What Fiction are you reading this week, Oct. 11, 2020? [View all]

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One thing that most people seem to agree on is that reading is near the core of how to change your mind and yourself. --Thomas Oppong

I am reading the last story in the marvelous Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood. I finished my library books and can't get back there till Tuesday and it's the only book left in my personal library that I hadn't read.

I am listening to the Hugo Award winner Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, a humorous fantastical alternative history of the Napoleonic Wars by Susanna Clarke. A very long tale at over 1,000 pages in book form, it contains almost 200 footnotes (included in the reading), "outlining the backstory and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship."

What's new, or old, on your reading list this week?

And how does one celebrate Columbus Day, anyway? Go to the grocery store and get lost looking for spices?