What Are You Reading?

[Mindful]

John Grisham.

Gray Mountain.

Can't get enough of him.

 

[Marianne]

The Five Stones: An Everyday Guide to Following Jesus-
by Foye Belyea (Author), Samuel Huggard (Author), Bill Hull (Foreword)

If you want to journey through life actively engaged in following Jesus rather than just learning the facts about Him and attending religious services then we invite you to join us in learning and living The Five Stones. This book is a guide to an everyday way of life in Christ that begins in the hearts and homes of those who desire to follow Jesus.

 

[Dhara]

One Alex Berensen, John Wells novel after another.

 

[Anong]

I'm reading some of H.P.Lovecraft's novels (named Lovecraft: the ultimate collection)

 

[Marianne]

I'm A Church Member- Thomas Rainer

I Am a Church Member discusses the attitudes and responsibilities of church members. Rainer addresses in detail what congregations should really be focusing on — praying for church leaders, being a functioning member, treasuring church membership, and more.

Six chapters with these titles include study questions to guide the discussion:

1. I Will Be a Unifying Church Member
2. I Will Not Let the Church Be About My Preferences and Desires
3. I Will Pray for My Church Leaders
4. I Will Lead My Family to Be Healthy Church Members
5. I Will Be a Functioning Member
6. I Will Treasure Church Membership as a Gift

 

[Dhara]

The Laundry List's workbook.

 

[Marianne]

The Bastard- John Jakes

This is the story of Philip Kent. The illegitimate son of a British nobleman who was denied his heritage, he embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America-and takes up arms against his father's homeland.

 

[Marianne]

Shiver - Lisa Jackson

A serial killer is turning the Big Easy into his personal playground. The victims are killed in pairs--no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues. It's a very sick game, and it's only just begun.

 

[Marianne]

Rickshaw Bend - Helen Arvonen
Brooding Mansion- Paulette Warren
Mischief - Charlotte Armstrong

 

[Marianne]

The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, THE LOVELY BONES succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.

 

[CremeBrulee]

I wanted to add some poetry to my reading list and was thinking about W.B. Yeats collected works. I have the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written from Easton Press and was wondering if there isn't a better choice. Any suggestions?

Easton Press: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written | Listology

 

[Unkotare]

New Kids

 

[Pumpkin Row]

I'm actually reading several books at once. Wilson's War, 1920: The Year of Six Presidents, FDR's Follies: How The New Deal Extended the Great Depression, Fair Tax: The Truth, and A Game of Thrones.

 

[Unkotare]

The Essential Guide to Amharic

 

[ForeverYoung436]

The Queen You Thought You Knew (Unmasking Esther's Hidden Story), by Rabbi David Fohrman

 

[Marianne]

The Complete Idiots Guide to American History by Alan Axelrod

 

[Marianne]

Rest in Pieces by Rita Mae Brown.





Rest in Pieces

Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the cat's meow.... Maybe she should think again. Small towns don't take kindly to strangers--unless the stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous and seemingly unattached male. When Blair Bainbridge comes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakers lose no time in declaring him perfect for their newly divorced postmistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen." Even Harry's tiger cat, Ms. Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, believe he smells A-okay. Could his one little imperfection be that he's a killer? Blair becomes the most likely suspect when the pieces of a dismembered corpse begin turning up around Crozet. No one knows who the dead man is, but when a grisly clue makes a spectacular appearance in the middle of the fall festivities, more than an early winter snow begins chilling the blood of Crozet's very best people. That's when Ms. Murphy, her friend Tucker, and her human companion Harry begin to sort through the clues . . . only to find themselves a whisker away from becoming the killer's next victims.

 

[midcan5]

The book below should be required reading for a number of reasons. The lone male and the whys of a mass murderer. Well written, not for the faint of heart. Norway is in many ways like America.

'One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway' By Asne Seierstad. Translated by Sarah Death.

'Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx' by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

And one I mentioned before but worth a read if you want to understand America today.

'Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class' by Ian Haney López

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[Marianne]

Patricia Cornwell

Postmortem

The novel opens as Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the state of Virginia, receives an early-morning call from Sergeant Pete Marino, a homicide detective at the Richmond Police Department with whom Scarpetta has a tense working relationship. She meets him at the scene of a woman's gruesome strangling, the latest in a string of unsolved murders in Richmond.

 

[Mindful]

I'm reading The Road to Little Dribbling. By Bill Bryson.