Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat are you reading the week of August 17, 2014?
Sorry, readers. Honestly, I had too much fun on Saturday evening so I missed starting this weekly thread—too much Irish whiskey.
I am reading Don Winslow's The Winter of Frankie Machine. I guess I'm going to read all these books by Winslow. He has a real knack.
I get the feeling Don was deeply engaged in the DEA or organized crime at one time. He must have been a surfer too.

closeupready
(29,503 posts)not really impressed with his creativity or attention to detail. The story is fun, though, which is probably all most readers want from a writer like him - kind of a contemporary H. Rider Haggard.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I was so impressed with her "Virgins of Paradise" that I decided to read this one as well. Just started by so far it isn't as compelling.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I'm about 20 pages from the end of White Nights, the second book of Ann Cleeves' Shetland Island series. And I'm totally bummed that I haven't got any other books coming in from my library.
I got books 3 and 4 of the Shetland series a couple weeks ago and devoured them. I thought they were really wonderful. I finally got books 1 and 2 last week, and once I finish #2, I'm stuck again. the 5th book in the series wasn't in the library system yet when I ordered the first four. And now there's a 6th book in the series - but who knows how long it will take for that one to be available.
Anyway, besides reading Raven Black last week, the first of the Shetland series, I finished the 4th book in Nele Neuhaus' Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series - the only 4 books by this author currently available in English translation, apparently. There's a 5th book in the series slated for January 2015 - but that will take ages to make its way to my rural linteribarary sytem.
It's a terrible thing, being both a book addict and a fast reader - I generally go through 3-4 books a week. My tiny local library simply can't keep up.
/end whine
Enthusiast
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What would we ever do without our books?
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Book #5 of the Shetland Island series magically appeared at my library on Tuesday! Saved from a bookless wilderness! I'm nearly done with it - this being Thursday (yes, I AM a "voracious reader" - but two other books I had on order showed up today, so I won't be bereft of reading material for the weekend. (wheew!)
Northern Ireland is my next stop. Author Brian McGilloway, his Inspector Benedict Devlin series. I read #s 1-3 years ago, then lost track. So now I've got #s 4 & 5 of the series at hand. As I recall, I was very favorably impressed with the earlier three, so I'm looking forward to renewing my acquainance with Inspector Devlin.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)What would we ever do without our books?
Probably a little more cleaning![]()
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pscot
(21,044 posts)I've discovered Aurelio Zen. I'm also rereading Simenon, what's left of him in print.
libodem
(19,288 posts)It's pretty funny and adventurous. Janet Evonovich and Lee Goldberg.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I lost track of the Stephanie Plum adventures. And I might have missed one along the line. But I found them to be highly entertaining and silly. Just the right formula sometimes.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)I've read this before, in fact, twice, the whole series of 17.
But with ISIS and Michael Brown, the Mideast, Russia and Ukraine, I needed something to relax with and didn't want to tackle something I had to really concentrate on.
I am on about page 50, and notice things I never noticed before, and the writing is topnotch.
Did you ever finish the series, D (2013)?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Next one is 14 out of 17. I bought the entire series so they would be nice and handy.
Nice to see you, fadedrose.