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.

[I. J. Parker]

John Harvey is great.

[doug anderson]

I love John Harvey. I will have read all of the novels soon. I guess I'll have to read them all again.

[Harley Sachs]

I'm reading "America Alone" which shows how demographics will change the world to a world-wide Islamic empire. Russia, Italy, Germany, and Spain have aging populations no longer able to maintain their numbers because of low birth rates. The old Soviet Union in particular has a decling life expectancy, major health problems, and is losing population fast. The replacement populations because of very high fecundity among Moslem women will proeudce Moslem majorities in those countries soon, with a consequent adoption of Sharia law. The USA still has a high enough birth rate to maintain current populations, chiefly among Hispanics who have large families. In the next generation or two the US white populastion with be a minority. These are simple facts that have nothing to do with racism, but the cultural changes that are taking place are profound.
The only group that matches or exceeds Moslem family growth is the Haredi, the ultra orthodox Jews in ISrael who gfenerally have ten kids.

If you want to listen to any of my audio books in mp3 format, they are now available world wide. Visit Audible.com (US) or the Listening Zone (UK). For ldetails see my web site www.hu.mtu.edu/~hlsachs.

[Don Lee]

I just finished Nate Flexer's THE DISASSEMBLED MAN, which I thought was hilarious and grim -- remember the first time you watched "Pulp Fiction" and kept laughing at the most awful stuff going on on the screen? Like that. Right now reading WINTER'S BONE by Daniel Woodrell, and WILD TO POSSESS by Gil Brewer.

[Joy Calderwood]

LOCKED IN by Marcia Muller. I just intended to sample it as I settled in for the night, but ended up finishing it at 1:30 AM. Emotionally involving. There was one spot where I was laughing and crying at the same time.

Sharon McCone, free spirited owner of a San Francisco detective agency, is shot in the head. A bullet at the base of her brain leaves her paralyzed but fully conscious. Her crew rallies around, forced to solve several murders to find Sharon's assailant, with Sharon still the center of their teamwork.

[Harley Sachs]

I'm taking a break from the heavy stuff and re-reading a book of Gary Larson'sartoons. I've been busy preparing my mp3 audiobook tracks for world wide distribution. I have fourteen titles, tghe majority mysteries. Audible.com has a couple of the. Thelearningzone (UK) has most, and a Canadian vendor has the entire list. It is a plodding, tedious job, but the culmination of 20 years of work.

[Joy Calderwood]

I went back to the first Sharon McCone, EDWIN OF THE IRON SHOES. It's hard to believe it's the beginning, Marcia Muller's first novel according to her website, because the writing and Sharon are both maturely developed. Muller relies on her characters from the start, instead of on fear and fireworks. (Both exist, but as support for the plot, not as sensationalism.)

Moving on to the 2nd, ASK THE CARDS A QUESTION. I'm uncertain whether I'll go right on to the 3rd, THE CHESHIRE CAT'S EYES, because that cover says Sharon becomes the suspect. That type of plot always seems to me to be cheap sensationalism. Cheap because it requires no legitimate skill to upset the reader.