What Fiction are you reading this week, Oct. 18, 2020?

[hermetic]

Reading The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King. Ahhh, Paris in the 1920s. You never know who you might run into there: Hemingway, Picasso, Man Ray. Private investigator Harris Stuyvesant encounters them and others while trying to find a missing girl. I only just learned that there is a prequel to this story which I most likely should have read. It's still good enough, though.

Still listening to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Lots of magic going on.

Anything magical on your reading list this week?

[yellowdogintexas]

1. just finished "Let Me In" and am now looking for a new read

I have a ton of books on my kindle from which to choose.

This may not happen until after Nov 3, since I am very busy dropping flyers in my precinct.

I have dropped 150 so far. The weather is so nice for this.

[The King of Prussia]

3. Keep up the good work!

[hermetic]

4. Excellent!

Glad you got some good weather for it. Turn Texas Blue! Looks like it might happen.
I absentee voted Thursday and for the next 2 weeks I'll be making phone calls to GOTV.

[The King of Prussia]

2. "Gently to the Summit" by Alan Hunter

A murder mystery written in the year of my birth. For anyone who likes whodunnits, the series is worth checking out.

Read a few this week - the highlight was "Armada Boy" by Kate Ellis - another series very well worth checking out.

Otherwise checking out Covid 19 statistics. Staying fairly level in our village, but raging out of control in the country generally. Speculating how many millions of lost jobs, how many deaths, how many childrens' futures ruined before the "Great British Public" realise that voting on the basis of religious and racial bigotry is not sensible.

We're not leaving the house.

[hermetic]

5. Wouldn't it be nice

if people started to see the reality of that? I won't hold my breath.

Oh, , Gently is the investigator's name. Murders on Mount Everest. That does sound like a good one. Thanks.

Stay well.

[TexasProgresive]

6. Being aN illiterate recliner potato

Not reading much.

[hermetic]

7. Yeah,

I do that once in a while myself. Might as well. Can't dance...

Hang in there, pal. The end is in sight, one way or another.

[Polly Hennessey]

8. Not fiction but fascinating: The Emperor of All Maladies

by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

For the magic in me, a new cozy: To Catch A Witch by Heather Blake.

[hermetic]

9. A Wishcraft mystery

Those sound like fun.

In case anyone is curious, The Emperor of All Maladies is a Pulitzer Prize winning Biography of Cancer. An amazing study.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Almost done with

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan. It's the third of a trilogy, the other two being Crazy Rich Asians and Rich China Girlfriend. They are all excellent.

[Chainfire]

11. I am about finished with my third Grisham novel this week

it has been a binge. I have a sneaky feeling that I had read one of them before, but as long as you don't know what is going to happen next it is all good.

[hermetic]

12. Grisham is good for a binge

He's certainly written enough entertaining novels to keep a person busy for a good long while. Even if you DO read one more than once.

[japple]

13. Finished Silas House's Southernmost and recommend it most highly. It is

a beautiful, satisfying read.

Now reading a nonfiction work, Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive.

An Amazon Best Book of August 2020: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s taut memoir will leave you breathless and sad, but please trust me when I say it’s worth the read. Perhaps it’s no surprise this poet is a beautiful, provocative writer; the way she describes, unpacks, and shares what it was like to grow up with a Black mother and a white father, and to have her mother killed when Trethewey was only 19, is tragically clear-eyed. Trethewey digs into her mother’s life, and her own childhood, and in so doing she gives shape to the embedded racism of this country, which feels incredibly relevant today. At the same time, she describes how childhood trauma and the fierce love of her mother shaped her heart, mind, and art. —Sarah Gelman, Amazon Book Review