reading The Gravediggers of France by Pertinax (Andre Geraud).

In the bathroom I have The Classical Mind by W. T. Jones. This one is a textbook for a philosophy survey course from the fifties/sixties.

3PhaedraB
okt 17, 2012, 8:02 pm

I just finished all of Boris Akunin's Sister Pelagia mysteries and am currently in the middle of Death Comes to Pemberly.

4Meredy
okt 17, 2012, 8:20 pm

Actively:

The Story of the Stone, by Barry Hughart
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, by Miranda Carter
The Casual Vacancy, by J.K. Rowling

Intermittently:

When They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the Holocaust, by Mark Seliger

Just finished (past 5 days):

The Dream Life of Sukhanov, by Olga Grushin
The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, by Walter Mosley

Being on vacation is good for my reading throughput!

6Storeetllr
Redigerat: okt 20, 2012, 1:56 pm

Currently:

The Boneman's Daughter by Ted Dekker (not sure I like this one yet; may abandon it soon)
Glass Butterfly by Louise Marley (one of my favorite authors these days, and this novel doesn't disappoint, so far anyway)

On the Stack:

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy by Jeff Sharlet

Edited to correct typo

7geneg
okt 20, 2012, 3:03 pm

So does that mean Susan Fraser King is going to changer her name to Susan Fraser Queen hereafter?

8Storeetllr
okt 20, 2012, 4:01 pm

Haha, good one! I didn't pick that up at all.

9geneg
okt 20, 2012, 4:09 pm

10Meredy
okt 26, 2012, 4:43 pm

Currently:

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, by Miranda Carter
Company of Liars, by Karen Maitland

I have no idea what's up next. While we've been away, I think I may have ordered a book or two from Amazon that will be waiting for me when we get home. Otherwise I may (gasp!) have to prowl the unread titles on my bookshelves. At that point, if there's anything that I can admit that I really don't ever intend to read, or reread, maybe I can make myself pull it off and discard it.

11gwernin
Redigerat: okt 26, 2012, 7:06 pm

Haven't posted in this group before... currently reading The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (non-fiction). In between fiction titles at the moment...

12rabornj
okt 26, 2012, 8:57 pm

13jjmiller50fiction
okt 30, 2012, 12:22 pm

14Caco_Velho
nov 2, 2012, 10:51 am

Am rereading Nana by Zola and finding it much more humorous and lively than I did in 1960. Have just finished Kepler by John Banville. In the beginning the science in it was both boring and incomprehensible to me, but the personal and historical elements in the story began to redeem it as I read and I ended up quite enjoying it. Next is the Senchakushu by Honen, his treatise on the Nembutsu. Having read a good bit of Shinran, his disciple, it may not be the mountain I am expecting.