What books are you into recently?

I was browsing in a charity shop and came across a book by Bernard Knight. He used to be a Home Office coroner and has taken up writing about a fictional coroner set in Medieval times. I thoroughly enjoyed it and this is another author I shall be looking out for.
 

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I've read almost all of JD Robb{aka Nora Roberts} 'In Death" series,love these books
I'm reading her latest in paperback'Vendetta In Death'
A couple of books I've recently read:
Unsheltered- Barbara Kingslover
Standing in the Rainbow-Fannie Flagg
My Days: Happy& Otherwise- Marion Ross memoir,fascinating.I didn't know she had a movie career before she became well known as "Mrs Cunningham' on ABC sitcom'Happy Days' '74-'84
A Column of Fire-Ken Follett
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Found a Cozy Mystery Series, "Drew Farthering Mysteries" by Julianna Deering that are perfect for curling up with a cuppa and a purring cat =)
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When I saw the name "Drew", it reminded me of the Nancy Drew mysteries that were very popular when I was a child. My cousin, who lived next door, had the whole series and she enjoyed them.
The series that I read at that time was "The Hardy Boys". Both were in the same vane -- mysteries solved by teen-agers. If any of we boys were caught with a "Nancy" book we'd have been tarred and feathered by the other guys.šŸ˜‘

A different age and time.
 

Just got the new Preston Douglas & Lincoln Child new mystery...we preorder each new one so its automatically sent to us.
Don't you love it when you discover a new author? Its like finding a new "best" friend!
 
We're finishing up some bookcases to add to the continuing extemsove library now and have collected books for most of our long married life. Just love being around books. So enjoy sitting by the fire in winter with a good book, surrounded by other good books. Folks come over and I can always tell if they are readers, because its a "wow" and they head straight for the books, always leaving with one under their arms. Ain't life great for a bookworm!
 
Autumn, did not know there was a movie, interested, so will look it up.

Just finished another of her books, Silent Honor, which again I liked. Steele obviously does a lot of research on the subject which makes for a good history lesson in addition to a good read. She seems spot on with facts.
 
Iā€™ve just read the first in a series of seven books called ā€˜The Seven sistersā€™ By Lucinda Riley, about seven girls adopted by a rich benefactor, each book about their individual backgrounds and how they came to be adopted, the seventh book is due out this year, thatā€™s my reading sorted for the summer
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I usually read two books at the same time - one fiction, one nonfiction. I keep a running file of "summaries" of all the books I read and post them on FB for my book reading friends so they can see whether they would like to read them or not.

My current reads are: How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett (nonfiction) and The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg (a fictionalized account of George Sand).

I love mysteries and cut my teeth on Agatha Christie - some current mystery writers I like include Louise Penny, Tana French, Lawrence Block, Dennis LeHane, and Kimberly Chambers.

Like many that have commented, I've read tons of books of true crime and forensics as well as all of the Kathy Reich's series of the fictionalized forensics cases.

Since I was born way back in the mountains in southeastern KY, I'm intrigued by stories set in Appalachia. Some of my favorite authors of this genre are Sharyn McCrumb and Lee Smith. One of the reasons is they are among the very few who get the dialect correct. I can't stand books that mess up the dialect because they feel like an uncomfortable assault on my mother.

My nonfictions range from politics (love Peter Schweizer and Sharyl Attkisson's work) to behavioral economics, to brain research, to sociology/psychology, and, of course, history.
 
I'm currently reading a fantasy series called "The Inheritance Cycle" by Christoper Paolini (4 Books)
Christoper has done a wonderful job creating a rich world with interesting characters.
 
I just got about a third of the way through a huge book by an author who quite fancies himself another Stephen King (and admits it) but who definitely isn't. He's one of those authors who has a basically good story that could be told quite well in 250 pages but stretches it to 900. I want to shout at him, "C'mon, man, GET ON WITH IT!!!"

I skipped to the end and sure 'nuff, he doesn't explain anything about what's going on. Just leaves you hanging. I just saved myself about 600 pages of slogging through cold mud.
 
Those that read are interesting people to talk to, they have a wide range
of topics they can discuss intelligently (you ever notice that?).
 
jujube said:
I just got about a third of the way through a huge book by an author who quite fancies himself another Stephen King (and admits it) but who definitely isn't. He's one of those authors who has a basically good story that could be told quite well in 250 pages but stretches it to 900. I want to shout at him, "C'mon, man, GET ON WITH IT!!!"

I skipped to the end and sure 'nuff, he doesn't explain anything about what's going on. Just leaves you hanging. I just saved myself about 600 pages of slogging through cold mud.
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I'm currently slogging through King's Mr. Mercedes and it is torture. Blah, blah, blah; this story could have been told in 200 pages but Stephen "Let's see how many pages I can drag this out" King makes it painful to read. I believe this will be my very last Stephen King book; buh-bye.

I have purchased three books by Pulitzer winner Richard Russo and I can't wait to ditch King and get started on those.
 
The Little Disturbances of Man, short stories by Grace Paley. Reminds me of Damon Runyan. Not usually into short stories, but will make an exception for this one.
 
I just finished reading'The Watergate Girl' by Jill Wine-Banks which I found fascinating
I know who she is, but didn't realize what her job was during the Watergate Scandal.The late Archibald Cox hired her,she was the only female lawyer who helped prosecute high ranking White House officials.She cross examined Nixon's long time sec,Rosemary Woods, asking about the 'infamous 18 min 'gap tape,John Dean,White House counsel among others
In her varied career,she held jobs as general counsel for U.S. Army,CEO of American Bar Assoc.She now is a legal analyst on MSNBC
 
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