#Read26Indy discussion

I am starting off May with The Giver by Lois Lowry, Brain by Robin Cook, and A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne.

Book club selection for June is Isaac Asimov Nightfall and I am so loving it. I haven't read sci-fi like this since I was in high school. Just don't know what our group will think of it? (May's book is Anne of Green Gables. Our policy is pretty loose on what to read ;)

GIRL IN TRANSLATION is #51.

THE END OF THE BOOK by Porter Shreve makes 52. Highly recommended.

I'm hoping to finish "The Snow Child" soon. And now I'm also distracted by Frank Herbert's "Dune", a book I tried to read in high school but found too obtuse and put down ten pages in. And now I'm enamored by it. Go figure.

I finished AMERICAN FUN, my. 53rd.

THE MAN WITH TWO ARMS by Billy Lombardo, #54

ON THE STREET OF DIVINE LOVE by Barbsra Hamby, #55

Reading Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

Finished A Journey to the Center of the Earth this week. Not the best classic novel that I have ever read. But not terrible either.

TINA by
Peter Davis makes 56.

17. Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl

18. Jim Steinmeyer: Hiding the Elephant. History of stage magicians from about 1860 to 1920, focusing on tricks to make things disappear, culminating in Houdini making an elephant disappear on stage at the Hippodrome.

Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

Started Punish the Sinners by John Saul - I am working on catching up on horror/thriller authors who have been writing since before I was born but who I didn't discover until recently. I have about 30 Saul and 40 Koontz books to go! :)

THE SPIRIT LEVEL is 57.

SUMMERLAND by Michael Chabon is 58.

19. David Wong: John Dies at the End. Very weird horror novel for people who like very strange stuff.

John Dies at the End

Currently bounding between "Arabian Nights" and a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson short stories, which of course includes "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

ROAD TRIP! We will be listening to The Cuckoo's Calling

Working on book #8 - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. It's definitely not my normal read, but I'm glad I picked it up.

Orange is the New Black and The End of Your Life Book Club.

Started a medieval English Knight Templar mystery series by Maureen Ash The Alehouse Murdersto follow-up the Ursula Blanchard court of Elizabeth I mystery series I read last month. I didn't count most of them in my total because I had surgery and lots of reading time. Now it is summer and I have lots of reading time hmmmm...

May reads:
#13 - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
#14 - Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene (Divergent, #1.5) by Veronica Roth
#15 - Heartbroken by Lisa Unger
Over half-way there!

Listening to:
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen - pretty good so far, made me chuckle a few times.

Just finished listening to: Divergent - didn't care for and The Hard Way - Lee Child Jack Reacher #10 one of the better Reacher books.

Reading: California by Edan Lepucki.

UPPITY by Bill White is #59.

20. Lev Grossman: Codex. Uh, okay. I kept wondering "Why would this guy do this?" And the ending was like the ending of the movie Chinatown. Sort of.

I haven't been posting each month, so here's a long list to get somewhat caught up.

I'm counting my textbooks for Grad courses. They're way thicker than a casual read and keep me from getting to those reads. So, I've finished: Creativity Is Forever, Development Through the Lifespan, The New School, Educational Research Competencies for Analysis and Applications, The Tao of Statistics, Fundamentals of Statistical Reasoning in Education, and Educational Assessment of Students.

In 3 weeks I'll be free to read much lighter texts for pure enjoyment. Can't wait!

I'm reading All Things Hidden by Tracie Peterson. Another Alaskan tale. This time the 1280's. Another read is The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty. Just started The Secret History by Donna Tartt . Mrs Lincoln's Dresdner is finished.Great historical novel

Finished listening to: Bad Monkey - great fun story!Bad Monkey

Started listening to: Forbidden - Ted Dekker
Forbidden

21: Elizabeth Norris: Unraveling. Exploring a bit of young adult fiction. Bit much "high school girl" in this one for me.