What Fiction are you reading this week, August 7, 2022?

[hermetic]

The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves. A guest lecturer is murdered at the Writer's House, a country retreat where aspiring authors gather to workshop and work through their novels. So, along with the police procedures we also learn a great deal about novel-writing and the publishing industry. It's quite intriguing. I'm almost at the end and still don't know whodunnit.

Listening to One By One by Ruth Ware. This one is not really holding my interest.

What books are you finding interesting this week.

[bif]

1. "The School of Essential Ingredients"

By Erica Bauermeister. About 1/2 way through t. Not bad, not great.

[thucythucy]

2. A Model Childhood

by Christa Wolf.

A German woman revisits her childhood under the Nazi regime, including the time of her family's flight as refugees as the Soviet army draws close to their home in east Prussia. Years later she travels to her childhood home--now a part of Poland--and tries to separate reality from fantasy and to understand the actions of the adults around her, including her parents, during this time.

This is my quick take for now. I'm only sixty pages into it, another 350 some odd to go.

The writing is dense, and the writer does an incredible job taking us into the internal life of this intelligent and deeply thoughtful little girl as she tries to make sense of a world filled with monstrous acts and horrible secrets.

[japple]

8. This sounds like it's right up my alley. Going on my list.

Thanks!!!

[SheltieLover]

3. Still inhaling Fern Michaels' exceptional books

Library has over 150 of her ebooks!

Each is so unique & very special in its own way.

Interspersing Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune series, some of Diane Kelly's works, & a few others.

The Glass Room sounds delightful! Going to check availability. Thx for sharing & ty for the thread.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. So many Fern Michaels, so little time! Sisterhood? Godmothers?

or others?
I spent weeks buried in the Sisterhood and the offshoot series Men of the Sisterhood.

Fern is a great writer !

[SheltieLover]

15. All of the above, interspersed with some of Diane Kelly's works

Loved the Godmothers series. Still working through the Sisterhood books. Just finished 19 Yellow Moon Road. Excellent, as are all her works, imo.

What are you reading?

[yellowdogintexas]

17. Hi! I was visiting my daughter that week and yes I did some reading

both on the flights there and back and while visiting.

I have not yet pulled together the list of the things I read between July 26 and August 12.

I do know I read the Lives of Lilly Parrish. This is a fun series which involves magic, witchcraft, a bit of time travel and has interesting characters.

Best read in order; book 1 is Salem Burning. So far there are 6 books -
the settings are
Salem Witch trials
French Revolution
Russian Revolution
French Resistance
Restoration England
London, 1880s (Jack the Ripper timeline)

[SheltieLover]

18. Nice you got to visit!

Sounds delightful. Going to check library.

Ty for sharing!

[SheltieLover]

19. Darn! Library doesn't have any of these either.

But ty for sharing about this series. Sounds like they are great reads!

[Mme. Defarge]

4. Just started The Investigator.

It’s the first in John Sandford’s Letty Davenport series and is set in post 1/6/21 times. It involves a militia group in Texas that’s stealing crude oil from major oil companies to finance its plans. 🙀

[bahboo]

5. looking forward to this one....

love his writing. Dialogue is always very real, and the characters, well, just so interesting and complex...

[sueh]

6. I just started reading Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Bachman.

So far so good. I've never been disappointed in any of his books I've read so far.

[hermetic]

7. Hi, all

Just wanted to say thanks for posting. As always you've provided great suggestions.

Sorry I didn't have time to chat but things are kind of crazy around the Hermetic household these days. I've got 2 cats who need medication several times a day plus a bathroom closet-full of week old kittens. So, things like sleeping and getting regular chores done are being put aside until time allows. We're all okay, though, just super busy. Until calmer days then,

[japple]

9. Big hugs to ((((((hermetic)))))) for kitteh duty. This is an

especially stressful kitten season. Are you bottle feeding or do the week-old kittens have a mama?

[hermetic]

11. Yes, a mom

She was a member of the feral bunch, maybe only 6 months old herself when she got preggers. Along with being fed and petted, she was gradually lured into the house where she chose that nice dark closet for her nursery. They all seem to be doing fine and once they are walking they will all go to the shelter after which I hope to heaven they will all find homes. I sure have no more room in here.

They look like they're going to be adorable. One all black, one like your image, and two greys. Their mom, Minnie, I think is a Thai cat, korat, and she is an absolute love. She needs to come back here and live with her brother, Odin, who adores her. He's already been caught and neutered and he has one messed up eye from getting a sticker in it. Vet doesn't think it needs removing, which is good.
https://cattime.com/cat-breeds/korat-cats#/slide/1

Just another day in Kitty Paradise. A great book and I highly recommend it. (That's my story and I'm sticking with it. )

[SheltieLover]

16. Big hugs to you & kitties!

Ty for helping them!

[hippywife]

10. Finished The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave,

and started Ghost Story by Peter Straub. So far, so weird.

[hermetic]

12. Ooh, another Hertopian novel

There was just a little discussion about this genre, a few posts down.

"After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this 1600s parable...Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization." Sounds great.

And, like any good ghost story, Straub's "stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares."

[hippywife]

13. I'm almost half way through it

and it took some mental gymnastics at first (and several more pages of the novel) to figure out what's going on. I'm still not entirely getting it as his writing tends to be a little odd to me, but I'm sure I'll have it figured out by the end. At least I hope so.