What Fiction are you reading this week, March 24, 2019?

[hermetic]

Coimbra University's 18th century baroque library, Portugal

Nice article about how the library uses bats to keep its incredibly old and priceless manuscripts bug-free.
https://www.travelandleisure.com/animals/bats-living-in-libraries-portugal

Still slogging along through Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson. I know the next book gets better, I just need to get through the first one to learn the lay of the land.

Listening to Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich. I foresee a number of Stephanie Plum novels in my listening future as they are the only interesting books my local Overdrive offers that don’t have a long wait. Not complaining; they are delightfully funny.

What’s books are delighting you this week?

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3. Hopefully

that won't be fiction. And we will all get to see the entire report.

[fierywoman]

2. "Holding" by Graham Norton

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4. Sounds like fun

A charming novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime.

The author is an award-winning Irish television host.

[fierywoman]

6. It is! The way you get lost in an Irish person telling a story...

... because the sound of the language is so beautiful.

[underthematrix]

5. Trump tweets

[Srkdqltr]

7. Luthecker by Keith Domingue

Interesting story. I had a hard time putting it down. I need to read the next one
to see if it stands.

[hermetic]

12. Well...

Action, Adventure, Political Thrillers. Three novels about a trio of diverse characters brought together after a terrorist attack on a Saudi oil refinery which sets the paths of all three on a collision course, an encounter that threatens to upset the balance of power in the world. Sounds like some real page-turner, edge-of-your-seat reading.

[Little Star]

8. Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.....

is one of my favorites! Grandma Mazur gives me a good chuckle!

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13. For sure

And Lula constantly gets great bursts of laughter from me.

[Little Star]

14. Yep!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Bless this House by Norah Lofts.

It's the story of a house built in Suffolk, England, in 1577, and in her usual episodic style tells of the house and those who lived in it from its building to 1953.

In non fiction I'm reading Kushner, Inc. by Vicky Ward. Jared Kushner's father Charlie is, to use a favorite phrase of my friend Alice, a piece or work. Awful, awful man.

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16. That sounds really good

PIRATE, WITCH, BAWD & RAKE -- They had all been sheltered and shaped by the great house. Now, after almost five centuries, Merraway still stood - a beautiful, wracked monument to flaming passions and human hopes....

I like stories where the house is practically another character.

Don't know how you can stomach that other one. Too many awful characters running loose these days.

[murielm99]

20. I love Norah Lofts.

I found and read all of her books some years ago. They are memorable.

You may end up in the basements or attics of local libraries, looking for more, more, more. I wish she was still alive and writing.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. I have loved her for a long time and I believe I've read everything she ever wrote.

This is a reread. I just also reread her Town House Trilogy.

[Ohiogal]

10. Just started The Rule of Law by John Lescroart

I have enjoyed all the Dismas Hardy books.

Just out of curiosity, who reads the Stephanie Plum audiobooks? Those must be a hoot to listen to.

[hermetic]

15. They really are

There seem to have been several narrators over the years with Lorelei King, the one I’m listening to, being among the more popular.

[TexasProgresive]

11. "A Question of Blood" a John Rebus novel by Ian Rankin.

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17. Ooooh,

That's one of the ones I just got. Will be reading it soon. Love this, "Rebus has a wit sharper than a Highlander's sword. His come-backs and put-downs are delicious. When he gets angry at a crook who is almost his verbal equal, you may want to read with oven mitts." -
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

[MuseRider]

18. The Kitchen House

By Kathleen Grissom. A friend who reads things that are different than I usually do recommended this. It is good, well written but I am listening to it so that is often a little harder to detect as I get caught in the story.

It is perfectly OK, not really much different than the other stories like it but it is detailed in a lovely way. I would give it a thumbs up. There is a second available that I put a hold on since it said it would be 2 weeks before it is available so I am trying to get a lot of headphone time to finish this up. I wish I had time to sit and read, I find it hard to want to say much since listening gives you a much different experience. I love it but, it just is not the same.

The narration is wonderful.

[hermetic]

19. Thought that sounded familiar...

Turns out someone else was reading that last week and posted about it. Found it quite enjoyable. I put it on my list of books to read someday.

[murielm99]

21. I am reading another Cork O'Connor book,

Blood Hollow, by William Kent Krueger.

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22. Mmmm, good

Krueger is a wholly original talent among mystery writers, managing to fuse inspired, fluid storytelling with complex, finely textured characterizations. This briskly paced novel outstrips its predecessors in its ability to ratchet up the suspense as Krueger takes us back to Aurora, Minnesota, where the charismatic Cork O'Connor encounters his most baffling case to date.

[murielm99]

23. The religious themes in

this one are interesting.

I like the setting, too. My family comes from Minnesota. I was raised Missouri Synod Lutheran. I recognize many of the character types in his supporting casts.

I don't know how Native Americans are treated there these days, but my parents have spoken about the prejudice and mistreatment when they were growing up there.

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24. Me too, M S Lutheran

Yeah, I read a little about the "vision" and thought that sounded really intriguing.

Fifteen years ago I was working there (MN) with NA artists and I would venture that it has improved considerably since the old days. Of course they will probably always face some form of prejudice. There is a nice Minneapolis American Indian Center now but when I tried to visit their website I got a message about malware there so didn't link to it for you.

[rzemanfl]

26. "Red Sparrow." Learning Mueller's middle name is "Swan" freaked me out.

Read the book to find out why.

[hermetic]

28. By Jason Matthews?

Brilliantly composed and elegantly constructed, Red Sparrow is a masterful spy tale lifted from the dossiers of intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Authentic, tense, and entertaining.

[rzemanfl]

30. Yep. My Kindle says I am nearly 3/4th of the way through it. n/t

[Terminally_Chill]

27. the bible

someone told me it had answers, but when i looked i could find none.

[rzemanfl]

29. LOL. n/t

[mainstreetonce]

31. The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)

Just started .It is about a woman who very suddenly kills her husband and doesn't speak a word for seven years.

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32. That sounds worth a look

Promising to be the debut novel of the season (Published: Feb-2019 ), a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband -- and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. British.

[mainstreetonce]

33. Disappointing

I wouldn't recommend rushing out to get this one.