Lost Light by Michael Connelly.

to Lost Light. It has an interesting ending.

I am in the middle of Blood and Bone by Austin S. Camacho.

I finished The Cellar by Richard Laymon last week and I think a Douglas Clegg or Bentley Little book is up next.

Soissons, 1918
The Three Musketeers
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Finished Blood and Bone. Not bad.

Up to Michael Slade's Hangman. I'm really getting into this one.

Finished Thomas Perry's The Face-Changers last night - not the best in the Jane Whitefield series, but good nonetheless.

Next up, I am going to finish off the series (thus far) with Perry's Blood Money.

Just finished:

Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

Now reading:

Lamb: The gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal by Christopher Moore

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

T2: Rising Storm by S M Stirling

If you like the Terminator films read this and The Infiltrator.

Just finished
Dragon Moon by Alan F Troop, sequel to Dragon DelaSangre both very good and I can't wait for the next one.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
both very good and reminds me of Laurrell K Hamilton's Anita Blake

Just finished
Star Wars:The Approaching Storm

I just finished the fourth book in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. The series consists of: Storm Front, Full Moon, Grave Peril, and Summer Knight. There is a fifth on the way, looks like August of this year, called Death Masks. The series is about a private investigator who is a wizard and is set in Chicago of the present/near future. The main character, Harry Dresden, takes on supernatural baddies (demons, vampires, ghouls, etc) as well as the occasional mobster. Very entertaining reading.

Just finished:
Killing Pablo--Mark Bowden
The Hours--Michael Cunningham
Isaac's Storm--Erik Larson
Devil In The White City--Erik Larson

Now Reading:
Eaters of the Dead--Michael Crichton
The Plant--Stephen King
Blonde--Joyce Carol Oates

I finished Thomas Perry's Blood Money today - the fifth and final in Perry's Jane Whitefield series. Pretty good read - I'm eagerly awaiting Perry's next Whitefield novel.

Next up, Richard Laymon's In the Dark.

Just finished up City of Bones, which puts me up to date in the Connelly series until Chasing the Dime comes to paperback and I receive Lost Light for Fathers day (hint hint honey who likes to read my posts to see what trouble I'm getting into)

I've now moved onto Harlan Cobens Myron Bolitar series and have finished Deal Breaker and am starting Drop Shot next. I really like this guy and have read his stand alones Tell No One and Gone For Good. Both he and Connelly arn't quite the fans favorites as witnessed by their dismal Best Seller rankings for their most recent efforts. I have to say after reading their stuff I'm at a lost why they don't do better. Maybe they have ranked higher in the past as I have only stumbled accross these two a couple months ago and don't know their past track record on the best seller lists. I know our local used book store can't keep any of Cobens books in stock, so there seems to be demand out there. Oh well, I've got six Bolitar novels to keep me entertained for the near future!

I finished this book and it was pretty damn_good. If you like murder mysteries, I highly recommend this.

I've moved on to American Gods by Neil Gaimen. I'm only about 30 pages in, but I already know I'm really going to like this book. This guy can spin.

Just finished Dubliners and onto Life of Pi.

I'm on a big Greg Rucka kick having finished Finder and Smoker and am about a third of the way through his fourth novel Shooting At Midnight. I'm a big fan of his graphic novel work, with Whiteout and Queen and Country topping that catagory, but it really surprised me how good his Atticus Kodiak novels were.

I've read plenty of lawyer books, cop books, and private eye books, but this is the first time I'm reading a series about a body guard, or a personal security agent. It adds a different twist to what was becoming somewhat of a stale genre.

Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, so far I'm loving it.

Just finished 'The Forgotten' by Faye Kellerman - so,so.

Now on to 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson...

I just started the memoir by James Frey "A Million Little Pieces."

I've got a brother who is a lot like Frey (although he hasn't hit bottom in such a dramatic way, yet), so I wanted to read this and maybe pass the book off to him.

Well, I finally finished "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" last week, so to celebrate I read a bunch of novellas and short stories over the Memorial Day weekend. I finished
"Breakfast at Tiffanys" by Truman Capote
"Holidays on Ice" by David Sedaris
"Shopgirl" by Steve Martin
"The Adding Machine" by William S. Burroughs
"Hitchcock/Truffaut" by Truffaut

So now I'm deciding what to read next. I think I may go ahead and read Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night" and "This Side of Paradise", as that will finish me on his catalog.

I've only read Good Omens and Neverwhere so far, but this is definitely on my list.

I just finished Psycho not 15 minutes ago. The first two chapters are killers, literally. Really a phenomenal opening to the book. The rest was pretty much just decent from there on out. It was a good, quick read, only 150 pages. I don't mean to bag on it, but seriously, the first two chapters rip creatively, and the rest, after that, was kind of a let-down.

American Gods is great! I was doubtful at first, as it seemed a little clunky to me. But after the first 50 pages or so, I was hooked! A definite page-turner. And since you're all ready a Gaiman read, you should love it.

Coraline is also great and a REALLY quick read.

I was hooked on Gaiman since Sandman #1. I was working for a comic store at the time, one which the owner was rather an uptight Christian type who didn't care for the reality of his customer base. Forget that the majority of or customers were between 18 and 27 year old males, he had it in his head that we should gear the store to kids, since, you know, it's kids that read comics........

I'll let you think about that philosophy for just a sec... coming to a conclusion like that, in light of facts that prove otherwise.

So, when Sandman comes out, each major store got maybe ten copies each, the rest, if they were lucky, 3. I took a copy home the night we got it. The next day, I pushed every copy on our regular readers with the promise that if they didn't dig it, I'd refund their money and give 'em a free current comic of their choice. Nobody returned it. So I pestered the owner to get more, and it was then I found out he just wasn't behind the book at all. But the damage had been done. The regulars wanted their copies every month, and of course, as we all know, readership went up across the nation for the book anyway. There was no stopping Sandman, to the store owners utter dismay. Still, even though the book was a big seller, he still shot himself in the foot, only ordering enough to keep the regular readership off of his back. Seriously, it was ridiculous. We could have ordered 100 copies a month per store, and he only got between 10 and 20 at the most. Crazy.

Anyway, Sandman was a great series, and I was always glad that Neil got to end it on his own terms. I was always waiting for another series by him, but I think I'm more happy that he's succesfully made the jump to writing books.

And for anyone out there who hasn't read Good Omens, get a copy. I promise if you don't like it, I'll... hey wait a minute, I'm no comic book retailer anymore! No, I won't reimburse you this time, but I do think you'll dig it. Its a damned fun read (pun intended).

I'm thinking about re-reading "The 13th Warrior" aka "Eaters of the Dead" by Micheal Crichton