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hermetic

(8,604 posts) Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:08 PM Mar 2016

What are you reading this week of March 27, 2016?

I went to the library only to discover the Hilerman book I had planned to read had just been checked out by someone else. So, I'll have to wait on that. I didn't bring a plan B on my list so I relied on my memory to find After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Right next to that on the shelf I saw Alice Munro's Runaway. Ever since she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as master of the contemporary short story, I've wanted to read her. She's the first Canadian—as well as the 13th woman—to be named the Nobel literature laureate. So I figured she would be worth reading. She is.

Watched Hillerman's Skinwalkers. Loved it.

Listening to Preston/Child's Impact and not really getting into it. I think I'll just skip ahead to the last CD to see how it ends. Not giving up on the authors, though. I will read/listen to other works.

Just as an aside, my library now has the DVDs of Sherlock with B Cumberbatch. I am totally loving that. Any bunny reading something good this week?

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What are you reading this week of March 27, 2016? (Original Post) hermetic Mar 2016 OP

"The Distant Echo," Val McDermid shenmue Mar 2016 #1

Good? hermetic Mar 2016 #2

Pretty good, so far shenmue Mar 2016 #4

Any bunny- you are so, soooo bad. That's really good. TexasProgresive Mar 2016 #3

Yeah...I try hermetic Mar 2016 #7

Hello everyone! Happy Easter or bunny day if you wish. Thank you for the thread hermetic! Enthusiast Mar 2016 #5

How funny hermetic Mar 2016 #8

I thought the same thing about Runaway. How strange is that. Enthusiast Mar 2016 #10

Pamela Smith Hill's The Annotated Autobiography of beveeheart Mar 2016 #6

Many years ago hermetic Mar 2016 #9

Started "Tyrannosaur Canyon" by Douglas Preston Number9Dream Mar 2016 #11

Hey, Number9Dream! That is a good one! Enthusiast Apr 2016 #13

I'm late, I'm late...Love the bunny, hermetic and thanks for the thread. japple Mar 2016 #12

shenmue

(38,537 posts)

1. "The Distant Echo," Val McDermid

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:11 PM

Mar 2016

hermetic

(8,604 posts)

2. Good?

Reply to shenmue (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:15 PM

Mar 2016

I see several McDermid's at my library.

shenmue

(38,537 posts)

4. Pretty good, so far

Reply to hermetic (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 06:47 PM

Mar 2016

I've read some of her other books. This one is all right. "A Place of Execution" was really dark and shocking. Most of her books are like that.

TexasProgresive

(12,275 posts)

3. Any bunny- you are so, soooo bad. That's really good.

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:49 PM

Mar 2016

Still reading J. Kellerman's Blood Test This has been a very full week so maybe I'll get some reading done this coming week. Thanks for the thread.

hermetic

(8,604 posts)

7. Yeah...I try

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 28, 2016, 04:31 PM

Mar 2016

Thank you.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

5. Hello everyone! Happy Easter or bunny day if you wish. Thank you for the thread hermetic!

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 09:19 PM

Mar 2016

I am nearly finished with Runaway by Peter May. I'm wondering what will happen next! I'm not certain of a next book yet.

Mrs. Enthusiast read The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood. She says there are some very bad people in this book. But she was really involved anyway.

Next she read Death At La Fenice by Donna Leon. She really liked this one. I had forgotten who it was that recommended the books by Donna Leon. I checked back into the previous threads and found that it was scarletwoman. So thank you for the recommendation, scarletwoman. I'll be reading it too, of course.

Now Mrs. Enthusiast is reading At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier.

hermetic

(8,604 posts)

8. How funny

Reply to Enthusiast (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 28, 2016, 04:37 PM

Mar 2016

that we're both reading Runaway, but by different authors.

I really liked the Donna Leon book I just read but it was the only one at my library. I will have to keep an eye out at used book stores for more of hers. Scarletwoman always gives us good recs. A toast to her...

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

10. I thought the same thing about Runaway. How strange is that.

Reply to hermetic (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 05:19 AM

Mar 2016

We do value the scarletwoman recommendations.

beveeheart

(1,400 posts)

6. Pamela Smith Hill's The Annotated Autobiography of

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 10:18 PM

Mar 2016

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Pioneer Girl from which The Little House in the Big Woods, The Little House on the Prairie and others came from.

hermetic

(8,604 posts)

9. Many years ago

Reply to beveeheart (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 28, 2016, 04:43 PM

Mar 2016

I spent the night in a B&B that was supposedly a house Laura lived in. It was quaint and very memorable.

Number9Dream

(1,639 posts)

11. Started "Tyrannosaur Canyon" by Douglas Preston

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Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:40 AM

Mar 2016

I'm only about 80 pages in, but so far it's another page-turner. This seems to be the introduction of the Wyman Ford character.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

13. Hey, Number9Dream! That is a good one!

Reply to Number9Dream (Reply #11)

Sat Apr 2, 2016, 06:19 AM

Apr 2016

I like that Wyman Ford Character. I think this one would make a great movie if the right people did it.

japple

(10,292 posts)

12. I'm late, I'm late...Love the bunny, hermetic and thanks for the thread.

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 07:58 AM

Mar 2016

I finished reading Kim Zupan's book, The Ploughmen and highly recommend it. If I were reading it again, I would keep a list of all the words I didn't know--those $10.00 words as one reviewer noted on amazon.com. Personally, I love $10.00 words.

Don't know where I'm headed next, but maybe the library will have something for me.

Happy Spring!

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