What Fiction are you reading this week, July 18, 2021?

[hermetic]

Still reading Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves, Good story; I'm just so exhausted from the heat every day I can't stay awake long enough to read much.

Listening to The Well of Lost Plots by Fforde. I love how this innovative author depicts the tools of creative writing as actual characters in this parallel universe he has imagined. I love that there is a council of genres, a department of jurisfiction, not to mention a rage counseling group for the characters of Wuthering Heights. (Poor Heathcliff ) I just laugh and laugh, listening to this, even though there is an evil murderer out to get everyone. So amazing.

And you? Whatchew got to read this week?

[The King of Prussia]

1. "The Ship of Death" by Vera Morris

A murder mystery set in and around Dunwich on the Suffolk coast in 1972 (the history of Dunwich is worth a glance for the unfamiliar).

Earlier in the week I read "Death awaits in Durham" by Helen Cox. Pretty cosy, pretty good.

Next up will be "Dead Still" by T. F. Muir.

Having a weekend away in Northumberland next week (home to Vera amongst others). Taking a boat trip to the Farne Islands and probably visiting this place: https://www.barterbooks.co.uk

(Of course the way Johnson & his mates are carrying on we may be back in lockdown by then).

I'm still planning to walk over to Wuthering Heights and read the book there, but I never get round to it.

Keep as cool as you can!

[hermetic]

2. I gave it a glance

So glad I did. What a interesting place to visit. I even found Al Stewart's song The Coldest Winter in Memory, where he says: "By the lost town of Dunwich
The shore was washed away
They say you hear the church bells still
As they toll beneath the waves"

Plus, my favorite musician, Brian Eno, was born about 23 miles from there and has a song "Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960," which I love.

Of course we've all heard of H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Dunwich Horror" though it's been a very long time since I read it.

Enjoy your little vacay and don't get too close to anyone. No doubt we'll all be locked in again soon enough.

[The King of Prussia]

3. I'm a big Al Stewart fan

Seen him live several times.

And... you can't hear the church bells!

[hermetic]

4. Aww,

How cool would that be? Dong.....dong...

[murielm99]

5. I am reading

Savage Run by C.J. Box. It is book two in the Joe Pickett series.

I am enjoying these books. I became interested in them after we started watching "Big Sky" on TV. It is a great series. If you are watching it, pay particular attention to the sound track.

I nearly left my book behind in Casey's the other day. The clerk handed my my book, and she was excited to see that someone else was reading those books. She has read the books that the TV series is based on. She was watching with her father. She would get excited and say, "Oh! Oh! Don't miss this part!" Finally, he told her to go to her room.

Joe Pickett is a young game warden in Wyoming. He has integrity and bravery, but he is far from perfect. These books are good adventure reads, but they should leave you thinking.

[hermetic]

6. C J has so many books

My library has 140! I would like to see the TV series. Thanks for the recommendation.

[marble falls]

7. 45's resume. Total fiction.

[hermetic]

8. I like you

You seem like a reasonable person. Don't waste your time on that garbage. There are so many really good things to read, for now anyway. You can always come here for great suggestions.

I know you were making a joke. Touche. Thanks for keeping the thread going. Hope you are having a good day.

[marble falls]

9. Life is good, we're starting to turn the corner. I'm reading a book called, "Another Quiet ...

... American", it's written by an aid worker who worked in Laos and has such a RW undercurrent about it. I think it might be factual, but it isn't truthful.

Also rereading "Dandelion Wine" and "Martian Chronicles".

[hermetic]

10. Bradbury was one of the best

Timeless, don't you think?

I remember reading The Quiet American so so many years ago. Graham Greene. Was quite eye-opening, back then. But, we have seen a lot since then.

Your book sounds good: Brett Dakin spent two years working in Laos and returned to the States a changed man. In Another Quiet American, he takes you through the corridors of power and the living rooms of the poor in Laos.

For an enlightened society, we've got a long way to go. I am grateful for authors like this, who tell us what they saw.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. A Temporary Ghost by Michaela Thompson

second in a series. young American writer/journalist impulsively moves to Paris, where she finds mysteries to solve.

[hermetic]

12. Ms Thompson

has written 16 mysteries, under the pseudonym of Mickey Friedman. In this story Georgia Lee Maxwell eagerly agrees to help ghostwrite a book. When she arrives at the home of the would-be author, she meets a wealthy widow and accused murderess, who presides over a houseful of suspicious characters. That sounds delightfully mysterious.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. It was!

I want to read some of her other series!