What Fiction are you reading this week, May 29, 2022?

[hermetic]

Just started A Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride, pub. 2017. "Sometimes the worst thing you can imagine is just the start." An ancient mummy turns up in Scotland and it's up to Constable Callum to determine which museum it was stolen from. Then he learns it's tied to three missing young men, and life starts to get a lot more interesting. At 600 pages this should keep me busy for a good bit.

Listening to some epic fantasy: Hunter by Mercedes Lackey. The terrors came, ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares. And it may be too late to stop them.

What books will be stirring your imagination this week?

Wishing you a peaceful Memorial Day.

[murielm99]

1. I am reading

Written in My Own Heart's Blood, by Diana Gabaldon. I started reading this series (Outlander) long before most people took notice.

At more than 800 pages, this will take me a while.

[hermetic]

3. Great stories

Some of my favorites.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. I'm re-reading an old guilty pleasure...

Twilight.

[hermetic]

4. If it makes you happy

That's all that matters. Reading is good for you.

[bif]

5. Reading a couple books...

"The Patient" by Jasper Dewitt and "The Lost Diary of Venice" by Margaux DeRoux.

[hermetic]

6. "The Patient"

Sounds rather harrowing. A patient in a mental hospital drives everyone who tries to work with him insane.

Sticking with The Lost Diary... That does sound like a good one.

[The King of Prussia]

7. I took action to break my reading slump.

Two Ed McBains - "The Mugger" and "The Pusher". Both top notch. Also "The Postman always rings twice" by James M. Cain. Pretty good, but not McBain good.

Currently on "Slam the big door" by John D. MacDonald - another of my favourite American thriller writers.

Away from books I am desperately trying to avoid the flag-shaggers and their Jubilee "celebrations".

[hermetic]

9. 95 books!

That's how many John D. MacDonald has on his list, and I never heard of him. (I've led a pretty sheltered life). He did write lots of award winners.

So, you're at party central now? Hey, 70 years at one job, that's rather impressive. Good excuse to stay in and read, I'd say. Stay safe. The bugs are still out there.

[The King of Prussia]

11. I hadn't thought about till you posted

But I had it in my head that it was 75.

[japple]

8. Still reading NF about my current favorite genre--women spies of WWII

The Wolves At The Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy by Judith Pearson is another story about Virginia Hall, although not nearly as interesting or accurate as Sonia Purnell's or Erika Robuck's books on the same subject.

[hermetic]

10. Good to know

that there are so many books like this out there. They could serve as inspiration a few years from now. We should find a way to store them all in vaults for the future, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

Busy here, making spaghetti sauce from scratch, with lots of zucchini. I use it all the time and have added your posted recipe to my collection. Thanks.