What are you reading this week of February 25, 2018?

[hermetic]

I'm reading A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. "Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it." It's quite funny.

Listening to The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. This book is so intricate and intense. Tartt really puts you right there and it's sometimes unpleasant or even quite infuriating. No wonder it won a Nobel for fiction.

What's your favorite book this week? Please be sure to tell us who wrote it and something about it.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. The Alienist by Caleb Carr.

An atmospheric novel about a serial killer in 1896 New York city.

A good read so far.

[Zoonart]

2. Right now... reading Fire and Fury, but

If you are enjoying the Alienist... let me recommend to you, "The Devil In The White City", by Eric Larson. About America's first serial killer operating in Chicago during the Worlds' Fair of 1893.

[hermetic]

8. Oh wow

I've just read all about "Dr. Holmes" and his hotel and now I can't wait to read the book. Thanks for telling us about it.

[shenmue]

3. Me too, for the third time

[hermetic]

9. That sounds pretty intense

[Glamrock]

4. Currently reading

DU!

[TexasProgresive]

5. Just started P.D. James' "A Certain Justice"

Major by Todd Balf was a great read of how a young man born in an ultra racist time was able to stay true and become the fastest cyclist in the world. It is really interesting how he was received in other countries contrasting that to the United States. Anybody who doesn't believe in white privilege should read this book and have their blind eyes openned.

[hermetic]

6. That James book

appears to be one of her most popular. Be sure to let us know what you think of it.

Don't get me started on other countries contrasted to the United States. I am so glad for DU these days where I can see other aware people and I don't feel quite so doomed.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

7. Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

I had to put Goldfinch on hold because several holds from the library became available. I'm a little over half way through Gentleman and it is incredible.

[hermetic]

10. Isn't it

wonderful? Truly a great book.

[shenmue]

11. Death in the Air, Kate Dawson

[hermetic]

12. Aha!

I see what you did there.

Recently published, "A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Just finished "A Gentleman in Moscow".

It's incredible. All along the way it was so good and so satisfying that I was afraid the ending might be a cheat. But it's not.

I think what I liked best is that it reads as if it were translated from the Russian. I mean that in a good way.

I have put his other book, Rules of Civility on hold. There are currently 11 other people ahead of me on the wait list, but the library has 5 copies. I think they recently purchased more because of a sudden demand for this one, no doubt from people like me who've read A Gentleman in Moscow.