What Fiction are you reading this week, Jan. 10, 2021?

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Old Baggage by Lissa Evans is a really great story. It's a funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman in the 1920s who has never given up the fight for equality. In light of what's happening in our country right now, it's quite thought-provoking. Voters' rights, protests, fascists, the power of the media; they're all in there.

Peace Like a River was Leif Enger's debut novel. It's quite a stunner. Taking place in very rural Minnesota and the Dakotas in the early 1960s, some things happen that might really get your blood boiling. I wanted to jump right into the story and punch someone, and I'm an old peacenik. Heckuva tale.

I did want to say that I got The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency first season DVDs from the library and they are absolutely marvelous. Laughter and tears. Highly recommend.

What books would you recommend, or not, this week?

[Ohiya]

1. Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood

At over, 900 pages, it should keep me busy for a few days. Though, the first 100 pages went by quickly.

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2. Mmmm,

that sounds really good. A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic; mystery/thriller.

[SheltieLover]

3. Evanovich's "Fortune & Glory"

Just started it. Appears Stephanie & Grandma are still chasing the treasure & trying to figure out the significance of the keys.

Finishing Hiaasen's "Tourist Season), a bit graphic for my taste, tbh.

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4. Evanovich

She should keep you busy for a while with 47 novels. And then there's all the ones she co-authored.

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5. Sadly, I've read all the others at least twice.

I think I need more Hiaasen type humor.

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7. Look down one

There's a cozy author you might like, Hannah Dennison.

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9. Ty so much!

[The King of Prussia]

6. I'm still on Murder at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison

It's quite jolly, but I just can't focus on reading. The situation in most of the country is appaling - but fortunately not here - yet. Cases here were substantially higher at the start of November and there are signs that lockdown is causing a downtown. We, again, aren't leaving the house.

Stay safe DU readers - Joe & Kamala are coming!

[TEB]

8. Re reading Michael moorcock

The corum series after 34 years reading the series first time.

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10. Many thanks for the weekly thread.

I'm thrilled to see two of my favorite books in your OP this week. Hope they have provided a diversion from the recent unpleasantness in our country. I am about 3/4 of the way through Lydia Millet's book, A Children's Bible.

(from amazon)

Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet’s sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven—follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.

Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, the group’s ringleaders—including Eve, who narrates the story—decide to run away, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.

As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother, Eve devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm.

A Children’s Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of generational divide—and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.

This is an unusual story and I'm not quite sure where it's going. The characters, at least the younger ones, are quite endearing although they seem more mature than the children, tweens, teens I know. The adults are pretty disgusting and I'm happy to say that I don't know many like these either, though from my reading, I know people like these really exist.

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11. That sounds pretty interesting

or disturbing.

Always happy to see you, my dear.