Book Geeks and Bookniks discussion

What are you working on?

I'm juggling a few. Almost done with, "Knockemstiff," a gritty fiction by Pollack. Quarter of the way through,"Bully, a True Story of High School Revenge." And still reading the newest Augusten Burroughs although it's a "self help" book and I'm struggling with it.

Just a few chapters into Defending Jacob and am liking it. I need to read larger chunks at a time to really become entrenched.

Reading Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. Pretty remarkable indeed...story of a man who was born and raised in a North Korean concentration camp and escaped as a young man, with no concept of the outside world. It is estimated that North Korea has 200,000 people living as slaves in these camps.

Dan wrote: "Reading Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. Pretty remarkable indeed...story of a man who was born and raised in a North Korean concentration..."

I'm interested in that one, too. I read The Orphan Master's Son and found that just chilling.

I'm still reading Field Gray, which is very good. I cruised right through Arcadia over the weekend and found it lovely, if a bit over-written in spots.

Somehow I seem to have gotten onto a supernatural kick - just the way the hold requests have come in I guess. Just finished Into the Dreaming & have been working on Down These Strange Streets, an "urban fantasy" anthology. Before those was Third Grave Dead Ahead. So now I'm more than ready to start a regular mystery. So Left For Dead is up next. Then I've still got The Magicians in my stack, so back to the supernatural.

I'm almost finished reading The Postmortal, which is a 3-star read for me, and will begin Hannah's Dream immediately following. It was chosen for me as my May book from the TBR (To Be Referred) group, so I'm behind! O_O

Finished "The Cats Table" and liked the sparse, direct writing style, and creative structure but needingy online book discussion group to help me appreciate ending. Loose ends.

And meiko saw you want to read shopkin's book- may I suggest the movie I like Killing flies " based on his life.I saw via Netflix

Vicky wrote: "I'm reading The Passage. It is good so far. I am almost 1/2 way through it."

I'm still working on The Passage too Vicky. I'm so jealous you might be finished by now?

I hope this three day weekend I can finish it up.

Still reading a couple I've been reading too long and now started a Stephen White suspense novel, The Program, for another online group that reads mysteries/suspense and focuses on Stephen White novels.