What Fiction are you reading this week, June 16, 2019?
To all you dads out there, Happy Day!
Back on Mother’s Day I received Probable Claws, A Mrs. Murphy Mystery by the lovely Ms. Rita Mae Brown. I didn’t know she was such an activist. That, along with her opinionated 4-legged companions, and beautiful illustrations, are making this a very enjoyable read.
I’m also getting to know the characters in the harrowing tale of a world’s end, The Fifth Season. I can see why N. K. Jemisin keeps winning Hugo Awards for this series.
What books are you enjoying this week?
To all the rest of you out there, Happy Sunday!
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The last two King books I've read continue the Dark Tower theme. Unfortunately, I haven't read that series. It's too bad I'm getting in on it at the end, but I have to say I like the tale. Writing with Straub really changes King's style, and I like that, too.
Today I'm starting his The Green Mile. I enjoyed the movie, thought I'd check out the book. (Literally; I'm getting my reading material from the library of late, which is why I'm limited in my choices. Otherwise, I'd definitely be reading the Tower right now.)
As a new author myself, I was thrilled to have Straub ask me to friend him on FB. 
Books get sent thru the mail so they ask you to pay postage. This is the result of R government here for a long time and severe library funding cuts. 
We actually have three library branches here, with the main one being downtown, an adjunct on the eastern edge, and a small room in the mall about a mile from my place. The main one is awesome: five stories tall, with banks of internet computers filling half the bottom floor. It's new, having been built just a few years ago. The land, materials and construction costs were all donated by locals. I love the place. I can sit in a comfortable chair on the 5th floor--which is surrounded by an observation deck--and look out through floor-to-ceiling windows over the river just half a mile away.
But even a good library can't carry everything, so with someone like King it's hard to find all his works. Plus half the floor space is set up for reading and studying.
Thanks for the good wishes. I've published one novel and a short story, and have just submitted another short story. I currently have three projects: I'm writing a sequel to the first book, finishing a Young Adult novel, and shopping around another completed novel. Selling is the hard part; writing is fun.
Enjoy your new privileges!
It's an awesome story that would make a great movie IMHO. Despite the title most of it takes place in Italy, and the title character is indeed from Berlin originally. It's a story-within-a-story, and it jumps between present time to the years between the wars in Tuscany and Bologna. The two interwoven themes are riveting enough with a few surprises along the way. It's partly a love story from the pre-World War II times, and partly a modern legal thriller.
I couldn't put it down, and after I finished it I gave it to my sister and niece who also enjoy such novels. As a rule I don't often read fiction, but this book was quite enjoyable.
Thanks for telling us about it.
Those do sound fun. There is something about Key West that I find most compelling. I have lived on larger islands and by the ocean but that place just seems so unique. So this woman is all for reading about adventures and treasure hunts and shenanigans going on down there, too. 
