Company, the oldest corporation in North America.

Finished The Court of the Air and am now reading this Peter Straub horror novel. I have enjoyed the Straub books Koko, Floating Dragon and, especially, Shadowland. And, of course, the two he wrote with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. I can tell early on that this one will be hard to put down!

I like it a lot.

Will you also be my friend?

I started reading Vidal when he died. I'm sorry I waited so long. He really found his metier when he turned to American history. Lincoln is brilliant, both as novel and as history.

other two parts of that saga.

3rd book of Sandman Slim series

Fifth book in the Codex Alera. Read the first two in a rush. Then rested a couple of months. Read the next two. Rested. Back for the final two.

Not exactly groundbreaking fantasy, but fun and entertaining.

Just barely started it and am engrossed already. I forgot how much I liked Harry Hole, a police detective in Oslo, Norway.

This is 4th in this mystery series, but I need to go back and fill in 2 books up to the present, but I did read the 5th. New one coming out October 2, 2012

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Book 91 of 2012

but tonight, I got on track again, and I'm telling you, the last few scenes in the book were really, well, can't say just good, but taut, super exciting, and would make a helluva movie.

I should go back and read the middle and try to figure out who the guy was who was working on Harry's walls to remove mold. I'll give it a break and get back to it in a few days. I need some Hamish Macbeth to relax me after that serial killer book.

Anybody who read The Snowman and knows anything about that guy would save me a lot of time if you would tell me what you know.

Val McDermid recommended this author on her twitter feed.

18 out of 19. Guess I'll have the entire series done by the end of next week.

a fast read - I should be done by the weekend, which for me, is fast.

I'm addicted to him.

A 1000+ page trilogy. Good stuff.

I've read so many classical books this summer! I was picking them up very cheaply at book sales, garage sales and antique shops. The latest one I've finished was George Eliot's "Silas Marner," originally published in 1861. I read Eliot's novel "Adam Bede" earlier this year.
"Silas" is shorter and less complicated than "Adam," and also funnier. There is a dry wit that appears periodically, making you snicker.
Both of these novels deal with the same situation, an unwanted child. But "Silas," unlike "Adam," has a happier ending.
I am finding Eliot to be an easier read than Charles Dickens, who seems a bit pretentious at times.