Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat Fiction are you reading this week, Oct. 11, 2020?


One thing that most people seem to agree on is that reading is near the core of how to change your mind and yourself. --Thomas Oppong
I am reading the last story in the marvelous Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood. I finished my library books and can't get back there till Tuesday and it's the only book left in my personal library that I hadn't read.
I am listening to the Hugo Award winner Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, a humorous fantastical alternative history of the Napoleonic Wars by Susanna Clarke. A very long tale at over 1,000 pages in book form, it contains almost 200 footnotes (included in the reading), "outlining the backstory and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship."
What's new, or old, on your reading list this week?
And how does one celebrate Columbus Day, anyway? Go to the grocery store and get lost looking for spices?


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(884 posts)and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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(884 posts)Ohiogal
(36,215 posts)I am old enough to remember the stores advertising Columbus Day sales ... that used to be The American Way to celebrate Columbus Day ... or any holiday ....go shopping .... same as Presidents Day sales, Black Friday sales, January White Sales .... do stores even have those any more?
Can you tell Im not much of a shopper?
hermetic
(8,780 posts)Stalwart journalist Jack McEvoy searches the murkiest corners of the dark web for a killer.
I've never been big on shopping, either. So, I'm not real sure we even have stores anymore. Except grocery and drug. And internet...
rzemanfl
(30,461 posts)hermetic
(8,780 posts)Must read.
rzemanfl
(30,461 posts)rzemanfl
(30,461 posts)hermetic
(8,780 posts)And this is another new one. A collection of short stories that sounds like great reading.
And yet another new one! "A new novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor and wonderful, eccentric characters. A surefire best seller." Well, I for sure will be on the lookout for this one.
rzemanfl
(30,461 posts)hermetic
(8,780 posts)I just got on the library waiting list for it.
The King of Prussia
(746 posts)So still on "A Word After Dying" by Ann Granger.
Otherwise studying virus statistics. It's raging out of control over much of the North of England, and in most University towns & cities, but in our immediate area cases have levelled off, probably. We're staying in the house.
hermetic
(8,780 posts)Local hospital suddenly overwhelmed. Idiot politicians telling everyone only cowards wear masks. Fine. Just call me Chicken Little.
SheltieLover
(64,144 posts)Light reading, sort of humorous.
Sure not as compelling as Joe Grey. 😏
hermetic
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japple
(10,453 posts)Not celebrating anything tomorrow i.e. columbus day. This seems more appropriate to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples%27_Day#:~:text=The%20city%20symbolically%20renamed%20Columbus,massacres%2C%20and%20forced%20assimilation.Get
PennyK
(2,318 posts)I loved these when I first read them (only three years ago) and I'm enjoying them again.
I just got The Killings at Kingfisher Hill, the latest Poirot pastiche by Sophie Hannah and that will also be a treat.