What are you reading the week of June 22, 2014?

[Enthusiast]

I'm reading Steve Hamilton's second novel, Winter of the Wolf Moon. I would recommend this to anyone. Lots of fun.

[shenmue]

1. 'A Double Death on the Black Isle'

By A.D. Scott.

[Enthusiast]

2. I checked that out on Fantastic Fiction.

It sounds good. Some of my ancestors were from Scotland.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/a-d-scott/double-death-on-black-isle.htm

[shenmue]

3. I hope you get a chance to read it

A.D. Scott is good!

[scarletwoman]

13. I looked up A.D. Scott on Fantacstic Fiction, too. And ordered all 4 of her Joanne Ross series from

my local library.

Just picked up #s 1, 2, & 4 today - #3 is an interlibrary loan so it will take a little longer to come in.

Haven't started reading yet, but thanks for your recommendation!

[shenmue]

14. You're welcome

[Worried senior]

17. I too just ordered these four

from my library.

I like books set in Scotland and Ireland and these sound quite good.

[dem in texas]

4. A Lifetime with Boots by Sam Lucchese, Jr.

I am a vintage boot collector and have looked for this out of print book for a long time. Lots of technical stuff about making boots, right down my alley, but here is a funny story from the book.

Sam Jr. had a falling out with LBJ over payment for some items he bought from Lucchese's. It took 2 years for LBJ to pay the bill, so Lucchese stop doing business with him. One day, Lucchese had one of LBJ friends come in his store to talk to him The old friend said Sam needed to start selling to LBJ again. This was after LBJ was President. The friend said, "Dammit, you just can't fight with the President of the United States. Why, if his feet got to hurting and he pushed the wrong button, we'd all be at war!" Sam agreed to go see LBJ out of respect for the office of the president. He went up to the ranch and measured LBJ and made him a new pair of boots.

[Enthusiast]

5. I did not know people collected vintage boots.

You learn something every day.

[dem in texas]

6. Oh my Yes! Lots of Vintage Boot Collectors

Lots of books about vintage boots too. Some of the finer and more colorful ones will bring thousands of dollars.

[pscot]

7. Two from the wayback machine

The Man in the Queue, Josephine Tey and A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolff.

[Enthusiast]

10. Those are from the wayback machine!

[SheilaT]

8. The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion.

Socially impaired university instructor -- probably has Asperger's -- decides he needs to find a wife. Early on he meets up with a woman looking for her biological father. It's a hoot.

Got to see and hear the author at a Rainy Day Books event this past Thursday in Kansas City.

[Enthusiast]

9. That sounds fun, Sheila.

[SheilaT]

11. Just finished the book last night.

It's a delightful, light read. There's a sequel coming out possibly next year. I only know because the author told us.

I used to live in the Kansas City area and went to Rainy Day books lots of times. In the past you could just attend without buying the book, but about five or six years ago they started requiring a book purchase for the ticket to get in, although one book buy can get two tickets. I found that annoying because sometimes I wanted to attend the event to decide if I wanted to buy the book in the first place. These days I get almost all my books from the library, because I can't afford to buy that many. And there's limited room on my book shelves in my small place.

I can say I have never been disappointed attending a book event. The authors who do it are usually very interesting.

I will say that Rainy Day Books may well be the premier bookstore in the country for having authors in. It would be my dream, if I ever had a book published, to do an event with them.

[Enthusiast]

15. I believe I had my wife request this at the library.

I'm having a hard time remembering. I believe it is in. But I might have that wrong too.

[GOLGO 13]

12. Hardboiled Cthullhu

Cynical, two fisted, down & out private dicks going toe to toe with crafty Great Old Ones and their double crossing disciples.

It's like chocolate & peanut butter good. Read it now see!?! Or the Deep One gets it!

[mainer]

16. "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair"

It has got to be a publishing hoax. It's so bad, I laughed all the way through it. Cartoon characters, childish dialogue with lots of exclamation marks (!!!) to let you know that this is IMPORTANT DIALOGUE. The portrayal of writers' lives is so far from reality that the publishers must have thought this was satire from beginning to end. And yet, I think the author didn't think he was writing satire at all. I think he wrote this in awful earnestness.

At 600+ pages, it's a masterful hoax on the public, designed to trick you into opening your wallet. Oh, and it was written by a hunky young man who looks on good TV.