What Fiction are you reading this week, April 29, 2018?

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Happy belated Indie Bookstore Day...



Finally got some new books happening here. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman A believable and fanciful tale of a young girl who loses her best friend, her grandmother.

I'm listening to Alice Hoffman's The Rules of Magic, coincidentally another story about children. Quite enjoyable.

What stories will you be enjoying this week?

[dameatball]

1. Finished up "Full Wolf Moon" by Lincoln Child

Now back to one of my favorites, Randy Wayne White "Hunter's Moon"

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5. Feeling a bit moony these days?

The moon these past few nights has really been spectacular.

The Child book says it's "...deeply entertaining. His most action-packed and white-knuckled novel to date." Sounds like a must-read.

And Randy White, wow! What a long list of winners he's written. Sanibel Flats was named as one of the Hundred Favorite Mystery Novels of the Twentieth Century by the American Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Will definitely have to read that.

Thanks for the update.

[dameatball]

18. Hey, you are correct. I didn't make the connection...:)

[redstateblues]

2. The Unlikely Spy-Daniel Silva

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6. Sounds pretty exciting --

...a fumbling history professor, Churchill's confidant, leader of Britain's counterintelligence operations. His mission: stop an unknown traitor at any cost, including his life.

[Squinch]

3. Ghost Stories of M.R. James.

Fabulous.

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7. Oh fun!

Loves me some ghost stories...

"M. R. James was a true master of the ghost story and tale of the unexpected."

[Squinch]

12. Old old old, but very fabulously creepy!

[MontanaMama]

4. The Plane That Wasn't There.

By Jeff Wise. It’s about a theory developed by an independent group of aviation and engineering experts about what happened to flight MH370. Absolutely fascinating.

[hermetic]

9. Howdy neighbor!

Good to see you.

That does sound like a fascinating read. Say, what's your library like there? Is there more than one in the city? Just wondering...

[MontanaMama]

21. Hi Neighbor!!

I must confess that I don’t use the library often. However, when I do use it it seems excellent to me. Lots of help finding material if you need it and the inter library loan program is wonderful. Missoula is in the beginning stages of building a big beautiful new library at the moment. The few deplorables we have are bawling about it, of course.

Hope you’re well. Spring is finally here in the inland NW!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. MY DEAR HAMILTON....

By Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie.

A historical fiction novel based on Eliza Schuler Hamilton's personal letters. This novel spans the days of the American Revolution to the early decades of the 19th century, as seen through the eyes of a wife of a Founding Father. Alexander Hamilton.

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10. That sound really interesting...

and informative.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. It is....

I am usually skeptical of historical fiction. But this is like reading one's diary in the manner in which it was meant to be read.

The people are real. James Monroe, Aaron Burr, George Washington, etc.

[northoftheborder]

13. finished - House of Spies, Daniel Silva - (fair review from me - have read another of his and....

marked his books off my list; very tedious IMHO)

finished - The Address, Fiona Davis - (very good IMHO)

A Letter of Mary - Laurie R. King (third in a series of her Sherlock Holmes novels) very good IMHO -- listening

The Night Manager - John Le Carre (very good, IMHO)-- reading

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15. Hey, thanks

Glad to hear the Sherlock books are holding up. I also enjoy hearing when someone thinks a book is tedious, because I feel I have so little time for all the books on my list as it is.

[PennyK]

14. A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis

First in a murder-mystery series about a 1900s psychiatrist, and written by one.
Just want to say that Kareem Abdul Jabbar's Mycroft Holmes was terrific! A shame he hasn't written more in this vein.

[hermetic]

16. Cool!

Glad to hear that. And hey, good news for you...

Do you know about Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook? It's a comic and it sounds terrific.

Then Mycroft and Sherlock, coming out later (Oct) this year. Yay for us!

[PennyK]

23. I read that the graphic novel is something else

...makes Mycroft into an action hero, much like the Robert Downey, Jr. Sherlock.
But wow, you're right! Mycroft & Sherlock will be a sequel...thanks so much! As I got to the end I was wishing for more.

[shenmue]

17. "A Higher Loyalty," James Comey

I wonder what it's about?

/s

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19. Apparently

it's about the Scooter Libby & Martha Stewart investigations, the NSA illegal surveillance programs & the historic showdown over its renewal/non-renewal at the hospital bed of John Ashcroft.

I hear it's quite good; much better than Fire and Fury.

[TexasProgresive]

20. "The Princes of Ireland" book 1 of Edward Rutherford's Dublin Saga.

Bone Box by Faye Kellerman did not seem up to her usual standards. The interplay between the characters seemed off and at the end it is as she tired of writing. I know that feeling.

I think I at least started reading the Princes book years ago. I certainly recognize the first chapters. It is funny how I got it last week. I was in our local bookstore when I lost track of my wife. I was looking down the aisles. One was empty but I saw something fly off the shelves to the floor. It was the 2nd book of the Dublin Saga The Rebels of Ireland. I had to see what book was trying to get my attention. I picked it up and sat down to read a bit of the 1st chapter. When I realized it was the 2nd book of 2 I went back and found the Princes.

Between them there are about 1500 pages so I will be in Ireland for a while.

[hermetic]

22. That is so funny!

And a little spooky. Like your ancestors are trying to get in touch.

Go with it, I say.

[murielm99]

24. I just finished a nonfiction book.

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Now I will go back to reading Ian Rankin's Rebus books for awhile.

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33. Good old Rebus

He may be retired but he can't seem to stay away from the work. Due out Jan. 2019

In a House of Lies

A new investigation threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus' past. Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over a decade earlier.

Yay!

[PoorMonger]

25. Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life.

The ocean is home to many myths,

But some are deadly...

Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a tragedy.

Now a new crew has been assembled. But this time they're not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life's work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost.

Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves.

But the secrets of the deep come with a price.

[PoorMonger]

26. This book is great!

Feels great to be out on the other side of another semester. Summer reading starts now!

[hermetic]

34. Oh, neat!

I have long been fascinated by the Mariana Trench as I lived close by as a teen so knew more about it than others.

I really must read this book now.

[PoorMonger]

27. The Storm King by Bendan Duffy

Haunted by dark secrets and an unsolved mystery, a young doctor returns to his isolated Adirondacks hometown in a tense, gripping novel in the vein of Michael Koryta and Harlan Coben.

Burying the past only gives it strength—and fury.

Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most people would envy. After a tumultuous youth marked by his inexplicable survival of a devastating tragedy, Nate left his Adirondack hometown of Greystone Lake and never looked back. Fourteen years later, he’s become a respected New York City surgeon, devoted husband, and loving father.

Then a body is discovered deep in the forests that surround Greystone Lake.

This disturbing news finally draws Nate home. While navigating a tense landscape of secrets and suspicion, resentments and guilt, Nate reconnects with estranged friends and old enemies, and encounters strangers who seem to know impossible things about him. Haunting every moment is the Lake’s sinister history and the memory of wild, beautiful Lucy Bennett, with whom Nate is forever linked by shattering loss and youthful passion.

As a massive hurricane bears down on the Northeast, the air becomes electric, the clouds grow dark, and escalating acts of violence echo events from Nate’s own past. Without a doubt, a reckoning is coming—one that will lay bare the lies that lifelong friends have told themselves and unleash a vengeance that may consume them all.

[PoorMonger]

28. Also good.

Strange how some themes carried over between these two very different stories.

[hermetic]

35. That does sound good

I love the Adirondacks though I only spent a few days there about 10 years ago, just driving around. Beautiful.

Congrats on finishing another year!

[PoorMonger]

29. Green Sun by Kent Anderson

Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home from the war.

But Hanson knows that justice requires more than simply enforcing the penal code. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves--which is why, unlike most officers, he chooses to live in the same town where he works. This strategy serves him well...to a point. He forges a precarious friendship with Felix Maxwell, the drug king of East Oakland, based on their shared sense of fairness and honor. He falls in love with Libya the moment he sees her, a confident and outspoken black woman. He is befriended by Weegee, a streetwise eleven-year-old who is primed to become a dope dealer.

Every day, every shift, tests a cop's boundaries between the man he wants to be and the officer of the law he's required to be. At last an off-duty shooting forces Hanson to finally face who he is, and which side of the law he belongs on.

[Laffy Kat]

30. Zone One.

By Colson Whitehead. I read his "Underground Railroad" recently and enjoyed his narrative style. "Zone One" is actually a dystopian, zombie story, quite different from "UR." I like this writer.

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36. Good to know.

Thanks.

[fierywoman]

31. "To Die But Once" by jacqueline Winspear

pure escapism!

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37. Sounds like a good story

And some really like the protagonist: "Maisie Dobbs - one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction..." (Richmond Times Dispatch)

[Timewas]

32. Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston

Cold vengeance, then Dean Koontz Innocence,and The Disappeared by C.J.Box..

rainy week here

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38. What better way

to spend a rainy day? Those are some great choices.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

39. Just finished The Flight Attendant

by Chris Bohjalian. A flight attendant wakes up in a hotel room in Dubai next to a dead man. She has a serious drinking problem and often has blackouts. It's quite good, other a couple of minor plot lapses, such as someone being able to track her on a cell phone, without it ever being made clear exactly how that was made to happen. Bohjalian has written a bunch of other books and I'll probably read some of them.

Earlier this week I read Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson. Liked that one a lot also.