What are you reading this week of July 3, 2016?

[hermetic]

Happy 4th!

I finished Die Trying last night. What a terrific story. I'm now a Jack Reacher fan and will read more, later. Some fun coincidences: things happen on the 4th of July, and Salmon, Idaho is mentioned. A friend was just there a few days ago and posted some pics on Facebook. Beautiful area.

Right now I'm awaiting a shipment from Thrift Books of a bunch of must-reads. In the meantime I'm going to read Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. This book was highly praised here a few months back.

What books are you celebrating this week?

On a sad note, R.I.P. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author, advocate for victims of violence and oppression.

[TexasProgresive]

1. Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"

I will probably be in Russia a while. I am still pre-revolution and learning about the characters and their tongue twisting names. But so far it is really the good read that made it worthy of the Nobel prize.

[hermetic]

2. Still working on that one, eh?

Truly, one of the greatest books ever written, IMO.

[northoftheborder]

3. Firebird, by Kearsley

so far: fair to good

Love your book flag!

[japple]

4. Thanks for the thread, hermetic. The flag bookcase display is great!

I'm still reading Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge, though it has gotten quite boring. I know the action will pick up soon so I'll stick with it and hope to actually finish all 630+ page.

Louise Erdrich is one of my favorite writers and I've adored Love Medicine since I read it many, many years ago. It was a bit hard at first for me to keep track of the families and I wish I'd thought to make family tree diagrams for each of the families, esp. since they are present in several of her other books.

Elie Wiesel .

[pscot]

5. The Lewis Man by Peter May

I finished Baudelaire's Revenge by Bob Van Laerhoven. This is a dans macabre in which the only sane character is murdered in best Edgar Allen Poe tradition. The book reminded me of a John Fowles novel in that reality keeps shifting so that it's never quite what we think it is. There are secrets and lies and madness. It kept me off balance 'til the end. There's some gore and explicit sexuality, which are interlocking threads.