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hermetic

(8,614 posts)
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 10:11 AM Sep 29

What Fiction are you reading this week, September 29, 2024?

Not my cake

But it is my BD

Just finished The Evil Men Do by John McMahon. It's new and a good mystery, though it seemed unnecessarily long. This is going to be a series, Detective P.T. Marsh.

Next up for me: Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd.

Listening to Treasure State by C. J. Box. This is a pretty new one and although part of a series, works fine as a stand-alone. I'm quite enjoying it, despite some characters complaining about having to wear masks due to Covid. If you read reviews you'll find this was a big issue for some readers.

I'll be running off later in search of a margarita so let us know what you're reading, who wrote it, and whether or not you are liking it. And know I appreciate you.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, September 29, 2024? (Original Post) hermetic Sep 29 OP
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND. Happy Reading BOSSHOG Sep 29 #1
Thanks hermetic Sep 29 #5
The Amazon Kindle app. Arne Sep 29 #2
I'm reading Anthony Horowitz, With a Mind to Kill, brer cat Sep 29 #3
Happy birthday, enjoy that margarita! mentalsolstice Sep 29 #4
Perfect for Halloween or any day... Sequoia Sep 29 #6
Still chugging away... Moostache Sep 29 #7
I've read The Dresden Files at least 3 times LearnedHand Oct 4 #12
Thanks... Moostache Oct 7 #13
Just started the 2nd book of Attica Locke's Hwy 59 series japple Sep 29 #8
This series looks good. Put several titles on library hold. Thanks for the tip. cbabe Sep 29 #10
The Dark Wives/Ann Cleves cbabe Sep 29 #9
Now reading War of the Wolf, number 11 in Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Tales. rsdsharp Sep 29 #11

BOSSHOG

(39,731 posts)
1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND. Happy Reading
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 10:15 AM
Sep 29

I’m plowing through John Grisham’s The Chamber. KKK member arrested for fire bomb killing two. Ends up in jail. Being defended by his grandson he hadn’t seen in 20 some odd years. Book from 1994. I like reading the old stuff. Grisham books are a pleasure to read except the last five pages usually. It seems his bad guys never get what I think they deserve.

Arne

(3,580 posts)
2. The Amazon Kindle app.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 10:29 AM
Sep 29

allowed me to read a futuristic sci fi.
It was inexpensive and I make the print large.
This is the second time I've mentioned it because
I keep thinking about the story.

Title: Ekam The One, Author: John Ryan.

Starts with a quirk of time travel bringing you to a future world
after the climate catastrophe and after the first AI war.

brer cat

(26,177 posts)
3. I'm reading Anthony Horowitz, With a Mind to Kill,
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 10:29 AM
Sep 29

a James Bond novel. I have never been a Bond fan but was interested to see what Horowitz did with him. So far ok.

Next up, Greg Iles, Mississippi Blood, the conclusion of Natchez Burning Trilogy.

mentalsolstice

(4,509 posts)
4. Happy birthday, enjoy that margarita!
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 10:36 AM
Sep 29

I’m almost done with The Possible World by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz. It’s so good I may follow up with another of her books What Could Be Saved.

Sequoia

(12,528 posts)
6. Perfect for Halloween or any day...
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 11:09 AM
Sep 29

I don't usually read a book twice, but the Russian novel, "The Master and Margarita", by Mikhail Bulgakov, is the exception. The devil in disguise comes to Moscow with some of his pals which include a big black cat, and causes psychological hysteria among the people with all sorts of clever tricks. A woman in love enlists his help in securing the man she loves who is in the mental asylum, and the wild ride begins.

Moostache

(10,137 posts)
7. Still chugging away...
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 11:13 AM
Sep 29

100 Years of Solitude
Don Quixote
I have slogging through these 2 books for a hot minute now (into the third month).

Also starting The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher) and finishing off "Everything's Eventual" 14 short stories by Stephen King.

My goal was 100 books in 2024. I am at 76, so it might be close but I'm at max reading now...too many books, not enough time.

LearnedHand

(4,006 posts)
12. I've read The Dresden Files at least 3 times
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 06:46 PM
Oct 4

The premise is great, the writing is funny (especially the dialogue), and if you like audiobooks, James Marsters reads them.

Moostache

(10,137 posts)
13. Thanks...
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 09:36 AM
Oct 7

Finished the first book over the weekend. Fast paced, but I felt the story was a little thin. I'm hoping that it picks up as a series (I bought the first 4 volumes for $3 at a thrift store, so I'm in for at least those now!)...

I have a ton of audiobooks on my car's playlists, so if I come across these I may have to look into that as well!

japple

(10,305 posts)
8. Just started the 2nd book of Attica Locke's Hwy 59 series
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 12:18 PM
Sep 29
Heaven, My Home
In this "captivating" crime novel (People), Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child -- but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.
9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark.

Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage.

An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas - and some of the era's racial attitudes still thrive as well. Levi's disappearance has links to Darren's last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boy's grandmother, who seems more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her grandson.

Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, as he races to find the boy, and to save himself.


Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic. Hope your birthday is wonderful and includes cake and other good things

rsdsharp

(10,098 posts)
11. Now reading War of the Wolf, number 11 in Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Tales.
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:27 PM
Sep 29

I think I spent all summer on this series. Only two more left after this one. There is another called Uhtred’s Feast which is primarily a cookbook, which I’ll probably skip. The descriptions of the food in 9th and 10th century Britain doesn’t tempt me much.

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