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hermetic

(8,622 posts)
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 12:41 PM Nov 2020

What Fiction are you reading this fabulous week, Nov. 8, 2020?

Really happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy....

Thank you everyone for voting and helping to get our country back.

Just finished Michael Connelly's 2020 novel, Fair Warning. An intriguing tale of DNA and NDAs. It's fiction but it's about some very real and some really awful people. Plus, fairwarning.org is an actual news website. Kind of surprised I never heard of it before. Anyway, good book. Recommend.

Next up, the brand new one from Carl Hiaasen, Squeeze Me. "A novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor and wonderful, eccentric characters." I will actually be able to enjoy reading this one now, and laughing MAO .

Listening to The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun. It's almost Christmas in the little town of Pickax, which really feels appropriate right now added to the fact that I awoke to a snow-covered yard this morning. What do you think, is it too early to put up my tree?

Wishing you all a really happy week. Whatcha reading?


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What Fiction are you reading this fabulous week, Nov. 8, 2020? (Original Post) hermetic Nov 2020 OP
Well, I'd like to say I'm reading all the BS on Fox, grumpyduck Nov 2020 #1
I'll Keep You Safe by Peter May Ohiogal Nov 2020 #2
I've read a few of his hermetic Nov 2020 #4
"Do Black Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" gopiscrap Nov 2020 #3
I heard of this one somewhere hermetic Nov 2020 #7
it's pretty funny gopiscrap Nov 2020 #10
Reckless, by alias Selena Montgomery (Stacy Abrams) northoftheborder Nov 2020 #5
Oh my hermetic Nov 2020 #8
Read the first two. Embarrassed to say I am currently reading the latest rzemanfl Nov 2020 #6
I hear ya hermetic Nov 2020 #11
"A High Mortality of Doves" by Kate Ellis The King of Prussia Nov 2020 #9
Glad you are able hermetic Nov 2020 #12
I'm working on a collection of stories PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #13
Mmmm, hermetic Nov 2020 #15
It is. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #17
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam japple Nov 2020 #14
Veddy interesting... hermetic Nov 2020 #16
I just put that on hold at my library. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #18
Silent Bite, Rosenfelt's new Andy Carpenter book! SheltieLover Nov 2020 #19
Oh yay! hermetic Nov 2020 #21
It is SheltieLover Nov 2020 #24
Slouching towards Bethlehem leighbythesea2 Nov 2020 #20
Best of luck hermetic Nov 2020 #22
I love it leighbythesea2 Nov 2020 #23

Ohiogal

(34,641 posts)
2. I'll Keep You Safe by Peter May
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 12:47 PM
Nov 2020

I loved this author’s “Lewis Trilogy”

It surely IS a fabulous week, hermetic!

gopiscrap

(24,170 posts)
3. "Do Black Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?"
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 12:48 PM
Nov 2020

the story about a boy in Chicago coming to age in Roman Catholic High School

hermetic

(8,622 posts)
7. I heard of this one somewhere
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 12:58 PM
Nov 2020

Never read it, though. Sounds interesting. It's about the 60s - 70s. Fun times for me.

northoftheborder

(7,608 posts)
5. Reckless, by alias Selena Montgomery (Stacy Abrams)
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 12:56 PM
Nov 2020

Romance/murder mystery - what I call light fiction - but well written with more original characters than usual in the genre

rzemanfl

(30,288 posts)
6. Read the first two. Embarrassed to say I am currently reading the latest
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 12:58 PM
Nov 2020

Stone Barrington by Stuart Woods, Choppy Waters. Next up is Randy Wayne White's The Mangrove Coast. My brain needs a rest from all the strife and shit storming.

9. "A High Mortality of Doves" by Kate Ellis
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 01:04 PM
Nov 2020

First of a trilogy of mysteries set just after the First World War. Pretty good, but some of it is written in the present tense, which irritates me.

Busy week reading - I read "Sad Cypress" one of the few Agatha Christie novels that I hadn't read before. Also another Kate Ellis "The Death Season" - one of her "Wesley Peterson" mysteries set in South Devon. I recommend the whole series. And then a couple of Frances Brody's "Kate Shackleton" mysteries - set between the Wars. These are located near where I live - so I enjoy reading about places that I'm currently not allowed to visit.

We're back in lockdown, but it seems that the COVID cases (locally anyway) are shooting up and up.

Well done to you all for getting rid of your racist moron - but spare a thought for us. We're stuck with ours.

Stay safe.

hermetic

(8,622 posts)
12. Glad you are able
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 01:20 PM
Nov 2020

to keep up your impressive amount of reading. I appreciate your sharing of authors we might otherwise not hear about.

Stay safe and keep the faith. May our good fortune spread across the pond to you.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,727 posts)
13. I'm working on a collection of stories
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 02:58 PM
Nov 2020
Cryptic: The Best Short Stories of Jack Mcdevitt. It's in the kindle and I read a story or two before going to sleep.

Otherwise I'm about two thirds of the way through Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife. by Ariel Sabar. It's about the academic world and the fraud and forgery around the studies of the Bible and early Christianity. Fascinating.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,727 posts)
17. It is.
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 05:14 PM
Nov 2020
Veritas is brand new. I got it from my local library. I simply cannot afford to buy all the books I want to read.

I actually read a lot more non fiction than fiction, about a 2 to 1 ratio.

japple

(10,327 posts)
14. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 04:46 PM
Nov 2020

I am about 3/4 thru the book and it seemed like a story of fairly normal people having a strange encounter, but now something terrible is happening and I don't know what's going on!!! Stay tuned.

Description from amazon.com

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.

From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis.

Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe.

Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?


Many thanks for the thread, hermetic. Doing the happy dance with you and all the world!

hermetic

(8,622 posts)
16. Veddy interesting...
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 05:12 PM
Nov 2020

And creepy. What would you think? I tell ya, that's something that really does scare me. If the TV and internet and phone all went down, even living in a town with neighbors close by, imaginations would be running wild.

But for now...

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,727 posts)
18. I just put that on hold at my library.
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 05:18 PM
Nov 2020

72 people are ahead of me on the wait list. Right now the library has only one copy. Hopefully they will order a few more real soon.

leighbythesea2

(1,216 posts)
20. Slouching towards Bethlehem
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 11:21 PM
Nov 2020

But have been a while now.
Writing a thesis and one other class takes up the reading brain cells.
Cannot wait til December and can read for fun.

hermetic

(8,622 posts)
22. Best of luck
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 11:14 AM
Nov 2020

with your thesis!

I think I read Slouching about 50 years ago so have no good recollection of it. I should give it another look, see how it feels now.

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