What Fiction are you reading this week, August 16, 2020?

[hermetic]

We're having a heatwave. Forecasts for 100 all week.

Still reading Simon the Fiddler. He's sweltering down on the Gulf Coast which is helping me appreciate the dry heat here.

Listening to some of Nancy Springer's stories about Enola Holmes, Sherlock's little sister. They are quite funny. First I heard The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline and now The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye.

What's hot on your reading list this week?

[dhol82]

1. Just started "Embers" by Sandor Marai

[hermetic]

3. A classic of modern European literature

"Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs."

Sounds good.

[efhmc]

2. The GOP platform.

[Merlot]

4. trumpfts tweets.

[pamdb]

5. Reading

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel. 3 rd in the Cromwell series. I’ve been parceling it out slowly because it’s so good and I know how it ends.

[hermetic]

8. That's neat

You and muriel both enjoying "the greatest English novels of this century."

[murielm99]

6. Still reading Wolf Hall,

by Hilary Mantel. It is the first book of a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and the English Reformation, as ushered in my Henry VIII.

It won the Man Booker prize. The book is witty and extremely well written. If you like historical fiction, try this.

I am thinking about going back to revisit some early Asimov. The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn have a theme about social distancing brought to extremes. It might be interesting to read those again.

When I was a kid, I read a story in the Child Life magazine, called, "The Fun They Had." I did not know until years later that Asimov had written it. It stuck with me all my life. That is how good he was. The protagonists are two children who are educated through remote learning. This is the norm in their future society. They are amazed that children used to congregate in classrooms. I would like to see how I react to that story now.

Happy reading, everyone.

[hermetic]

7. Ha ha, you and pamdb there

at the same time.

I was looking for something on CDs I could get at the library when I go Tuesday. So, I looked for Wolf Hall and it's 18 discs! I decided to just wait and read the book instead.

[brewens]

9. Wilbur Smith-The Desert King. Just started it yesterday. John Grisham-Gray Mountain is what I

just finished. The coal companies are monsters! The people in coal country have to hate those bastards, but they have nothing else.

[hermetic]

10. Oh, I know

My heart just breaks when I read what coal miners have had to endure. Truly monsters.

I couldn't find your other book so did you maybe mean Desert God? A magnificent epic conjuring the magic, mystery, and bloody intrigue of a fascinating lost world, ancient Egypt. Desert God presents Wilbur Smith at the helm of one of the greatest stories of all time.

[brewens]

13. That's it. I didn't have it in front of me. I've read a lot of Smith's stuff. Usually really good.

[dhol82]

11. Also almost finished with "Luckiest Girl Alive" by Jessica Knoll

Good read.

[hermetic]

12. Oooh, sounds good

A suspense/thriller. We like those. Thanks!

[pansypoo53219]

14. slowly working on poor richard's almanac. did hit how haste makes waste is a fixed german saying.

eilen selton thut gut-exurberance is seldom good.