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[Sue]

I'm reading The Black Ice as well as Foreign Body.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I finished "Eleven on Top" and starting "Twelve Sharp

[Liora]

I am almost done with City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris, and also reading Map of Bones by James Rollins, and The Fire Within by Chris d'Lacey.

[Bea]

Got several different media going.

Audiobook: The Girl Who Played With Fire (20.1)

Ebook: The Alienist (5.1)

Books: Gone to the Dogs (25.2) and Catch Me (30.3 book 2)

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I finished "Twelve Sharp" and onto "Mean Thirteen"

[Connie]

I just finished Testimony, and started Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Still reading Moloka'i.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Finished Lean Mean Thirteen and onto Fearless Fourteen.

[Lulu]

Currently reading Touch by Leonard Elmore as my first book for 30.7 (book with a cover I dislike). Enjoying it so far!

[Connie]

I finished Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale And Why We Bought It byElizabeth Royte, an interesting book for 20.6.

[Bea]

Finished: The Alienist and Gone to the Dogs.

I have 10 chapters to go for The Girl Who Played With Fire. I hope to finish it today.

Still reading: Catch Me.

[Dee]

@lulu - I just read an Elmore Leonard for the name train task - it was interesting...you could tell that he had done his research into the topic for sure

[Michael]

I am about to start , I am a fan of his other novels.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Finished: Fearless Fourteen and starting Finger Licking Fifteen

[Sue]

I've got three going: Scone Cold Dead in hardcover, The Black Ice on my Kindle and I Heard That Song Before on my iPod.

[Lulu]

Half-way through Touch, and now listening to both Crooked House by Agatha Christie (30.7) and White Cat by Holly Black (30.5).

Dee wrote: "@lulu - I just read an Elmore Leonard for the name train task - it was interesting...you could tell that he had done his research into the topic for sure"

Yeah, definitely knows his subjects! I'm finding he has a really relaxed, laid back style of writing. I heard most of his other books are crime, though. Will probably try more after this.

[Jody]

I'm reading
A Storm of Swords. I can't read it before going to sleep because it's too violent to give me happy dreams. My pre sleeping book is The Scarlet Thread. It puts me right to sleep.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I been able to read Storm of Swords before bed. To each their own :)

[Michael]

I did not even get through The Runaway Jury, terrible to say the least.

I am about to read Precious.

[Abbey]

I'm new, and haven't figured out the how-to-do the tasks properly as yet (maybe this weekend...) but wanted to post in a Currently Reading thread, hope that's ok?

Just finished CAT TELLING TALES, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, 2011, newest Joe Grey novel. A bit sweet, a touch dark, and those gorgeous cats. Very entertaining, and I'll have a review of it up soon on Reviewing The Evidence with a short blurb on Goodreads. Just received an ARC of Carola Dunn's newest Daisy novel, GONE WEST, to be published in a couple of weeks, am going to try to read it and write about it over this weekend if time allows.

Am slowly working my way through several personal challenges that I had set up prior to finding this group, am hopeful I can work them into some of the tasks here. (crosses fingers...) A few of them are:

1. Local-to-me mysteries, preferably series, even if it's only two or three books (New England and Canadian Maritimes settings but maybe I'll stretch that out to Montreal and thus be able to include Louise Penny). Current from-the-library-TBR has a Spenser (MORTAL STAKES), Mark Del Franco's urban fantasy series (UNSHAPELY THINGS), and Felicia Donovan's PI series (BLACK WIDOW AGENCY).

2. Female mystery writers similar in style to (and including) Agatha Christie - have been working on that for several years now, had kept it to books written between 1920-1940 but last year expanded it to ~1960 and this year maybe to 1980 plus a few others (i.e. Deborah Crombie and Elizabeth Peters, not sure if I want to include Elizabeth George though). yeah. Glutton for punishment. Current TBR has Lockridges, Marsh, Muller, Daly, Harris (Lily Bard series), Cross, and a lot more that I own...

3. for an email discussion list I'm on, a January-only challenge of mysteries with a number in the title, current TBR has Tapply (SEVENTH ENEMY), Christie (TOWARDS ZERO).

4. Mystery Writers of America anthologies, sequentially by year, starts with 1946, am in late 1950s now.

and that's not to mention the series I regularly "follow" AND a few that I want to reread, and....! (grin) Hopeless, yep. Hi, my name is Abbey, and I'm a book addict...

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Finished Finger Licking Fifteen and almost done with Sizzling Sixteen

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Finished Sizzling Sixteen" and starting Smoking Seventeen"

[Sue]

I've got The Third Secret going in paperback, A Wee Christmas Homicide on the Kindle, and listening to I Heard That Song Before on my iPod.

[Anne]

Reading and amoung others

[Lulu]

Listening to:
I am currently listening to Pretty Little Liars by Sara Sherpard (30.5), as well as trying hard to get through Crooked House by Agatha Christie (very dry, monotone narration!).

Reading:
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Marukami (30.4)

[Connie]

I just finished
Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto, a mixture of romance, history, adventure, fables, and magic.

I'm also reading Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, and am enjoying it so far.

[Liora]

[Michael]

A Window Across the River.byBrian Morton.

[Sanskriti]

Currently reading... Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

Pretty interesting so far!

[Connie]

I just finished The Road byCormac McCarthy, a dark, but beautifully written, post-apocalyptic story.

[★Meghan★]

I am currently reading (20.2), (30.1) & (30.1)

[Michael]

I just finished A Window Across the River, one of the best romances I read awhile!

I am about to begin The Leftovers. Tom is one of my favorite authors.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I finished "Smoking Seventeen" and starting Explosive Eighteen"

[Dee]

listening to Daughter of Smoke and Bone - omg loving this book and reading When She Woke (indie bound)

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Finished Explosive Eighteen and starting "The Anthologist

[Sanskriti]

Finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Worthy of just 3 stars in my opinion.

Now reading... A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin. I loved the previous book.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Yay! A Clash of Kings

[Sanskriti]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Yay! A Clash of Kings"


:)...how many books have you read so far?

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

All 5 that have been out.

[TMBookluvr]

currently reading A Game of Thrones, and You're Next, and listening to Chill of Fear (Fear, #2). Thats the one thing I hate about the library, all the books that you put on hold are available at the same time :-) good thing with audio though is that it allows to you "read" at times when you can't normally read, like when I'm driving. Get's me through a book much faster, but it has to be interesting.

[Abbey]

re. George RR Martin - I recently obtained an Overdrive audio library copy of the first in series, GAME OF THRONES, am looking forward to listeningto/reading it in bits and pieces during several doc's appts over the next couple of weeks, have wanted to read that series for *ages* but somehow never got around to it.

I just finished reading CAT TELLING TALES for review at reviewingtheevidence dot com, it's the newest by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Next up will be GONE WEST, Carola Dunn, (book to be published next week), and I received in the mail this morning REDEMPTION, Kate Flora, for review - it's her third Joe Burgess police procedural (Maine) and is due out in a couple of months.

Ahhh, such richness!!

[Anne (Booklady)]

I just finished The Sweetgum Knit Lit Societyfor Put Your Woolies On. Just started The first few pages are drawing me in, but alas I have to do laundry and cook me something to eat...I have been cleaning house today before I post my task and review of The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society.

[Michael]

House Lights by Leah Hager Cohen.

[Sue]

Reading The Third Secret in paperback, Affairs of Steak on the Kindle and still listening to I Heard That Song Before.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Finished reading "The Anthologist" by Nicholson Baker and starting "Beautiful Darkness"

[Sue]

Finished The Third Secret last night and started Dance Upon the Air this morning. Still have the other two going.

[TMBookluvr]

Abbey wrote: "re. George RR Martin - I recently obtained an Overdrive audio library copy of the first in series, GAME OF THRONES, am looking forward to listeningto/reading it in bits and pieces during several do..."

Thats how I got my copy. Overdrive frim my library but its kindle version. No TTS for this on. I have to try to finish it quickly or rereserve and continue when I can. Im about15% through with maybe 10 days left. Not gonna happen I dont think :( good so far though.

[Connie]

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe and The Soldier's Wife are next.

Loved Cutting for Stone, which I just finished.

[Dee]

I finished up When She Woke (Indiebound.org) last night and hope to finish up East of the West tonight (I have 2 short stories left in it)...then after reading my friends review of On the Island - i'm going to have to find a place to slot it in (maybe the 25 pointer with a warm place for the second part, since its set in the Maldives)

[Liora]

and

[Michael]

I just finished The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, I don`t even know what to say about that. It was a pretty overrated book, it was terrible to say the least. It started of great but ended in tragedy.

I am about to begin .