Which book are you currently reading?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Also outstanding...The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson.

Randi introduced me to these and now they are available in the US everywhere. He is Swedish - or should say was as he had a heart attack right after he finished the third one - which is not yet available in English.

I can't wait until it is!

[pomtzu]

I'm a Stephen King addict too. I used to devour anything he wrote!

I just started Adrift by Steven Callahan - a true account of 76 days lost at sea.

Finished Dan's (Willow Oak) book - Critter Chronicles a couple of weeks ago on my long train ride on vacation.

[phesina]

Also outstanding...The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson.

Randi introduced me to these and now they are available in the US everywhere. He is Swedish - or should say was as he had a heart attack right after he finished the third one - which is not yet available in English.

I can't wait until it is!

I'm reading The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson right now. I read the previous one a few months back.

I have in the last couple of years discovered many fine Scandinavian writers of mysteries! .. Henning Mankell, Karin Fossum, Asa Larsson, Inger Frimansson, to name a few. A mystery bookstore in Ann Arbor has a Scandinavian section, and that's the first place I look when I go in there.

Plus, in the last year I've discovered James Ellroy and his L.A. Noir mysteries.

And lately I've been re-reading some of Elmore Leonard's Detroit Noir (? ) mysteries.

Kirsten, after you brought up a 1990 book called Freeze Frame by Marjorie Dorner (http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=154795), I got that from amazon.com and have just finished it. Don't the times change so quickly! (Why, back when I was a girl... we got our e-mail through tin cans attached to strings.. )

[RICHARD]

I'm a Stephen King addict too. I used to devour anything he wrote!

I just started Adrift by Steven Callahan - a true account of 76 days lost at sea.

Rock the boat, don't rock the boat, baby!

You will be able to fix a water still after you finish!

[lizbud]

Have you read many by Stephen King? I read Christine and Fire Starter (loved that one), but I'm really not into that type of book. Started one by Dean Koontz once - lasted only 2 chapters.

Anyway, one by Stephen King that I loved is Faithful. He wrote it with Stewart O'Nan. It is their account of a year spent watching the Boston Red Sox games - in person. They just happened to pick the year 2004 - never suspecting that that would be the year

I used to work at a 24/7 data center. When I worked midnight till 8 am
I needed to read to stay awake. Stephen King will do that.LOL. I've
read a lot of his books. I read "Needful Things" and Tommyknockers and
"the Stand". That's all I can remember right now.

[Kirsten]

A co-worker of mine is a huge fan of Stieg Larsson! Guess I'm going to read one of his books.

Got another book today, written by a German author who writes under the pseudonyme of "Ricarda Jordan". The book hasn't been translated into English yet, it's called "Die Pestärztin", which you can translate as "The plague doctor". It's about a woman who's working as a healer in times of the "Black Death" which hit Europe hard in the 14th century. I love these medieval tales, and I've always been sort of fascinated by the plague, so I hope I'm going to like the book.

But at first, I have to finish "The Final Days", of course, which is fascinating, but disturbing at the same time.

Kirsten

[jennielynn1970]

Hmmmmm.... so many interesting titles!!! This Steig Larsson sounds like something I'd like to check out.


I'm reading a young adult novel, called Lock and Key, by Sarah Dessen. She's one of my faves for young adults. I read all of her other books, but this one is dragging for me a bit. Either that or I'm just having issues concentrating.

[Casper]

I picked up When You Are Engulphed in Flames by David Sedaris a long time ago and just recently began reading it. Just like all of his other books, I am not dissapointed.

[jennielynn1970]

I picked up When You Are Engulphed in Flames by David Sedaris a long time ago and just recently began reading it. Just like all of his other books, I am not dissapointed.

I love Dave Sedaris. Did you read "Me Talk Pretty One Day" ? His humor in it is just perfect.

[lizbud]

I picked up When You Are Engulphed in Flames by David Sedaris a long time ago and just recently began reading it. Just like all of his other books, I am not dissapointed.

That's the book I want to read next.

[Catherinedana]

I love Dave Sedaris. Did you read "Me Talk Pretty One Day" ? His humor in it is just perfect.

I have his books on tape, with him reading them. It makes it that much more of a fabulous experience. Some of his earlier, less polished, more sarcastic stuff gets on my nerves a bit, but "Me Talk Pretty .. .", "Naked", "Dress Your Family. . ." and "When you Are Engulfed. . ." are incredible works. He has a very brilliant and unusual mind (he's a sick puppy!)

[Sonia59]

A co-worker of mine is a huge fan of Stieg Larsson! Guess I'm going to read one of his books.
Kirsten

I did not know about it until recently. My partner asked me to pick it up for him at the public library, and when he finished it, I read it too. I am at part I now, but I will definitely read the next parts. It is very easy to read and I can hardly stop when I start.

[Randi]

OK, I'm going to admit it... I haven't read any of Stieg Larsson's books yet. I was busy trying to find more by Sue Grafton, which Sara sent me some of. The library have them - at least some of them - then I spotted Sophie Kinsella's books there.

I guess I'm like Catnapper; I like to read light and fluffy mysteries before I sleep. At the moment I'm reading some of Sophie Kinsella's "Shopaholics" books. You can take them to the park, since you don't have to concentrate that much.

However, I'm also reading "Surely you're joking" by Richard P. Feynman, which I digged out from John's boxes.

Another good Scandinavian author is Per Olav Engquist - check those out!

Have any of you read "Curiousity killed the catsitter"? I quite enjoyed that!

[Kirsten]

Well, I have to admit that I've been disgusted yesterday by the chapter I read last night in my current book, "The Final Days". It described an awful case of animal abuse, done to a cat, really sad. My heart was bleeding when I finished that chapter. I know that animals being killed by psychopaths is often a stylistic device in thrillers, but it's always breaking my heart!

Kirsten

[Casper]

I love Dave Sedaris. Did you read "Me Talk Pretty One Day" ? His humor in it is just perfect.

I sure did. I believe it was the first book of his that I read. I don't see how anyone can read that book and not go back for more.