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.

[Beth Walker]

I'm in the last 100 pages of Back Bay by Willaim Martin and just started The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury. My third bookmark is still in The Deepest Part of the Woods by Ramsey Campbell, Also re-reading The Old Fox Deceived by Martha Grimes. I'm one of those who keeps serveral books going, too. I do get around to finishing all these reads. The last book I read was The Seventh Scroll by Willbur Smith.

[Bill Cameron]

I love to go back in time like this. Sure, we never run out of new stuff to read, but sometimes you just have to return to the classics, whether for a re-read or for the first time.

[Graham Powell]

I'm on a time-travelling trip as well - I just finished JEOPARDY IS MY JOB, a Chester Drum book by Stephen Marlowe. Terrible title, but a pretty decent book.

Before that it was THE WATCHMAN by Crais, which was pretty good but had too high a body count for my taste, and before that it was THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PERFECT CRIMES AND IMPOSSIBLE MYSTERIES, edited by Mike Ashley. I'm a sucker for locked room mysteries.

[norby]

Taking a break from mysteries to read The Terror by Dan Simmons. Two steamships locked in ice in the Arctic Circle with a something slowly killing off their men. Their coal is nearly gone, their tinned food, sold to the Crown by a scam artist, is mostly putrid, and the weather shows no signs of warming up any time soon.

This book is huge, I can't begin to imagine what all is going to happen, but I haven't been disappointed so far and I'm not quite halfway through.

I'v never been able to read more than one book at a time, my mind gets too focused on what's going on in the one. I find swtiching back and forth too distracting.

[Harry Hunsicker]

I've so been wanting to buy that book, but the size has stopped me. Glad to know you like it. I may have to give in. The premise sounds fascinating.

[Stephen Blackmoore]

I've been hearing a lot of good things about that one. let us know how you like it when you hit the end.

[norby]

Sadly, no tentacles. I agree, that would have been cool. But there is, well, I don't want to give it away.

The men are starting to go a little fear crazy-think about it-no sunlight, trapped on an old wooden steamship in temperatures that hover in between 0 and -25 deg F? With something hunting you?

[Barbara Fister]

Carol O'Connell's FIND ME. Damn, she can write. And she's so weird. In a good way.

I liked Sara Gran's book, too - but the ending, yikes.

[Stephen Blackmoore]

I usually have at least two books going on at a time. Started Sandra Ruttan's "Suspicious Circumstances" the other day, and Marc Lecard's "Vinnie's Head" last night. Enjoying both a great deal.

[Sandra Ruttan]

Awww, now I feel warm and fuzzy.

[M.G. Tarquini]

I'm currently reading Bill Cameron's 'Lost Dog' and getting a kick out of it. Bill's got some interesting phrasing. One, referring to a gopher's nether regions, kind of did me in. Plus, Bill's got a schtick a few chapters in about Suzanne Somer's electro-face tightener. I own one, and it works and I'm glad Bill reminded me I own one because I've been looking at my face lately and I think I ought to dig it out of the closet again.

[Bill Cameron]

I have to see it when I come to Phoenix! And try it out too!