What Fiction are you reading this week, August 5, 2018?

[hermetic]

Oops, I was so busy out in my garden I almost forgot about my books.

Getting lots of tomatoes, basil and sugar snap peas this year.

But, I've also got When the Music's Over by Peter Robinson. Good story about an investigation into a TV celeb who may have raped some young girls 40 years ago. Meanwhile, the body of a naked teenage girl is found dumped on a deserted country road.

Finished listening to The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly and I gotta tell you, the ending was one of the best I've come across in a long time. Had me in tears. Quite moving.

Now I'm listening to Dan Brown's Origin. Good audible story, really holds your interest even though it's quite long. This is my first Brown. Could never bring myself to read the others. But a couple of people here really liked this one so I thought I'd give it a go.

And what books are you getting this week?

[dameatball]

1. Just finished "Primordia' by Greig Beck. Trying to decide what is next.

Might be time for another Randy Wayne White creation.

[hermetic]

5. Ah, decisions decisions...

Hey, I just looked up Primordia and found this: Ben finds "...cryptic letters from the past between Arthur Conan Doyle and his great, great grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908. Amazingly, these letters lead Ben to believe that his ancestor’s expedition was the basis for Doyle’s fantastical tale of a lost world inhabited by long extinct creatures. As Ben digs some more he finds clues to the whereabouts of a lost notebook that might contain a map to a place that is home to creatures..."
I see also that there is a second book. Will you be looking to get that one at some point? Sure sounds like a fun story.

[dameatball]

15. yes, I already ordered it on Amazon. The first book was better than I expected.

[Soxfan58]

2. Trumps speech transcripts

[Glamrock]

3. Trumps tweets....

[Ohiogal]

4. I agree about your Connelly book

The ending was quite dramatic and emotional for me, too.

This week I am reading "The "Disappeared" by C.J. Box. ( one of my favorite authors)

[hermetic]

7. Nice, thanks!

A new one from C.J. I enjoy her books, too.

Speaking of The Disappeared, I keep losing internet access here for some reason. So if I disappear, that's probably why.

[Ohiogal]

8. Um, C.J. is a "him"

unless something happened I'm not aware of!

[hermetic]

9. Ooops

For some reason I got it into my head that way, and it stuck.

[murielm99]

6. Just finished Blackout,

and now starting All Clear, by Connie Willis.

[hermetic]

10. I've GOT to read this one

"The belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always been a core belief of time-travel theory--but suddenly it seems that the theory is horribly, tragically wrong."

[murielm99]

16. You need to read Blackout first,

then All Clear. All Clear is a continuation of the story, with the same characters stuck in the past. She felt there was too much to put into one volume. Something like 600 pages too much! LOL.

[Ohiya]

18. One of all my all time favorites...

You might want to keep a box of tissues handy.

[matt819]

20. I've tried Connie Willis

But I just can’t get into them.

[dawg day]

11. I'm reading old Agatha Christies....

Because everything is solved in the end.

[hermetic]

13. I like your logic

[Basic LA]

26. Me too!

I'm enjoying the Hercule Poirot books.

[dhol82]

12. I was disappointed with Origins

Found it too long and rambling with an unsatisfactory ending.
You should try the earlier Dan Brown books. Thought they were better crafted.

About to start Love and Ruin by Paula McClain. Should be interesting.

[hermetic]

14. Thanks

I do appreciate your input.

It IS long. But listening to it while I do chores makes that easy to live with. I am quite intrigued by what it going on. Hope I'm not awfully disappointed at the end.

I had wanted to read The Da Vinci Code but it was so talked about that I heard what the big mystery was before I got the chance. That spoiled it for me.

Hope you enjoy your book.

[dhol82]

17. You could try The Lost Symbol or Inferno

I liked both of those.

[matt819]

19. Let's see

Still working on White River Burning by John Verdon. Good read.

Just finished listening to Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen. Florida man on steroids as only Hiaasen can do.

Just started the latest David Rosenfelt book in the Andy Carpenter series. Mystery, humor, and dogs. Lots of dogs.

[hermetic]

21. David Rosenfelt

Sounds like a really great guy. He and his wife started the Tara Foundation which has saved almost 4,000 dogs. I will look around for his books. I usually enjoy stories with animals in them. =^ . , .^=

[PennyK]

22. I'm deep into the Gaslight Mysteries

Author is Victoria Thompson. The take place in the 1890s in New York City, and each one is named for a different neighborhood. Our heroine is a midwife who solves murders alongside a police detective. Their relationship starts out rockily, but I have a feeling that will change over the course of the 21 books. Yeah! 21.

I pre-ordered Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding (arriving Tuesday) by Rhys Bowen, the next in the Royal Spyness series. Bowen is quite versatile, and has recently written two wartime books, In Fairleigh Field and The Tuscan Child.

I have to read fast because I'm having ptosis surgery on Friday...it will be audiobooks for me for a bit. But after that, I'll be able to see a whole page at a time!

[hermetic]

23. Lots of good stuff there

Good luck on Friday. I'm sure it will go well and you'll be much happier afterwards.

[japple]

24. Thanks for the thread, hermetic. Will put the Michael Connelly book on my list to

read.

I've just started Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek an original relation to nature, drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down. At the end of a grueling journey, the men reach a place of paradisal richness, where they abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter. So caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time, the men are overtaken by winter and snowed in. In the spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

from amazon.com

[Tracer]

25. I always get 3 books from the library each week,

in case 1 or 2 of them aren't any good.

This week:

Night Market by Jonathan Moore. A somewhat dystopian setting involves a detective trying to solve why his memory is blank for 3 or 4 days. The plot is a bit complicated, but I'm very interested in finding out the resolution.

A Sharp Solitude by Christine Carbo. I'm pretty sure that I read The Wild Inside -- also by her.

The Hollow by Nicole Barrell. Looks like an interesting murder mystery.

[PoorMonger]

27. The Long Silence by Gerard O'Donovan

Introducing Irish-born cop turned private investigator Tom Collins in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series.

February, 1922. Hollywood is young but already mired in scandal. When a leading movie director is murdered, Irish-American investigator Tom Collins is called in by studio boss Mack Sennett, whose troubled star, Mabel Normand, is rumoured to be involved.

But Normand has gone missing. And, as Collins discovers, there’s a growing list of suspects. His quest leads him through the brutal heart of Prohibition-era Los Angeles, from speakeasies and dope dens to the studios and salons of Hollywood’s fabulously wealthy movie elite, and to a secret so explosive it must be kept silent at any cost …

Inspired by the unsolved real-life murder of movie director William Desmond Taylor, The Long Silence is the first in a richly evocative, instantly compelling series of new noir mysteries set in Hollywood’s early days.

[PoorMonger]

28. Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

The magnum opus by Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection.

When Toru Narazaki’s girlfriend, Ryoko Tachibana, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of the private detective he’s hired to find her. Ryoko’s past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue to her whereabouts is a previous address in the heart of Tokyo. She lived in a compound with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru with a revisionist Buddhist scheme of life, death, and society. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru’s brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn’t what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence he is stepping into.

Inspired by the 1995 sarin gas terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway, Cult X is an exploration of what draws individuals into extremism. It is a tour de force that captures the connections between astrophysics, neuroscience, and religion; an invective against predatory corporate consumerism and exploitative geopolitics; and a love story about compassion in the face of nihilism.