What Fiction are you reading this week, April 3, 2022?

[hermetic]

Just finished The Time Cellar. Good story. Nice ending. Next up will be Cat Shout for Joy by Shirley Rousseau Murphy.. With a side of The Answer Is by Alex Trebek. Too expensive to make the 50 mile round trip to the library right now so I will read some of what I bought last year.

Listening to Death of a Prankster by M. C. Beaton wherein Hamish Macbeth, that most endearing of crime fighters, will get the best, and last, laugh. I had to give up trying to listen to Cloud Cuckoo Land. It was just too difficult to concentrate on while cooking, so I will later just read the book.

So, what's happening with your reading list this week?

[gab13by13]

1. Not Fiction - Personal Growth - Self-Help,

I highly recommend it; The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz.

Just started it, easy to read, not long.

[The King of Prussia]

2. "Date with Danger" by Julia Chapman

#5 in the "Dales Detective Agency" series. On Thursday we went to the launch of #7 in Settle (the town where the books are set). We arrived in a blizzard, and left in a blaze of early Spring sunshine.
Earlier in the week I read a couple of Perry Masons - "The Case of the Sulky Girl" and the case of "The Rollong Bones". Both well up to the usual high standard.

Next I'll be going back to "Murder at the Seaview Hotel" by Glenda Young.

[hermetic]

5. Fun trip

I look forward to getting the SEAVIEW book some day. So many good reviews. Evidently it's quite witty.

This Tuesday I will be attending a Zoom chat with Ruth Ware, which should be fun. Something different to look forward to.

[The King of Prussia]

18. Zoom chats with authors

One of the highlights of lockdown. But now that things have "returned to normal" launch events seem to have returned to real life - which is only fine if you live near the venue.

Enjoy Ruth Ware!

[captain queeg]

3. Soldiers Live

Just started. It’s a book by Glen Cook about the Black Company. Haven’t read any of this stuff in years but I used to like him. For all I know I’d read this one before, probably wouldn’t realize till I was half way thru. Or maybe not at all. I just grabbed it at the used book store when I was picking up some Louie Lamour for my sister.

[hermetic]

6. Highly rated

Dark fantasy, horror. Sounds good.

[captain queeg]

20. Yeah, I've read some of his stuff before and liked it

It’s a bit confusing at the moment as the current situation is analyzed and I haven’t read the previous book. Or at least don’t remember it. Definitely darker than most Fantasy.

[bif]

4. "Boy Swallows Universe" by Trent Dalton

Just started it.

[hermetic]

7. Soumds like a keeper

A story of brotherhood, true love, family, and the most unlikely of friendships. Trent Dalton's debut is sure to be one of the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novels you will experience.

[bif]

26. It took a while to get into it

But it's getting pretty good. I'm up to 100 pages so it passed my 50 page rule.

[Jilly_in_VA]

8. As of this moment

Ghosts of a Small Prairie Town, by Leah Maxwell, on my Kindle. It's a lovely book involving a 94 year old woman reminiscing about her life on the Saskatchewan prairies while dealing with such daily things as the death of her elderly cat, good neighbors in her senior complex, and a difficult social worker. Next on my TBR list is probably Margaret Atwood's The Penelopeiad. Maybe. On my other iPad Kindle app downstairs, I'm reading Temple Grandin's The Autistic Brain, which I recommend highly. Obviously that one is NOT fiction!

[hermetic]

9. Never heard of that Atwood

and it didn't show up on Fiction Database. But, it's a miniature book that was retold by Margaret Atwood on the story of the "Odyssey". It was a reimagined tale from Penelope's perspective and her twelve maids about sabotage and subsistence of livelihood in the palace centuries ago that continues to the afterlife.

That does sounds interesting.

The Grant book sounds nice, as well.

[SheltieLover]

14. "Look Me in the Eyes" is an exceptional read on autistic thought processes

By John Elder Robison, a man born with Aspergers long before there was a dx.

He was the engineer for The Pink Floyd pyfotechnics & light shows & worked at Mattel on the 1st talking toys.

Exceptionally well written & detailed, step-by-step explanation of his thought processes, esp in social situations. Pure logic.

Enjoy!

Ps - Independently verified thought processes by a genius Aspie I know. "Well, ya, that's how people think."

[Jilly_in_VA]

15. The first book I ever read

by Temple Grandin was Thinking in Pictures. I had seen her on some talk show, Phil Donahue maybe, and was just blown away by her. Since then I've read everything (I think) she has ever written, but that book totally helped me understand my son, who would be most likely classified as a high-functioning autistic. Temple Grandin is one of my heroes and has also helped me understand a lot about animals, especially large animals, since that's the focus of her work. The HBO movie about her life starring Claire Danes is also excellent (she was an advisor on it so it's true to life.)

[SheltieLover]

16. I love her too!

Have you read "The Horse Boy," by Rupert Isaacson?

https://www.amazon.com/Horse-Boy-Fathers-Quest-Heal/dp/0316008230/ref=asc_df_0316008230/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312162455511&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5140592836206403992&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1025912&hvtargid=pla-569209737100&psc=1

He is married to Kristen Neff, piineer in self-compassion.

Exemplary read!

[Magoo48]

10. EARTHWAY, Ella Clah mystery 14, Aimee and David Thurlo,

Navajo Detective fights crime on the Rez. Great series.

[hermetic]

11. Nice

I look forward to reading these some day. I lived in that area for a long time.

[Magoo48]

13. Well then, something to look forward to. They are quite good mysteries and packed with culture.

[yellowdogintexas]

23. That sounds very interesting. When I was watching Longmire I found the

interaction between the Rez and the town quite fascinating.

[Magoo48]

24. Yup, I liked longmire as well; Lou Diamond Phillips did a good job.

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[SheltieLover]

12. Still working through Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune Series

You will love Cat Shout for Joy! Outstanding!

Enjoy!

[yellowdogintexas]

22. I wish these would come up on one of my bargain book sites! I scored the first one

for 99 cents.

I may have to resort to using our library e-book lending service.

As if I did not already have far too many in my kindle.

[SheltieLover]

25. I use library ebooks

Much as I read, I'd need to take out a 2nd mortgage to buy books. Lol

I preferred real books till I tried the e versions. Backlight on phone is great!

[Number9Dream]

17. Stopped "Assassin" by Ted Bell (spoiler alert); Started "The Last Templar" by Raymond Khoury

Thanks for the thread, hermetic.

I quit reading "Assassin" on page 19, when Mr. Bell murdered a bride 3 minutes after her wedding. I'm sick of cheap, easy drama, and also depressing. It went back to the library.

I'm enjoying "The Last Templar" so far. I usually like the blend of history and action.

[hermetic]

19. Good for you

That does sound like a rather unpleasant way to start a novel. Got enough crap going on in real life these days. Though I believe the Alex Hawke novels are quite popular.

Someone else here has been reading the Khoury novels and they sound quite good. I did think they might be something you would enjoy. Hope for the best, then.

Thanks for sharing.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. the Dying Day by Vaseem Khan

Author of the Baby Ganesh Detective stories

This is a tight mystery set in the time of Partition. The main character is India's first woman police officer.

A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.

Bombay, 1950

For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk.

Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch - is soon on the trail. But then they discover the first body.

As the death toll mounts it becomes evident that someone else is also pursuing this priceless artefact and will stop at nothing to possess it . . .

Harking back to an era of darkness, this second thriller in the Malabar House series pits Persis, once again, against her peers, a changing India, and an evil of limitless intent.

Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.

I am definitely going to read the first Malabar House mystery.

(and the Baby Ganash Mysteries also)