What Fiction are you reading this week, July 10, 2022?

[hermetic]

Still reading that 6th Rebus Mystery, from 1993, The Black Book, by Ian Rankin. Really enjoying it.

Listening to Death Overdue by Allison Brook, the first Haunted Library Mystery featuring a librarian who solves mysteries with the help of a ghost in the stacks. I suggested to my library that they get this one, and they did!

What books are you enjoying this week?

[bif]

1. "The Wonder Garden" by Lauren Acampora

Good read. A bunch of short stories about a small, affluent Northeastern town. The stories sort of overlap. I'm almost done and would definitely recommend it.

[hermetic]

6. Sounds good

Thanks!

[SheltieLover]

2. Who Moved My Goat Cheese, Lynn Cahoon

Light cozy.

Death Overdue sounds great! Ty for sharing!

Finished up Fern Michaels' Godmothers' series yesterday. Great reads.

[hermetic]

7. Ooooh,

that sounds like fun. That's where I live: dairy country. Lots of goats. Gonna have to read these. Thanks.

[SheltieLover]

8. She was apparently rsised in Idaho & wanted to write about the area.

Great reads! Enjoy!

[SheltieLover]

3. Also finished Fern Michaels' "Need to Know" yesterday

Great read! Loving her books.

[PittBlue]

4. The Other Einstein.

[hermetic]

9. by Marie Benedict?

An award winner: the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight.

Sounds great.

[PittBlue]

32. Yes...I love it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss.

It's really more like a novella, so I'll be finishing it a bit later today.

[hermetic]

10. Provocative title

"The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls.
A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, GHOST WALL urges us to wonder how far we have come from the 'primitive minds' of our ancestors."
Cool.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. That description is a bit misleading.

Our narrator is on a week vacation with her parents to an archeological field trip researching Iron Age Brits. The relationship between this 17 year old and her father is the heart of her story. It's excellent.

[cbabe]

11. Aurora by David Koepp

End of technology after major cme event. Solar flair knocks out all power everywhere.

As author warns, we are overdue for next solar flair like the Carrington event that melted telegraph lines.

Interwoven family stories. More about emotions than physical survival.

I had to suspend disbelief as modern cars still worked which they wouldn’t (built with lots of computer technology which would be obviously fried).

Most interesting character is 15 year old boy. Post two year covid lockdown and has to ‘go through it all again’.

[hermetic]

12. Creepy, eh?

I've read about the possibility of a huge solar flare and believe this could happen, someday. And cars wouldn't work, so...
I seem to recall reading something similar once but cannot bring the title to mind. Thanks for telling us about this one. It's brand new.

[cbabe]

16. Creepy yes. Want to run out and stock up. Meanwhile,

you can search fiction solar flares emp for lots of titles.

My fav end of world titles are King’s The Stand and Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower.

[randr]

13. "Dark Wind" by Tony Hillerman

Had to see how the TV series differed.
Great series, great book

[hermetic]

14. I love the Hillerman books

Don't think I ever read that one. 1982 it was. I will have to look for it. I was just recently talking with someone else about that new series. I am really looking forward to seeing it. Thanks.

[randr]

22. I thought I had read all his books until I searched for this

His daughter Ann is getting better with each book as well.

[hermetic]

24. Oh good

I read her first one but haven't had time to pick up any others yet. So, I'm glad to hear that.

[Polly Hennessey]

15. Just started "Weaving Shadows"

by Margaret Murphy. Enjoying it. A bit complicated at first but have sorted out the characters.

[hermetic]

17. Mixed reviews for this one

But overall people found it riveting and enjoyed the plot twist at the end. Those tend to make books memorable.

[Polly Hennessey]

18. I love complicated characters and twists.

I save my quirky, sweet, no complicated characters for my cozy reads, which I usually save for bedtime. 🥰

[bahboo]

19. just finished Better Off Dead by Lee and Andrew Child...

it was better than The Sentinel, which was their first collaborative effort, but some of it still reads like someone imitating Lee Child. Sometimes happens when series get long in the tooth. Readable, but not at the exalted level of the previous Jack Reacher novels...

[hermetic]

20. I read that one

I thought it was okay.

[Paper Roses]

27. I read and collected all of the original Reacher series. Not buying any of the collaboration.

It was fun to follow and collect all of the Reacher books but no more. I actually have duplicates. I shop a lot of used book stores but have now learned to bring a list.

[TexLaProgressive]

21. Listening to C.S. Friedman's "Black Sun Rising"

This is a rather dark fantasy, the beginning of a trilogy. I’, reading Lauren Wilson’s “Afro-Bougie Blues: A Collection of Short Fiction.” I have only read the first story, well written and poignant. This is by qwlauren38.

[hermetic]

23. All right!

So happy to see someone else reading our fellow DUer's book, and enjoying it. We Are Family!

And Black Sun Rising sounds pretty dark indeed. Hope things are a bit lighter for you, and not horribly hot.

[japple]

25. Still reading that haunted book by Louise Erdrich, The Sentence, and

still enjoying it. It's nice to have something to enjoy before bedtime, though I find myself falling asleep before I've read much. It's still too freaking hot here, though we have had some substantial rain showers.

and thanks for the thread, hermetic.

[hermetic]

29. Me too

These days I can only get through a couple of pages, reading in bed, and I nod off. The cats, though, wake me up later so I get to read some more.

We're looking at over 100 degrees starting Wed. so I sure won't be doing much of anything, at least not after 10 a.m. Yuck.

[cilla4progress]

33. Her latest?

I believe I've read all - or almost - her books.

My favorite author!

[hermetic]

34. Yes, it is

Came out last November. I daresay you will love this one.

[cilla4progress]

35. Excellent

Thanks!

[Paper Roses]

26. Misjudged by James Chandler. Half way thru, great so far.

I was given 3 books by this author. Never read any of his work before. 'Misjudged' is keeping me interested, the next two, 'One and Done', then 'False Evidence' are hopefully as good.

[hermetic]

30. Sounds good

"Chandler’s experience as a lawyer and Army veteran shines in every page of his brilliant legal thrillers."

[yellowdogintexas]

31. I am still with the Deschanels in New Orleans (mostly) am n ow up to 1975

one of the characters has traveled to Scotland for the next part of her medical training.

Still enjoying them!!