What Fiction are you reading this week, April 28, 2019?

[hermetic]

I’m still soldiering through The Illearth War.

Not listening to anything right now since my local Overdrive doesn’t have ANY audio books available right now. Guess I’ll go to the library tomorrow and find something on a CD.

What are you reading this week? Chat among yourselves here as I’m off to a Drag Queen Bingo & Brunch. Should be great fun. Back later today.

[dameatball]

1. "Deeper" byJeff Long. It is a sequel to his novel "Descent."

[hermetic]

9. Sounds pretty exciting...

Hell exists. It is a real, geological, historical place beneath our very feet. And it is inhabited savagely. The real Satan can't be killed, and he has been waiting since the beginning of time to gain his freedom.

[dameatball]

15. Yes, and he loves KFC.

[Nuggets]

2. The Bible. Nt

[shenmue]

3. Last Bus to Woodstock. Morse's first appearance.

By Colin Dexter.

Unfortunately, he's 45, an alcoholic, a diabetic, and a woman-hater who falls in love with women half his age.

Neither John Thaw nor Shaun Evans has portrayed the man as the asshole he becomes.

[hermetic]

10. From the 70s

Sounds pretty cool. Imma look for it.

[murielm99]

4. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling.

Laurie B. King recommends it in conjunction with her book, "The Game."

I can't say I like it. It is dated, and this edition has too many footnotes and scholarly appendices.

And to think that this was considered juvenile literature at one time!

I thought I would enjoy it. I like the Jungle Books, And Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is one of my favorite short stories.

[hermetic]

11. Thanks!

So glad you said that. I'll be reading The Game soon enough and will just hit Wikipedia for a Kim overview.

[TexasProgresive]

5. Still in the "The Shadow Rises" and listening to the "The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth, Book 2"

Been pretty busy the past couple of weeks.

[hermetic]

12. Here, too

obviously. A whole lot going on in my life and my yard and I just can't keep up with everything.

[TexasProgresive]

16. We just got another 6 inches of rain the last 2 days

Today is sunny. I was walking to the mailbox and saw diamonds glittering in the rough. Gotta find beauty in all things.

I usually do a group ride on Friday but the weather was horrible. Went today with a great group. We rode through 3 sections of water okay but had to turn back at a river of water crossing the road.

When I got home I washed, dried my bike and lubed my chain.

Got to listen to a couple of chapters of Stone Sky.

[TrogL]

6. "Babel-17" by Samuel R. Delaney

Got it, “Triton” and “Dhalgren” for $9 at a used book store. My other copies are God knows where in storage.

[hermetic]

13. Good deal!

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Just finished J.K. Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy".

[dweller]

8. I'm all over the board..

for I love a good read... went through a Michael Connelly Harry Bosch and segued into a Alexander Campion thrift shop mystery of a French inspector investigating the Death of a Chef, fun with lots of foodie refs, and as I'm in the service industry, considered taking it into work to read and leaving it around in view to give the chef a quizzical glimpse...
then found a pristine copy of a recent (2017) Haken Nesser 'The Inspector and Silence' that I'll keep for the library... searched online for more to follow up , as I like the calm intensity of his investigatory tutorials...

but mostly I need the break from the political mishmash on DU, not that I don't want to know what is happening daily in the insanity of the madman in office, I just need the break into fictive madness also

so after Nesser I dropped into a local used and new bookstore my daughter, sil, and grandson had given me a gift certificate for my bd to see what was to offer... I'd already found a Bosch, a Nesbo and another there, looked around... no luck, so left... was on the sidewalk outside perusing a rack (no luck) and decided to go back inside again and found a rack of $1 paperbacks...

picked up an Adrian McKinty 'Police At the Station, and They Don't Look Friendly' ... a continuation of the Sean Duffy series... I read McKnty's 'Dead Trilogy' years before, and other works so knew it would be fun and distractful and help to keep me mind from the political shitshow for a bit...
......
p.185, during an interview with a suspect into the murder of a drug dealer by crossbow, Duffy and team are checking a lead with a Bulgarian in a snug in a pub...
"You I trust to do do the right thing, Duffy. Perhaps I would have kept the information to myself if I did not trust you" Yavarov said and finished his vodka. He took a sip of the nasty looking lager.
"You have tried Harp?" he asked.
"Yes" we all said together.
"It is good no?"
"Maybe it's an acquired taste," I said to be polite. (Belfast pub Harp was an acquired taste like caprophagia or getting pissed on by hookers.)
😳😆😂
and at that point I'm laughing so hard I want to wet meself and boom, I'm back on DU checking the news...

ymmv,

✌🏼️

[hermetic]

14. So happy to have your post!

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