What Fiction are you reading this week, September 30, 2018?

[hermetic]

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“The Introvert” by Cynthia Decker. I love this picture.

I'm reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I completely fell in love with this book on the first page. The concept of the riddles is so appealing to me, in spite of the very unpleasant future world this story takes place in. Great escapist fare, so needed these days.

Listening to Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo. Delightfully funny. Love it.

What fiction are you falling in love with this week?



Hey, book fans. I just got a surprise invite to go look at fall colors so I'm gonna dash off for a bit. Talk among yourselves and I'll be back later.

[ADX]

1. The transcript of Brett Kavanugh's testimony from Thursday's hearing...nt

[Timewas]

2. Patterson &Flynn

Just finished Patterson's Kill and Tell and The third Juror,now starting Vince Flynn(Kyle Mills) The Red War

[hermetic]

21. What did you think

of Juror #3? That is how it's spelled on the cover. My library just got that one in and it does look like a good mystery.

[Timewas]

22. Actually

I thought it was pretty good, but I am easily pleased Actually is is pretty decent...with a few twists but basic Patterson overall.

[TexasProgresive]

3. "Bleeding Hearts" by Ian Rankin writing as Jack Harvey

It is not a Rebus novel. Being told in 1st person by different characters so far. One is a hit man who likes to strike from afar and the other an obese coke sniffing private eye who wants to catch this guy.

"New Spring" by Robert Jordan was very good. even though it is not the original 1st book in the Wheel of Time as a prequel to that one it sets the stage very well.

[hermetic]

12. This fiction stuff gets confusing...

There are a whole bunch of books named Bleeding Hearts and mostly they seem to be about vampires. I finally found yours as authored by Ian Rankin with Harvey mentioned briefly. But, there is another author named Jack Harvey who has written some fantasy novels. Then, there is another Rankin/Harvey novel called Witch Hunt. Haven't I heard that name somewhere before...? So, I guess if I was Ian, I would stick with Rankin just to avoid confusion. Right?

Under whatever name, anything written by Rankin seems to be most excellent.

[TexasProgresive]

20. Sent you on a bleeding witch hunt, did I?

It was written in 1994. If Rankin was already writing Rebus novels maybe he wanted to avoid confusion. Well that didn't work for hermetic.

It is ironic. The other book I read the Gray Man novel was about assassins and this one is as well. I picked up a couple of Rebus books today for later.

[dameatball]

4. "Empire of Bones" by Jeff Long

A novel of Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution.

[hermetic]

13. Ah, Texas

back in the good old days....

[Ohiogal]

5. What a cool picture!

I'm reading "The Purity of Vengeance" by Jussi Adler-Olson.

I love his Department Q books. Intense plots interspersed with humor.

[hermetic]

14. Ooh, good stuff

Department Q series, more than fourteen million copies sold worldwide. From Denmark.

[empedocles]

6. Reading comments on Damon SNL

[violetpastille]

7. 1984

Finally revisiting it as an adult. It is beautifully written.

I'm trying to put myself in the mind set of an American reading it in 1949. Without knowledge of everything that came after.

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

How good is that?

[hermetic]

15. I love that line!

It certainly is chilling.

[TEB]

8. James Joyce

The ultimate collection I really enjoy dubliners perhaps Irish nationalism

[hermetic]

16. That should

keep you busy for a while.

[murielm99]

9. The Beekeeper's Apprentice

by Laurie R. King. Someone in this group recommended it. I am about one hundred pages in.

I just finished The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende. I am not sure how I feel about the book. I do not think it was one of her best.

I love the picture! That picture could have been my library/media room before I had shelves put in and forced myself not to allow books to overwhelm my house. It can become an obsession bordering on hoarding.

[hermetic]

17. Oh yeah

Several of us do love that one. I hope you find it wonderful, as well.

[The King of Prussia]

10. I loved the first Inspector Gamache mystery so much

That I'm now on to the second - A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny. Not sure what to go for next.

[hermetic]

18. Oh, do read

all the rest of them. Sadly, they don't go on forever.

[hostalover]

11. Big Guns--terrific political satire!

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Author is Steve Israel, former US congressman from NY, 2001-2017. He wondrously skewers the House (fictitious, of course) and gun culture, as the House members try to pass a bill requiring every man, woman and child in the US to own a firearm, the AFFFA--American Freedom from Fear Act. Almost every page brings a chuckle, as in "the 17 Republican contenders were tied for 17th place." Or "Teabury chaired the forty-member GGOOP Caucus: Get the Government Out of Our Pockets."

Of course there is a large element of truth to the descriptions of what goes on in our government, which can be depressing, but for awhile as you read this book, enjoy the wit of the author as he calls attention to the shenanigans.

[hermetic]

19. That sounds

like so much fun to read as well as being informative. Thanks for telling us about it.

[mainstreetonce]

23. I just finished, The Wife Betwwen Us

Good ffiction with a twist at the end.

Very much Like Girl on a Train.