What Fiction are you reading this week, August 1, 2021?

[hermetic]

Happy August!


Children's Library, Fort Worth. Nice

The Winter King is such a pleasure to read. Author Bernard Cornwell's words just sing. A visiting princess is greeted with armloads of flowers. 'She looks like a dumpling, garlanded with parsley." Cornwell has a very comprehensive website where you can learn all sorts of things about his books.
http://www.bernardcornwell.net/

Listening to Something Rotten, by another incredible writer, Jasper Fforde. I can't begin to describe how witty and inventive this satire of politics and corporations is. And so prescient. Fforde is a book lover's dream. He also has a nifty website: https://www.jasperfforde.com/

I do hope you are enjoying whatever fiction you are reading this week as much as I am mine.

I have to zip off to a Zoom meeting but I'll be back. Carry on.

[Jeebo]

1. Andy Weir's latest.

Love The Martian and Artemis. I'll always immediately read anything of his that hits the book shelves. Just started Project Hail Mary and it grabbed me right away. Only 40-some pages in and already I can tell it won't disappoint.

-- Ron

[hermetic]

2. Loved The Martian, too

Everyone is saying this new one is terrific. I can't wait to read it.

[murielm99]

3. No fiction this week.

I am reading non-fiction, "Democracy in Chains," by Nancy MacLean.

It pulls together a lot of things that most politically aware DUers know already. It gives a history of the fair right's work to eliminate unions, suppress the vote, get rid of public education and prove that climate change is a myth.

It is not a new book. It was written in 2017.

It is important to know the roots and the history of these billionaires who are trying to subvert our democracy and take over the country.

I will get back to fiction later.

On edit: Everything is rooted in racism. Everything!!

[hermetic]

5. Wow

Painful stuff. Sure wish we had a way to make others read it. Maybe it would help us survive, which I am starting to think won't happen. Yuck. Anyway, thanks for checking in. It's good to know there is still sanity in the country.

[Number9Dream]

4. Almost finished with "The Burning Land" by Bernard Cornwell.

As always, thanks for the thread, hermetic.

The fifth book in the 'Saxon' series, and another good novel. Uhtred, the Saxon warlord, battles Danish Vikings, and becomes an outlaw to the very sick Alfred the Great. Cornwell comes up with clever battle scenes and non-stop action.

[hermetic]

6. He is a master of that

Thank you for checking in. Having an awesome day here. Rain, rain, rain. So desperately needed and so cooling. I'm a little concerned about the lightning, though. Hope it doesn't start any more fires. A little while ago a bolt hit right over my house. KABOOM! About scared the you-know-what out of me. Sent all the cats scurrying under furniture. Good times.

[hermetic]

7. Funny thing

I had just been reading how the "gods" spoke through thunder at the ancient counsel meeting. If the members had heard a blast like this, I think they might have dropped their swords and left the country.

[bif]

8. "Up Against the Night"--Justin Cartwright

Just finished it. Very good read. Looking forward to reading more by him.

[hermetic]

9. That sure does sound good

"An enthralling tale of personal conflict and intrigue, set against the backdrop of South Africa's tangled past and troubled present, and told with tremendous color and insight. Absolutely original and gripping." And he's written at least 12 others including Other People's Money which sounds quite familiar.