What Fiction are you reading this week, May 5, 2019?
I’m reading A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King. Each chapter starts with a rather incendiary quote about women, taken from the Bible or other “scholarly” tomes. They really set the tone for what goes on in the story and I am absolutely loving it. Laurie is so fun to read.
Listening to The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman. “A story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another's tragic loss…exquisite and unforgettable, a deeply moving novel.” I’ve only just started but am already hooked. The idea of being a lighthouse keeper on an isolated island has always appealed to me.
What’s appealing to you this week?
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The CIA resurrects a hit man from the dead and transforms him into a killing machine with the power to wipe out humanity. 1997
As always, he's disturbing. 
You can pretty much always count on that from Koontz. 
books with that title. I imagine you are talking about Armistead Maupin's fabulous writing. 
Here's other authors who have books called Babycakes.
Sanders, Glenda
Kauffman, Donna
Russell, Amanda
Bailey, Sidney John
Ure, Jean
Thompson, Katrina
Darlington
Manners, Mary
takes place in the early 1900s. In Australia.
Gwendy's Button Box Love that title, and it sounds terrific. "The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told -- until now." 
I remember hearing about this book when it came out. Never got around to it, though, so
from Richard Stark (Donald Westlake).
If you haven't read them, they are crime procedurals (not police procedurals) with a thoroughly professional, conscienceless (anti)hero, Parker. In general, the first half of each book is the locating, vetting, and setup of the heist/caper and is all from Parker's point of view. The third quarter is from any else's point of view as the event happens or goes wrong. The final quarter is Parker again with dealing with the fallout.
He does not have a heart of gold. He does give, though, and expect professionalism and loyalty to the job. Several of the books (and the movie Payback) draw much of the plot about partners who transgress this one rule of his.
While books under Westlake's name are often very comic (for example trying to pull off a burglary at the Watergate on exactly the wrong night), when he writes as Stark, they are flat-out, excellently done noir. That's not to say that they are without humor, just sharper (while threatening someone with a gun, to convince him not to do something stupid, taking out his wallet and saying "Jim. Good name, Jim. I see you are an organ donor, Jim. That's a wonderful thing, being an organ donor, Jim..."
The prose is spare, clean, and beautiful like a boulder might be beautiful. U of Chicago has brought out new trade paperback editions of all of them, but lots of libraries and used book places have them as well.
On audio, I'm listening to Brene Brown's "Daring Boldly" about vulnerability and how to properly access it to create courage to change.
of the Parkers. Funny, they're all in the large print section so I guess they think only us old peeps would find them interesting. 
Oh well, works for me.
I just got a Lee Child to listen to and there is one Swanson at the library for later reading.