What are you reading? October 2012

[Melanie]

Please share what you are reading, any thoughts, and how this book made it into your hands.

[Melanie]

I'm reading for the Kansas Humanities Council TALK series through my library. I'm only a couple of chapters into the book, but enjoying it very much.

[W.]

I'm reading The Tailor of Panama by John LeCarre. I picked up the book in a garage sale a couple of years ago. I have just started it.

[Bill]

I picked up based on a friend's recommendation, & a review in The New Yorker.

[Bill]

Next up is , which I won in a recent giveaway here. It's appropriate to start this today, on National Coming Out Day

[Mike]

I just got done with last night and today I will be starting . After this, I only have the last two books in the series, counting the finale that is out Jan. 8th.

[Ronald]

Been busy playing World of Warcraft and some actually real life stuff. I need to grab a book to read this month.

[Kristin]

Of the 4 books I am currently reading:
- 'Cutting for Stone' I am reading in my car before work. Recommended by a friend, got from a book swap at my gym, and I'm enjoying it a lot
- 'A Good Dog' I was reading during my dinner break at work, but I have a trainee now and we eat together and I have to be social. I was enjoying it, the little I got to read. Bought it at a used book sale last week
- 'Oath of Office' I just started reading before bed, but I haven't for a couple nights because a new 'Reader's Digest' came in the mail. Got it for my birthday from my mom.
- Darrell Waltrip's autobiography I read while on the treadmill at the gym. Lends itself well to reading in short spells. I've had it for a few years, having bought it at a book sale.

I try to always have one book from my 'had for a while' stacks on my 'currently reading' list or else I should just get rid of those stacks if I don't want to read them.

[Bill]

I like to read the book version before I see the movie adaptation. This December looks to be one of the best in a long time for film. I've already read The Hobbit, and Les Miserables, so I will give a read. At 817 pages not including notes we'll see how it goes.

[Jocelyn]

Started another one! Book 4 in progress.

[W.]

Beginning a new series -- Quiller.
The Quiller Memorandum was copyrighted in 1965. I believe there are 18 books in the series so far. I have begun the first and it is interesting, especially to think about what we were like in 1965.

[Kristin]

Finished up Cutting for Stone and Oath of Office later in the week and have moved on to:

-'Koop', the former Surgeon General's autobiography and
-'The Bone Yard', one in a fiction series written by the fellow who manages the body farm in Tennessee and his co-writer.

Both books came from the same sale where I purchased 'A Good Dog'.

[Ronald]

Reading currently. Started while on the flight to Vegas and back.

[Melanie]

I had been in a reading funk. Probably because the Middle Eastern series I've been reading are on the depressing side. I just finished , and while is is well written it is hard seeing that her birth country which she still loves believes she was trying to over throw the Iranian government. She was placed in prison for four months as a political prisoner and kept in Iran for 8 months.

I also finished for my book club. The story is good, but I have a difficult time with the dialect used.

[Melanie]

I'm now reading the final book in the Middle Eastern series . I'm only into the first chapter but doubtful I will be connecing to any characters/people because it is brief stories of their life. My meeting to discuss this is on Nov. 7, so I better get out of my funk and finish.

[W.]

W. wrote: "Beginning a new series -- Quiller.
The Quiller Memorandum was copyrighted in 1965. I believe there are 18 books in the series so far. I have begun the first and it is interesting, especially to t..."

The first is good enough that I have ordered the second through the fifth in the series.

[Melanie]

W.G.

You might want to check out this Podcast for a couple new ideas on Thrillers: http://tscpl.org/podcast/hush-a-podca...

Lissa and Thad work at my library and do this PodCasts - I'm even a guest in one. Great ideas for books to read.

[Melanie]

I also read either this month or last month . A group of diver's find a WWII German U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey. It is about the disovery, the challenges to identity it, and how written history isn't always correct. There is some cussing, but there is a great inner story about two guys that hate each learn to respect each other and even become friends. Great book!

[Bill]

Melanie wrote: "I also read either this month or last month . A group of diver's find a WWII German U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey. It is about the disovery, the challenges to i..."

An uncle of mine was in the Merchant Marines during WWII and survived one sinking only to be killed on another. The U-Boats would sit off the NJ coast waiting for cargo ships coming out of the harbors in NYC & Philadelphia. The first time my uncle sailed early in the morning only to have his ship torpedoed within miles of the harbor and he was back home for dinner the same day. The next time he wasn't so lucky, and his ship was sunk off Cape Hatteras. Not sure if it was ever found.

[Melanie]

This one wasn't suppose to be there - it was suppose to be going to Gilbrater. Interesting book.