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Related: About this forumWhat are you reading the week of September 8, 2013?
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris - A Dirty Business Mystery ~ book #12013 - Book #98
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What are you reading the week of September 8, 2013? (Original Post)
DUgosh
Sep 2013
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northoftheborder
(7,606 posts)1. Widow's Tears, by Susan Wittig Albert
Latest of a series of books by author, murder mysteries set in Tx hill country, this one with historical connections to the Galveston Hurricane in 1900.
JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)2. Just finishing MaddAddam
which took me on a wild ride into the future.
Next is Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson, which promises to be a wild ride about a thousand years into the past.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)3. The Lathe of Heaven: Ursula Le Guin
I thought I'd read all of her work, and this one somehow escaped me.
I can't believe it was written in the early 70s. It's as relevant now, if not more, than then.
Zorro
(16,258 posts)4. Working though Asimov's original Foundation trilogy
Halfway through the second book Foundation and Empire.
It's been decades since I last read it.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)5. The Deep Blue Good-By, by John D MacDonald............nt
Zorro
(16,258 posts)6. Travis McGee is one of the great characters in modern American fiction
MacDonald does capture the sunny and sleazy sides of Florida in that series of books.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)7. Thanks, Zorro.
This is my first one and the first one in the series.
JonLP24
(29,348 posts)8. Oblivion by Peter Abrahams
Pretty good.