Last Night in Twisted River
--John Irving

I had no idea he had a new book out, found it amongst the covers of vampires, Amish girls gone wild, cowboys and girls, women in period costume about to bust out (I think it's called "heaving") of their bodice, an alien or three (who can count aliens? they gots all kinds of weird appendages) and more vampires...some near fucking.

It was like the heavens opened and the angels sang as bright light surrounded a decent freaking book.

Well, it's no The Hotel New Hampshire or Cider House Rules or Garp, but it's good.

Jumping on the Stieg Larsson bandwagon. I've finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire and am currently on The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

I highly recommend them.

Oooh, I love that series! I haven't read the final one yet, but as soon as the library gets it or its out in paperback, I plan to pounce.

I don't know if this author has been mentioned here, but Alan Furst has been my latest discovery. He writes wonderful dark, brooding stories about espionage in some of the lesser known European countries during WWII. Lots of stuff about underground resistance and attempts to get Jews and others out before too late.

Furst carefully researches his books and writes as if he had been right there - a part of the action.

The two novels I have read so far are The Spies of Warsaw and Spies of the Balkans. 5 *****

Morning Drive: Things I wish I knew before I Started Talking - Michael Smerconish

Interesting to read. Smerconish breaks the proscenium a bit more than he usually does while broadcasting. I think I would like to sit and chat with him, and tell him that I didn't pay attention to him at CB West Football Games while I was in a rival school's marching band.

The Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman
recommended by a friend, I downloaded it months ago and never got around to reading it. I've read a couple of different relationship books. They all seem to make some sense, not sure how it will work in practical application. Forgot to check this author's biography to see how many times he has been married and divorced.

Another trilogy to devour:

Currently reading:

#1 The Strain

by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

to be followed by The Fall (coming in Oct 2010) and The Night Eternal (2011).

Vampire story...sort of. Author Nelson DeMille says its Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton. That feels about right 125 pages in. :3_eyes:

I'm going back and forth between reading The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Both are interesting reads and true stories.

I loved Devil in the White City.

I have recently finished Code Triage - Candace Calvert
It's the third book in the Mercy Hospital Series. The author sent me an advance copy. I'd written to her after I read the first one (Critical Care) and really liked it.

Currently reading: Earth is not Alone - John Knapp II
It's set in the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, post EMP story. Not sure how it will go, I literally just started. It's a free-for-review copy from the publisher.

A Path With Heart

The Power of Now- audio book

The Road Less Traveled

Breath Sweeps Mind

Transforming the Mind

The World According to Garp

the Mayflower

Sea Glass - Anita Shreve - shameless vacation reading.

Can't wait for Aug. 19th when Kate Atkinson's new one will be released! Titled Started Early, Took My Dog - first lines of an Emily Dickinson poem!!!!

It's John Irving month! I haven't had much time to read lately, so my reading of his new book has stalled, but it has made me want to go back and read Garp and Hotel New Hampshire again!

Son of the Circus was pretty good too

I've never read that one, jim. I need a trip to the 'brary this weekend. :)

(Haven't read A Prayer for Owen Meany either. I want to read Cider House Rules again too.) I love Irving.

The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry, and today I bought a biography of Nikola Tesla that I'll start tomorrow.

Just finished The Lost City of Z by David Grann. About an explorer of the Amazon who made several trips in the early 1900s mapping the completely uncharted territory and looking for the legendary city of El Dorado. He disappears on one trip and scores of rescue parties try to find him. They all disappear too. Grann uncovers new information about his final ill fated expedition from recently released archive documents and personal diaries collected from family members, and sets off to the Amazon to see if he can find out what happened to this guy. It's a pretty interesting book.

Some are aware that I don't pick out books at library, I just dump my tote and they fill it again. Some are winners, others NOT.
Reading Raven's Prey. By Jane Ann Krentz, writing as Stephanie James.
Do they pay by the word and does no one proof read?
Of course they had to have some sex so, "At the height of her response he saw the way her eyes squeezed shut and she clamped down on her lower lip with her own teeth."
As oppose to who else is teeth is involved?