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[kinuta]

[B. Goren.]

[A Lark Ascending]

I loved that. Got me really curious about contemporary China.

[kinuta]

Yes, an excellent page turner.

I'm really enjoying it.

Edited June 23, 2012 by kinuta

[jlhoots]

Craig Johnson: Hell Is Empty (7th in the Longmire series)

[alankin]

Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union

[Matthew]

Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings (LOA). Enjoying this very much, the only Hammett I read before was the Maltese Falcon.

Edited June 27, 2012 by Matthew

[kinuta]

[Pete C]

OK, but I'm not inspired to read others in the series.

[jlhoots]

Craig Johnson: As The Crow Flies (8th Longmire novel)

[BillF]

[TedR]

In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larsen

[jlhoots]

Jo Nesbo: The Snowman

[A Lark Ascending]

Still trapped in this with 150 pages to go. Very little forward momentum. I suspect it's art.

[BillF]

Very little forward momentum. I suspect it's art.

Ho, ho!

[Shawn]

[ejp626]

Should wrap up Headhunter this weekend. Am reading a bit of Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada. It's a lot more polemical and less fun than his earlier works like The Free-lance Pallbearers. I suspect I'll make it through the book but it's feeling like quite a slog.

Also started These Festive Nights (Soifs) by Marie-Claire Blais. Too early to say how I'll like it.

Have a couple shorter books to read after that. I am back to trying to clear out some books from my house, after a year-long diversion to reading primarily Canadian fiction.

[paul secor]

Tana French: The Likeness

Somewhat strange book. Began as a police procedural, seemed as if it was going to take off into another realm, then reverted to police procedural. It's a good read but, perhaps because I sensed that Tana French was such an intelligent and skillful writer, I expected more and was left with some disappointment.

[A Lark Ascending]

Still trapped in this with 150 pages to go. Very little forward momentum. I suspect it's art.

Finished...thank the lord. The last 200 pages were skim read. I'm none the wiser.

Switched to a 100% ripping yarn:

Think I first read this in 1968 or 9.

[BillF]

[Pete C]

Edited July 7, 2012 by Pete C

[B. Goren.]

[Jazzmoose]

Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union

I got about five pages into that and decided maybe I should start with a few of his short stories as an introduction. After reading a few of his short stories, I feel I must apologize to any writers I have previously described as "overrated".

[ejp626]

Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union

I got about five pages into that and decided maybe I should start with a few of his short stories as an introduction. After reading a few of his short stories, I feel I must apologize to any writers I have previously described as "overrated".

I guess he can be a bit hit or miss, but I did enjoy The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Obviously, there are strong hints of PKD's The Man in the High Castle, but also a dash of Stefan Zweig's Chess Story.

Anyway, I was clearing out old newspapers/reviews/etc. when I came across someone who was raving about I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train by Peter Hobbs. These are short stories by a UK writer. Took some doing, but I got it from the library. Not doing anything for me, though I guess I am only 1/3 in.

[jazzbo]

Second book in a row about Paul.