What Fiction are you reading this week, August 14, 2022?

[hermetic]

Keep those masks on!


I got Covid. Totally wiped me out. All I want to do is sleep. And read. Luckily, I have a great book for that. Night School by Lee Child. Easy to read. Interesting mystery but not too complicated.

I am unable to listen to audio books right now. The mind just drifts away.

So, what books would the FBI find on your reading table this week?

[FeelingBlue]

1. Larry McMurtry's...

Sin Killer,

the first of four in the Berrybender Series

[SheltieLover]

2. Oh no!

So sorry to hear you are ill!

I hope you are feeling better soon! Healing vibes on the way! 💓💓💓

Still reading Ellery Adams Diane Kelly, & Fern Michaels.

How are the kitties?

Ty for the thread! And for Childs' rec. Sounds like a winner!

[hermetic]

18. Thanks

Kitties are doing great.

[cbabe]

3. Ace Atkins: Quinn Colson series

Last edited Sun Aug 14, 2022, 01:55 PM - Edit history (1)

Blurbs from Lee Child(co author of later Child books and I like Child’s prose style) and Michael Connelly.

Likened to James Lee Burke (not even close in my opinion)

Ranger comes home from trashcanistan to small depressed Mississippi county awash in crime. Becomes sheriff. Everyone knows everyone so tangled up personal and professional, families and high school friends.

A bit formulaic but some good dialogue and nature writing. Church and strip clubs. Fishing, hunting, sweet tea.

Good summer read.

Edit correction:
Robert B Parker/Spenser author, not Child..

Also dark side to Nevada Barr’s ‘Deep South’ novel in the Natchez Trace park.

[LogicFirst]

4. Middlemarch by George Eliot

[The King of Prussia]

5. "A Man Lay Dead" by Ngaio Marsh

The first of the "Roderick Alleyn" mysteries.

Hope you beat Covid real soon x

[hermetic]

17. Good to hear from you

I am so sorry to see what is going on over there. Sometimes I think we are all truly doomed.

Thank goodness for fiction.

[Staph]

6. I'm on day fourteen of COVID myself.

I've spent most of the last two weeks reading the V.I Warshaski books by Sara Paretsky. Read a chapter. Take a nap. Read a chapter. Take a nap.

Get well soon. Sleep really does help!

[SheltieLover]

7. Healing vibes on the way! 💗💗💗

I hope you feel better soon.

[hermetic]

16. Hope you're feeling better now.

Always enjoyed the V.I Warshaski tales.

[pscot]

8. Hi Hermetic

Sorry you got the Covid. We've been lucky so far, but it seems like it's bound to catch us all eventually.

I just finished On Turpentine Lane by Elinor Lipman. The is the 3rd I've read by her. She writes clever, witty romantic comedies with Jewish heroines. They're quite addicting. I just started Sins of Empire, a swords and sorcery epic by Brian McClellan. It seems readable so far. We'll see how it holds up.

Rest. Drink lots of fluids. Avoid dark, existential reads. Get well soon.

[hermetic]

15. Thanks!!

That's what I've been doing. Those Lipman books sound like fun.

[TexLaProgressive]

9. Sorry you have Covid, got it in June, I seem to be over it now.

I just couldn’t get into that Cozy mystery I posted about last week. I am reading Douglas Clarks’ “Nobody’s Perfect,” a Masters and Green mystery, police procedural, written in 1969. The two main cops are defiantly male chauvinist. They describe every woman in her desirability or not. But the overall story is interesting. I read one other of these that was about a mysterious diabetes death. I think Clarks books tend to be pharmacy related.

I am listening to Brandon Sanderson’s “Warbreaker.”

[yellowdogintexas]

10. At the moment "The Nazi's Engineer'

and the title refers to an individual Nazi, so the apostrophe is correct.

anyway;

Nazi Germany. 1945. When Detective Inspector Wolfgang Vogel is approached by his distraught neighbor, begging him to find her missing husband, he is quickly drawn into a case the Gestapo and SS are determined he never solve, putting his own life, and that of his family, at risk.

And over 70 years later, Archaeology Professor James Acton and his wife discover the horrifying reason behind what turns out to be far more than a simple missing persons case, the revelation thrusting them into the middle of something much bigger than they could have ever imagined.

A discovery worth unfathomable millions.

And like the Nazis, there are those today who will stop at nothing to possess what they have found.

It is a good read, but then all of Kennedy's books have been fun reads.

Before starting this one, I finished "Atlantis Lost" by the same author

WILL THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN HISTORY BE LOST ONCE AGAIN?

After an earthquake strikes the Azores, a discovery of unimaginable importance is made just off the coast, sending Archaeology Professor James Acton and his wife racing across the Atlantic to confirm the find—the lost city of Atlantis.

But they aren’t the first there, and those who arrived before them will stop at nothing to prevent anyone from discovering their true purpose, and it has nothing to do with the preservation of the past, but everything to do with the destruction of our future.

This is a great series; archaeology/adventure/thriller category. The author also has several other series.

When I was on vacation in Arizona, I had time to do a lot of reading. I will get a list together and post it.

[hermetic]

14. Love stories about Atlantis

I'll have to get that one.

[SheltieLover]

11. I just finished Night School

I enjoyed it immensely. Ty for sharing about it!

I hope you are feeling better!

[question everything]

12. The Broken Spine but Dorothy St. James

A small town inS. Carolina wants to be the Silicone Valley of the South. To attract high tech and to convert the trusty old library to a "book less" one filled with computers and lending tablets.

The assistant librarian won't have it and is removing some beloved books to a secret place in the basement. But then the town manager is murdered and our heroine is suspect number one, unless she and her friends solve it.

Along the way, a stray cat gets into the library, named... Dewey Decimal.

=====

Hope you will feel better soon.

[hermetic]

13. That sounds good

Thanks. I'm working on it.