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The holidays are now history so is everyone finding time to settle down with a good book?

I'm reading Ann Patchett's STATE OF WONDER and am finding it a page-turner. Nothing like a trip to the Amazon jungle to pique my interest.  Also medical research intigue which fascinates me. Loved Patchett's BEL CANTO and this is just as good!

Douglas Preston's TWO GRAVES is enroute to library for me.

What are you reading now???????

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Perri, I started reading Gone Girl and quit reading it just as you are thinking of doing.   II may have had value for others, but not for me.

I also closed the book on Gone Girl...  I thought I was the only one who didn't care for it... uninteresting and vulgar.

I am reading Girl with the Dragon Tatoo - just started and I am really liking it.  Reading Defending Jacob and also the Last  Precint.  How is that for a mixture?   Going to start a Bruce Catton - Civil War book to get a little history in when I finish one of the these I am presently reading.  Sure love all the great books you guys are listing here.  I hope I live long enough to finish at least half my lists.  LOL

In addition to the non-fiction The Hidden Reality I mentioned above, I just started Lullaby by Ace Atkins.  The interesting part is that it is a Spencer novel, featuring the character that Robert Parker developed over the years in his many crime stories.  And last month I read Killing the Blues by Michael Brandman, which used Jesse Stone, another of Parker’s characters.  Brandman adopts the style used by Parker, and, to me at least, is quite successful in his effort.  I am only a few pages into Lullaby, but Atkins seems to have adopted Parker's style pretty well, too.  

So for Robert Parker mystery lovers-and I am one-Spencer and Jesse Stone have arisen, although probably only briefly, from the dead.  

I'm listening to Bad Little Falls and enjoying it so much!  Sort of reminds me of the writer who does the former cop in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan location -this Hero is a Game Warden in Maine who finds his way into all sorts of trouble.  Writing is so good - great for Wintertime connecting! LOL  

I love the Alex MCKnight series by Steve Hamilton.  I think that is the one you are refering to MLO... I will be sure to try this series but I will start with #1 which is The Poacher's Son.

 

If you like that type of book, you might also like the Joe Picket series by C.J. Box and the Cork O'Conner series by William Kent Krueger...  check them all out at http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

start at the beginning with Cork, Lynn, as there is a family relationship that continues through the books...  one of my favorite series... http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/william-kent-krueger/

Also try Nevada Barr - she is a ranger in various places and I think you will like her style of writing.  I loved the C.J. Box and Wm. Kent Krueger series.  So many good books here to read, makes me glad it is winter.

If you want to read the #1 book on the USA Today listing, it is available from Amazon for under $4.  http://www.amazon.com/Safe-Haven-Nicholas-Sparks/dp/0446547573  I understand they are making a movie of the book. 

I just finished Die a Stranger by Steve Hamilton; very good, the last sentence of the book was the best last sentence I think I've ever seen (and the whole book was great too, of course ;-).  Just started The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt & Mike Resnick, only on about page 10 but loving it so far.  Thank goodness for books!

I remember reading that book and thinking the same thing about the last sentence...  but I forgot what the sentence was... drat! Do you still have the book to post the sentence?

Carci - I listened to that book also...LOL - was trying to remember the last sentence - would it be a "spoiler?"

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