What Fiction are you reading this week, January 27, 2019?

[hermetic]

I got a new coffee table book to read when I have a few minutes to spare: The Abridged Field Guide to North American House Creatures by Jaime McGuigan, a delightfully illustrated encyclopedia of 25 evolutionary astonishing creatures who live among us. You are likely most familiar with the dust bunnies. You also will meet thirteen of the most influential people who have investigated them. Among them: a children's etiquette writer from the 17th century, a lovelorn and slightly mad inventor from the late 1800s and a female oil company geologist who went on to become a champion of the environmental movement in the 1970s. This would be a wonderful book to read to young children.

I'm still reading Noir and almost done. I'm finding it a good story, if not necessarily howlingly funny. I do suspect the ending will give me a laugh, though. Moore's books are good for that.

OverDrive is finally letting me listen to The Woman in Cabin Ten by Ruth Ware. I was right in the middle of listening to the action-packed Alert by James Patterson when Ware's book came available. So I put that aside until I finish with Ware. Neither are really great literature but interesting enough to listen to while working.

What interesting things are you reading this week?