What are you reading this week of June 25, 2017?

[hermetic]

Still hanging out with Inspector Rebus in THE BEAT GOES ON and Callahan's Saloon. This week I hope to start Dean Koontz's ONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN which my roommate assures me is most excellent.

What books will you be finishing up June with?

[MontanaMama]

1. The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield.

http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Flood-Girls/Richard-Fifield/9781476797397


Loads of fun and no politics...

[hermetic]

3. Oh wow

That does sound like a fun read. Plus it's good to get away from politics these days, I do believe. I like Montana and live next door, so to speak. Plan to spend a little time there in August.

[MontanaMama]

7. Safe travels to Big Sky Country!

[TexasProgresive]

2. I have several books in my pile

I'm thinking I will start "Fleshmarket Alley" an inspector Rebus as soon as I finish " The Warlock's Legacy" by Ari Marmell. Time to get some normal murder after this tome of swords and sorcerers. I have a Preston and Child, "Crimson Shore" as well. Thanks for the thread. Well I guess I need to finish the warlock tale.

[hermetic]

4. Yeah, my "pile"

has now become a tower! That's okay, though. As habits go, reading is a pretty good one to have.

Fleshmarket was my first Rebus read. It was quite a memorable tale. Enjoy.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Rereading 'The Handmaid's Tale'.

[hermetic]

6. Good choice

That one is bound to be a classic some day, along the lines of THE SCARLET LETTER. IMO

[Number9Dream]

8. "Trojan Odyssey" by Clive Cussler

Another entertaining, action, page-turner by Mr. Cussler. An interesting and different take on the Troy / Odyssey legends.

Also, (I know it's non-fiction, but...) "The Plot to Hack America" by Malcolm Nance. Though some of the computer stuff was over my head, I'm glad I read it. I'd love to shove it under the noses of the Trumpers who say there's no evidence of Russian interference.

[hermetic]

9. Hi! Delighted to see you

Your Cussler book does sound like a great adventure.

Things being what they are now, I think it's important for us all to read some non-fiction now and then to help us understand what's going on. Lord knows it's reaching into "Twilight Zone" territory on a regular basis.

[japple]

10. Hi everyone! Thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. Still reading

Mischling by Affinity Konar. At this point (82% completed), the narrative is very intense. It is between the main characters (12 yr. old twin sisters) and told in alternating chapters. I can't tell where this is going, but it is very real and very emotional. Excellent book. I highly recommend it.

I will def. seek something lighter for my next book.

This summer has turned out to be an extremely busy one as regards cat rescue. Kitten season is always brutal, but this summer is the worst I've seen in years. Don't know why, but it is.

[hermetic]

11. Hi, you

I was so sorry to hear about your little Rocky. I have a cat rescue thing going on myself but due to lack of means, all I can do is give my colony food, water and a safe place to stay. I currently have a litter of two. There were three but little Brave Heart didn't make it, either, same day as Rocky. So I know how heartbreaking it is. I called him Brave Heart because he was blind but still totally explored the wilds of my back yard. I hope the other two survive as one is looking Siamese. I have never seen another of those in this neighborhood. If he survives his babyhood, I plan to bring him in to live with my 2 girls. He already gets petted and held every day.

[japple]

13. Isn't that something. Rocky and Brave Heart! Maybe they're playing together

in cat heaven. It's not easy seeing them struggle so hard and not make it. Poor little Rocky broke my heart. I think he must have starved to death. By the time I got him, he was so weak that his stomach rejected everything. Here's wishing you best of luck with your two remaining kittens.

[PoorMonger]

12. The Standard Grand by Jay Baron Nicoorvo

When an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard―and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation―is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows.

With three violent acts at its center―a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the past―and set largely in the Catskills, The Standard Grand spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougar―along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the characters―soldiers, civilians―struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they’ve caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they’ve caused.

Jay Baron Nicorvo's The Standard Grand confronts a glaring cultural omission: the absence of women in our war stories. Like the best of its characters―who aspire more to goodness than greatness―this American novel hopes to darn a hole or two in the frayed national fabric.

[PoorMonger]

14. Musical Suggestion 'Yellow Flicker Beat'

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Lorde - From The Hunger Games Mockingjay OST