What Fiction are you reading this week, October 13, 2019?

[hermetic]

I often end up reading two books at the same time.

I had to set my Ian Rankin book aside to read The Testaments. This is one creepy and depressing story. It's listed under both Romance and Science Fiction but I have yet to see evidence of either. Of course, I'm only half way through. Things are just starting to unfold, now that we know who all the players are.

Finished Trickster’s Point by Krueger which I found to be a very interesting tale.
I just got the audio Guilt by J Kellerman which sounds like it will be quite good and also creepy. Looking forward to it.

Any multiple readings going on at your house?

[TexasProgresive]

1. "Cold Earth" a Jimmy Perez Shetland novel by Ann Cleeves.

It is very good. I finished The Forgotten Girls A Louise Rick novel by Sara Blaedel. It was quite good. A warning, the main story covers a lot of violence including rape and murder of women. There is one scene near the end of the book that is awful. That said it is well worth reading. I can't imagine anyone but a woman writing this book.

[hermetic]

3. I always learn

the most interesting things around here.

Ann Cleeves had a part in writing some of Midsomer Murders. And two of her book series have inspired BBC TV series: Vera and Shetland. My library has both so I'm looking forward to having lots of fun new things to watch. This makes me very happy.


Hope you are doing well.

[TexasProgresive]

9. Doing well

We just got the first cool front of the year. The temperature dropped from near 100 to the 50s with rain. It has come late this year. Did you have to dig out from snow?

[hermetic]

12. No snow here

We don't usually see any until late November. Sure got cold, though. Had to break out the down jacket already. But it's going back to normal now. Thank goodness.

[Trueblue Texan]

2. What the Dead Know...

by Laura Lippman. I enjoyed her novel Lady in the Lake.

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4. Looks like Lippman

has written lots of really enjoyable books. If you like mysteries and psychological thrillers, which I do. Definitely worth checking out.

[Ohiogal]

5. The Book of Gutsy Women

by none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

(On the bottom of the front cover: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience)

I finished Lab Girl by Hope Jahren and enjoyed it very much.

And I have read all the Cork O’Connor series by Krueger and enjoyed those, too

[hermetic]

6. Love the cover!

More than a hundred women are featured in the volume

[Ohiogal]

7. They are

civilian firefighters pictured during a training exercise at the Pearl Harbor naval shipyard circa 1941. 👍

[TexasProgresive]

10. I saw a pair of gutsy women on TV talking about this book.

Chelsea really has a fine mind, well what choice did she have. She picked her parents well.

Not I have a bone to pick with you. I am not getting any younger and now I want to read all of the Cork O'Connor series. I love the idea of a protagonist being half Ojibwa and Irish. I find that well researched novels teach be so much about locations and peoples than a lot of non fiction. I travel all over the world meeting people from different cultures from my chair. Thanks, Ohiogal.

[Ohiogal]

11. Oh,you will like them!

Krueger helped me understand many beliefs of Native society, but he’s also realistic about portrayal of life on the “Rez”. Plus, the stories are really good!

I love recommending a book I enjoyed to someone else.... you’re so welcome.

An aside, I saw Chelsea speak in person along with Sally Field, during the 2016 campaign and I was so impressed with her intellect and ability to thoroughly answer questions from the audience right on the spot. I hope she runs for office some day.

[The King of Prussia]

13. Derby Day by DJ Taylor

A Victorian mystery. Pretty good so far, apart from a howling error in the first scene. I think I'm going to enjoy it. Otherwise I've picked up (again) 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. I'm listening to them and have reached 1969 so far. I think I will listen to the first 1000 and give the last one a miss. I don't want to die.
Otherwise I (tried to) read A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore - our book club selection for this month. No way of sugaring the pill - I absolutely loathed it and gave up at page 45. Maybe the problem is me, or I'm not the target audience. There is a review on Goodreads from a lady who read the whole thing, and who eviscerates it far more eloquently than I ever could.
Up next - not sure. I have a huge biography of LBJ on the shelves, but I'm quite intimidated by it, and I reckon it would keep me quiet for a month.

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[hermetic]

14. I HAD to look that up,

(1001 Albums). Judging by what I read at Wikipedia I'd guess I've heard 700 - 800 of them. I once had a vast vinyl collection of over 1,000 albums, most of which were destroyed in a flood.

I used to listen to a show on CBC Radio called “Vinyl Cafe” about a record store owner and his wife and she belonged to a book club. There was one episode where she had to read this awful book and discuss it and it was quite amusing. If you ever get a chance to hear this show I highly recommend it.

[bif]

16. CBC used t have some great shows back in the day

Like Gilmore's Records and the Max Ferguson Show. Now it's just Canadian pop songs which they replay endlessly.

[bif]

15. That Old Cape Magic" by Richard Russo

I really get tired of books about academia, but he's such a good writer, I overlook that. I'm about 50 pages in and it does not disappoint. As I suspected.

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17. I love Russo's stories

Hadn't read that one but I guess I should: " The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written."

So, thanks.