this is a fearsome, beautiful and epical book!

I just started The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy, so far so good.

Excellent book. Sort of a coming of age story about 2 kids growing up in Bklyn during WWII. One is Hasidic and the other a conservative Jew. I read it for a book club, and I'm looking forward to the discussion.

read that book, you'll have to read the others by this author. He is a very good writer and the subjects are fascinating. I also loved My Name is Asher Lev.

who does a good job of researching her story. One of my favorites was Moo, which my reading group (at a state university) really loved. Will have to catch up on her books. Thanks!

Listening to Bad Blood by Arne Dahl.
Reading a few, but not really making much progress on any:
Ritual by Mo Hayder. This writer has some active imagination. Pretty gruesome crime scenes. Her first two were better, but I'm making my way through this one.
Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner. I've liked her D.D. Warren and Bobby Dodge novels, but this one is neither, though at Warren has a role. I'm not liking this much yet.
Prophet of Bones by Ted Kosmatka. Not sure where this going yet, and I'm half way through. The premise is that evolution has been scientifically disproven and the planet is in fact 6015 years old. Established scientific proof. I'm guessing that the gist is that the main character is going to disprove this and we'll see what ensues. I'm hoping I'm not being sucked in to a creationist sci-fi writer's world. About a dozen years back I got sucked into the Left Behind series before I learned about the authors and the books became increasingly offensive.

by Muriel Barbery

A couple of krimis by Martin Walker and Barry Maitland and Assignment to Hell, by Timothy Gay: Cronkite, Rooney and various other war correspondents in WWII. That last is a history of their experiences, rather than excerpts from their reporting.