What Fiction are you reading this week, October 3, 2021?
Happy October 
Reading Hour of the Hunter by J. A. Jance. Ms. Jance has written around 75 novels and if they are all as good as this one, I'm gonna be busy for a looong time. This one just grabbed me from the very beginning where it starts with a Native American tale of how certain tribes came to be who they are. This takes place in Arizona and areas I am familiar with, so that's fun. The story is quite dark but she writes so well you just don't want to put it down. A cover blurb says it's "Tony Hillerman meets Dean Koontz." I agree.
Still stuck in 1348 along with Kivrin, the heroine of the Doomsday Book. We're both watching and listening as the plague grows all around us. Granted, hers is a bit nastier than ours: the Black Death vs Covid. But still, the similarities are interesting.
What books are you starting October with?
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Thank you for the great description. It sounds like a terrific book.
Happy to see you. Hope all's well up there. Got snow? 
Looks like a week from now we'll be moving into winter-like weather. Time to turn on the heat. sigh...
We always get a dusting at the end of September. So far, however, it’s been a lovely fall. Later his week we are looking at highs in the 50’s and lows in the 30’s so I’ll be turning on the heat too.
I want to see how it compares to what we're living through now.
Exquisitely capturing the claustrophobic eras of 1940s and 1950s America, "The Atomic Weight of Love" also examines the changing roles of women during the decades that followed. And in Meridian Wallace we find an unforgettable heroine whose metamorphosis shows how the women's movement opened up the world for a whole generation.
In my town there are 2 supermarkets, 2 pharmacies, and 2 pubs. These people just don't have their priorities in order. 
Protagonist is a service dog trainer with a unique empathertic connection. This skill is the intriguing part of the story, thus far.
This author has written quite a few books, all cozies, but most of the couple I've read are internal dialogue, rather than action.
Just finished "Grey Matters," a book about the protagonist writing a doctoral thesis in 18th C. Lit. The story was quite boring. In fact, I skipped to the end. Lol too much internal dialogue again.
Keep up the good readings.
Some of these are a challenge to keep reading. 
I think it's great that you are so involved with these books. They kind of get to be like a second family some times, I think. Must be part of why writers give so much of themselves to their work. And I appreciate that you share this with us.
Currently on First Comes Scandal, a prequel. No dashing dukes or electric earls for Poppy Bridgerton. She's kidnapped by extremely well-bred pirates! Romance is inevitable.
I'm also reading Leviathon Wakes by James F. S. Corey, who is actually 2 people according to the dust jacket. This is space opera noir. The protagonist is a burnt out cop named Miller. Tasked with finding a missing girl, then fired from his job, he becomes obsessed with the girl. Meanwhile, the Earth, Mars and the Asteroid belt settlements are on the verge of interplanetary war over the missing contents of an abandoned space freighter. Add a monstrous space alien that consumes any life it encounters and you have the makings of a pretty good story.
I'm on the wait list for vol 2, Caliban's War. This is some of the best sci/fi I've read in a while.
Cheers Hermetic
We really are in a mess here. 
