What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 13, 2020? [View all]

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Reading Stone Mattress, a short fiction collection by Margaret Atwood. She describes the pieces in this collection as "tales" rather than short stories, as they draw from the mythical and fantastical aspects associated with fables and fairy tales. I am absolutely loving this. It's about writers and poets; it's funny and sad and quite fascinating.

I am also reading You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, a memoir by Sherman Alexie who, coincidentally, is also a writer and a poet. While memoirs aren't supposed to be fiction, Alexie addresses this in the opening pages by questioning how much of what we remember is actually factual. So, there's that....

Now listening to David Rosenfelt's One Dog Night. A cold case turns white hot when defense attorney Andy Carpenter takes on a client arrested for the arson murder of twenty-six people. Andy soon learns that the long-ago event that could destroy his client's life is only the beginning of an ongoing conspiracy that grows more deadly by the day. Good story. Love the court scenes. And the dogs.

What books are fascinating you this week?