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hermetic

(8,636 posts)
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 12:26 PM Aug 2018

What Fiction are you reading this week, August 26, 2018?


We are like books. Most people only see our cover, some read only the introduction, and many people believe the critics. Few will know our content. -- FOT

I've just started The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King and it is delightful. In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is studying honeybee behavior when he meets an intellect to match his own: a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps, unthinkable in any young lady of Holmes's own generation.

I am also listening to There, There by Tommy Orange. This is a brutally hard story to read (hear) but so important. "Fierce, angry, funny, groundbreaking. A wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. THERE THERE is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people."

So, what's everyone else into this week?
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What Fiction are you reading this week, August 26, 2018? (Original Post) hermetic Aug 2018 OP
"The Void" by Greig Beck dameatball Aug 2018 #1
Cool hermetic Aug 2018 #3
Reading about fox news empedocles Aug 2018 #2
Indeed hermetic Aug 2018 #4
I'm reading "The Girl On the Train"by Paula Hawkins. sueh Aug 2018 #5
Yeah, hermetic Aug 2018 #6
Noir, by murielm99 Aug 2018 #7
I adore Moore hermetic Aug 2018 #11
Me too. OxQQme Aug 2018 #15
Just got LAMB hermetic Aug 2018 #16
"the punishment she deserves" by Elizabeth George. TexasProgresive Aug 2018 #8
So that's only been out hermetic Aug 2018 #12
Born to Be Wilde iamateacher Aug 2018 #9
Interesting fact hermetic Aug 2018 #14
I'm 3/4ths through "The President Is Missing" Paladin Aug 2018 #10
Yessiree hermetic Aug 2018 #13
An Obama Biden Mystery trixie2 Aug 2018 #17

hermetic

(8,636 posts)
3. Cool
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 12:56 PM
Aug 2018

Something has traveled for a billion years to find us - and now it has. An unknown object emerges from the void; the name given to deep, dark space, and crashes on an Alaskan mountaintop, nearly 10,000 feet up. Satellite images show something moving about where no one should be alive. And that something seems to be growing at an alarming rate.

sueh

(1,872 posts)
5. I'm reading "The Girl On the Train"by Paula Hawkins.
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 12:58 PM
Aug 2018

I'm only about 7 or 8 chapters in. No disappointments so far.

murielm99

(31,463 posts)
7. Noir, by
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:22 PM
Aug 2018

Christopher Moore.

It is comedy and science fiction. He reminds me a bit of Carl Hiaasen, if Hiaasen had written any science fiction.

This guy has written sixteen books, and I have not cracked any of them!

I need something amusing right now, too. We all do.

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
15. Me too.
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 03:01 PM
Aug 2018

'Lamb' was my intro to Moore.
About Jesus' missing years.
Laffed so hard I hurt. (in a good way)

B&N made a fortune off me

hermetic

(8,636 posts)
16. Just got LAMB
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 03:24 PM
Aug 2018

Used, so it was only a few $. REALLY looking forward to it. Growing up, I had religion forced on me so I know I am going to love it. Like The Life of Brian which I found absolutely hilarious.

TexasProgresive

(12,307 posts)
8. "the punishment she deserves" by Elizabeth George.
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:22 PM
Aug 2018

I had given up on Ms. George when she killed of Helen. It just tooks something out of Lynley. Both Havers and Lynley are in this one and I hope they get to work together. I've always liked the tension/respect between the titled Lord turned cop and the uber blue color woman cop. I just a few chapter in and it is good.

hermetic

(8,636 posts)
12. So that's only been out
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:54 PM
Aug 2018

for a few months. Sounds like a real page-turner. " a deeply complex story about the lies we tell, the lies we believe, and the redemption we need, this novel will be remembered as one of George's best."

Paladin

(28,826 posts)
10. I'm 3/4ths through "The President Is Missing"
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:33 PM
Aug 2018

It's the Bill Clinton/James Patterson political thriller that's been at the top of the fiction best seller list for weeks, now. It's pretty good, if a bit formulaic. What's bugging me about it is imagining the same techno-terrorist scenario taking place in real life, with the "president" we're saddled with, right now. Now there's a nightmare, for you.....

hermetic

(8,636 posts)
13. Yessiree
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:59 PM
Aug 2018

I'm on the waiting list for this one. You are right, too, that it would be quite different if it were Dolt45.

trixie2

(905 posts)
17. An Obama Biden Mystery
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 09:58 PM
Aug 2018

Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer.

I miss those guys so much and this book is everything to me right now. Very funny and Obama is a bad ass!

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