What Fiction are you reading this week, October 30, 2022?

[hermetic]

Boo!

Reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. America in the 1950s, spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view. I'm finding it sometimes enjoyable, sometimes boring. I guess that's a risk one runs with a 600 page book.

Listening to Murder in an Irish Pub by Carlene O'Connor, the 4th Irish Village Mystery. A poker tournament has just come to town. Siobhán has to call a killer's bluff, but if she doesn't play her cards right, she may be the next one taken out of the game. Fun stuff.

What books are you treating yourselves to this week?
Hope you have a fun Halloween.

[Srkdqltr]

1. John Sanford's Righteous Prey.

Davenport and Flowers , what's not to like.

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2. A new one

And a long one.

“We're going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five.

Sounds quite readable. Put me on the list.

[SheltieLover]

8. I put a hold on an e-copy at library.

I'm 454 out of 50 copies, so sometime...

Ty for sharing!

[bahboo]

11. huge fan...can't wait to read....

[cbabe]

12. I read it last week. Bitcoin billionaires turned

radical ‘activists’. Uh oh. Sandford giving real life billionaires ideas…?

Reading through all his books. Again.

[Drum]

3. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver

A wonderful retelling of Dickens’ David Copperfield, set in 1990s Appalachia.

Enjoying it a lot!

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5. Oh neat!

Also a new one. Kingsolver is great.

[japple]

16. I will be reading this next! Can't wait for it. The WAPO book editor thinks it might be

the best book of 2022. As a huge fan of Barbara Kingsolver and a long time lover of anything Dickens, this is right up my alley.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Finishing up BLOOD and GOLD by Anne Rice

A terrific and atmospheric novel about the Vampire, Marius from Ancient Rome, as he tells his story from the 4th century as he is introduced, to the latter part of the 18th century. A page turner that often refers to the Vampires Armand and Lestat. The infusion of real historical figures like Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli, makes for an interesting read.

I highly recommend this novel for anyone who considers themselves a fan of Rice's Vampire novel series.

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6. That'd be me

Wow, there's been a great many more written since I last read her. Looks like I've got a lot of catching up to do. Thanks.

[SheltieLover]

7. Just finished "Safe & Sound," (Sisterhood!) by Fern Michaels. Exceptional read!

Now about half-way through "Collateral Damage," also by Fern Michaels, another Sisterhood winner!

Ty for the thread!

[hermetic]

9. Ty for participating

Always happy to see your new suggestions.

You know, we should have a participation trophy smiley. That could be fun. Just sayin'...

[SheltieLover]

10. Lol.

[Number9Dream]

13. Finished "Dune: House Atreides" by Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson

This was the first book of the "Dune" prequel trilogy. It takes place about fifty years before "Dune". An enjoyable read, like visiting old friends.

[hermetic]

14. Wow, hadn't heard about this

"..working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dune--where we step onto the planet Arrakis...decades before Dune's hero, Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, walks its sands."

Did you ever watch "The Office"? The Halloween episode where the one guy dresses up like the sand worm? Too funny!

[Number9Dream]

15. Dressing up like a sandworm... that is too funny.

[japple]

17. Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic! I'm reading another book about WWII.

The White Rose Network by Ellie Millwood. Interesting story and I will keep reading to see where it goes.

I posted upthread that I have Demon Copperhead on my e-reader coming up next. I am really looking forward to immersing myself in another Barbara Kingsolver epic.

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19. That's great

And I'm sure it will be, as well. Look forward to hearing about it.

[The King of Prussia]

18. Calypso by Ed McBain 🐐

Otherwise this week read more of Helen Cox's Yorkshire mysteries.
Been busy with the kitten, and going to gigs and world cup matches.
Have a good week!

[hermetic]

20. Thanks.

You do the same. Give that little cutie a snuggle from afar.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. currently Hurricane Season #1 of the Florida Panhandle Mysteries

HURRICANE SEASON
The 1950s fairly leap off the page in this classic cozy mystery set in northern Florida in the Eisenhower era, complete with Johnny Ray on the jukebox and a Womanless Wedding—this one interrupted by an explosion at a moonshine still. Lily Trulock, owner of Trulock’s Grocery & Marine Supply, leads a pretty quiet life until a stranger comes to town. The new guy’s not what he appears, but then, some of St. Elmo’s residents aren’t either.
There are two more of these.

Before this one, I read
The Souls of Clayhatchee has been honored with numerous awards including: Best African American Fiction in the National Indie Excellence Award and the Next Generation Indie Best Award as well as Bronze Medal for Best Regional Fiction (South) in the Independent Publishing Book Awards.


A brilliant novel about family ties, generational racism, and a mysterious murder that casts its shadow across a man fulfilling his mother’s dying wish.

James Kingsman hated the South. Raised by parents who had migrated north from Alabama years before his birth, he had heard their personal stories of racism, injustice, and fear. At best, he carried a certain disdain for those who stayed behind, no matter how much the South had changed. When James reluctantly agrees to his mother’s last wish to be buried in her ancestral home, his notions about southern relatives are turned upside down. As are long-hidden discoveries about his parents. His father did not migrate north, he escaped. His mother kept an even deeper secret, one of rage and beauty.

Some ghosts cannot stay buried.

[question everything]

22. The Man Who Died Twice- Richard Osman

Continuation of the Thursday Murder Club. While certainly is a stand alone it helps to know the background of the characters. Elizabeth is in full force.