Reading

knewlove · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject:

I'm reading 'Predator' by Patricia Cornwell now Debbie. It's another one of her Scarpetta books. Not familiar with 'Book of the Dead' is it of the Scarpetta series? The author expertly details forensics and medicine among other things which can be complicating and tedious at times.

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Serenity · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:00 pm Post subject:

Yes it's her latest offering Kris, in the Scarpetta series book 15 I think . I've read every one and loved just about all of them. This one is just disappointing to say the least.

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knewlove · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject:

That's too bad...If I come across it I may avoid purchasing it...I also found the last few I've read from the Scarpetta series not as entertaining as the others...often getting bored and re-reading the same page over and over again...thought it was just me! I think she's exhausted the Scarpetta chief ME books unless she comes up with something totally different and original to keep her readers hooked.

I just read Firestorm by Iris Johansen which was really good and am now reading another one of her books called Countdown. (I think it's from 2005). Very exciting tho! She certainly gives her readers what they want!
I can't wait til Mary Higgins Clarke comes out with her new novel! She's my fave writer.
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lucie · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:53 am Post subject:

Reading a wonderful Anne Tyler book "Digging to America". Read most of her many books--she's brilliant at drawing out the quirkiness of the ordinary.

"In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”

Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport—the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam's fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian American wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate with an “arrival party,” an event that is repeated every year as the two families become more deeply intertwined.

Even independent-minded Maryam is drawn in. But only up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by one of the Donaldson clan, a good-hearted man of her vintage, recently widowed and still recovering from his wife's death, suddenly all the values she cherishes—her traditions, her privacy, her otherness—are threatened. Somehow this big American takes up so much space that the orderly boundaries of her life feel invaded.

A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in".

lucie · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:02 am Post subject:

A Canadian writer, Kathy Reichs, is a practicing forensic anthropologist. Based on her own criminal cases, she has written about 10 "mysteries".
Much less sensational than P Cornwall who has really gone too bizarre for my taste.

Serenity · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:07 am Post subject:

Will keep a look out for Anne and Kathy on the Library van when it comes round on Thursday Lucie, It's always nice to have recommendations of whos good and not

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Selious5 · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject:

I know what you mean Debs - there's nothing worse particularly if it is an author you have liked and read and it's disappointing.

I'm reading a book at the moment by Robert Jordan. I know it may sound mystical etc when talking about the power of wizards etc but it is set in very olden times of the gods and the story line I think is very gripping - I couldn't put it down. This is the first time I have read his books and I was so taken with it that I have ordered a few of his books in the continuing series - hope they are as good
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chibi_steph18 · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject:

I just finished Lynn Kurland's "Star of the Morning" which was awesome! Now I've five new books I just bought to decide which I want to read. I'll probably settle on either So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld, or Glass Houses by Rachel Caine.
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Serenity · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:57 am Post subject:

Whats that book called Hannah, it sounds good?? I love mystical

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Selious5 · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:39 am Post subject:

Debs - It's Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series - I am nw on book five and enjoying every minute of it. They are very thick books (1000 pages in most of them) Some of the titles are (in order)

The Eye of the World (1 and 2)
The great hunt
the dragon reborn ( this is a name not a dragon)
the shadow rising
the fires of heaven (which I am reading at the moment)

I don't know what amazon sells them for but I order mine from Play.com and get a few pounds of each one with free delivery

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