What Fiction are you reading this week, Oct. 11, 2020?

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One thing that most people seem to agree on is that reading is near the core of how to change your mind and yourself. --Thomas Oppong

I am reading the last story in the marvelous Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood. I finished my library books and can't get back there till Tuesday and it's the only book left in my personal library that I hadn't read.

I am listening to the Hugo Award winner Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, a humorous fantastical alternative history of the Napoleonic Wars by Susanna Clarke. A very long tale at over 1,000 pages in book form, it contains almost 200 footnotes (included in the reading), "outlining the backstory and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship."

What's new, or old, on your reading list this week?

And how does one celebrate Columbus Day, anyway? Go to the grocery store and get lost looking for spices?

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1. "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, ..

and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Donald J. Trump

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2. Oh wait, you said fiction, not lies! (nt)

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3. Fair Warning by Michael Connelly

I am old enough to remember the stores advertising Columbus Day sales ... that used to be “The American Way” to celebrate Columbus Day ... or any holiday ....go shopping .... same as President’s Day sales, Black Friday sales, January White Sales .... do stores even have those any more?

Can you tell I’m not much of a shopper?

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5. Oh boy, a new Connelly!

Stalwart journalist Jack McEvoy searches the murkiest corners of the dark web for a killer.

I've never been big on shopping, either. So, I'm not real sure we even have stores anymore. Except grocery and drug. And internet...

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10. I read that one. It's good. There is a new Lincoln Lawyer book coming 11/10

The Law of Innocence.

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11. Great news!

Must read.

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13. I still haven't read

The Gods of Guilt and my library holds for digital books are currently maxed out.

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4. Just finished Carl Hiaasen's

Squeeze Me. Now I am reading Walter Mosley's The Awkward Black Man.

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6. Love Mosley

And this is another new one. A collection of short stories that sounds like great reading.

And yet another new one! "A new novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor and wonderful, eccentric characters. A surefire best seller." Well, I for sure will be on the lookout for this one.

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9. The President in the Hiaasen book bears a strong resemblance to Drumpf. n/t

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12. Looking forward to it

I just got on the library waiting list for it.

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7. Barely read any fiction at all this week

So still on "A Word After Dying" by Ann Granger.

Otherwise studying virus statistics. It's raging out of control over much of the North of England, and in most University towns & cities, but in our immediate area cases have levelled off, probably. We're staying in the house.

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8. Same here

Local hospital suddenly overwhelmed. Idiot politicians telling everyone only cowards wear masks. Fine. Just call me Chicken Little.

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14. Laura Levine's Death by Pantyhose

Light reading, sort of humorous.

Sure not as compelling as Joe Grey. 😏

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15. Great concept, though.

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16. LOL Yup!

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18. Still reading Southernmost by Silas House--a beautifully well-told story.

Not celebrating anything tomorrow i.e. columbus day. This seems more appropriate to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples%27_Day#:~:text=The%20city%20symbolically%20renamed%20Columbus,massacres%2C%20and%20forced%20assimilation.Get

[PennyK]

19. Rereading Laurie R. King's Mary Russell books

I loved these when I first read them (only three years ago) and I'm enjoying them again.
I just got The Killings at Kingfisher Hill, the latest Poirot pastiche by Sophie Hannah and that will also be a treat.