#Read26Indy discussion

We are halfway there! What are you starting off the second half of 2014 with?

I will be reading The Bat by Jo Nesbo for my Goodreads book club.

My. 78th is THE INTERESTINGS by Meg Wolitzer.

I just finished my 18th of the year: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

Pete Dexter's SPOONER is #79. There are several authors who seem, to me, under appreciated: Percival Everett, J. Robert Lennon, Lewis Nordan, Charles Portis, Scott Spencer, John Welter...and Pete Dexter.

Reading Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance and listening to Gathering Blue

I recently completed The Invention of Wings and have moved on to Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King.

Currently reading my #17, Beautiful Oblivion by Jamie McGuire. I'm not sure what's next.

Finished Alex Kava's Hot Wired - A Maggie O'Dell novel and Evan Currie's Odyssey One Book 1

Arthur Koestler's DARKNESS AT NOON is my 80th book.

Finishing the month with The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, Neuromancer, and The Vision

I'm reading Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book, the second of this author's Thursday Next series.

My 81st is Kate Atkinson's LIFE AFTER LIFE.

#23. Micah Ling: Three Islands. Poetry from an Indiana Authors Awards finalist.
Three Islands

Americanah, by Chimamanda. It's on the #IndyPublic Library Adult Summer Reading list. Very realistic, modern examination of life in the upper crust of the U.S. And lower crust of Nigeria.

THE BIG SMOKE by Adrian Matejka is 82,

MAKE IT STICK is 83.

#24. Jeff Somers: The Electric Church (Avery Cates). Kind of a literary version of a dystopian, first-person-shooter.
The Electric Church

I finished THE STATE OF JONES by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer.