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DUgosh

(3,107 posts) Sun Feb 10, 2013, 03:02 PM Feb 2013

What are you reading the week of February 10, 2013?

The Case Of The Deadly Desperados by Caroline Lawrence

2013 book #15

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What are you reading the week of February 10, 2013? (Original Post) DUgosh Feb 2013 OP

STRIP JACK (1992) by Ian Rankin fadedrose Feb 2013 #1

I'm here!!!! DUgosh Feb 2013 #3

Beautiful Creatures. LWolf Feb 2013 #2

interesting setting, visually stimulating, but definitely not a page-turner backtoblue Feb 2013 #9

Thanks for the reminder. LWolf Feb 2013 #10

_Captain Alatriste_ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte getting old in mke Feb 2013 #4

I'm more than halfway through volume 2 of Baron Skidelsky's biography pscot Feb 2013 #5

Bedside book: "The Ruffian on the Stairs"--a man goes through his grandfather's papers and finds Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #6

CLUBBED TO DEATH (1992) By Ruth Dudley Edwards fadedrose Feb 2013 #7

Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund DearHeart Feb 2013 #8

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)

1. STRIP JACK (1992) by Ian Rankin

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 03:19 PM

Feb 2013

I am so happy to see you. I posted alone to draw attention to my dilemma of where to post.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/R_Authors/Rankin_Ian.html

About Det. Sgt. John Rebus, Scotand...

My 9th of 2013

DUgosh

(3,107 posts)

3. I'm here!!!!

Reply to fadedrose (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 07:13 PM

Feb 2013

just late, so many books so little time!

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

2. Beautiful Creatures.

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 04:09 PM

Feb 2013

It's taking forever, and not exactly riveting me to the story. If it weren't for some students who want to talk to me about it, I wouldn't bother.

backtoblue

(11,676 posts)

9. interesting setting, visually stimulating, but definitely not a page-turner

Reply to LWolf (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 03:43 PM

Feb 2013

fortunate for you that you have three more books to go! : )

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

10. Thanks for the reminder.

Reply to backtoblue (Reply #9)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 07:57 AM

Feb 2013

I need something good to break it up. I'll be digging through the rest of my pile.

getting old in mke

(813 posts)

4. _Captain Alatriste_ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 08:32 PM

Feb 2013

First of several in 17th century Spain and environs. I've read his _Club Dumas_ and _The Fencing Master_ and enjoyed them + went through a couple of Napoleonic military series last year (Sharpe & Aubrey/Maturin), so I think I'll like moving back in time three-quarters of a century as well.

Question for those in the know: In his present day books, a character drinking a bottle of gin and starting another happens regularly. I'm guessing that in Spain and/or France a bottle is something other than a US fifth? At least I hope so. Otherwise I'd think the stories would be really short: Page 1: our hero drinks a bottle and starts another. Page 2: our hero dies of alcohol poisoning...

Still listening to _Poseidon's Gold_ by Lindsey Davis.

pscot

(21,031 posts)

5. I'm more than halfway through volume 2 of Baron Skidelsky's biography

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 11:34 PM

Feb 2013

of Maynard Keynes. I started it in about 1998. Volume 3 awaits, if I live that long. I also just picked up Pigs in Heaven, by Kinsolver.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)

6. Bedside book: "The Ruffian on the Stairs"--a man goes through his grandfather's papers and finds

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Wed Feb 13, 2013, 12:55 AM

Feb 2013

more questions than answers.

Purse book: "Black House"--a police detective returns to his isolated Scottish island hometown for the first time in 18 years when a murder in Edinburgh seems to have parallels with a murder committed on the island.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)

7. CLUBBED TO DEATH (1992) By Ruth Dudley Edwards

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Wed Feb 13, 2013, 07:45 PM

Feb 2013

This is 4th in the series. It's about "Robert Amiss, a young Englishman prone to mishaps as he explores different jobs in contemporary London, England."

I'm not sure if I need a Real English Dictionary, or an English slang Dictionary. Hard to understand till I read the whole sentence, paragraph, etc., to know what the author means by some of the words used that are totally new to me in spite of having read many English novels...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/E_Authors/Edwards_Ruth-Dudley.htm

Book 10 of 2013

DearHeart

(692 posts)

8. Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 02:28 AM

Feb 2013

novel about Marie Antoinette

Amazing and beautifully detailed, but then I like that in a book.

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