What Fiction are you reading this week, August 29, 2021?
And dogs.
Reading Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer. The 2016 election is over and our two favorite guys, Obama and Biden, get together to investigate a strange death. It's a crazy romp through the mean streets of Delaware. Not great literature but surely a great way to escape the horrors of today. I had a little trouble accepting these two as just ordinary guys but I'm getting used to it. I'm sure the author did not expect that average Joe would soon be the next president. This book has an acknowledgement page at the beginning that made me laugh out loud.
Not to be confused with the book from 2013 by Mike Holden with the same title. Doesn't appear that anyone has ever read that one. I couldn't find any reviews and even the description just stops mid-sentence.
Listening to The Woman Who Died A Lot, the last (so far) in the Thursday Next series of adventures in Literary Land. Delightful ideas and writing as ever from Jasper Fforde.
What books will welcome you into September?
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Yeah, I have the next one, too.
I love the acknowledgement page: Thanks, Obama. 
with the cops and big bosses and working for the union in the PNW during the early days of the 20th C, The Cold Millions. It is an education as well as a pleasure to read this work of historical fiction.
On the other hand, I am wrangling with foster kittens that are getting bigger and braver. If it gets too quiet in the house, I start looking for them! Fortunately, they mostly want to play with each other and haven't broken anything...YET! We usually have them out on the screened porch, but it has gotten too hot for that.
Many thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic, I LOVE the picture in the OP and the sentiment is spot on. 
I forgot to wave! Dang, getting forgetful in my old age. Could also be lack of sleep due to HFOC (house full of cats). My two fosters have become more comfortable being inside and the nights are getting cool out on the catio. So, they come in. Everyone sleeps for a while, then the fun starts. The baby loves to play with all of her new friends here and her mom gets under the couch and growls at everyone. This results in any number of scenarios, all of them noisy. But, they are adapting so just gotta go with the flow. I have a feeling they will both end up staying here. I shall be buying my official Crazy Cat Lady t-shirt and cap any day now. Meow.
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We recently watched the documentary "The Gardener." From IMDB:
Frank Cabot's Les Quatre Vents, aka Cabot Garden, a magnificent private garden in the Charlevoix region near Quebec City.
OMG, what a gorgeous garden! Or gardens, I should say. So when I saw this book, I checked it out.
It's about an amazing (& huge!) English garden, first planted in the early 1900s. There are 5 POV characters, all women. One is the original planner/planter of the garden. The 2021 storyline is a woman who is hired to fix the garden, so to speak. It hasn't been properly maintained in years. The other three characters appear during the WWII timeline, where the estate with the garden has been commandeered for use as as a hospital. I'm a little more than a quarter of the way through it. It hasn't really captured me yet, I think because of the multiple storylines, but I love the garden parts so much I'll keep going.
on edit: Oh no. It's starting to feel like a romance novel.