What are you reading? April 2011

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Wed April 20th, 2011, 2:43 pm

[QUOTE=Telynor;83856]I'm looking forward to the comments on that one...
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It is definitely Seamie and Willa's story, starts about eight years later. That's all I'll say for now.

Kasthu · Post by **Kasthu** » Wed April 20th, 2011, 10:27 pm

After reading a slew of depressing novels about middle-aged spinsters and mental illness, I'm back to HF for some comfort reading: The Falcons of Montabard. It's been on Mount TBR for nearly two years now!

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Wed April 20th, 2011, 11:22 pm

[quote=""Kasthu""]After reading a slew of depressing novels about middle-aged spinsters and mental illness, I'm back to HF for some comfort reading: The Falcons of Montabard. It's been on Mount TBR for nearly two years now![/quote]

Ooooh, Sabin

Berengaria · Post by **Berengaria** » Thu April 21st, 2011, 2:19 am

I am reading Michael Connelly's The Fifth WitnessEver since seeing the movie The Lincoln Lawyer, I've been rereading the novels that have Mickey Haller as the main character.
At least I'm trying to read! My daughter is getting married on the 29th, and though it's a very small and intimate affair, I'm getting soo excited!

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Thu April 21st, 2011, 2:27 am

[quote=""Berengaria""]
At least I'm trying to read! My daughter is getting married on the 29th, and though it's a very small and intimate affair, I'm getting soo excited!

[/quote]

Congrats! Was the 29th chosen cause of the Royal Wedding or was it planned long before W&K were engaged?

SM

javagirl · Post by **javagirl** » Thu April 21st, 2011, 4:02 am

[quote=""Berengaria""]I am reading Michael Connelly's The Fifth WitnessEver since seeing the movie The Lincoln Lawyer, I've been rereading the novels that have Mickey Haller as the main character.
[/quote]

I just finished The Lincoln Lawyer last Friday and then saw the movie Saturday. I enjoyed it so much that I too was very tempted to go right into his next Mickey Haller ones. Instead I decided (since the next one, The Brass Verdict, also has the Harry Bosch character and I've never read any of that series) to try the first of the Harry Bosch series. So I'm on "The Black Echo" now.

Other recent reads (since I haven't posted in a while) were:

Anya Seton - "Katherine" - very good! (My first time reading it or any Seton)

Brigid Pasulka - "A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True" which takes place in Poland, alternating between a family in WWII times and their granddaughter in contemporary times, after the fall of communism. Unlike the many reviewers whose reviews I read, I had a hard time really getting into it and stuck it out but overall wouldn't recommend it.

Ludmilla · Post by **Ludmilla** » Thu April 21st, 2011, 10:45 am

I quite liked Pasulka's book, but I guess it is like any other book and not for everyone.

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Thu April 21st, 2011, 3:59 pm

Finished Coalescent by Stephen Baxter. I found myself impatient with the modern SF part of the story, but quite enjoyed the historical part set during the 5C in Britain and Rome. Quite a good feeling for the fall of a civilization and how quickly (a generation or two) a city based economy can devolve to an agrarian one.

Currently reading Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende. So far, much better than the last couple of hers I read. Starting Goethe's Faust.

Berengaria · Post by **Berengaria** » Fri April 22nd, 2011, 12:24 am

[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Congrats! Was the 29th chosen cause of the Royal Wedding or was it planned long before W&K were engaged?

SM[/quote]
It just happened to work out that way....her man is from Brazil and the wedding had to figure with his travel times.....so that British wedding of some sort is happening at the same time as my darling daughter's nuptials!

Berengaria · Post by **Berengaria** » Fri April 22nd, 2011, 12:26 am

[quote=""javagirl""]I just finished The Lincoln Lawyer last Friday and then saw the movie Saturday. I enjoyed it so much that I too was very tempted to go right into his next Mickey Haller ones. Instead I decided (since the next one, The Brass Verdict, also has the Harry Bosch character and I've never read any of that series) to try the first of the Harry Bosch series. So I'm on "The Black Echo" now.

Other recent reads (since I haven't posted in a while) were:

Anya Seton - "Katherine" - very good! (My first time reading it or any Seton)

Brigid Pasulka - "A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True" which takes place in Poland, alternating between a family in WWII times and their granddaughter in contemporary times, after the fall of communism. Unlike the many reviewers whose reviews I read, I had a hard time really getting into it and stuck it out but overall wouldn't recommend it.[/quote]
You'll love the Bosch series! Do you remember the movie Bloodworkswith Clint Eastwood. Connelly wrote the book.