What Fiction are you reading this week, July 14, 2019

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Sending love and concern to our brothers and sisters dealing with severe weather/flooding right now.

Reading Ian Rankin's A Question of Blood. Inspector Rebus is wonderfully snarky and funny but then makes you think seriously about circumstances plaguing the people of Scotland, which are common to us all. One of Rankin's best, I think.

Listening to The Overstory, a monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by Richard Powers. “There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.”

I love this story. It is very personal for me and not only because some of it takes place in states where I have lived.
If you are someone who feels a strong connection to nature, especially to trees, I cannot recommend this book enough.

What books are you recommending this week?

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1. Harlan Coben's "Home."

It's been ten years since two 6-year-old boys were kidnapped, and suddenly one of them turns up in London. Or does he?

Excellent writing, great pacing.

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2. Mmmmm

That sounds really good.

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11. It was great.

Now I'm reading The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton (yes, *that* Bill Clinton) and James Patterson. Just came out. So far, it's very good.

[Timewas]

3. Slow times

Too much work to get done so not reading quite as much as usual... still working my way through Mark Dawson's Milton series..Just got Brad Thor's latest :Backlash" will be inot that by Tue or so..

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7. BACKLASH is a new one.

Bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet!

In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. And once crossed, there was no crossing back.

Should be good.

[dweller]

4. Jo Nesbo's THE REDEEMER

Dark ... but intriguing all the same

✌🏼️

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5. I enjoy Nesbo

Plan to read more in the future.

[Runningdawg]

6. Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Serial killer in Detroit who fuses parts of bodies together to make "art". The main detective's teenager daughter has no idea she is texting with him online, the art community has no idea who their rising star REALLY is and it might just be up to a homeless man to save everyone.
"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down...I'd grab it if I were you." —Stephen King
I would agree. I've read 2/3 of the book in the last 24 hours.

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8. Eew. Creepy

Can't wait to read it.

[murielm99]

9. No fiction this week.

I am reading "Son," By Jack Olsen. It is an older book that has been reissued.

It is about Fred Coe, who committed many rapes in Spokane in the seventies, and probably earlier. It is about a psychopath and his victims. His victims were not only those raped. They included the people who loved him and wanted to help him. It is mind-boggling how many people were convinced that he was innocent and misunderstood. He could twist people's minds.

Sound like anyone we know?

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10. Wow

No kidding. Now THAT really is creepy.