What are you currently reading?

[QualityBookReviews]

An open discussion on what everyone is currently reading. Make recommendations to others, discuss what is new, hot, bestsellers, anything and everything related to books and the authors.

[mike D]

I am another of those people that have several books going at the same time...

currently:

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte---I have just started this so have no opinion, although I hear its excellent.

Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud, its a translation, and sort of along the Arcane Knowledge/Ecclesiastical mystery vein, but it is pretty good so far, and I am half way through.

I also have about six others in various genres sitting on a shelf just begging to be picked up.

[Linda Lee]

Just finished Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain and i loved it. Be interesting to see what she has in store for Archie in the next book. Would make a very interesting movie, loads of visual effects and nasties to shut my eyes at!

[Margot Renne Payne]

I agree! I was very impressed with her debut.

[Linda L. Richards]

I'm currently re-reading a Raymond Chandler anthology called The Simple Art of Murder, featuring his essay of the same name and several short stories. This stuff is soul music to me. I'm reading slowing, re-reading generously, and savoring every word.

Ian Rankin's Exit Music waltzed in the door over the last week or so. That's up next.

[Shannon Chenoweth]

About to start reading Lisa Unger's "Beautiful Lie" tonight. Can't wait, it looks great.

[I. J. Parker]

Arnaldur Indridason's VOICES. Icelandic police procedural that is well above average. (Thank God. Everything else has been disappointing lately). Should add that his JAR CITY was also very good.
Oh, as an afterthought, I have McBain's FAT OLLIE'S BOOK in audio in the car. It's simple. Very simple, and I can't keep my mind on it. Just don't like McBain, I guess.

[Jacki]

I have just taken out the bookcase The Mystery of the Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume an Australian Mystery first published in 1886 and set in Melbourne.

For anyone interested it is available online or as an ebook at

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/hume/fergus/h93my/

Courtesy of the Adelaide University Library

[Margot Renne Payne]

Just started Spook Country by William Gibson--only 3 pages in.

And just finished Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl. Fantastic book! Pessl is amazingly well-read and her book is brilliant. The chapters are structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class -- there's even a final at the end!

[mike D]

I have not read No Country for Old Men...everyone keeps talking about it, so I plan to pick it up today.

[George Wilder Jr.]

At the moment, while working hard on my own manuscripts, I reading a Stuart Woods novel, Fresh Disasters. I'm becoming addicted to his main character, Stone Barrington.

[Margot Renne Payne]

What did you think of Spook Country? I had a hard time getting into it and was also reading The Collected Stories, by Amy Hempel. Her short stories are brilliant! So, I put Spook Country aside (for when I'm more in the mood, I guess) and read Hempel's stories straight through.

[Johnny Ostentatious]

Christianna Brand's GREEN FOR DANGER. I'm mainly reading it for the Britian blitz factor.