Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat 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?
dameatball
(7,603 posts)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.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)horror fiction
and a mystery, as well.
sueh
(1,872 posts)I'm only about 7 or 8 chapters in. No disappointments so far.
That's a really good story.
murielm99
(31,463 posts)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.
hermetic
(8,636 posts)One of the funniest writers ever, I believe.
'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)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)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)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."
iamateacher
(1,101 posts)By my favorite romance author Eloisa James
hermetic
(8,636 posts)There are 4 books with that same title, all with vastly different story lines.
Paladin
(28,826 posts)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)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)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!