What book are you currently reading?

[MooseMom]

Hi MM did you read Camilla Lackberg already? Quite good

Ooooh, no!  I've never heard of her!  I've just finished the second of Kjell Eriksson's Ann Lindell series and am in two minds about reading nos. three and four.  I've read some iffy reviews about those and so may skip right to the fifth, Black Lies, Red Blood.  It's the latest in the series and is supposed to be the best.  Besides, my husband bought it for me for Christmas and is always asking me if I've started it yet.

I have watched all of the original Swedish Wallander shows on TV, all three series, and I had begun reading the books.  But I think I may stop there.  The last of the TV series was very satisfying, and I feel I should just leave it at that.

After I've finished Black Lies, I'll check out Camilla Lackberg!  Thanks so much for the recommendation!

[Pod99966]

When Darkness Falls

by Shannon Drake

[Sugarlump]

Currently studying the 5:2 diet book .... feast on five days, fast on two  ...
What do you reckon? 
Will it work?

[cassandra]

Might do, depending on what you eat in those 5 days I suppose. But aren't you on D? Remember you are supposed to eat protein EVERY day?
Why don't you by your weddingdress in your own size? You are perfect as you are, as I remember correctly?

[willowtreewren]

Having recently entered the world of the semi-retired and having time to turn to fiction, I'm reading Dan Brown's "Inferno."

A page turner, and definitely not that deep, but just what the doctor ordered for now.

[Pod99966]

Having recently entered the world of the semi-retired and having time to turn to fiction, I'm reading Dan Brown's "Inferno."

A page turner, and definitely not that deep, but just what the doctor ordered for now.

I've read most of Dan Brown's stuff. I really like him as an author, though I haven't read "Inferno" yet.

[cassandra]

'The weird sisters' by Eleanor Brown. Very original, and different for a book that's relaxing too.

[cariad]

Still making my way through Gods and Soldiers but just finished Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. It's a brilliant account of the damage that missionaries have done and do do to traditional cultures, though you don't even realise it until it's too late (much like the members of these cultures themselves). It's enough to make an anthropologist weep - and a literature aficionado cheer. 

[talker]

Never suspected a book on this subject could be so interesting to read, as regards it's use as healing tool.

'Sodium Bicarbonate Nature Unique First Aid Remedy' by Dr Mark Sircus   ISBN 978-0-7570-0394-3

Be Well

[AnnieB]

House Rules
by Jodi Picoult

[Poppylicious]

Divergent - yep, still embracing my inner-teenager.

 

[iolaire]

I just read Flash Boys about high speed trading on wall street.  It was a good read and an easy to follow story.  Its scary to think about how smart people leverage every loophole available to make money, often on the backs of people and their retirement accounts... 

[kristina]

Last Train from Berlin by Howard K. Smith, printed in London in 1942.
An interesting historical book containing what American correspondents in Berlin tried to tell the people “between the lines” of their dispatches...
Howard K. Smith originally went to Berlin in 1936, after finishing his studies at the University of New Orleans.
It was to be a tour at first, became a sociological “mission” to study people’s circumstances under a dictatorship and developed into a political observation,
whereby, with his keen instinct and very “sharp eye” he observed and wrote down as much as he possibly could.
Smith left Berlin for Switzerland on December 6 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbour.
The book is historical, but reads like a thriller and it is a pity that the author is no longer with us,
because I would have loved to contact and ask him a few questions...
...it is one of those books one has to read several times to discover as many angles as possible...
... What Howard K. Smith mentions in his book, is hardly ever mentioned in “ordinary” history books,
like names of perpetrators like Dr. Robert Ley, Nathan Kaufmann, the Nazi-dogma “inventor” Alfred Rosenberg and many others,
or, for example, the description of the constant psychological terror on the population
and the fact, that so many trains (full to the brim with soldiers) were sent from Germany to Russia,
but the trains did not return (with casualties etc) from Russia ...  and it reads, as if it was planned exactly that way from the start...

[kristina]

François Couperin: L'Art de toucher le clavecin 1717 (The Art of playing/touching the Harpsichord).
A wonderful introduction... and hopefully I am going to learn a lot...

[Rerun]

"In Love With Bangladesh; the heart of a Missionary" by Jill Flat

A local author from Spokane, WA   Very good!

[kristina]

I just read Flash Boys about high speed trading on wall street.  It was a good read and an easy to follow story.  Its scary to think about how smart people leverage every loophole available to make money, often on the backs of people and their retirement accounts...

It sounds like a recommendable book, especially, since the "Federal Bureau of Investigation" announced an investigation into high frequency trading ...
...one day after the publication of this particular book...

[cariad]

I am reading Arguably, a collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens. I probably won't read all of it as it's enormous and I doubt I'll be interested in every topic that he sounds off about, but I do love his breathtakingly eloquent, witty style. He was such a talented writer, fearlessly outspoken, a well-known atheist/rationalist. There are quite a few recordings of him debating religion with various experts in the field. I give anyone willing to step up and face him credit, because he is quick and well-versed in so many political and social subjects. As I feel that my recent illness has brought me into close contact with my own mortality, I have been seeking answers to what death really means, and he is the only person who has made me feel better about it all.

I take issue with one article he wrote about 5 years ago in which his thesis was "women aren't funny". It was incredibly disappointing to read, an inherently sexist stance that lacked any of his usual persuasiveness or self-awareness, presenting his unfortunate opinion as fact. It was indefensible, but I don't know that he was ever one to reexamine a work and retract anything. He died not too long ago - not before publishing a massive memoir that I won't be reading - I don't find the life as interesting as the commentary on current and historical events.

Andrew Sullivan - a columnist whose work I also occasionally enjoy - said that his last words were "capitalism, downfall". I hope it's true. It seems so fitting.

[iolaire]

Just read Crazy Rich Asians, a story about the children of super rich Singaporeans.  It was actually a good love story despite all the style name dropping and the like.  Its interesting to read about people from a completely different economic level.

[Uptownlifer]

Failing Forward by John Maxwell.

[frankswife]

Just finished "The Plantagenets" by Dan Jones and starting to re-read a biography of silent film comedienne Mabel Normand.

[Sugarlump]

Just finished Mad about The Boy which is the third Bridget Jones book. So funny!!!
Now I will Have to see the film... 

[Rerun]

"Empty Mansions" by Bill Dedman
The true story of the Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune. 

[cassandra]

Nemesis by Jo Nesbo, quite good MM

[Sugarlump]

Now reading PERFECT MATCH by Jane Moore
funny but hard-hitting and thought provoking
good read

[iolaire]

Just read A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, a story of a twin girl growing up in Iran just after the takeover of the Shaw.  She is fascinated with America and thinks her mother and twin sister flew off to America.  There is constant struggles in her life as the regime gets stricter and she continues to dream of America.  Good story, various traumas but I felt it was upbeat most of the time.  I enjoyed reading about the cultural change at that time in Iran.