What Fiction are you reading this week, November 25, 2018?

[hermetic]

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I'm still reading the same things that I was last Sunday.

But, I do need a day off today. I just have SO MUCH stuff that needs my attention right now. I will read all of your posts later this week because they are important to me. So, do talk among yourselves for now.

[Quemado]

1. State of Fear by Michael Crichton

Just started.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. A Passage to India by EM Forster

[trixie2]

3. Just finished The Windfall by Disksha Basu

I loved it.

[exboyfil]

4. Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly

I just went back and read The Late Show to get background on the new detective in this Harry Bosch book.

I do like Harry Bosch, but I wish Connelly would take more chances with the characters.

[PoorMonger]

16. Waiting on this at my library.

They have 2 copies and an audio version and I’m still waiting. Lol.

[exboyfil]

18. I was surprised I got the audio so quickly

Ripped it and listened to it in about three days. That included listening to The Late Show first which I read to speed up time. I got both the audio and text editions of The Late Show almost immediately from my library.

[Srkdqltr]

5. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

Just started it. Good so far.

[violetpastille]

6. Not fiction but

Not exactly factual.

"The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible".

It's not completely expensive Deepak Chopra Oprah Secret woo.

But it isn't exactly not so far either.

[Ohiogal]

7. Another Dark Sacred Night reader here.

Picked it up yesterday afternoon and read the first 75 pages last night.

[TexasProgresive]

8. "Eye of the World" 1st book of Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.

A while back I read the final 3 books which were written by Brandon Sanderson using the late Robert Jordan's notes assisted by Jordan's wife. It had been years since reading WOT. Jordan's writing is definitely more my taste than Sanderson. Anyway I will not try to binge read WOT.

My next book will be Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves. I was looking from one of her Shetland Island series and found this one starring Vera Stanhope. I did not know that Cleeves wrote Vera. We watched a season of Vera.

You know how smells can bring up memories or emotions? The smell of old paperbacks printed, no doubt on high acid paper, makes me smile.

[dameatball]

9. "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield.

[northoftheborder]

10. The Reckoning, John Grisham

Also reading one of Barbara Hambly's novels "Die Upon a Kiss".

[murielm99]

11. I'm reading another Rebus book:

Exit Music, by Ian Rankin.

[hostalover]

12. Two books:

]Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate This was a highly recommended book and while I thought the writing was only so-so, the story, based on true events, was fascinating. It's the story of an adoption ring run by unscrupulous people in So. Carolina in the 30's, 40's and even 50's. Babies and children were stolen mainly from poor people, put in an orphanage, and eventually sold to wealthy parents for adoption. Not all of the children made it out of the orphanage, tho.

Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke Mr. Burke tells a good story, but boy, does he use a LOT of words! I liked the main characters very much and the villains were properly dispensed with. The story concerns a young American soldier who rescues a young Jewish woman from a concentration camp at the end of WWII, eventually marries her, and all sorts of adventures await them in America!

[yellowdogintexas]

13. I am in the middle of a series by Ernest Dempsey

His lead characters are an archaelogist and a former government agent (was part of a super secret task force) who hunt down various important artifacts and return them to their proper homes - some stolen, some just lost to history and so forth.

Action, adventure, a little history, I like the characters quite a bit.

I am in book 7 The Jerusalem Creed. I had read this one as it was on the free list on Book Bub and when several of the other books popped up on Amazon I got them. It has been fun!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. The Passenger by Lisa Lutz.

Really good so far.

[PoorMonger]

15. Presidio by Randy Kennedy

Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunningly mature literary debut tells the story of a car thief and his brother who set out to recover some stolen money and inadvertently kidnap a Mennonite girl who has her own reasons for being on the run.

Troy Falconer returns home after years of working as a solitary car thief to help his younger brother, Harlan, search for his wife, who has run away with the little money he had. When they steal a station wagon for the journey, the brothers accidentally kidnap Martha Zacharias, a Mennonite girl asleep in the back of the car. Martha turns out to be a stubborn survivor who refuses to be sent home, so together these unlikely road companions attempt to escape across the Mexican border, pursued by the police and Martha’s vengeful father.

The story is told partly through Troy’s journal, in which he chronicles his encounters with con artists, down-and-outers, and roadside philosophers, people looking for fast money, human connection, or a home long since vanished. The journal details a breakdown that has left Troy unable to function in conventional society; he is reduced to haunting motels, stealing from men roughly his size, living with their possessions in order to have none of his own and all but disappearing into their identities.

With a page-turning plot about a kidnapped child, gorgeously written scenes that probe the soul of the American West, and an austere landscape as real as any character, Presidio packs a powerful punch of anomie, dark humor, pathos, and suspense.

[PoorMonger]

17. The Ranger by Ace Atkins ( Quinn Colson #1 )

After years of war, Army Ranger Quinn Colson returns home to the rugged, rough hill country of northeast Mississippi to find his native Tibbehah County overrun with corruption, decay, meth runners, and violence. His uncle, the longtime county sheriff, is dead. A suicide, he’s told, but others—like tomboy deputy Lillie Virgil—whisper murder.

In the days that follow, it’s up to Colson to discover the truth, not only about his uncle, but about his family, his friends, his town, and himself. And once it’s discovered, there’s no going back for this real hero of the Deep South.