What Fiction are you reading this week, April 14, 2019?

[hermetic]

Dutch Artists Paint Giant Bookcase On An Apartment Building Featuring Residents’ Favorite Books (from boredpanda.com)

Still reading Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin. Love it.

Just finished listening to Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich. While Stephanie Plum is notorious for finding trouble. she may have found a little more than she bargained for this time around. Good story. Lots of laughs, as usual.

Next up in audibles, Medusa by Clive Cussler. Austin and NUMA have been in tight spots before, but this time it's not just their own lives on the line -- it's the lives of millions.

What are your favorite books this week?

Hope everyone is okay out there. Worried for all you good people dealing with everything from tornadoes to snow up the yazoo.

[dameatball]

1. "The Third Gate" by Lincoln Child. Pretty good so far.

[hermetic]

4. Sounds like typical Child:

action, archaeology, suspense and a touch of the paranormal. And totally entertaining.

An archaeological team, secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh, encounters a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences.

Will read someday.

[Number9Dream]

11. I enjoyed that one.

A unique take on the pharaoh's tomb story.

[dameatball]

17. Yep. It moves right along too.

[cyclonefence]

2. The Portrait of a Lady

which I somehow avoided in college. I'm loving it.

[hermetic]

5. And that lady is...

Isabel Archer? By Henry James?

..the story of a beautiful, idealistic, and inexperienced American woman who is made wealthy by her uncle. Surrounded by the seductive pleasures of nineteenth-century Europe, she preserves her idealism despite involvement with some who would divert her life to uses of their own. James’s many-layered masterpiece concerns the perilous American pursuit of individual freedom.

I've always enjoyed his writing.

[cyclonefence]

8. Hey!

How about a spoiler alert?!!

[hermetic]

12. Oops

Oh, I don't think so. I didn't see anything spoily in that. But then, I've never read that one so maybe...

[Stargleamer]

3. The Legends of Greemulax by Kimmy Schmidt with Sarah Mlynowski n/t

[hermetic]

6. Looks cute

GENRE: Kids (12 & Under)

Well, it IS fiction...

[Stargleamer]

7. and the author is fictional too!

https://www.netflix.com/title/80025384 . It's a win-win!

[TexasProgresive]

9. Book 4 of the Wheel of Time series "The Shadow Rising"

And still listening to The Fifth Season in the car. She uses a technique that is a bit confusing, but when I figured it out I like it. Won't do any spoilers. She is a wonderful world builder and character developer. Then there's plot(s).

Now and then I watch Bosch and Midsomer Murders for free (well I pay for Prime) on Amazon.

[hermetic]

13. Good to know

I recently found a website that has old movies and TV shows for free so I'm catching some Midsomer Murders there. These have the new guys and they're okay but I do miss the first pair.

[TexasProgresive]

18. The New guys for free. My wife likes them better. What's the site.

[hermetic]

22. There's commercials

but if you have a good ad blocker you don't see them. https://www3.1movies.is Israel??

[TexasProgresive]

29. Thanks you da best'

[Number9Dream]

10. "The First Eagle" by Tony Hillerman

Felt like paying another visit to Arizona, and Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Didn't enjoy this one much... Too talkie. Learned way too much a plague fleas. Also a golden eagle was apparently killed for what turned out to be no reason.

[hermetic]

15. That's a shame

That plot line sounds very much like one of his others'. A hot-headed female biologist who goes missing. A Navajo Tribal police officer is brutally murdered. Reports of a skinwalker. Skinwalkers, maybe?

[shenmue]

14. Armageddon's Children, Terry Brooks

[hermetic]

16. The Trump family?

Nah, Terry Brooks is too good for that bunch. It took him seven years to finish The Sword of Shannara which went on to become the first work of fiction to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. And he has now written over 30 books. Pretty impressive.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. just wrapped up book 2 of the Kat Makris Greek Mafia series " True-ish Crime"

THink Stephanie Plum on the other side of the law with crazy Greek Mafia relatives. These are fun books and there are at least 5 of them


Nest up: A Dead Red Cadillac

[hermetic]

24. I really must

find those somewhere, (cheap).

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Trump's tweets.

[japple]

21. The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollack

Here is a brief description from amazon. I haven't gotten very far, but the writing and character development are amazing and I've already laughed out loud several times. It would probably make a great movie in the right hands.

It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family's entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it?

In the gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre's literary masters.

Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic. I love the giant bookcase in your OP. Wouldn't it be fun to live in a building like that?

[hermetic]

23. Sounds like another winner!

"A dark, gritty, electrifying and, disturbingly, weirdly funny novel. i.e., a must-read

It would be great to see your favorite book like that but one might get tired of people always taking pictures of the place.

[japple]

25. It is definitely weirdly funny!

[KansasKali]

26. The River by Peter Heller

[backtoblue]

27. "Bitterblue" by Kristen Cashore

It's the sequal to "Graceling".

A world of people with graces who have superhuman gifts. In book two, Bitterblue is the daughter of a mind-controlling psychopath who tortured his kingdom. King Leck was finally killed and Bitterblue becomes Queen.

It's an interesting look into the mind of a madman and the daunting mission to help the people who were compelled to assist him with his evil activities.

"Graceling" is a fantastical read into a world of monarchies, superpowers, and defiance. The sequel is pretty darn good too.

[The King of Prussia]

28. I have eschewed fiction this week

And have been reading "E Street Shuffle" by Clinton Heylin - a biography of Springsteen. It's all rather turgid.

[Paladin]

30. Just finished C.J. Box's "Wolf Pack."

The latest in the Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett mystery series. It's a terrific read, as usual: a particularly ruthless professional hit team comes to Joe's peaceful little town and starts doing very bad things. All the usual characters are there, including Nate Romanowski, the badass falconer. Highly recommended.

[hermetic]

32. Thanks

Def. looking forward to reading it.

[Paladin]

34. That entire Joe Pickett series is worthwhile, in case you're new to it. (nt)

[OxQQme]

31. Interface....co-authored with Neal Stephenson

600 odd pages of the shenanigans used on the back side of a presidential campaign.

From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise.

There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage - an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers. A biochip implanted in his head hardwires him to a computerized polling system. The mood of the electorate is channeled directly into his brain. Forget issues. Forget policy. Cozzano is more than the perfect candidate. He's a special effect.

[hermetic]

33. I really like Stephenson

Snow Crash was quite memorable and this one sounds like fun. Looks like he has another coming out in a few months.