What Fiction are you reading this week, March 20, 2022?
Happy first day of spring!
Moray Speyside
I am reading Stewart O'Nan's The Good Wife. This is NOT related to the TV show by the same name. This is also not the sort of novel I usually select but it was recommended by a friend who is intelligent and very well-read. So, I thought I'd give it a go. A perfect description from The New York Times Book Review says: From a writer who reveals 'the plainness of everyday life with straightforward lyricism.' I am only halfway through but it's holding my attention and I don't want to say much about it until I see how it all comes out. So, stay tuned. Same DU time; same DU station.
Still devoting all my listening time to tales of Hamish Macbeth, by M. C. Beaton. I'm up to Death of a Hussy now. "A lazy lout though he may be, a thorn in the side of his superiors, and an exasperation to his neighbors -- when it comes to solving a murder, Hamish lets no grass grow under his feet." These books are such a delight!
I have just finished reading a rather large book, 568 pages, entitled Thriller. It is a collection of short stories that I keep by the couch for whenever I want to have a little midday lie down. There are some great stories in here, made even better by introductions to each by James Patterson. This has introduced me to authors I never heard of but have now put on my must-read list. The very last tale is by Preston/Child and is the perfect incredibly creepy finale. Highly recommend.
What books are springing up for you this week? 
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"Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe—superstitious ritual or sole defense against an ancient evil? In Crybbe, only strangers walk at twilight . . . For 400 years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly from the church tower of the small country town, Crybbe's only defense against the evil rising unbidden in its haunted streets."
That sounds quite good. 
Miss Fortune is a retired CIA assassin, paired up with 2 female, elder former spies from the Viet Nam war era.
Hysterically funny!
I think there are about 20 in this series & each one I've read has been delightful, laugh-till-you-cry funny.
Especially now, when I need something well written, intriguing, yet funny!
The 3 live in Sinful, Louisiana. The ladies of the town distill moonshine, but sell it as cough syrup... you get the idea, I'm sure.
Well worth the effort to read them! 
I really think you will love this series! I sure do! Rereading them for a 2nd time. And she is still releasing nes ones! 
Enjoy!
Glad you enjoyed! And my library has them all in e format. Important to me because I read so much, 1-2/day, and I'm settling in for the upcoming BA 2 wave.
I enjoyed the cat in the stacks series!
I just now downloaded Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise and hope I haven't already read this one.
Irène Némirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.
When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L’Evêque. It was there that she secretly began writing Suite Française. Though her family had converted to Catholicism, she was arrested on 13 July, 1942, and interned in the concentration camp at Pithiviers. She died in Auschwitz in August of that year.
Happy SPRING!!!!!
