What Fiction are you reading this week, March 10, 2019?

[hermetic]

A little library somewhere in Germany

Today I plan to start reading Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson, the beginning of “one of the strangest epic fantasies ever written…” Somehow I missed this series back in the 70s and now someone has given me the first three books saying I really should read them.

My audiobook this week is Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, “a brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.” I haven’t started it yet, either.

What books will you be starting this week?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. 'Turtles All the Way Down'...I thought a bio of Mitch McC

[hermetic]

3. Nah, there will be much better titles for that

Instead it should make you think of Stephen Hawking, who incorporates the saying into the beginning of his 1988 book A Brief History of Time. Or Terry Pratchett and Discworld. It is an expression of the problem of infinite regress.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

13. I really liked the book

It's a nice exploration of anxiety and OCD. Plus I'm a sucker for John Green.

[iamateacher]

2. Karen Memory

By Elizabeth Bear
Steampunk, old West, Jack-the-Ripper mystery...

[hermetic]

5. That sounds interesting

A Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science. "You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street."

[iamateacher]

15. Elizabeth Bear is a great author, multiple Hugo Awards

And this novel is full of wonderful, vivid, and unique characters.I will be sorry to finish it.

[exboyfil]

4. Ah Thomas Covenant the Whiner

That book series was huge when I was in high school (along with The Sword of Shannara).

I need to reread at some point. I went back and reread The Sword of Shannara about five years ago. I was not impressed, and I was shocked it became the basis of a huge franchise (I stopped reading fantasy after high school).

[hermetic]

6. Yeah,

not sure how impressed I will be. But I DID read Lord of the Rings in my 30s and loved it more than most anything else ever, so I might be sucked in once again.

[exboyfil]

7. I read the first six Covenant books

They are much better than Shannara.

[Ohiya]

8. Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

I'm about halfway through and I really like it.

[hermetic]

9. I've always enjoyed her writing

This newest one sounds really good.

[murielm99]

10. I have always liked her.

[Ohiya]

12. Me too...

I've read most of her books, I especially liked Animal Dreams and The Lacuna. I started reading The Poisenwood Bible, but for some reason I didn't finish it.

[murielm99]

11. I have gone back to reading

William Kent Krueger, book 2 of the Cork O'Connor series. It is called Boundary Waters.

[hermetic]

17. Oh neat!

Former Minnesotan here, love the Boundary Waters area. Great setting for a winter thriller. There's a must-read for me.

[murielm99]

18. Read Iron Lake first.

It is the first book in the series, and sets the stage for what is to come.

My family comes from Minnesota, but from the southern part of the state.

[hermetic]

19. OK, thanks

Yeah, I lived in St. Paul but did take one day trip up there. Said we really should come back and do a canoe trip some time but of course that never came about. Sadly. Had friends, though, who did and always saw their photos, etc.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

14. Green by Sam Graham-Felsen (Obama's blogger)

I hope it works for a novel in a new Marginalized Voices literature class next school year. It seems to be a good exploration of privilege.

I hope it pans out.

[hermetic]

16. Sounds like a good choice

Let us know.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. Just started The Real Michael Swann

by Bryan Reardon.

In the near future a terrorist bomb is set off in New York's Penn Station, killing and maiming lots of people. Michael was on the phone with his wife when it happened, and he seems to have disappeared. I'm only 40 pages in, but so far it's good. Lots of nice, everyday detail of people's lives.