Recently Finished

[tikbotzki]

Ford County by John Grisham

 

[NotTheDoctor]

Operation Mincemeat, by Ben Macintyre, and Pronto, by Elmore Leonard.

 

[Landslide]

The Lawyer's Secret, by M.E. Braddon

 

[pontalba]

The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King
Invisible by Paul Auster

 

[Peder]

Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre. A lecture and book review. Existentialism condensed, squeezed in between the heated defensive polemics.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

The Treasure, by Iris Johansen

 

[scribeswindow]

The ghostwriter by John Harwood. Deemed as horror, but I will say it's more a haunting book than horror.

 

[Peder]

Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon. Murder mystery at the place, with all the people and events as background.

 

[scribeswindow]

Murder in the Rue de Paridis Cara Black. It was ok and I would probably read another in the series.

 

[Peder]

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover.

A novel for baseball lovers. J. henry Waugh creates an entire fantasy league and it becomes his life as he plays out all the games by himself on his kitchen table in his every waking moment. Soon he can hardly tell real life from fantasy life and the reader will find the book hard to put down as the dramatic tension rises.

 

[sparkchaser]

Amsimov's Foundation and Foundation and Empire. In a furious fit of reading, I finished both in 4 days. I don't know if I should bother reading the rest of the series.

 

[753C]

Turn of the screw - Henry James
Beautifully written and chilling.

Bangkok Tattoo - John Burdett
wild, funny, sleazy, addictive, and a serious page turner. The best I've read, in the crime fiction genre, in a while.

 

[pontalba]

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

A little slow moving at times, but good tension. Interesting mystery, thinking characters.

 

[Peder]

Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt.

A renewed plea from the left for re-emphasizing the goals of social democracy in governance, after decades of an allegedly failed growing shift toward privatization and individual self interest.

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

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-- from Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village, 1770

 

[ForgetMeNot]

Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal :flowers:

 

[Landslide]

2nd Chance, by James Patterson

 

[scribeswindow]

People of the book Geraldine Brooks. I really enjoyed this book. It got me from the first paragraph.

 

[ForgetMeNot]

Heimliches Begehren by Diana Voigt and Ines Rieder

I cried in the ending, very poignant. The biography of Sidonie Csillag, the homosexual patient of Freud. :innocent:

 

[pontalba]

Restless by William Boyd

This is only the second Boyd I've read, and I look forward to more. His weaving of time lines is effective story telling.

 

[dude]

Since posting last in this thread, I read:

The Demon - Hubert Selby Jr
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
A Feast for Crows - George RR Martin