What are you reading this week of January 8, 2017? [View all]
Finished both Arnaldur Indridason's Silence of the Grave and Get in Trouble by Kelly Link. Indridason's Icelandic tale of a skeleton found when a new housing development is being created is very intense at times, although there is no rush to identify the bones as they have been there for at least 50 years. This gives the detectives lots of time to discover who was living in that area back during the war years. Many dark secrets are unearthed along the way. There are some very vivid descriptions of domestic abuse, which took place back in a time where people preferred to just look the other way, which some readers might find unsettling.
All of Link's short stories are quirky and fun to read. Her imagination knows no bounds. She does seem fixated on twins, though I find no indication she is one. Perhaps it's just metaphoric for the good and evil which lies within us all.
Sticking with sci fi I decided to now read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Three chapters in and I can see this is going to be one wild ride. Although written in early 1990s, Neal is painting a future scenario which looks uncomfortably likely. Everyone is now armed and people just do whatever they please because: Murica. Our country now only excels in 4 areas: music, movies, software development, and pizza delivery. Everything is privatized. Corporations own the highways. The Mafia is a corporation in its own right. Can't wait to discover more.
And you? What are you discovering this week? 
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