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hermetic

(8,308 posts)
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 01:06 PM Sep 2019

What Fiction are you reading this week, September 1, 2019?


Happy Labor Day weekend



I’m still reading Naked by David Sedaris and just haven’t had time to start anything else. Working the booth at the county fair turned out to be a lot of work and it was so hot, around 95. By the time I got home every day, I just fell right over. I did, though, talk to quite a few Republicans who are really unhappy about what’s going on and this gives me some hope for our future.

So, what are you reading this week?

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What Fiction are you reading this week, September 1, 2019? (Original Post) hermetic Sep 2019 OP
Still reading Richard Powers' book japple Sep 2019 #1
"Writing Jane Austen" bif Sep 2019 #2
"Save Me From Dangerous Men" - S.A. Lelchuk Tracer Sep 2019 #3

japple

(9,819 posts)
1. Still reading Richard Powers' book
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 05:55 PM
Sep 2019
The Overstory and love the writing and his very subtle plot development. What a masterpiece. I wish I could just sit down and read the whole thing from beginning to end but, alas, there are bottle babies to feed. Some idiot dumped a cat crate with six 2 week old kittens outside the fence surrounding the county animal control facility after hours on a holiday weekend. I took 3 of the kittens and another woman took 3. We shudder to think what happened to the mother cat.

Good on you for serving your party and doing the county fair. Our local party did that in 2018 and, as with yours, it was HOT, miserable, and very hard work. We had lots of catcalls from tRUMPERs and little georgia rednecks (teenagers), but most folks were respectful. We had quite a few folks to come up to our booth to tell us that they were proud to have a Democratic Party presence in this very red part of the state. We have decided not to participate in the county fair this year in favor of a big push next year. Happy to hear that your conversations with the GOPpers gave you an optomistic boost for 2020.

Many thanks for hosting the weekly thread. Peace out .........

Tracer

(2,769 posts)
3. "Save Me From Dangerous Men" - S.A. Lelchuk
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 11:15 AM
Sep 2019

A fast-moving thriller with a female protagonist who is a bookseller by day and an "avenger" at night.

Just started "Homeland" by Fernando Aramburu. A novel about how ETA violence shattered lives in Basque Spain.

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