What Fiction are you reading this week, January 12, 2020?
I wanted to find a library display of a tropical paradise and sunny beaches. Instead, I got reality…
Using literature to help escape from reality, I just started reading Lost Light by Michael Connelly. This 9th Bosch novel should keep me entertained and occupied for a good bit.
Listening to Leif Enger’s Virgil Wander, a gorgeous, quirky, and utterly charming book. Beautifully narrated by MacLeod Andrews, an award-winning actor and book narrator with over 300 titles to his credit. It’s really a joy to listen to!
What are your escape books this week?
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Escape. Where would we be without it? I’m reading The Book of Life...book 3 in the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. Witches, vampires and daemons set in a Elizabethan London. Not my typical genre but I read books 1 and 2 and enjoyed them immensely.
It’s not fiction, but I’m listening to Michelle Obama’s book Becoming on audible.
I just ordered 21 Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks. It’s a novel written entirely in lists. It sounds like it could be humorous and sad, dealing with serious life themes such as marriage, parenting, career choices, fear and anxiety, failure and love. Looking forward to it.
We’re a third of the way through winter so there is lots of reading to be done. Hope you’re well, neighbor!
Good to see you. I'm doing okay, all things considered. 
That sounds like some great reading you've got for yourself. I'm intrigued by that list book.
Yepper, spring is just over the horizon now. Just a few more months of snow....
that sounds pretty cool. 
anti-Trump!
Guess I'll have to look for that one. The review says it's a gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win. So that doesn't exactly sound fun. But, if the bad guys are clearly someone we might recognize, and bad things happen to them, then I guess that would be kind of fun. I do trust your judgment. 
Um, I take it you liked it? 
"The Cat Who Came in from the Cold" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. A story about a wild cat who contemplates if he wants to live closer to humans. He takes a year and travels about interviewing other animals he sees interacting with humans and asks about their experience. Part way through the book I thought, "This author's name is familiar." Turns out I've read two of his books on the emotional lives of animals. It's been awhile, though. 
I also read "The Girl Who Reads on the Métro" by Christine Féret-Fleury, a quirky little story about a young woman and how books changed her life. Translated from French.
I dislike this trend of titling books"The Girl Who..." when the main character is actually a woman, which is the case, most of the time. I think "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" started it and it was appropriate, since Lisbeth was a girl during that story. She was 17, IIRC. They would never title a book "The Boy Who..." when the main character was a 20 year old man. 
I gave up on "Gwendy's Magic Feather." I thought it was boring. There was too much detail about her daily life and one-time characters, and not enough action with the mysterious box.
about "The Girl..." stories.
Even more, "The Cat Who.." I just plugged that into my library search bar and got 199 results! 
the library. What a unique, wonderful, funny, unusual book. As one amazon reviewer said, "I feel like I discovered a Picasso painting in my attic!" And I'm only 1/4 of the way into the story. It is that good.
Many thanks for the thread, hermetic. I will see if I can find Virgil Wander on audio by the reader that you're listening to. I loved that book so much. The characters are charming indeed.
I had to abandon Twitter as it was taking up so much of my time and not really achieving anything more than raising my blood pressure. I stick with FB because my children are artists so I get to see their work all the time. Plus all the Democratic groups in my state have pages and we all interact and I am an admin for my local group, as well.
Read a book. It's good for you. 
