What are you reading this week of March 26, 2017?

[hermetic]

I'm reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles and it is quite a delight. I searched Google Images for the Metropole Hotel in Moscow, where our protagonist is confined to live under house arrest. It is truly elegant. I think pretty much anyone would enjoy reading this.

Listening to Lee Child's Make Me. Good story.

What are your good stories this week?

[Break time]

1. re-reading

Lucifers Hammer

[TexasProgresive]

2. That's a great read.

Remind me who wrote it.

[Break time]

4. Lucifers Hammer

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle 1977

[TexasProgresive]

3. "Relic"by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

I finished the DCI Banks Peter Robinson I was reading but can't recall the title. Just got back from a 70 mile bike ride and all my blood is in my legs.

[hermetic]

5. Best do some head stands!

Thanks for being here. I have a friend in crisis right now and I am scrambling to help however I can. Hopefully things will be calmer tomorrow.

[Runningdawg]

6. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandell

Set in the present day, this is a post-apocalyptic tale of a group of musicians and thespians who travel their limited world sharing their talents because "Survival in insufficient". That quote, by the Borg character Seven of Nine in Star Trek Voyager, is their motto. The book contains a lot of interesting characters, including one man who was stranded at an airport during the pandemic that wiped out 99% of the worlds population and who never left the airport. He is the curator of the first museum after the disaster, containing items such as drivers licences, cell phones, designer shoes and toilet paper.
Not only is this a great read and twist on the usual survival stories, it's the inspiration behind my next tattoo - Survival is insufficient.

[japple]

10. I really liked Station Eleven. If you like that, try Paulette Jiles' book, Lighthouse Island.

[Runningdawg]

12. Thanks, I will look for it

[murielm99]

7. I am still reading non-fiction.

I am reading "Eighty Days," by Matthew Goodman. It is about a race around the world by two female American Journalists, Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland.

BTW, if anyone thinks fake news is a new phenomenon, read his "The Sun and the Moon." It is about a series of newspaper articles that convince people that life has been discovered on the moon.

[shenmue]

8. Beyond the Truth by Anne Holt

[pscot]

9. A Woodland Queen by Andre Theuriet

This involves a disputed rural estate in 19th century France; from Project Gutenberg

[japple]

11. Still reading Robert Morgan's book, Chasing the North Star and thinking that

I need to read something more exciting after this. The characters are rather one-dimensional and the writer doesn't seem to fully appreciate and present the qualities of womanhood. What a disappointment. Guess I will keep on reading to the end just to see where the story goes and find out if the main character (a slave) makes it to freedom.

ETA: Forgot to say thanks for the thread, hermetic.