What Fiction are you reading this week, March 17, 2019?

[hermetic]

Get your green on…

The Library of Trinity College, Dublin

I am reading Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson. Waiting for something interesting to happen.



Happy DU Anniversary to me. Been a member now for 15 years, and 2 days.



What’s interesting on your reading list this week?

[Squinch]

1. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom. Very good so far.

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2. A bit of Irish there

..from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house./

The Kitchen House is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail.

[Squinch]

6. A little. Her Irishness seems more of a device to put her in the middle of the hierarchy

of the plantation. She's an indentured orphan, so she can look above her to the master's white family and his black daughter, and below her to the kitchen slaves and the field slaves. It's a pretty smart way to give a complete picture of the cruelty of the place.

The story is very well told.

[TexasProgresive]

3. Reading "The Falls" a John Rebus by Ian Rankin.

As you know I have been reading tome after tome of the Wheel of Time series with a break with a shorter work. Besides that I now have unlimited internet data and can make use of my Amazon Prime video that I have paid for years. The series I'm watching are Bosch, Midsomer Murders, Dci Banks and a couple of movies, Murder on the Orient Express and An Inspector Calls. I just started The ABC Murders. You can see where my mind is- always mysteries. Also I tend not to binge watch.

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7. How fun!

Been rewatching Midsomer Murders here. They seem to get better each time. I just adore the one where Barnaby eats the 'pot brownies.' Hysterical.

Just sent away for that Rebus and a couple of other old ones I never read. That should keep me happy for a good while. I love folllowing Rankin in Twitter. He is such a fun guy!

[guillaumeb]

4. Red Moon, by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Science fiction.

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8. Sounds good

Kim Stanley Robinson called one of the solar system's pre-eminent writers of climate change-driven, politically astute science fiction.

Good article here from Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/kim-stanley-robinson-red-moon/

[SeattleVet]

5. Continuing with my Christoper Moore marathon...

About halfway through "You Suck (A Love Story)".

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9. Good for you!

You can be our in-house expert on the mind of Moore.

[SeattleVet]

12. The 'mind of Moore'???

It's strange...

I like that in a writer!

[Ohiya]

10. I'm continuing my obsession with Keigo Higashino.

Reading - Under the Midnight Sun, it's the best one yet!

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11. Yes, I've heard that

a sweeping novel in the tradition of Les Miserables and Crime and Punishment.

[Number9Dream]

13. "You Only Live Twice" by Ian Fleming

I was curious to see how the book compared to the movie. In this case, the book and the movie were very different, so it was hard to compare. Other than it was set in Japan, and the characters of James Bond and "Tiger" Tanaka, there were few similarities. No hi-jacked space capsules, no hollow volcanoes, no cool helicopters, etc. I enjoyed the book anyway.

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18. Hey there, #9

Good to see ya. Hope your winter is coming to an end.

I read some Bond books long, long ago and seem to recall enjoying them. I think I only ever saw 1 movie, maybe 2. I've led such a sheltered life

[Number9Dream]

19. Hi Hermetic - always nice to correspond with you

One of my favorites by Nancy Sinatra:

Though technically Spring, it's still quite cold and rainy here in PA. At least the barn cats water hasn't frozen lately. They're doing well.

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14. Thank you, hermetic, for the weekly thread. Happy St. Paddy's Day!

Started reading Over the Plain Houses, Julia Franks last week, but haven't made much headway. It is beautifully written and the characters are well developed. Wish I didn't fall asleep so early at night.

It’s 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent’s self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie’s fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband’s bed, storing strange keepsakes in a mountain cavern. To Brodis, these are all the signs that Irenie—tiptoeing through the dark in her billowing white nightshirt—is practicing black magic.

When Irenie slips back into bed with a kind of supernatural stealth, Brodis senses that a certain evil has entered his life, linked to the lady agent, or perhaps to other, more sinister forces.

Working in the stylistic terrain of Amy Greene and Bonnie Jo Campbell, this award-winning debut by Julia Franks is the story of a woman intrigued by the possibility of change, escape, and reproductive choice—stalked by a Bible-haunted man who fears his government and stakes his integrity upon an older way of life. As Brodis chases his demons, he brings about a final act of violence that shakes the entire valley. In this spellbinding Southern story, Franks bares the myths and mysteries that modernity can’t quite dispel.

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16. This sounds really good

Definitely will be looking for it. Thanks.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

15. Fangirl by Rowell (on audiobook) and finishing Green from last week.

I made it all the way through every Sherlock work by Doyle on audiobook (I do hall walking for my supervision duty at school, so I get in 45 minutes of audiobook during that time), so now I'm on to other works. Much easier to pay attention to non-Sherlock stuff.

I really like Rowell and Fangirl makes me laugh often. Plus, her ability to really get the high school dork (though this is college freshmen) is pretty spot on.

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17. Fun stuff!

Thanks for sharing.