What BOOK are you reading right now?

Im into short horror tales for a spell . I need beefy stuff to happen (like a Lovecraft story), but I dont need all the damned side dishes (like Stephen King serves up).
I just finished a Horror anthology "Gathering the Bones". Some newbies out there with good stories.

I prefer novels, but I have noticed that when successful writers turn out short stories, they are usually very good.

I am reading "The Cartel" by Don Winslow. Gheez, that can't be fiction - too much insider knowledge, me thinks.

Finishing up Ex Machina Book Two.


Still haven't started the MaddAdam audiobook.

I found a book propping open one of my windows: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell. He wrote wonderful mysteries.

How the book ended up in my apartment holding open a window will remain a mystery.

I know it hasn't been a very cold winter but you had a window propped open ... and for how long? A mystery indeed!

I've read a lot of Mankell. I see he died in 2015. Rest in Peace, Henning.

Interesting man, as described in wikipedia.

I started to reread some books I had forgotten I have
Harry Kemelman´s books about the rabbi who solves crimes.
I find the books very interesting as the criminality is not as brutal as in modern books and the discussions about theology are very interesting.
It is so much easier to read them the second time around - thanks to myself.
Last time I looked up all hebrew words and other for me not knwon theological words and noted the translation.
Also the change in society over the last 50 years or so is worth noticing.

tsar, I have a windows opened slightly all year long. Winter shminter. A person needs air. The book had to have been there for at least a year. I used to have a video cassette propping it open, but I wanted to watch the video.

saab, I have some Kemelman books on my shelf. Thanks for the reminder. I could go for a reread.

osso, There's a good chance that I've read lots of Mankell too. Do I remember? No. But why else would the book be in my house?

Mankell writes a good yarn!

For a while I read the Kellermans, husband and wife writers. Faye's books annoyed me, I forget all the whys, and I somewhat liked Jonathan's but not all that much; no real gripes though, re his.

I've long read "foreign" procedurals, maybe starting with the guy in Amsterdam, van Wetering. Oops, from Rotterdam.
Janwillem van de Wetering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janwillem_van_de_Wetering
That was a long time ago that I read him, but he set me up for being interested.

I previously read a lot of english mysteries early; a buoyant start but it got to be, been there, done that.

I don't hate all u.s. procedurals, but I'm not much a best seller fan; as I've said before in this thread, I don't like pulsed violence to move a book along. Some that makes sense, I get it.


Kemelman goes on my wish list.Roberta, what's the title of your book.

I love Henning Mankell - read just about every book he wrote. Unfortunately, he recently died

Hernning Mankell I think I have read all his books and seen several films based on the books.
But got tired of the films very fast because of the actor playing Wallander.
There is a Danish author whom I like very much. Leif Davidsen
You can read more about him below and also see which of his books have been
translated into English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Davidsen

For you Mankell fans
Here is a trip in Wallander´s footsteps
http://www.wallander.ystad.se/en

In today's Guardian -

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/11/quicksand-what-it-means-to-be-a-human-being-henning-mankell-review

American Gods -- Neil Gaiman

I like the first 1/4 of the book at least.

I just finished reading A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny. This woman can write. And I like the complexity of her plots.

Dan Simmons is one of my favorite authors and I am just about to finish "The Fifth Heart," a novel that features the unlikely pairing of Sherlock Holmes and Henry James.

All of Simmons' work is based on extraordinary research (If you want to know how to scale Mt. Everest, read his "Abominable") and this one is no exception.

I have yet to be disappointed by Simmons, and while this one isn't my favorite (That would be "Terror" followed closely by "Drood") I am enjoying it quite a lot.

It suffers at time from the lack of pace one might expect from a story involving Sherlock Holmes, but when it surges, it's impossible to put down.



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