What Are You Reading? Part Deux

[osnafrank]

Finished "Rogue Lawyer" by John Grisham.

This is a real furious Grisham.
Sometimes it seems like a Book of Short Stories but it's interesting to read

 

[kingricefan]

I have finally been able to start Sleeping Beauties. Things in my life (when it was first published) prevented me from reading it. Or I should say that there were things going on in my life at the time that made me not want to read it, as I am one of those people that can tell you what was happening personally when I read this book, or that book, etc. So, since there was bad-gunky happening, I didn't want it to poison my reading experience with SB. I'm liking it so far....

 

[danie]

I finished Lady’s Maid about Elizabeth Barret Browning’s servant’s life, and loved it. Now reading The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne. It’s the first in a series.

 

[Neesy]

Reading End of Watch and also a book called Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (bestselling author of Stiff).

 

[Blake]

The topic of Hitler and his obsession with the occult is quite interesting. He was a member of the Thule Society, a black magic group in Austria. He acted as their medium. Did you know that Hitler never made a move without having the horoscope cast first?

I read a biography on Hitler, and I knew he used to have his horoscope read. This book I'm reading is about the Occult roots before the Nazis came to power in Germany, more about Austria at the moment, because they got excluded from the unification process because Bismarck didn't want them in after the Prussian beat them in the Prusso-Austrian war of 1866. At the moment in the book they've mentioned a guy called List and Georg von Shonerer. Thule was the name given by the Romans to the area of land north in Europe that the Romans had'nt conquered. Near where my father comes from in Sweden there are weird carvings in the ground with spiral stuff that are supposed to be about six thousand years old or more. Also, there's old dwellings that are about 5 thousand years old, the woods near where my father came from were haunted by a wood witch type. I'm going to read a book on Wicca stuff next as I'm getting interested in this area, when I was in Sweden in 1974 my father heard a deep voice talking in some language that was'nt modern Swedish and he went in my room and I was talking and he said it was spooky and he told my grandfather and both of them were looking at me strange because they were sought of superstitious that way, more believing in the old Gods, not Christianity. My grandfather said that apperently there were burials grounds where houses were built in Hallstahammar.

 

[The Nameless]

Reading End of Watch and also a book called Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (bestselling author of Stiff).

How are you finding end of watch, and did you like finders keepers? I liked Mr Mercedes but thought finders keepers was probably the worst book I ever finished. Im about to start a new book and if it's a king book end of watch will be the likely choice. If not, I have a book called carnival of shadows by R.J ellory that sounds interesting.

 

[Neesy]

How are you finding end of watch, and did you like finders keepers? I liked Mr Mercedes but thought finders keepers was probably the worst book I ever finished. Im about to start a new book and if it's a king book end of watch will be the likely choice. If not, I have a book called carnival of shadows by R.J ellory that sounds interesting.

I found Finders Keepers to be quite enjoyable. Sorry to hear you didn't like it. So far with End of Watch I am intrigued

Spoiler: In case some haven't read it yet

with this whole idea that somehow Brady is behind the deaths i.e. it was a staged suicide

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I'd say give it a go - if you don't enjoy it then just put it down.
Guess he can't hit a home run every time!

 

[RichardX]

"The Darkness" by Ragnar Jonasson. I really enjoy these detective novels set in Iceland. A perfect place for a murder mystery with all the cold and dark. Too bad they only have a couple murders a year though in Iceland! LOL. This one is the first in a new series by Jonasson. Pretty grim stuff but enjoyable. His other series "The Dark Iceland" is further along with a number of good books.

Ragnar Jonasson

 

[fljoe0]

"The Darkness" by Ragnar Jonasson. I really enjoy these detective novels set in Iceland. A perfect place for a murder mystery with all the cold and dark. Too bad they only have a couple murders a year though in Iceland! LOL. This one is the first in a new series by Jonasson. Pretty grim stuff but enjoyable. His other series "The Dark Iceland" is further along with a number of good books.

Ragnar Jonasson

I'm going to put this on my TBR list.

 

[Dana Jean]

"The Darkness" by Ragnar Jonasson. I really enjoy these detective novels set in Iceland. A perfect place for a murder mystery with all the cold and dark. Too bad they only have a couple murders a year though in Iceland! LOL. This one is the first in a new series by Jonasson. Pretty grim stuff but enjoyable. His other series "The Dark Iceland" is further along with a number of good books.

Ragnar Jonasson

I just watched a documentary on an Iceland killing, Out of Thin Air.

The police procedure and ethics in the documentary are horrible. Just awful.

 

[RichardX]

I just watched a documentary on an Iceland killing, Out of Thin Air.

The police procedure and ethics in the documentary are horrible. Just awful.

Wasn't that event from the 1970s? The trouble with Iceland as the setting for a detective series is that they don't have many murders. Almost none. It's an interesting place. Dark much of the year. Light the rest. Some desolate but stunning scenery. A great vacation spot that is often overlooked for anyone who likes the outdoors. Very weird in the summer to be on the streets of Reykjavik at all hours of the night when it is still light. I couldn't bring myself to eat a puffin or whale meat though.

 

[Dana Jean]

Wasn't that event from the 1970s? The trouble with Iceland as the setting for a detective series is that they don't have many murders. Almost none. It's an interesting place. Dark much of the year. Light the rest. Some desolate but stunning scenery. A great vacation spot that is often overlooked for anyone who likes the outdoors. Very weird in the summer to be on the streets of Reykjavik at all hours of the night when it is still light. I couldn't bring myself to eat a puffin or whale meat though.

Yes, I think so. It was an interesting documentary on Netflix if you have that and want to check it out as sort of a background for your books.

 

[Kurben]

"The Darkness" by Ragnar Jonasson. I really enjoy these detective novels set in Iceland. A perfect place for a murder mystery with all the cold and dark. Too bad they only have a couple murders a year though in Iceland! LOL. This one is the first in a new series by Jonasson. Pretty grim stuff but enjoyable. His other series "The Dark Iceland" is further along with a number of good books.

Ragnar Jonasson

Havent read Jonasson but i have read several by Arnoldur Indridason that i liked. Good crime/mystery stories i think.

 

[Kurben]

Read four books over Easter. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey. Have seen Peter Weirs movie with the same title but didn't know it was based on a book until i saw it in a thrift book store. Also finished The Tudors by Leanda de Lisle. Welltold even if i thought she trusted a bit too much on sources very biased against Richard III when she mention him. I like Richard III so i'm biased which doesn't stop me from seeing that since he ruled so short a time practically all the sources about him are biased. Which makes it difficult to write a fair assessment of his reign. But i liked it otherwise. she has a sense for narrative which is good. Finished 1632 and started 1633 by Eric Flint. Also finished Dark Hollow by John Connelly. Now his The Killing Kind is waiting in line but i havent started it yet. Also found The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. A historical novel about a US where Charles Lindbergh as the republican candidate wins over FDR in 1940 and takes the US in a totally different direction. He makes a separate bargain with Hitler that he considers a great man (actually historically correct). Has started interesting. we'll see what happens.

 

[RichardX]

Havent read Jonasson but i have read several by Arnoldur Indridason that i liked. Good crime/mystery stories i think.

I enjoyed Idridason's books as well. He writes a more tradition novel than Jonasson who has a more austere writing style, but they have that same grim feel. The characters in all these Icelandic books seem melancholy at best and downright morose in many instances. Although Iceland has an amazingly low crime rate, they have high suicide rates and depression. An interesting cultural contrast with the US. Both countries have lots of guns but the murder rates via guns are in stark contrast. Some years there are none in Iceland.

 

[Neesy]

I'm reading Happiness is a Choice You Make - Lessons from a year among the oldest old by John Leland

In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of America's fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction.

Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise.

This book examines the lives of six people over the age of 85.

 

[Steffen]

Finished reading 20th Century Ghosts, my first Joe Hill novel. You're good kid. Real good. The old man taught you well. Can't wait to start on your other stuff.

Before I start Sleeping Beauties, however, I've been digging into my unread pile. I forgot that I had purchased Go Set a Watchman on my Kindle when it first came out, so I started it yesterday. I'm about a quarter of the way through, and Harper Lee's characterisation and sharp wit is just as good as I remembered back in my boyhood days reading To Kill A Mockingbird. Looking forward to seeing how the story turns out.

 

[skimom2]

So, after years of seeing Sai King mention him, I finally picked up a John D. MacDonald novel. I finished The Girl, The Watch and Everything last night and today I started All These Condemned.

Dang, wish I had gotten the hint sooner! He's good reading!

Want a whole big box of them? A member whose screen name is escaping me right now sent them to me a couple of years ago and my son and I have finally worked our way through them. I was going to donate them, but would just as happily send them along.

 

[skimom2]

I've been re-reading the Warm Bodies series, but will be taking a break shortly to read review books.

 

[danie]

Want a whole big box of them? A member whose screen name is escaping me right now sent them to me a couple of years ago and my son and I have finally worked our way through them. I was going to donate them, but would just as happily send them along.

I would be interested if Do1you isn’t!