What BOOK are you reading right now?

@saab,

saab wrote:

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

Well, that was interesting! Thanks.

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http://www.rabensjogren.se/Global/Bilder_Rabensjogren/Nyheter/alfons_kalas.jpg

Alfie Atkins (Swedish: Alfons Åberg) is a fictional character created by the author Gunilla Bergström from Sweden in 1972. Alfie Atkins is a pretty ordinary guy, who lives with his father.
The books about Alfie Atkins are very popular and translated into several languages.
I took them out to read again because of a great contraversial discussion in Sweden. The books have been filmed and showed in kindergartens.
One kid in one daycarecanter got scared.Soi instead of calming and explaining the film for the child the films are forbidden in the daycarecenter and will other follow. And what scary things do the children watch on TV? That is not discussed.
This shows -in my opinion- how we can overprotect children.

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Found a video.....scary????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W36qE1DjN2I

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Just finished it this morning and it didn't disappoint in the least.

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Just started "The Girl With All the Gifts"

20 pages in and the suspense is killing me.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235026-the-girl-with-all-the-gifts

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@yitwail,

yitwail wrote:

American Gods -- Neil Gaiman

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

Almost everything by Gaiman is a good read. "American Gods" certainly is.

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I found a book at Goodwill by a writer I used to like, Wallace Stegner. I expect it to be a treat to read. All the Little Live Things is the title. It was quite a life that man had: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stegner

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The Deluge by Adam Tooze-A historian's analysis of WW1
Wonder if Setanta has read this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wxTUFYtzL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Guardian review

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Yet, of all the changes brought by the first world war, Adam Tooze argues in this bold and ambitious book, by far the most important was the arrival of the United States in a position of unparalleled economic, political and moral ascendancy. It wasn't simply that in 1916 America became the world's largest economy, she was also the war's banker. Wall Street paid for the battle of the Somme, and the US government bankrolled Passchendaele.

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"As Through A Veil, Mystical Poetry in Islam" by Annemarie Schimmel

Quote:

If the Lord makes you cry, He will make you laugh again.

p-168

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http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c738.jpg

so good to be re-reading these stories again

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I just finished reading Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham. I read it for my book group. Although I have some reservations about it, I found it compelling and hard to put down.

Based on an earlier discussion on this thread, I decided to reread the Harry Kemelman series. I've just started Friday the Rabbi Slept Late.

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@Roberta,

Just finished that one and I am not telling the end.
Finished the whole serie and will now start on other Jewish authors.

I like Grisham and find he writes well and spellbounding - it would never had come up on the list in the booksclub I used to belong to.

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@saab,

Over a third the way through Neil Gaimon's American Gods (Tenth Anniversary Edition).

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@ehBeth,

ehbeth wrote

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so good to be re-reading these stories again

We're in strong agreement there.
Sometimes the plots are absurd but the gritty view of Los Angeles in the late 40's is spellbinding to me and I find myself rereading these books over and over.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

sounds creepy - I love it.

Putting it on my list. I need a long list because I have a nook so what I do is simply go online with the library and borrow books I love it - I do not even have to leave home.

The only problem is there is more limited supply of ebooks from the library but I figure there are so many good books out there - that it is easy for me to find something free to read.

Reading the Girl on the Train now - it is a bit twisted and creepy.

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@panzade,

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Looking at Chandler’s work in retrospect, it seems fair to say that he wasn’t really a “mystery writer”—or not first and foremost. Plots didn’t interest him much. They were just pegs on which to hang characters and language. His plots were not particularly original but that never bothered him. “Very likely Agatha Christie and Rex Stout write better mysteries. But their words don’t get up and walk. Mine do.”

http://lithub.com/raymond-chandler-didnt-care-about-plot/

and from the intro by Chandler to the collection I'm reading (I don't think I've ever enjoyed reading an introduction so much)

Quote:

The technical basis of the Black Mask type of story on the other hand was that the scene outranked the plot, in the sense that a good plot was one which made good scenes. The ideal mystery was one you would read if the end was missing.

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@ehBeth,

Maybe it's this one that I quite enjoyed
"Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel"

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@panzade,

I was reading A Woman In Berlin, but watched the movie last night. I'm wondering if I should finish reading the book, now that I know the plot and ending.

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@cicerone imposter,

The book isn't all that long and is well written - I would finish it if I were you. Sometimes it was a few sentences on a page that would get to me. Whatever their import re the true story as a whole subject, at times even the small observations made me stop and think.

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@Linkat,

Finished The Girl on the train.
Enjoyed the way it turned out from what seemed an innocent onlooker story to a complicated plot.

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