Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:49 am
Recently completed:
1) Silence of the Grave, by Arnaldur Indridason. This is the second of the "Reykjavik thrillers" featuring Inspector Erlendur and his aides Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli. When a human skeleton is unearthed during a child's birthday party, Erlendur and his colleagues find themselves investigating a murder over a half century old. Meanwhile the inspector deals with a personal crisis involving his recovering addict daughter, Eva Lind. This series continues to intrigue me.
2) Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls, by Stewart Mandel. Mandel is a columnist for Sports Illustrated, focusing mostly on college football. This is his interesting and informative take on some of the issues confronting that sport.
Currently reading:
1) Big City, Bad Blood, by Sean Chercover. This was Chercover's debut novel, and it won several "first novel" awards a couple of years back. It looks like Chercover is going to give Sara Paretsky some competition for the "best series about a Chicago PI" title. His protagonist is Ray Dudgeon, a newspaper reporter turned, that's right, private investigator. He takes an assignment to protect a film location manager, but finds himself somehow in the middle of a mob dispute (we learn that in Chicago, they like to be called "The Outfit"). Moreover, the Chicago PD and the Feds are both looking over Ray's shoulder. A promising beginning for Chercover.
2) Higher Education?, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Veteran sociologist Hacker and reporter Dreifus have produced a pretty scathing critique of the state of higher education in the US. I don't agree with all of it, but they have some good points.
1) Silence of the Grave, by Arnaldur Indridason. This is the second of the "Reykjavik thrillers" featuring Inspector Erlendur and his aides Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli. When a human skeleton is unearthed during a child's birthday party, Erlendur and his colleagues find themselves investigating a murder over a half century old. Meanwhile the inspector deals with a personal crisis involving his recovering addict daughter, Eva Lind. This series continues to intrigue me.
2) Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls, by Stewart Mandel. Mandel is a columnist for Sports Illustrated, focusing mostly on college football. This is his interesting and informative take on some of the issues confronting that sport.
Currently reading:
1) Big City, Bad Blood, by Sean Chercover. This was Chercover's debut novel, and it won several "first novel" awards a couple of years back. It looks like Chercover is going to give Sara Paretsky some competition for the "best series about a Chicago PI" title. His protagonist is Ray Dudgeon, a newspaper reporter turned, that's right, private investigator. He takes an assignment to protect a film location manager, but finds himself somehow in the middle of a mob dispute (we learn that in Chicago, they like to be called "The Outfit"). Moreover, the Chicago PD and the Feds are both looking over Ray's shoulder. A promising beginning for Chercover.
2) Higher Education?, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Veteran sociologist Hacker and reporter Dreifus have produced a pretty scathing critique of the state of higher education in the US. I don't agree with all of it, but they have some good points.
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