# Whatcha readin' March (08) edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 29, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631 "2008-02-29T12:28:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631/161 "2008-03-31T22:23:35Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] I’m reading _Quicksilver_ by Neal Stephenson, but I might put it aside when [The Blood-Dimmed Tide](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670899968) by Rennie Airth arrives. It’s a sequel to _River of Darkness_. It’s a mystery set in England in 1932. [/QUOTE] I loved the Baroque Cycle, but it’s WORK to read…it’s huge, and it’s got about 4 million characters, historic mixed with fictional. I recommend, once you’ve actually finished the whole cycle, reading Necronomicon, if you haven’t yet…at least one surprising but familar character shows up in that one… I went to the library today to look for some S.M. Stirling (Dies the Fire and the Nantucket ones) but our downtown branch doesn’t have them. I’m going to have to reserve them from out-county branches. I did get some non-fiction science popularizations (the Walking With… books, though they didn’t have Walking With Dinosaurs itself) and _The American Language_ by H.L. Mencken (in an OLD edition…1948, I believe). Oh, and a book about Virginia ghosts. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631/162 "2008-03-31T23:09:35Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] I loved the Baroque Cycle, but it’s WORK to read…it’s huge, and it’s got about 4 million characters, historic mixed with fictional. [/QUOTE] That’s what I’ve heard. I ordered the other two books to give myself an incentive to keep going. The book is engaging, for sure. My big problem will be what to do with my book groups where we share our reads every month – instead of having five or six books to talk about, it’ll be Stephenson – probably until fall. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631/163 "2008-04-03T00:50:05Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] This weekend I finished Garnethill by Denise Mina (sending it to you today, **twickster** )! [/QUOTE] Got it today – with a really pretty handmade card! 'Twas perfect timing – I got home too late to go to the library, and I’ll finish my current book (_The Witch of Portobello,_ by Paulo Coelho) tomorrow. Thanks to both you and **Auntie Pam** – I’m looking forward to reading this! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631/164 "2008-04-03T01:40:28Z")
And when you’re finished, I’ll send you the second Garnethill book, which arrived today, courtesy of **Dung Beetle**! That’s assuming you like the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631/165 "2008-04-03T18:00:49Z")
As for me, I’ve just started on the second book **AuntiePam** sent, Berserk by Tim Lebbon. From the cover, it doesn’t look like the kind of horror novel I usually read, but I’ll give it a go. I can’t promise I won’t freak out and quit in the middle if it gets too gory, though! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631/166 "2008-04-03T18:19:45Z")
I suspect it’s gonna be gory. I like Lebbon’s short, weird westerns, but the one novel I tried (Dusk) was way too bloody for me, right from the start. I won’t be insulted if you don’t like it. 🙂 I’m about halfway through _Exile_, the second Garnethill book. Maureen is at it again – investigating a crime and running into dangerous people. When I get bored I pop in a DVD or work on a quilt. I don’t go looking for trouble! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631/167 "2008-04-04T02:39:52Z")
" A Wedding in December" by Anita Shreve. Excellent so far… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631/168 "2008-04-04T03:04:01Z")
Psst: April thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9636527#post9636527) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-march-08-edition/439631.md?page=8)