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Dee, the Insanity Check
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Dec 30, 2011 03:44PM
wow, its nearly 2012 already....so what are you guys reading going into the new year
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Finishing up The Snowman by Jo Nesbo, then moving on to The Paris Wife (local bookclub read) and The Known World (for my Pulitzer read of the month). Waiting to see which books are selected for Nordic Noir and Scandinavian crime fiction to round out my January list.
I am reading Anne Holt's 1222 and not enjoying it. It seems like a frivolous exercise to reproduce yet another closed room mystery whose narrator is confined to a wheelchair and tended by a midget medical man. Coy and with too much comment about how great it is to be a lesbian living with an ideal Muslim. Now that she's famous Holt gets to proselytize.
Finally finished The Snowman last night. I was worried about how it was going to end so I delayed it as long as I could. Now I'm switching off to The Known World, American historical fiction for a change of pace.
I'm so excited-I just gave in and bought Asa Larsson's Until Thy Wrath Be Past. I just love Rebecka Martinsson.
Ellie wrote: "I'm so excited-I just gave in and bought Asa Larsson's Until Thy Wrath Be Past. I just love Rebecka Martinsson."Now reading The Bomber by Liza Marklund.
I like Martinsson also, she is such an interesting character.
@Susan- 1222 got such good reviews in the Wall Street Journal, sorry to hear you didn't like it. I may still try it but I think I am getting sick of murder mysteries and killings- after I finish Nesbo's The Leopard I need a change!
@Dahlia-- I feel the same way especially after Leopard, 1222 & City & City. Amos Oz's Scenes from Village Life was a dazzling change.
Before I start the Asa Larsson, or Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers which I just bought :/, I've read/am finishing the following: Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, The Book of Job, The Art of Fielding, The Sense of an Ending and Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
Finished The Whisperer which I thought was outstanding. Also finished The Bomber and liked this one as well. Now reading a ARC of a book called When the Night and reading a historical called The Whip, which is based on a true story.
I'm reading Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George and Dragon House by John Shors and listening to Phantom Prey by John Sandford.
Now reading Silence and I read on the back that this is the third book in the series but only the second released in the US. I hate when they do that!
MARILYN wrote: "I'm reading Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George and Dragon House by John Shors and listening to Phantom Prey by [aut..."You know I am still waiting for this from my library..I am getting flustered enough that purchasing it is really looking good. I may ask them where I am on the list and go from there.
Reading an ARC of Bleed for Me and so love the character of Dr. Joe O'Loughlin who is a retired psychologist, dealing with Parkinson's disease, His novels are very psychologically intense.
Took a break for a little while with the mysteries but got a copy of Jo Nesbo's The Redeemer at last.
Finally finished The Known Worldand am now deep into Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Also plan to read The Leopard and Sun and Shadow as well as The Buddha in the Attic (for my bookclub). It's going to be a busy February!
Reading Raid and the Blackest Sheep by Harri Nykanen. It is a fast and enjoyable read. I thought that I would be finished with it by now, but life alwauys has a way of whittling away at reading time.
trying to get back into the swing of reading some NN since I kept getting distracted - i'm reading Mind's Eye
Just starting Cold Comfort: An Officer Gunnhildur Mystery. Has anyone else read this? Also reading The Rebel Wife and Pure.
haven't read Cold Comfort, but I read Frozen Assets last year
Just started Frozen Assets-how did you like it?
it was ok, but i'm not a total fan of financial crime books, so it was a bit hard for me to get completely invovled in it
Wasn't too fond of Cold Comfort either. Too many characters and several extremely slow spots. Like many other authors better.
Just finished Lucifer's Tears by James Thompson and am following it up with Helsinki White. Ordered The Phantom by Jo Nesbo from Amazon UK and am eagerly awaiting its release and arrival. Nesbo is one of my favorite authors ever!
I am reading The Night Swimmerright now and am very bored with it...Also, reading Second Glanceand boy is this book STUPID!!
Read Ice Moon and enjoyed it. Than read Silence and didn't like that one as much, and now reading the third just recently released The Winter of the Lions and this one is starting out much better.
Still reading The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten. I got distracted. I hope I don't have to re-read all I've read so far :(
Reading Night Rounds: A Detective Inspector Irene Huss Investigation, so Ellie we are both reading the same author. Also reading Gone Girl.
i picked up 1222 at the library the other day, first one by this author, although I did see it was fairly far into the series, have the rest just not been translated
Dee wrote: "i picked up 1222 at the library the other day, first one by this author, although I did see it was fairly far into the series, have the rest just not been translated"I don't believe so..Anne Holt is one of those authors which drive me crazy..publishers have her stuff all over the place on translation. I am starting to think that is why I can't get into her stuff.
i saw you gave it 3 stars...so we'll see ;)
my Helsinki White showed up today, so i'm reading Lucifer's Tears - since I refused to read it before HW came out because of some of the reviews I read...yeah, i'm naughty...lol!
I'm on line in my library system for Helsinki White but currently reading The Boy in the Suitcase and Headstone by Ken Bruen. Both are excellent and should get me through the week!
I am going to be starting Cell 8 later tonight. I came across a new author who is American, but her books are set in Finland. It is Available Dark: A Crime Novel. I am trying to hold off on this one because I am trying to get it to fit into a Women of Mystery April challenge!
Naomi wrote: "I am going to be starting Cell 8 later tonight. I came across a new author who is American, but her books are set in Finland. It is Available Dark: A Crime Novel. I am trying to hol..."Funny, we do it again. I am starting Available Dark: A Crime Novelnow. This character was in a previous book called Generation Loss.
Great..do I need to read it in order cuz I have some time to grab it?
Don't know because I have just started Available Dark though she does make some mention of her previous life.
I am a bit concerned now because the powers that be were calling Generation Loss a "fantasy" book. That just doesn't sound right, but the book didn't sound interesting to me AT ALL!
I just finished The Whisperer, a definite page turner.
Mary wrote: "I just finished The Whisperer, a definite page turner."Is that not a great book..He is going to be another author I stalk!
Reading
which is the start of a new series and also I believe a new author. Anyway it is very good, a character driven plot but the storyline is very good and I am liking the characters as well.
Diane wrote: "Reading which is the start of a new series and also I believe a new author. Anyway it is very good, a character driven plot but the storyline is very good and..."Glad to hear that it is good. I ordered a copy and should have it on Monday. Looking forward to reading it!
Finished Unwanted: A Novel gave it 4 stars. Now reading The Haunting of Maddy Clare and Yellow Crocus.
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