What Fiction are you reading this week, November 10, 2024?

[hermetic]

Libraries have done so much to shape our humanity and our country.


The previous Trump administration proposed gutting federal funding for libraries every year he was in office.
We have since seen local attacks on libraries and the freedom to read across the country. Over a dozen states have enacted or attempted to enact legislation calling for prosecuting librarians and library workers. Now, state-by-state efforts to criminalize books and label the profession as offenders are succeeding. Book bans are key to Project 2025’s plans to discredit librarians and dismantle libraries.

Books like James, which I just finished reading, are likely to disappear from library shelves. Which would be terrible, as it's quite important and informative. Hint: slavery was not a pleasant lifestyle. Everett has written quite a few books. I'm going to look for Telephone which was nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Listening to Cold Days by Jim Butcher. I had never heard of this series before and this is book #16 in The Dresden Files. As a fantasy about wizards and such it was easy enough to figure out what all was going on without reading the others. It's quite entertaining and funny. Well written and well read.

Stock up on good books while you can.

[The King of Prussia]

1. "The Mind's Eye" by Hakan Nesser

I've been in a reading slump, but this is going to drag me out. Scandi-noir by an author I've not read before. 100 pages in and it's excellent.

[hermetic]

4. Sounds great!

Here's a page that tells all about author Nesser and his books, in case anyone wants to learn more:

https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/hakan-nesser/

[Marigold]

2. Disclaimer by Rene Knight

Thanks for sharing what you are reading. I got away from reading and was addicted to MSNBC, WaPo and the NYT for years now. It's time to do a cleanse. I have access to three libraries close to me and will now start using them. It is time to re-establish some priorities and support what I can in my community.

[hermetic]

3. Good plan

Thank you for sharing. Every Sunday we write about what fiction we are currently reading. It's a great source for finding new and interesting books. So be sure to stop in again.

[Polly Hennessey]

14. Disclaimer is now a series on AppleTV.

It stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sasha Baron Cohen. It is intense but very well done. I have not read the book.

[Marigold]

17. Great book about who controls the narrative

What seems obvious is not always the truth.

[MuseRider]

5. The Testaments

Margaret Atwood of course.

For some reason I had not gotten to this book. I am on Chapter 12 and finding it to be what I expected and very good. Kind of a bad time, emotionally, to be reading it but it still is very good. I am listening, so the narration plays a BIG part and it is very good too.

[hermetic]

6. Definitely

a must-read for these times. Hang in there.

[MuseRider]

7. You too.

It is not going to be an easy fight. Still got it in me.

[pscot]

8. To deal with post election trauma

i used kindle unlimited to download a dreadful regency romance novel that i read in one evening. It's the equivalent of scribbling all over your cortex and i recommend it for surcease from pain.

I'm working my way through a collection of early Maigret novels. These tend to sprawl a bit, unlike his later terse, compact style. He's one of my favorite writers and I like to reread him every 25 or 30 years.

I'm also reading Frank Herbert's Dune cycle. I read Dune back in the day but not the sequels. I guess i never realized the degree to which Herbert was introducing his political ideas into his novels. Some of them are not very nice. I'm now starting God Emperor of Dune and the weirdness has red lined

[japple]

9. Stephen King's book, Fairy Tale. I read all of his earliest books, but drifted away at some point.

I am really loving this one.

[hermetic]

20. Sounds great

Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?”

“As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city -- deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues... I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. I saw a magic sundial that could turn back time. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”

WOW

[Rigpa108]

10. What fiction I've been reading this week?

Articles about how Harris lost the election because of the "economy".

[LearnedHand]

11. Don't start with Cold Days!!!

Major spoilers for the rest of the series!!! I love love the Dresden Files.

[LearnedHand]

12. Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King

It's the follow-on to The Shining.

[mentalsolstice]

13. Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard

I’ll probably go on and read her sequel How the Light Gets In while I’m at it. For some reason I’m a sucker for novels about family dynamics and dysfunction.

Have a good week.

[Number9Dream]

15. I just finished "Angel of Vengeance" by Preston & Child.

Thanks for the thread, hermetic.

It's the newest Pendergast novel, and the finale of the Dr. Leng series. I would have to say it's my favorite book of the year. Great story, excellent ending, and even the epilogue is clever.

[hermetic]

18. Oh, good to hear

Thanks

[SaveOurDemocracy]

16. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Wittaker

I have macular degeneration In my right eye and so mostly listen to audio books from my library. I'm only 1/4 way into the story but it's very good.

Also, great narration by Edoardo Ballerini.

[hermetic]

19. That sounds awesome

A soaring thriller and an epic love story that “hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel”

Sorry to hear about your md. I've lost some sight in mine, as well. It's very depressing. I'm so grateful for Large Print editions.

[txwhitedove]

21. Sad Sunday. Later today we have family dinner for birthday fun, but they better not poke this bear.

Finished Gray After Dark, Noelle West Ihli. "When a tragic accident sidelines Miley's dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge. The Frank Church Wilderness is remote, but it’s the perfect place to train and recover. Local lore about a staffer who died years ago doesn’t scare her. But it should." This was a good nail biter.

Now reading The Cypress Maze, Fiona Valpi. "...haunting tale from the bestselling author of The Storyteller of Casablanca, Beatrice kept a wartime secret to protect the innocent. Now, could telling it set her free?" Author is a great story teller of love and loss. This set in Tuscany during WW2, and present day. Yes Nazis, but lovely reading.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Still reading: Pineapple Puzzles: A Pineapple Port Mystery (Pineapple Port Mysteries Book 3)Amy Van Zant

This is a cute series. The main character is living in an over-55 housing village in her grandmother's home. She was orphaned and lived with her grandmother; when grandmother died all her friends got together and convinced Social Services that they would take care of her and be her foster parents.
Now she is all grown up and solving mysteries.

After years dormant, the infamous Puzzle Killer returns to Charity, Florida, in search of a rival murderer out to claim the all-time murder record. When two serial killers battle for the throne, Charlotte, her boyfriend Declan, and a naked cat find themselves on the chopping block!

I have to tell you, her neighbors are just hilarioius.


There are 22 books in the series. I think I will be hanging out in Pineapple Port quite often.

With the election over, I will have more time to read.