What are you reading the week of Sunday, July 26, 2015?

[hermetic]

I've had a busy week. Thursday I had new windows installed in my old house so Wed. was taking down curtains and moving furniture. The install took almost 8 hours and Friday was rehanging curtains, moving furniture and sucking up all the dust. So I am feeling quite in tune with the adventures happening in The Shipping News by Annie Proulx.

I am really enjoying this book. I'm taking my time reading it, because I am frequently exhausted by the end of the day so only get through one chapter. And the chapters are short.

I love how the chapters start with knots, from The Book of Knots. Haven't had a chance to see if that's a real book, but I suspect it is, even though it sounds a bit like Pastafarianism.
Tying knots has always intrigued me and I am going to try doing some of these. Surely this is a metaphor for what's happening in Quoyle's life. Yes, I really like this book.

Plus, during the day while I'm cleaning, I listen to Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin. Eleven cassettes. What a fascinating tale and very well done on tape.

So, what are YOU reading?

[Enthusiast]

1. Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, hermetic.

Last week I read Savage Run by C.J. Box. That was one action packed and thoroughly entertaining read. Then I read The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman. The Wailing Wind is one of the best of the Leaphorn-Chee series, imho. I have started The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill.

Mrs. Enthusiast read The Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman. She liked it. However, she says The Sinister Pig is a departure from the rest of the Leaphorn-Chee series.

Mrs. Enthusiast just finished reading At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen. Sara Gruen wrote the acclaimed Water for Elephants, which we dearly loved. She also enjoyed At the Water's Edge. She has started Galore by Michael Crummey.

[hermetic]

2. It's been a while since I read any Hillerman

I will for sure look for The Wailing Wind. I always liked his stories.

Thanks for checking in.

[japple]

3. Still reading and enjoying Mary Doria Russell's book Epitaph--

A Novel of the OK Corral

We've been so busy with garden chores--snapping/freezing beans, peas, and canning tomatoes that I've can't keep my eyes open at night when I normally would be reading. Oh well, it will even out this winter when it's too cold to get outside and do anything. Hermetic, I like your idea of listening to audiobooks while working and think I will get a few audio books to listen to while we are snapping beans. I loved The Blind Assassin as well as The Shipping News.

ETA: Enthusiast, let us know how Ms. E likes Michael Crummey's Galore. I liked Water for Elephants, too, and am putting At the Water's Edge on my list.

[TexasProgresive]

4. It took me forever to read Uris' Trinity

I'm back with Morgan Llwelyn's series of the Irish Century 1921. 1916 chronicled the events leading to the Easter Rising, 1921 will take up the story that creates the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland (UK). It will be a quicker read with half the pages of Trinity in a larger font.