I’m reading this right now too, and I also quite like it. I didn’t know the author had died…
Going to start The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen, which came out in the spring but I’m just getting around to it.
Finished *The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) *the third book in the series. I am enjoying the series and hope that he brings it to a satisfying conclusion.
I have started Dark and Stormy Knights a collection of short stories. I finished the first one by Ilona Andrews, which gave a little back story to one of Andrew’s recurring minor characters. The afterward to this story revealed (as does their Amazon page) that Ilona Andrews is actually two people, a husband/wife team, something I did not know.
Eeeekkk…are you me? I’m a third into ‘Matter’ with David Mitchell lined up next…:eek::eek:
Apparently Jo Nesbo is the next Stieg Larsson (except of course that he’s alive)
If he dies of a heart attack at age 50, he really will be. Oh, look, I see he recently turned 50. Ominous Chord
I’m of the opinion you simply can’t go wrong with David Mitchell. I totally enjoyed Jacob de Zoet (though I still think his best was Cloud Atlas - one of those very few books that blew me away sufficiently as to go beyond envy of the author - as in, ‘no, I can’t see myself, if I devoted myself to writing fiction my whole life, ever being capable of writing this’. 
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I just started Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. I was a huge fan of Tigana and a Song for Arbonne, so I hope this one compares. So far, it’s pretty intriguing.
I usually keep my Good Reads list up to date with what I’ve read!
I’ve been rereading The Winds of War by Herman Wouk. I first read it back when I was in high school so it’s been a few years but it still holds up.
And I’ve been reading Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea by Richard Kluger, which I’m not too impressed by. The author seems to feel he needs to beat you over the head with his editorializing.
eta: I was just looking in Wikipedia to see how long ago Wouk had died. Turns out he’s still alive. Sorry about that, Herman.
I just finished Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon, a compendium of deaths in the great national park. The authors, both wilderness guides and white water rafting guides know their park and its history. The book is broken down into chapters on drowning, falls from great heights and other forms of nastiness and concludes with suicides and murders. Despite its almost scholarly descriptions it is actually witty and entertainig.
I read the first of Jim Butcher’s Dresden File books, Storm Front, about a year before the TV show. I found it a very slow read and didn’t pick up the second book until this year. Wow, the pacing got markly better after that! I finished the eighth book, Proven Guilty, today, and picked up book nine, White Knight, at the library this afternoon. I’m not sure what I think about him being involved with the fallen angel, it reminds me an awful lot of what Rachel and the demons in Kim Harris’ Hollows series have done. However, the first Dresden book with the fallen angel helping him, and the first Hollows book with Rachel reluctantly working with a demon both came out in 2005, so I guess two authors had similar ideas at the same time.
He’s still alive? I thought he died in the 80’s. Wow.
I wonder if this is by the same people who did Death in Yellowstone. It was fascinating.
I’ve finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Very interesting, but I’m a little disappointed that the author wasn’t able to uncover more information about Henrietta’s life.
Sadly, I’m dumping Matterhorn by Karl Malantes. I’m sure it’s a great book – koeeoaddi loved it – but it’s not what I expected. It reads almost like a journal. The detailed descriptions do make me feel like I’m there, but I expected something more literary, I guess. Maybe it’s time to read The Things They Carried.
Next up is The House at Riverton by Kate Morton.
My copy died a hero’s death but I seem to recall that the author of Death in Yellowstone was either a Yellowstone ranger or ex-ranger. GREAT book and highly recommended, especially the parts where he discusses the laws put in place to keep these parks as pristine as possible and keep them safe from sue-happy tourists who get hurt while doing intelligent things such as putting their toddlers on bison for photo opportunities and who then whine that there weren’t any warning signs stapled onto the bison to prevent them from doing so.
Death in Grand Canyon has been on my wish list for ages.
Right now I’m reading Scott Turow’s Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty, a very interesting, thoughtful, non-polemical book about the author’s service on an Illinois state commission that looked very hard at the state’s system of capital punishment.
Michael Moorcock and Walter Simonson’s Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer, a pretty good graphic novel about the conflicted albino mythic warrior-king Elric’s rise to the throne.
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Currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora. Also finished Mockingjay and Unwind recently. The former was really good, much more of an anti-war book than the dystopian fiction angle the trilogy started out on, and the latter was decent but based on a totally gruesome and creepy premise.
I probably won’t be reading anything serious for a while, at least not until Accounting is over.
Finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. Excellent right up to the end. But we still can’t see the movie, which is still playing in Bangkok at the art-movie house, because the wife has yet to read it. Now I’m going to embark upon the second of his Millennium Trilogy of crime novels, The Girl Who Played with Fire.
Oh, I meant to ask those of you who have also read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a question. There is something I did not quite get:
I know Mikael’s daughter is a big Bible freak, but how on Earth did she merely look at those numbers and think: ‘Leviticus!’ I’m not much of a Bible scholar myself, but is it really all that noticeable for one who is? Especially with those names listed next to the numbers, making them really look like phone numbers?
I didn’t get that either. Good book, though. I’m right there with you, just starting The Girl Who Played With Fire.
Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das.
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick. Historical fiction set during the reign of Henry the II, sans bodice ripping (so far).