What Fiction are you reading this week, June 12, 2022?

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Fairytale Forest, Netherlands

Still reading and enjoying A Dark So Deadly by Stewart MacBride. Only 200 pages left now. I'm thinking this would make a really good movie.

I am listening to The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, on Playaway Audio Books! I had never heard of these although my library has a large shelf unit full of them. I always thought they were something you put in a Kindle or other reader. I wanted to get this book and I saw online it said "audio" so I thought it was an Overdrive book to listen to in my browser. I clicked on it and it said it would be ready for me at the library the next day.

I was a little confused but had to go there anyway to drop some movies off so I thought I'd just see what this was all about. So, I picked up this plastic box which contains a little thing about the size of a cassette tape but it has a screen on it and some buttons and instructions. And lo and behold, it's a little audio book that you just pop in a small battery, plug in your headphones and push go. Genius!! I cannot tell you how happy I am about this. How come I never heard of these before? Have you tried them? Evidently not all libraries have them but you might want to check yours because this is an amazing invention. And, this is a really great book. A humorous romantic fantasy. Some real laugh out loud lines.

What books are tickling your fancy this week?