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Related: About this forumWhat are you reading the week of August 11, 2013?
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What are you reading the week of August 11, 2013? (Original Post)
DUgosh
Aug 2013
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cyberswede
(26,117 posts)1. Mine
The Vanishing Man by R. Austin Freeman (free Kindle book)
The Nine Taylors by Dorothy L. Sayers (regular book for when my iPad is dead)
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (reading it to my daughter)
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table - Puffin Classics edition (reading with my son)
The Nine Taylors by Dorothy L. Sayers (regular book for when my iPad is dead)
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (reading it to my daughter)
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table - Puffin Classics edition (reading with my son)
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)2. I just finished The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss.
It is the sequel to The Name of the Wind. So awesome.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)3. How'd you like the first two books in that series? :)
DUgosh
(3,107 posts)4. I really like them
The characters are so well drawn.
pscot
(21,031 posts)5. At the City's Edge, Marcus Sakey
I also have a Lee Child and a couple of police procedurals ready at the library.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)6. Randy Wayne White - Captiva.
Zorro
(16,258 posts)7. Just finished "Finished" by H. Rider Haggard
I've been through a number of his works lately -- they're classics and free Kindle downloads.
He really does know how to spin rousing Victorian era yarns about Africa.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)8. Barbara Mertz.
I've been reading her since the 70s. I'm rereading everything I've got by her to honor her life and life's work.
This morning I finished Search the Shadows, published under her "Barbara Michaels" pen-name.