What are you reading this week of March 6, 2016?

[hermetic]

The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz. I've had it for a week now and still have 150 pages yet to read. So far it's good enough but it doesn't have the power of Larsson's novels, for me anyway. Larsson's Salander was so dynamic. Every scene she was in had you glued to the page. Not so much in this one. I went and read some reviews this morning on Amazon and I'm not alone in my opinion. OTOH, many people absolutely loved it. So, there you go. I will say this: if he ends this book the way I fear he is going to, I doubt I will ever read another.

A new brew pub is opening in my town today so I'm going to mosey on over and check it out.

What's new for you this week?

[Mz Pip]

1. The Killer Next Door

By Alex Marwood.

[Enthusiast]

3. Thank you for calling our attention to Alex Marwood, Mz Pip.

Sounds like a winner. I have a copy of The Killer Next Door on the way.

[Enthusiast]

2. Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, hermetic.

Thanks for your take on The Girl in the Spider's Web, hermetic.

Last week I read English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. I had a little trouble with the old time dialogue that was part of the narrative. Actually I found some of the Aborigine narrative easier than the Manx dialogue. But overall I really enjoyed this book. It has an especially satisfying ending. I had no idea that the Aborigine population on Tasmania was quite so systematically eliminated.

Now I'm enjoying The Lewis Man by Peter May.

Mrs. Enthusiast was a busy little reader last week. First she read Blood Test by Jonathan Kellerman. Then she read Milk and Honey by Faye Kellerman. She likes both authors about equally. Now she is reading Black and Blue by Ian Rankin. I am just thrilled that Mrs. Enthusiast has embraced reading as she has.

[Number9Dream]

4. Finished "Still Life With Crows" by Preston / Child, yesterday (possible spoiler)

Thanks for the thread, hermetic.

I enjoyed this book even more than I thought I would. It was more than just a murder mystery or monster story. Another page-turner by these authors. I was able to suspend disbelief that the killer wouldn't have had severe rickets (disease) given the circumstances. I liked the teaming of Pendergast with the goth high school girl. It also gave me a smile that, at the end, Corrie was going to visit her father in Allentown, PA (where I work).

I'll have to stop by the library on the way home from work for a new book.

[Mz Pip]

8. I love Pendergast.

He is delightfully strange. I think the first Pendergast book I read was Cabinet of Curiousities. I was hooked!

[japple]

5. Thanks, hermetic, for starting the thread. A new brew pub, huh! Hope it's a good one.

I sometimes wish that I could walk down to the pub for a pint, but I live 20 minutes from town and there aren't any pubs in the area. Please feel free to have a drink for me anytime! I am a huge fan of Oskar Blues' Dale's Pale Ale.

I finished reading Thomas Savage's The Power of the Dog and did a recap of it on last week's thread. It is one of the best books I've ever read and I will add it to the Best of 2016 list. Started reading his book, The Sheep Queen on Friday and it is nearly as good. The writing flows so smoothly, although the story is not quite as riveting as The Power of the Dog, which is right up there with Lance Weller's book Wilderness--one of the best.

[SheilaT]

6. Books by Ted Kosmatka.

The Flicker Men, The Games, and Prophet of Bones. That last one I just started today.

The first is about quantum physics, the double slit experiment, and nested universes. The second is about future Olympic Games in which bioengineered gladiators compete. Not yet sure what the third one is about, something to do with human evolution, I think.

So far they're all good.

[TexasProgresive]

7. "The Troubled Man" a Kurt Wallander mystery by Henning Mankell

I guess The Girl in the Spider's Web did not sate me on Sweden. It is interesting that Wallander and Blomkvist are both in sorts of midlife crises. Wallander muses about a ferry operator who piloted the ferry over the same route for years and one day decided to change course for the Baltics.

This has been a great read so far. I have never read a Wallander book being introduced to him years ago by Masterpiece Mystery.

My review of The Girl in the Spider's Web
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11938378