What Fiction are you reading this week, February 23, 2020?

[hermetic]

Abbey Library of Saint Gall, Switzerland. Considered one of the most important monastic libraries in the world,

Reading The Truth by Terry Pratchett. A tale chock full of humorous gems, in spite of being written some 20 years ago. Some things never change. Like, facts don't always tell the whole story.

Just listened to Beau Death by Peter Lovesey. It was a fun narrative involving clothing/costuming and a mysterious skeleton. Now I’m on to The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. In 1990, this was named the greatest mystery novel of all time by the British Crime Writers' Association. So I am really looking forward to it.

What books are you looking forward to this week?

[rzemanfl]

1. An old James Patterson in the Alex Cross

series, which I will binge read in order. I think it is #5 Pop Goes the Weasel. Just finished the most recent Jack Reacher.

[matt819]

2. Just two

Listening to The Last Kingdom, We first in the second Chronicles series by Bernard Cornwell. He’s quite the storyteller.

Reading You Were There Too, by Colleen Oakley. About halfway through. It’s about two unrelated people, a man and a woman, having dreams about each other. They Then meet each other. An oddly compelling story about love, expectations, soulmates, etc.

Yes Lindsay of Dexter theme has a new series, and I got the first book out of the library yesterday, but haven’t started it. I was also reading a book by Ben Schott, who wrote an homage to the Jeeves and Wooster series, but I lost the book. I wasn’t very far into it but I was enjoying it.

For some reason, most of my other reading in the past week or so I’ve been non-fiction. I don’t know what’s come over me.

[hermetic]

4. Coincidentally,

I just happen to be listening to some Jeeves and Wooster stories this weekend. My roommate got a CD set of 8 stories called Carry On, Jeeves from the library so I have been listening to them, too. Funny stuff. Will have to look into that Schott book.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. I agree, Daughter of Time is the greatest

detective story, ever. It is one of my top five books along with Wuthering Heights.

[hermetic]

5. Lovely,

glad to hear you think so, too.

[Docreed2003]

6. Rereading "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman

Gaiman is one of my favs and I'm rereading it while a friend is doing the same so that we can share our thoughts on the book in real time.

[hermetic]

8. That sounds fun

Sharing a reading like that. I adore everything Neil has written so Neverwhere is right up there for me.

[dweller]

7. Haruki Marukami, Kafka on the Shore

strange literate hallucination ... it's Marukami, need i say more?
😳
also did a reread of 2 Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy series
Rain Dogs, and Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
which i believe ended the Duffy series, but can't be sure.

✌🏼

[hermetic]

9. An award winner,

where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits can slip out of their bodies. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers... I put that on my list, just to see what the cats have to say.

Looks like there is one more in the Duffy series from 2019: The Detective Up Late. Sounds like a good one.

[dweller]

12. thanks for that

looks like i have to get the latest 😩
oh well, while i'm looking will see if i can find McKinty's 1st
Dead As I May Well Be, which turned me on to him to begin with

never can have enough books

i crack myself up at times
✌🏼

[murielm99]

10. I am reading an old book.

It is a book called, "Tim," by Colleen McCullough.

It is a love story about two people who have been stunted emotionally by their circumstances. Mary is a fortyish spinster who has become financially well-off because of her hard work. Her entire life, she has cut herself off emotionally from everyone. She falls in love with a much younger man. He is as beautiful as Adonis, but mentally retarded. His family loves and protects him.

This book was published in 1974. I had never heard of it before I found it on the library shelves. I don't know what I think, being less than one hundred pages into it. At times, I know I can be a very picky, critical reader. I don't have a verdict yet.

Has anyone else here read it?

[Staph]

11. I haven't read Tim,

but I remember that it was made into a movie in 1979, starring Piper Laurie and a very young Mel Gibson.

I will have to read that some day. I've read The Thorn Birds and all of the Masters Of Rome series. Colleen McCullough is a great storyteller!

[hermetic]

13. I don't recall reading it

but I did have a feeling there was a movie by that name. Thanks, Staph, for that bit of info. I did find that McCullough has written quite a few books over the years. She seems to be popular.

Hugs for you.

[PennyK]

14. I'm getting The Daughter of Time!

That sounds wonderful.
I'm currently reading Perfect Little Children, the latest by Sophie Hannah.

[TexasProgresive]

15. Reading another Ruth Rendell - "Wolf to the Slaughter"

If this is true to the form of Sins of the Fathers it's going to be one twisty ending. I have been listening to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Crown of Swords. It is read by two different people, a man and a woman. I thought they would probably do the gender specific voices but they do whole chapters alone. The man doesn't quite sound right to me and I would really prefer the woman to do the whole book. But it's not awful- just not quite my preference.

I'm glad you are liking Truth./ I found it quite fitting to our times or really any times.

[dameatball]

16. "Salt River" by Randy Wayne White. Newest in the Doc Ford series. I waited for this on pre-order,

and sorry to say it was disappointing. Not one of his better efforts, IMO.

[Oldem]

17. LA Confidential

by James Ellroy. I read it years ago and am not as impressed, so far, as I expected. Brilliant movie, though.