February 2012 Reads

8    Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
9    A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
10  The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
11  Wild Thing by Josh Bazell
12  The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillipp Sendker
13  Cripple Creek by James Sallis
14  Arcadia by Lauren Groff
15  Mission Flats by William Landry
16  Salt River by James Sallis
17  The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
18  The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson

I found the debut, A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash, to be a riveting beautifully written novel.  


I loved, loved loved The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillipp Sendker.  It's a wonderful romantic novel that spans five generations.  It was very hard to put down.  


I've been on a James Sallis kick lately.  The two I read this month were great.  


I read The Friends of Eddie Coyle by Higgins, one of my favorite authors, Dennis Lehane has written a new forward.  This was a down and dirty novel about the underworld.  It doesn't try to glamorize being a crook.  It's very well written, but I understand that it's really Higgins only success.


I've read all of Alex Berenson's novels featuring John Wells.  They are exciting stories dealing with the CIA and our wars.  They're well written and I'm hoping for more.

What are you reading?