Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat 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?
grumpyduck
(6,650 posts)but I can't stand to go there.
Ohiogal
(34,641 posts)I loved this authors Lewis Trilogy
It surely IS a fabulous week, hermetic!
hermetic
(8,622 posts)Always enjoyed them. This one sounds quite good, too.
gopiscrap
(24,170 posts)the story about a boy in Chicago coming to age in Roman Catholic High School
hermetic
(8,622 posts)Never read it, though. Sounds interesting. It's about the 60s - 70s. Fun times for me.
gopiscrap
(24,170 posts)and I can relate since I went to parochial schools for 9 years
northoftheborder
(7,608 posts)Romance/murder mystery - what I call light fiction - but well written with more original characters than usual in the genre
hermetic
(8,622 posts)I. had no idea. She wrote quite a few. Well, I'm gonna have to start reading those. Thanks!!
rzemanfl
(30,288 posts)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.
hermetic
(8,622 posts)Those sound like some good, get away from reality thrillers. Enjoy!
The King of Prussia
(744 posts)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)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)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.
hermetic
(8,622 posts)That does sound fascinating.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,727 posts)I actually read a lot more non fiction than fiction, about a 2 to 1 ratio.
japple
(10,327 posts)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
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 reshapedand unexpected new ones are forgedin 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 theyve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older coupleits their house, and theyve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural areawith the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone serviceits hard to know what to believe.
Should Amanda and Clay trust this coupleand 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)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)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.
SheltieLover
(59,611 posts)hermetic
(8,622 posts)Good news.
SheltieLover
(59,611 posts)And it is a delicious read!
leighbythesea2
(1,216 posts)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)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.
leighbythesea2
(1,216 posts)Was in so cal for years. So im nostalgic anyway. !