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.

[QualityBookReviews]

Alot of your replies have been wonderful, and what you are reading sounds great. I may have to check these out when I have finished with my TBR pile. Currently I am reading 13 Bullets A Vampire Tale by David Wellington, this is the first book in a terrifying new trilogy. I am hooked, it is like no other vampire story I have read, and I have read all of Anne Rice's books, and have read The Historian, and just finished Vrolok and this one does not compare, it offers up more blood, gore, and the description of the vampires in 13 Bullets have teeth like sharks, not just the two fangs, but all their teeth are jagged like razor blades. Here it is almost 2 am and I still cannot put this one down. I have to admit I get so drawn into the stories it is very hard for me to put them down, most demand to be finished.

I think this will be a great discussion to us all, we may find ourselves adding more to our TBR piles, making them grow larger and larger.

I must say goodnight now, and read another chapter and then head off to sleep.

[Angie]

Almost done with Sara Gran's DOPE - holy crap it's freakin' good. It's so good I'm reading for sheer pleasure, no nit-picking whatsoever. I almost don't want to finish it because I love the protag and I know it's gonna end bad, bad, bad for her. About half-way through Bill Cameron's lost dog. Got a great sense of humor & a nice dark ick thread running through it. Started PARANOID PARK, a YA thriller by Blake Nelson. Not so super impressed with this one, but I've never read a YA thriller, so maybe I'm just jaded. Next up is Victor Gischler's GUN MONKEYS. My hubby just finished it and loved it. He's not a big fan of contemporary crime fic., so when he really likes something & feels compelled to tell me about scenes from the book I know it's gonna be good.

[Julie Lewthwaite]

I loved DOPE too, and I would definitely recommend COME CLOSER if you haven't read it yet. It's beautifully written, very powerful and, for a reader, a rare treat. Enjoy!

[Marlina de Aragon]

I second that!! Come Closer is good stuff!

[Donna Moore]

You'll love GUN MONKEYS. It's a really great book, and has one of my favourite first lines of all time.

[Harry Hunsicker]

In a book full of great lines, that opening sentence is probably the best. GUN MONKEYS is one of my all-time favorite books.

[Angie]

Yeah, the hubster had to read the opening line to me, then went on & on about the laundromat scene & then...I told him to shut up so I could read it for myself.

Had to laugh - he had to go to NYC & I insisted he check out Mysterious. He didn't realize until he got home that the copy of GUN MONKEYS he'd picked up was signed. He didn't care much until he read it!

[Sunnie Gill]

Currently reading. HIDDEN DEPTHS - Ann Cleeves. Third in the Vera Stanhope series.
A boy found strangled to death in his bath, the water scattered with flowers. About 10 days later another body, that of a student teacher is found floating in a rockpool with flowers strewn on the water. Stanhope is trying to find a connection between the two victims that will leads to the identity of the killer.
In the words of Mr Burns . Egg-selent.

[Anne Brooke]

Am currently reading "The Interpretation of Murder" which is utterly wonderful! I'm hooked! It's very cleverly written.

(But I must admit to having to abandon Ken Bruen's "Priest", as I just couldn't hack it - sorry!!)

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[Sandra Scoppettone]

What couldn't you take about Priest?

[Angie]

You don't have to apologize, Anne! Still, I'm curious what made you put it down, too. Yeah, I'm an enormous Bruen fan, but I don't expect everyone to love his work (even though they should). No, seriously, what was it? Inquiring minds wanna know.

[Anne Brooke]

I think I just found it so jagged that I didn't really know what was going on, and I didn't care enough about the characters to find out. It was quite irritating. I think my husband got on better with it though!

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