February 2010 Reads

[Fantasy Moon]

Geisha of Gion – Mineko Iwasaki
Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
When the Tripods Came – John Christopher
An Old-Fashioned Southern Christmas
Truly, Madly – Heather Webber
Dragons of Winter Night – Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder – David Thomson
Heir to Sevenwaters – Juliet Marillier

So what were your reading accomplishments over the past month?

 

[dude]

Dragons of Winter Night – Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Sturm:sad:

 

[Fantasy Moon]

Sturm:sad:

I found him annoying, but not nearly as much as Tanis.

 

[beer good]

Kleopatra - Klynne, Allan
The Marriage Bureau For Rich People - Zama, Farahad
Purge - Oksanen, Sofi
A Single Man - Isherwood, Christopher
1632 - Flint, Eric

 

[Landslide]

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold.
Trent's Last Case, by E.C. Bentley.
The Story of O, by Pauline Réage.

 

[eldog]

Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
The Accidental Billionaires - Ben Mezrich
The Death Of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
A Quiet Belief In Angels - R.J.Ellory

 

[saliotthomas]

VS Naipaul-A bend in the river 4
Donald Westalke- Bad news 4
Guy de Maupassant- Les rosier de Madamne Husson 3
Edith Wharton - False Dawn- 3
Mark Helprin-A city in winter 2(but good for young adults)
Henry Miller-To Paint is to love again 3
Umberto Eco-Bandolino 4+
Alain Damasio-La horde du contrvent (gave up 300 pages)
Michael Chabon-Manhood for Amateurs 1
Francois Bizot-The gate 3
Honoré de Balzac-The woman of thirty 3
Roberto Bolano-2666 Three quater in
Alaa el Aswany-The Yacubian Buiding 3+

2666 is an incredible novel.

 

[SFG75]

February
*M. Scott Peck; The Road Less Traveled and Beyond.
*Azar Nafisi; Reading Lolita in Tehran
*Rollene Saal; The NYPL guide to reading groups
*Calvin Trillin; Remembering Denny
*Bob Woodward; Maestro

 

[shadforth]

The Missing by Tim Gautreaux 5/5
Hyddenworld: Spring by William Horwood 3/5
Rollback by Robert J Sawyer 4/5
Go With Me by Castle Freeman 4/5
Moonheart by Charles De Lint 4/5

 

[Anamnesis]

Angel Time by Anne Rice
Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton
Proven Guilty: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Green Mile by Stephen King

 

[meredithgreene]

Currently reading for Feb/March:

Woe is I - Particia O'Conner
A History of Egypt - Jason Thompson
Make: Electronics - Chalres Platt
The Spice Kitchen - Engram & Luber
Green Dolphin Street - Elizabeth Gouge

(I found this last one at a garage sale; I have never read it but have heard some fair praise of the title along the way.)

 

[dude]

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin (this effer is 1,150 pages)

March will be more productive as I'll try to avoid the books in the four-digit page range.

 

[TheGirl]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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[Lincoln Rhyme]

Hostage by Robert Craise

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Both awesome novels.