What Fiction are you reading this week, November 20, 2022?

[hermetic]

Gobble, gobble.

I'm still reading the Kate Ellis book, The Bone Garden. The time change and living with 6 kittens has really altered my reading/sleep schedule, but we're slowly coming around. Should be back to normal soon.

Listening to The Lost Island by Preston & Child. This is a really fun story about the theft of the Book of Kells, but I have yet to learn how a lost island figures in. More to look forward to.

What books are you looking forward to this week?

Have a great Thanksgiving weekend.

[bif]

1. "The Lost for Words Bookshop"

By Stephanie Butland. Pretty good so far.

[hermetic]

2. Great name

for a book store!

"The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending novel."

Nice.

[SheltieLover]

4. Intriguing title!

Thx for sharing. Just checked out an ecopy from library!

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

[SheltieLover]

3. Just started "Reckoning" by Catherine Coulter.

Outstanding page turner, as are all of hers in this series. Just started chapter 11.

Just finished Patterson's "Shattered" last night.

Typical excellent read by this author.

Happy Thanksgiving, All!

Ty for this thread!

[The King of Prussia]

5. "May Day Murder" by Julie Wassmer

The third in her "Whitstable Pearl" mysteries set on the North Coast of Kent. Very enjoyable cozies.

Not sure what is next up - might opt for a Hamish Macbeth. Otherwise busy trying integrate the kitten with the other two cats. Going fairly well.

[hermetic]

7. Sounds like a fun series

of cozies by Wassmer. Nine in all, so far. Seems like so many of these mysteries involve a festival of some sort. Arts mostly. Which is fine by me. I love arts festivals and they are few and far between in this cultural sandbox where I live. So reading about them will just have to suffice, for now.

Good luck with your little family getting together.

[Easterncedar]

12. Love the Whitstable Pearl TV series

I’ll have to try the books. Thx

[yellowdogintexas]

16. we watched the tv series on ACORN. Season 2 drops on Nov 28

We really liked it

[dweller]

6. A rereading

Of Oliver Harris’s THE HOLLOW MAN

Read it long enough ago so that it is fresh again.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623915-the-hollow-man

Will be looking for the remaining books in series to continue the story.



✌🏻

[hermetic]

8. Gosh, that sounds great.

New to me, but from 2012. "Combining dark humor, dazzling twists, and a sharp narrative style, The Hollow Man is a tour de force of suspense -- and the debut of an extraordinary new writer."
Looks like there's at least 2 more about this same detective.

[Ford_Prefect]

9. Re-reading Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me.

It seems curiously timely but was entirely down to being the one on the library shelf I hadn't read recently. His take on the bizarre and contradictory nature of Floridian Culture seems all too relevant this week.

[hermetic]

10. Yes indeed

Looks like he has another scheduled for publication in a few months. A kid's book called Wrecker. "Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida!" That should be fun.

[SheltieLover]

11. That's a great read!

[yellowdogintexas]

17. I do love Hiaasen! We have read all of his novels

and loved them all.

His "kids book" are more Young Adult and are quite fine for Old Adult reading. I loved the ones I have read so far.

If you can find it, grab a copy of "Naked Came the Manatee" a serial novel. Each chapter is written by a different South Florida author. Dave Barry has the first chapter, which opens with a manatee named "Booger"!

https://www.florida-backroads-travel.com/naked-came-the-manatee.html

[Number9Dream]

13. Half-way through "Elementary, She Read" - by Vicki Delany

Thanks for the thread, hermetic.

(Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery #1)

"Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. The shop--located at 222 Baker Street-specializes in the Holmes canon and pastiche and is also the home of Moriarty the cat. When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Holmes story hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne (who runs the adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room) set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body."

I'm enjoying this one.

[hermetic]

14. I love Sherlock spinoffs

And these sound great. Will definitely look for them. Thanks for the tip.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. The Stone Thieves by Eddy Telviot

There is a book which has shaped the course of history. For thousands of years, a secret society of inventors have guarded it. From the Greeks and Persians to mighty Hannibal and the formidable Caesars of Rome. Viking raiders. Crusaders. Even Genghis Khan and the Conquistadors sought it. Yet none have come close to finding it, until now...

Taking a seemingly innocent summer apprenticeship, fifteen-year-old Sam is drawn into the mysterious world of The Few. He and three new friends are chosen to be trained in forgotten arts by this ancient order of inventors, whose existence is shrouded in dark science, marvelous modifications and incredible creations. It’s the beginning of an epic and relentless adventure that will blur the boundaries of their reality – full of action, gadgets and intrigue.

The stakes are high and The Few must adapt if they are to survive this new threat; for Ms Keller and Harbinger Robotics are poised for victory. They have learned of a scroll that will lead them to the book and, with it, change the world forever...

Lots of very imaginative good stuff and some high adventure. I love the teenage main characters! There are a lot of characters; some are obviously good guys and some obviously bad guys. However, there are quite a few whose villain/not villain status is blurred.

[hermetic]

19. That surely does sound

like an exciting and enjoyable story.

[japple]

18. Still reading Barbara Kingsolver's DEMON COPPERHEAD which is still one of the best things I've

ever read. I am 77% of the way thru and this guy is still in the 10th grade. Don't know how this will end, but will let you know next week. I'm coming down with sinus infection and have tons to do for Thanksgiving. Hopefully I'll get to read and relax after turkey day.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all, and a special thank-you to hermetic for hosting our weekly thread.

[hermetic]

20. Oh noes,

that sux. Hope you recover quickly and are able to enjoy your Thanksgiving. Thanks for keeping us tuned in to this wonderful book. You take care.

[Jilly_in_VA]

21. I finally finished Annelies on the trip last week

It turned out to be very good after all. It was just a little slow. It's now in a box of stuff to be sent to my daughter, who I know will love it. (It's a book presupposing that Anne Frank survived the concentration camps).

I have since returned to light reading on my Kindle. I do have a non-fiction one going which I'll mention, 1177 BC, The Collapse of Civilization by Eric Cline, which is about the invasion of Egypt by the Sea Peoples, something I knew nothing about. Slow going but interesting.

I had started a book called Jack and Libbie by Deanna Sletten which was supposed to be good and about mental illness, but it was so bad I couldn't get into it. I got a little over 25% of the way through, skipped to the end, read that, and wrote a scathing review on Goodreads/Amazon. I swear my teenage granddaughter has a better writing style!

So then I went for a palate cleanser in the form of a "psychological thriller" which wasn't really very scary, called The Nanny Song by someone styling herself Misty Mount. Despite some editing errors and awful name choices for characters (who names their kids Kason and Meela?) it was a solid little story with a nice, happy of course but sudden, ending.

Now I need to find something serious. Maybe.

[Paper Roses]

22. Since I get most of my books from the Little Free Library in town, I sometimes make a bad choice.

I just finished one of the most boring books I gave ever read."
" Revenge wears Prada". Since I liked the original, I thought this might be a fun read. Awful in my opinion.
I just went back to one of my great standby's. Michael Connelly., " The Black Box". Good so far.

I'm trying to sell 12 Reacher books on my local FB sale pages. I guess no one in my neck of the woods ever heard about Jack Reacher. 12 books plus a bonus of the Sentinel. 13 books for $10.00 and no replies. These were bought on Amazon and eBay, not from the Libraries so I thought they might be of interest and I could get the cost of 2 books back. Oh well, lesson learned.

[hippywife]

23. Hsve been sticking with ebooks on Libby

to avoid having to go into town to the library, and after a stretch of non-fiction, picked one I've had on my TBR for a really long time.

https://katherinearden.com/book/the-bear-and-the-nightingale/

When I initially added it to my For Later list on the library's website, it was a single book. It's since become a series of three books.

https://katherinearden.com/book/the-girl-in-the-tower/

https://katherinearden.com/book/the-winter-of-the-witch/

Read the first two this week and started the third today. They're Russian folklore and much of the stories take place during heavy winter, and it's been so cold here lately, I've read them bundled up in my blankets with the cat.