What are you reading this week of November 15, 2015?

[hermetic]

I finished Outlander Friday night, intending to pick up something at the library Saturday, for a brief interlude between books. Then I was awakened at midnight by the news on NPR, which is always on by my bed. That kept me awake for awhile, listening. So I decided to go ahead and start reading Dragonfly in Amber, to get my mind off of reality.

That worked, but damn, Gabaldon, why are you toying with my emotions this way? Suddenly we're back in the future and not knowing wtf happened? We have to learn it all in retrospect? Damn. Wish I could write like that. With 800 more pages ahead, I guess this will be my redundant post every week. I can't wait to find out how they deal with this on the TV series.

Hope everyone is doing well and finding something to soothe the soul this week.

[japple]

1. Still reading A Higher Call by Adam Makos. So many things going on in

our household and with volunteer work that I haven't had as much time to read as usual. Went to a book fair sponsored by the library and Barnes & Noble, and though I didn't see much to pique my interest in the adult section, I did find a few of the new adult coloring books that were simply gorgeous and bought one with animal pictures for myself. This is for those times when I wake up at 1:00 a.m. and don't want to stimulate my mind by reading. I have several friends who use color books for relaxation and to enhance creativity.

ETA: Glad you are enjoying the Outlander series, Hermetic. My niece and SIL really love that series and my niece is borderline obsessed, having read through the entire thing at least twice.

[shenmue]

2. Lots and lots: "The Circle," by Bernard Minier;

"A Killing Winter," by Tom Callaghan; and "Entry Island," by Peter May.

A little celebratory splurge to celebrate my first month at my new job.

[Enthusiast]

3. Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, hermetic.

I finished The Wreckage by Michael Crummy. I found The Wreckage appealing. But it isn't for everyone. Now I am reading the Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. I'm not very far into it yet. I've had a slow week.

Mrs. Enthusiast read Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill. She loves the Dr. Siri novels.

After Disco for the Departed we screwed up, badly. Mrs. Enthusiast started The Third Gate by Lincoln Child. She kept saying, "This sure seems familiar." But she kept reading it thinking she had read a book with a similar plot years ago. It turned out we had both already read The Third Gate. Not only that but of all the books written by Lincoln Child or Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston as a team or separately, The Third Gate is possibly the least memorable. That's why we didn't remember it. I did the very same thing twice recently, accidentally rereading the first two C.J. Box books.

Now she is reading Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin. She is in her element.

[womanofthehills]

4. I'm reading "Night of the Fiestas" by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Short stories set in the small towns of northern NM. I am loving this book.

[Enthusiast]

5. From what I read on Fantastic Fiction that sounds really interesting. Most unusual.