What Fiction are you reading this week, November 14, 2021?
Been crazy busy this past week. Not much time for reading. So, I'm still reading Ash Wednesday by Ralph McInerny, a Father Dowling mystery. I can definitely imagine how this would be a fun TV series. What a bunch of characters!
And still listening to First Grave on the Right. Darynda Jones sure does come up with some funny ideas for tee shirt and bumper sticker slogans, which begin every chapter. These books are quite popular. I just checked out the 6th grave book but I have to wait for the second and fifth because so many others have requested them. We're talking months' long waits. I'm getting these through my library and Overdrive for free so I can't really complain. BUT, only one person at a time can listen? Oh well, like I said before, these don't really need to be listened to in order to appreciate them.
What books are you appreciating this week?
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as well as can be expected! Hoping the snow stays away for a bit longer…and definitely lying low.
I always forward to your OP’s so I can get recommendations for my next book!
We're doing something right. Thank you. 
the people on the library board who decide what and how many books to get. I AM pleased that they get Connelly at all and that so many do want to read it. I do live in what is now being called the most conservative state in the union.
Ahh, typewriters. I remember those. Good times. 
A little searching has revealed I can get a like-new copy for just under $20 so I think I'll do that. At least I won't have to worry about it being stuck in a supply chain.
by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, but am almost finished. I recommend this work to anyone who is interested in the history of this period and is a great family story.
Not really sure where I'm headed next, but I think it will be S. A. Cosby's book, Blacktop Wasteland.
Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there’s no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast.
He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear.
Haunted by the ghost of who he used to be and the father who disappeared when he needed him most, Bug must find a way to navigate this blacktop wasteland...or die trying.
Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime.
Thanks, hermetic, for hosting the weekly thread.
I always look forward to reading it, even though I don't always post. With new foster kittens, I am not getting a lot of reading done. The new ones are pitifully underweight, sickly, and not very sociable. Poor little critters.
Glad to hear because I know you can bring them around and make their lives better. They are very lucky to have come under your wing for this while. I surely do know how time consuming they are, though. Ah well, time well spent. 
Your book sounds like fun.
