What are you going to read next? What made you want to read it?

[Bill]

I've previously read a couple of others of his SciFi books, Jenni; The Algebraist and Matter, as well as a mystery, The Wasp Factory and I've got to say, he's quite a unique writer. I'm enjoying Consider Phlebas so far and I've just started.

[Beth]

Bill wrote: "Mel wrote: "At the moment, I'm reading -
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle;
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks; and
Sharpe's Havoc by Bernard Cornwell..."

Three books at once? I can't do that. My mind needs to be organized, and three books at once would mess up my comfortable sense of organization.

[Beth]

Jenni wrote: "A great fan of his general fiction here."

Jenni speaks so highly of Banks here and elsewhere that she's made me really want to try him. I just wish I could find a giveaway of one of his books someplace online.

[Beth]

The next book I plan to read is Heartbroken just in case it wins for one of our September group reads. Lisa Unger is a good author. I enjoyed another of her books (Die for You) that I read, which was much the same idea as Gone Girl. But I liked what Unger did with her story more.

I'm anxious to finish the book I'm reading now (Never Go Back). I'm not a fan of this type of thriller. It's too impossible and silly.

[☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎]

I've begun reading The Devil and the White City but also read other books in between. I tend to do that a lot but when I get engrossed into one of my books I stay with that until I finish. My sister always askes me if I get confused with too many stories but I never get confused as to which story goes with what.

[Leigh]

The only time I have ever gotten confused was when I was reading two books from s a series at the same time. I kept getting the people mixed up. Now I only read one series book at a time.

[VickiLee]

I am just taking a breather, and haven't yet let my hands grab another volume. I'll give it another 20 minutes or so!

[Patricia]

Foucault's Pendulum by Unberto Eco, because I loved The Name of the Rose. I'm also reading Love Story by Erich Segal. which is as light as Pendulum is heavy. It was huge back in the 1970s. I've not read it before but am developing a character who is obsessed with it. (She's only 13.)

And when I finish these, Ratking by Michael Dibdin, a terribly under-appreciated mystery writer, is waiting.

So many books, so little time. I'm praying for rain.

[Kate]

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, reading for one of my book Clubs

[Patricia]

I just finished reading Erich Segal's Love Story - not because I've abandoned my love of mysteries but because I'm writing about a teeenage girl who was obsessed with this book. For the record, I didn't shed a tear.

I'm looking forward to a mystery, Ratking by Michael Dibdin. This is thanks to the Goodreads thread about under-appreciated writers and books. I realized that I had missed this one.

[James]

Will pick up Vanish from the library tomoorow and as soon as I finish Legend, hopefully on the journey home this evening I will start that, the 5th book in the Rizzoli and isles series by Tess Geritsen.
Just watched most recent episode on TV of the series whichw as a rough take on the Apprentice and reintroduced Hoyt tot the audience even though he had been killed.

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Going to be reading Aftershock by Andrew Vachs. Loved the Burke PI Series.

[Ron]

Ronhummer wrote: "Going to be reading Aftershock by Andrew Vachs. Loved the Burke PI Series."

Loved Burke, also. Surprised to see someone else appreciating that series. I'd about given up on finding anybody who agreed with me. Will have to look into Aftershock: A Thriller by Andrew Vachss.

But, my next book will be Live by Night by Dennis Lehane. Another author that I like a lot. Read the prequel, The Given Day and loved it. Had to read it's successor. Of course, now I see that there will be a #3 in the series, World Gone By. But, it won't be out until August.

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Ron wrote: "Ronhummer wrote: "Going to be reading Aftershock by Andrew Vachs. Loved the Burke PI Series."

Loved Burke, also. Surprised to see someone else appreciating that series. I'd about given up on fi..."

I loved the Burke series also but I lost my place in where I was. Have to get back into it at some point.

[Dana]

Connie wrote: "I am re-reading Rebecca. My classics book group is reading it. I am loving this book so much all over again. It is a perfect book."

One of my absolute favorite books ever! Everyone in this group should read this book.

[Guy]

Recently started Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. The reason was that though I am an avid reader of Transgressive Fiction, I had never read a Vonnegut book.

[Christine]

Killing Jesus by Bill O'Riley.

I read the one he wrote on Lincoln and because I enjoy and read history books I was aware of most of what was written. I thought the book great for anyone who did not know much of the Lincoln assassination history.

I started the Jesus book and have to say I am quite pleased. Almost finished with it to be honest. It is not about religion but about the life of the man Jesus. Roman history is thrown in and more. Excellent so far and I am half through.

I was on waiting list forever at the library.

[Ron]

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin.

It is a monthly selection and it sounds like a book that I'd like. An atmospheric drama set in 1970's Mississippi. Has elements, apparently, of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Elements that I find I like in books.

[Brendan]

Hourglass Heights, by Ian David Noakes.

It seems kind of sexy and modern.

It's less than 300 pages.

I got it for free, through the First Reads program. So it would be fair of me to read it and review it in a timely fashion.

[Georgia]

Am reading now C L Lewis. The Screwtape Papers, next I will be reading The Fallen Angel for my book club that meets at the end of the month

[Kirsten]

Looking forward to read The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison, a mystery in the Mormon community.

I'm a Mormon, currently inactive, and the set-up sounds really interesting.

Here's the NY Times take on it: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/art...

NPR interviewed the author last weekend: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/27/3729117...

[Debbie]

, because I've enjoyed his other John Puller books. Reminds me of Jack Reacher

[Kirsten]

New thriller published on December 30th. The description is intriguing.

Fifty Mice: A Novel by Daniel Pyne

[Abby]

I am planning on reading NOS4A2 by Joe Hill! I got the idea after reading it on a thread in this group....can't wait to start it. :)

[Kirsten]

I'm looking forward to reading The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison

[Georgia]

.m someone on TV interviewed the author and it sounded like a good one. Indian culture(native Am.), police on res. and justice system. Young Indian boys. A rape. Who did it?

[Maggie the Muskoka Library Mouse]

I'd like to read Miss You Most of All next. I want to read it because it sounds interesting, and I enjoy stories about sisters who don't always get along but love each other unconditionally. It reminds me of my sister and I. :)

[CHenry]

Hey guys. I finished Happy Hour And Other Philadelphia Cruelties by Tony Knighton. It's bad ass!   Check out this bit here. One of my favorite parts:-D  I plan to raid the paperback list at crimewavepress.com to score more killer reads like this one.


  Hannah sat up. “What the fuck is that?”     
“Get dressed. Quick.”
Downstairs there were shouts. I pulled on the sweatpants while there was a third crash. There was a splintering sound as the front door gave way. I put my shoes on without socks and grabbed my shirt. “Is there a back stairway?” The dogs were going nuts.    
She was pulling on her sweatshirt. “Yes. From the second floor down.” There were two gunshots in quick succession and the dogs stopped barking. “This is your fault, you motherfucker.”    
There were scattered shouts and more gunfire. “Come on.” I said, “Get your shoes on.” How did they find me?    
She found one and put it on. “I can’t find the other one.”     
I grabbed up the blankets and threw them to the other side of the room. “Here it is.” I gave it to her and buttoned my coat. She got it on, and as she stood I took her hand and pulled her into the hall and down the stairs.     
There was a lot of noise on downstairs. I could smell smoke. Someone must have knocked over the heater. We headed to the rear of the house. She went to a door that opened onto a narrow flight of stairs. Smoke drifted up into the hallway partly obscuring the kitchen door. There was another gunshot. I grabbed her face and made her look at me, and put a finger to my lips. She was frightened but nodded.  
  I held her hand and led the way down. We were halfway down when someone ran into the kitchen and made it to the door. He was barely visible through the smoke. Just as the guy got the lock undone there was a shot. He turned and fell, and I saw that it was Charlie. He hit the floor and didn’t move. Footsteps moved into the kitchen.  
  I turned and pushed Hannah back up the stairs. It was hard to breathe. As we gained the second floor hallway someone fired a shot up the stairs at us. The round missed and splintered the railing. I slammed the door behind us. Two more shots made holes in the door panels.   
 We made for the third floor. She pulled against me. “What are you doing? We have to get  out.”   
“Shut up. I know what I’m doing.” We got up the stairs through the smoke to the third floor on our hands and knees and into her room again. “Close the door behind us. Stay low.” I made my way to the window and tried to open it; it was stuck. I strained. It wouldn’t budge.   
 I crawled around the room and felt a blanket, wadded it around my hand and punched out the glass. “Come on.” I crawled out onto the mansard gutter. It was about eighteen inches wide, full of drifted snow. Kneeling, I called to her. “Come on, Hannah.”    
 “I can’t. I’m too afraid.”   
“Come on, this is nothing.”  
 She made it to the window and reached for me. Snot ran out of her nose and she was crying.  “Come on, climb out.”      
She stuck her head out and opened her eyes. “Oh, fuck. I can’t.”
 “Yes, you can.” She didn’t move. “If you don’t you’re gonna die.”
   She wailed and started out the window. I said, “That’s it. Come on. Good.” She made it all the way outside. “Now stand up and follow me. I’ll hold your hand. You’ll be fine.”     
The alley brightened below us. There were flames reflected in the windows of the next house. Two bodies lay below in the mouth of the alley, one moving, one not. Hannah slowly stood and moved with me toward the rear of the house. I felt my way, inching my lead foot forward through the accumulated snow, my free hand on the slate mansard. I came to the back room’s side dormer window set proud of the mansard face. “Let go for a minute. I’ll get around this window and help you around it.”    
“Don’t let go of me, please.”   
 “I have to. Kneel down for a second. It’ll be all right.”   She let go and I reached to the far side of the dormer frame. Clutching it, I made my way past. Inside the room it was black, a swath of orange showing low.   From the far side I reached to her and said, “Come on, grab my hand.”  
  “Oh, my god. Here.” She reached out and clutched me and made her way to her feet. The room brightened.    
“Don’t wait, Hannah. Come across now.”  
 She was in front of the dormer when the glass fractured from the heat and thick brown smoke gushed out, enveloping her. She lost her balance and fell, screaming, landing in the alley with an unseen thump. She was quiet. I stared for a moment and then heard two more shots.  

(Here's another good part :-D)

 "...and i'll go back to work."   
Jack said, "You're never getting another job. With us or anybody else. I lied to you about that. I wanted you out of the building."
  Tracey said, "Bobby, you're wanted by the police. They say you've killed people tonight."  
 "It's all a mistake. I never did  those things. The men that were after me did all that stuff but it's ok, I can get it all straightened out." I looked at Jack. "You're the one that's gonna pay. When you took that money you ruined my life."  
 Tracey said, "Bobby, you're so stupid." She shook her head. "He didn't take the money. I did."   
I looked at her. She said, "I lost my first client's money. I was brand new. I couldn't tell Mr. Soames. My father got me that job. He'd be mortified that I made that kind of mistake my first week. After you helped me that first morning I went back to your cubicle at lunchtime and transferred the money."   "But, why?"  
 "A person like you just can't understand the pressure somebody like me is under. My father is an important man. He's an old, close friend of Mr. Soames. You don't have to deal with anything like that. Your're a nobody."
  Jack said, "We did figure it out after a while, Soames and I."  
 Tracey nodded. "Mr. Soames said that he wasn't happy with what i'd done, but there was no point in making an issue of it. It was a learning experience and we'd all move on."  
 I couldn't talk. I did the only thing I could: I took out Lon's pistol and fired twice.

[Janet]

^ bump ^

[Amy]

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone ...as I might be one of the last few on earth to read it.

[Betsy]

Since I've never read any Harry Potter books, I am reading the second of the Rennie Airth series, THE BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE.

[Marion]

At the moment I am reading a wonderful mystery, "Payback" by Jonnie Jacobs. So far it's pretty good.

[Jim]

I'm planning on reading by James Lee Burke next. I read one other book in the David Robicheaux series and enjoyed it. I want to try and read the series in order now. This is the first book in the series.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I just started Call for the Dead by John le Carré which is the book that introduces his George Smiley character. I should finish it in June at which time I'll start Conviction by Richard North Patterson.

[Marion]

Well I finished Payback and am now (finally) reading Find Her by Lisa Gardner. Just love her books. Next I'm hoping to get Harlan Coban's new book from the library.

[Jim]

Planning on reading by Nathaniel Philbrick next.

Heard a lot of good things about this book and am looking forward to it.

[Jim]

Next up:

by Ronald H. Balson

Have had it on hold at my library for months. Reviews were good and it sounded like an interesting story.

[Marion]

I finished "Find Her" . Even though I love all her books, I was disappointed by this one. I did not find the main character (victim) sympathetic at all. The same goes for D.D.

[Jim]

I plan to read by James Lee Burke next. What made me want to read it? I have read several of the other books in the Dave Robicheaux series and enjoyed them. I am trying to read the books in series order.

[Marie]

I don't know as I have about 50 books on my kindle that I haven't read yet - I read 2 and buy 10 more every other week - lol

[Amy]

Like This, For Ever by Sharon Bolton. (Lacey Flint #3)

[Pamela]

I just finished The Hours by Michael Cunningham and I'm trying to think of a good and very different read to this. Perhaps a good crime novel ... maybe True Detective by Max Allan Collins or perhaps something lighter, like The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood ...

[Terry]

Resilient Transitions is a fictional action/adventure with memorable characters set in the future. Available on Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com.

https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B01LXGVRVV…
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/resil...…

[Pamela]

Finished The Green Mill Murder and am now reading Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo for my physical book club.

[Terry]

Resilient Transitions is a fictional action/adventure with memorable characters set in the future. Available on Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com.

https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B01LXGVRVV…
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/resil...…

[Kirsten]

I'm really enjoying The Girl with All the Gifts, planning on going on to his next book, Fellside

[Jim]

I am starting by James Lee Burke

It is the next book in the Dave Robicheaux series

[Rita]

I'm going to read "The Girl with all the Gifts" by M.R. Carey. Seems very captivating to read and I wanted awhile to try out this Horror/YA novel. :) cheers

[Jamie]

I just started reading Carrie by Stephen King. I finished cujo a few days ago and I was curious to see how this book was. (I don't watch horror movies so I know of the story but not the details)

[Pamela]

Have slowly made my way into my first Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye. Don't know I have taken so long to get into a book by this local author except that I'm not terribly big on thrillers and I think of Koontz' work as thrillers (that's why I don't read Stephen King although I admire his writing). This book was recommended by the owner of my favorite used book store, who recently retired. Her husband read Koontz and as she was selling off her books at even cheaper prices, she convinced me to give it a try .... and it fulfills a challenge that I've been working through.