Oops, one more completed:
**Mammoth Book of True Murder **by Richard Glyn Jones ~ the editing was HORRIBLE, not that the rest of the book was much better…
Started on The Postman, by David Brin.
Had I recommended Thomas Berger’s Arthur Rex to you? A great retelling of Arthurian legend, slightly tongue in cheek but very readable and fun. One of my favorite books.
Also, if you like Buffalo Bill, check out Eiffel’s Tower by Jill Jonnes, which has a lot about him and Annie Oakley visiting the great Paris Exhibition of 1889.
Just finished *Eleanor and Abel: A Romance *by Annette Sanford.
It was a very quick read - about 218 pages. It’s about the romance of a 70 year old spinster by a 69 year old drifter. I’m trying to get my finger on what made it so interesting - it wasn’t prone to great descriptive passages or highly dramatic turns - it was such a tightly drawn little vignette that you felt the impact of every bump and had a subconscious understanding of what Eleanor was feeling without her telling you in great descriptive detail.
I’d love to find someone else who read it and discuss it with them.
Yes you did and I put it on my Amazon wishlist/storage list last month. I just found a copy on AbeBooks for a buck and ordered it. I’m going to be Arthured out for a bit though.
Oooh, thanks! I just passed that part in the book too. Added to the list! (I may have to move to Wyoming now, this book is wonderful!)
I will be home in two weeks and so made my semi-annual Amazon order. (I read a lot of Kindle books nowadays, so I have to order fewer pulp editions.)
Bird by Andrew Zuckerman
Creature by Andrew Zuckerman
Have you seen this guy’s photographs? Stunning!
Heh, my favorite by Palliser was an obscure little book called Betrayals, which is perhaps the most fiendishly clever satire on literary theory ever written. Wonderfully twisted and evil. 
Didn’t read the whole thing, but enjoyed several parts of Daphne Du Maurier’s The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories. It includes her essay on how she wrote the novel, her working notes on the first draft, and the omitted epilogue. There’s also an interesting essay on Menabilly, the broken-down Cornwall estate which inspired Manderley, and several short stories from various points in her career.
I finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Steig Larsson. The first half of the book seemed a little slow, but it really picked up at the end. There was a point when I was contemplating calling in sick to work so I could finish reading the book.
I’m in the middle of The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, by pulp-crime writer Charlie Huston. It’s about a down-on-his-luck guy who is hired by a crime scene clean-up company… and I assume, based on Huston’s past books, he will end up in the wrong place at the wrong time and find himself way over his head. Huston is predictable, but in a fun way.
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Devil’s Garden by Ace Atkins, novelization of the Roscoe Arbuckle trial of 1921 and the defense investigation by Sam Hammett, later known as Dashiell. I previously read his Wicked City, which was excellent but so perverse I almost couldn’t get through it.
Started a new audiobook today: Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher. It’s a YA novel about a boy who receives a box of cassette tapes, sent to him by a classmate who committed suicide.
Picked up some interesting books over the weekend
– What do you do with a Drunken Sailor: Unexpurgated Sea Chanties by Douglas Morgan. Find out the real words to “Blow the Man Down”
–The Begum’s Millions by Jules Verne, translated by Stanford Luve (2005) – I’d read the “Fitzroy” translation of this years ago. One of a recent line of re-translated Verne. Lots of purists hate the ARCO/Fitzroy edition translations. This is supposed to be superior.
Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith. I finally read Hyperborea a while back, and didn’t realize he had other series. This is the first time I’ve seen this one.
Volume 9 of Girl Genius --The latest hard-copy of Phil Foglio’s epic.
I’ve finished two of these already, and am worki ng on the others.
Finished The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. Freakin’ awesome.
Something happened toward the end that shocked me, in a “why would he do that?!” way. Thought about it for a minute and realized that it was totally in character, and then realized that all through the book, Mitchell’s characters behaved according to their character. That doesn’t mean they were predictable – it just means they didn’t go out of character to move the plot.
Great book.
I’ve finally (five years later) gotten around to reading Collapse by Jared Diamond. Also last week I re-read the entire Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, just for fun.
I enjoyed The Bohemian Girl by Kenneth Cameron, so now I’m reading the first book in that series, The Frightened Man, about a Ripperesque killer in 1900 London.
I just picked this up, and cant wait to get started, but I have to finish Kraken first.
It may be a no sleep weekend in the Lebeef house this weekend.
Heh, I’m reading the same books in the same order!
Finished David Brin’s The Postman. Very good post-apocalypse tale.
I’m smack dab in the middle of Justin Cronin’s The Passage and loving it.
Earlier this month, I started reading Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Lucifer’s Hammer (per it being touted here on the SDMB), and I found the writing as wooden as the trees right outside my front window and as amateurish as that of a high school sophomore’s, so I didn’t finish it (in fact, I practically threw it down in disgust).