What Fiction are you reading this week, May 8, 2022?

[hermetic]

Happy Mother's Day


Still reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders, a very big book wherein we study the writings of famous Russian authors. So I am just reading the short story Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy and it's very gripping. Tolstoy truly was a great writer and this story follows a rich landowner and his servant as they get caught in an intense snow storm. It's remarkable to see that people haven't changed much since 1865.

Listening to Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson, a chilling psychological thriller about a woman who begins to realize she is probably living next door to a serial killer. I hate when that happens...

What's on your reading list this week?

Oh I got a nice surprise this morning. A signed copy of The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. My son recently visited her Birchbark Books store in Minneapolis and sent this to me.

[murielm99]

1. I am still reading

Never, by Follett. It is a slow read.

I recently received an autographed book, too. It is an older one, The Devil's Bed, by William Kent Krueger.

I will look out for the Louise Erdrich book. I love her books.

[hermetic]

2. I do, too

This one sounds so good: "A wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, a complex marriage, and a woman's relentless error, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book."

Yours also sounds good: ..caught in a larger web of deadly intrigue spun by a shadowy, seemingly insignificant bureaucratic department within the federal government itself, two people Race to find answers before an assassin's bullet can find them and one comes to understand that when you lie down with the Devil, there's hell to pay.

[SheltieLover]

3. Leslie Langtry's Merry Wrath series!

Similar to DeLeon, although the characters aren't quite as colorful.

Merry, the protagonist, is a retired CIA operative who is a Girl Scout leader in her small Iowa hometown.

The girls are very funny. Like spooks in training, much to Merry's dismay.

Enjoy! She is yet another prolific author with several series.

[hermetic]

5. She sure does

Many of her book titles are takes on song titles, like I Shot You Babe and Stand by Your Hitman. She does sound like fun.

[SheltieLover]

11. They are fun reads for sure!

Very imaginative story lines.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Baldacci ... Hell's Corner

If you like simple words, no vocabulary building, this may be the book for you. I don't know if I'll read the whole book.

[hermetic]

7. Sounds like a good

political thriller. Maybe a bit too long, at over 630 pages. I read a couple of reviews that sounded like they agree with you.

[The King of Prussia]

6. Still on "From Devon with Death" by Stephanie Austin

I had a break from fiction to read a book called "Pink Floyd FAQ" - which appears to have been written by someone who doesn't particularly like Pink Floyd.

Tempting fate, obviously, but life is back to the "old normal". We went to two gigs this week - Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets in Manchester which was EXTRAORDINARILY good, and then we saw two folk groups in a nearby village. And more good news, I'm pretty sure we don't live next door to any serial killers.

Do you all have your lives back now?

[hermetic]

8. How could anyone

not like Pink Floyd? Like, who MADE HIM write this book? Glad to hear Mason's show was good.

I'm still not going out, but there's a lot of reasons for that right now. One is that cases are increasing here every day. I still wear a mask to go shopping but I wouldn't want to sit in an enclosed building with a bunch of other people. But, that's just me. Clearly, younger people are getting out and about again.

[SheltieLover]

12. My daughter made that mistake. Now covid +!

One in-person work event & bam!

She should have known better!

[bif]

9. "Cloud Cuckoo Land"

It's a slow slog so far. Hope it picks up. He is a great writer, so I'm expecting it to get a lot more interesting.

[hermetic]

10. I tried the audio book

It was too complicated so I gave up. I will just read the book when it becomes available at the library.