Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat are you reading the week of September 16, 2012?
The Age Of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker2012 book# 141
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)by Thomas Mullen.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)This is the first of the series, and this is my second or third reading of this series - just started today. I treasure every page.
He reminds me of Colon Cotterill and his Dr. Siri series in Laos..science, superstition, religion, spirits, and HUMOR.... only this is about the Utes in Colorado.
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Doss has a new book coming out Oct. 30. He died just after he finished it.
Book 85 of 2012
fadedrose
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enjoyably silly
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Very fast paced, gets into Fredrick's head very well.
pscot
(21,041 posts)Frederick was an original. Sounds like an fun read.
YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)Finally picked this up and about 2/3rds though.
Really excellent writing, good literature genre or not.
Terry Pratchett's latest. Also, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings by Annette Gordon-Reed. There's a lot of controversy surrounding this relationship. Ms. Gordon-Reed tries to sort truth from myth and wishful thinking.
getting old in mke
(813 posts)Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin back in the Mediterranean.
sinkingfeeling
(53,268 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Second book in the Det. John Rebus mystery series that takes place in Scotland.
Nineteen books in the series so far, 20th coming out in Jan. 2013.
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Book 86 of 2012
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)by M. L. Stedman. So far (100 pages in) it's very good.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)The ones that are left are mostly in Fraktur. It gives me a headache to read that stuff, and I can't imagine how Germany ever emerged into the industrial age reading it.
Found out who got rid of it. The Nazis. Yup. Horrifying factoid.
Moe Shinola
(143 posts)Finished the first book in the series, this one is the 2nd. Quite satisfied so far.