What Fiction are you reading this week, July 31, 2022?

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Nice place to take a dip...


I am reading Finders Keepers by Craig Childs, a "brilliant book about man and nature, remnants and memory, a dashing tale of crime and detection."
It's nonfiction and short so in a few days I will be reading The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves, the 5th Vera Stanhope Mystery. I love Vera: "not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so she has more tolerance for them than most."

Listening to One By One by Ruth Ware. It's rather amusing so far.

What fiction are you amusing yourself with this week?

Bye, July. We hardly knew ya. (Oops, wrong month )

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1. The Other Einstein/Marie Benedict

Easy read. Anti romance/historical.

‘In 1896, the extra ordinary gifted Mileva “Mitzi” Maric is the only woman studying physics at an elite school in Zurich…. until she falls in love with fellow student Albert Einstein.’

‘…a brilliant scientist in her own right, whose contributions to the special theory of relativity have been hotly debated.’

Story may be triggering as women had no rights and the ‘enslaving’ misogyny is hard to square with her intelligence and passion for science.

‘phenomenal and heartbreaking’

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2. Good one

Thanks.

[bif]

3. Just finished "We Own the Sky". Highly recommend it.

It's not the happiest story, but very powerful. And very well written.

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4. Thanks for your review

That did sound like a good story.

[Polly Hennessey]

5. New bedtime cozy: The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

by Alice Kimberly (aka) Cleo Coyle.

A haunted bookshop mystery

“I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.” Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, 1941

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6. Those look like fun

Seven in the series so far with another due out this October. Will have to check those out.

Great line from Sam.

[Martin68]

7. I'm reading a translation of French Author Michel Bussi's mystery, "The Double Mother."

Ordered the book based on a good review in the Washington Post. Interesting so far.

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8. Well-crafted

A riveting investigation showcasing the fragility of a child’s cognition.

Sounds pretty intense.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. Mac Travis Adventures (first 3 books in a series)

South Florida one of my weaknesses!
Wood’s Reef It's easy to become invisible in the Florida Keys. Mac Travis was doing his best to keep a low profile: diving, fishing, and enough salvage work to pay his bills. It's a good life until he discovers something while spearfishing that could change the pristine Keys forever.

Wood’s Wall Mac Travis is laying low: Fishing, Diving and doing enough salvage work to pay his bills until three fishermen trolling the Gulf Stream discover a square grouper. Besides the drugs, the package contains a secret that changes their lives and jeopardizes the very existence of the Keys

Wood’s Wreck Mac Travis is doing enough salvage work to pay his bills until he is forced to save his name and everything he owns. When a down on her luck trust fund heiress and his wayward deckhand are caught using his boat to poach lobster, both his boat and house are confiscated. The plot thickens when Mac and his girlfriend Mel, discover a connection between her non-profit’s money laundering scheme and a CIA ring smuggling baseball players from Cuba.The forces collide in this action-packed thriller box set featuring plenty of boating, SCUBA diving, fishing and flavored with a generous dose of Conch Republic counterculture.

These were very enjoyable!!! Now I want to read the next installment. I do not recommend reading these out of order!!!!

[yellowdogintexas]

12. today I scored the next 3 Mac Travis novels for 99 cents!

It's going to be a bumpy ride!

[yellowdogintexas]

10. I also read Exclusive Godmothers Vol 2

I have been traveling and had a very long day in flight and on layover. So I did a lot of reading

These Are Not Your Fairy Godmothers

When Toots Loudenberry relocated to Los Angeles from South Carolina to be near her daughter, Abby, she expected to bump into the occasional celebrity. She just never expected them to be dead. Meanwhile, Toots and her friends Sophie and Mavis are concerned that the prestigious Dr. Sameer's budding romance with fellow Godmother Ida may have something to do with his ailing bank balance. And Abby's attempted makeover of the celebrity magazine The Informer into the most talked-about tabloid in town could end more than just her career.

But the Godmothers wouldn't be the Godmothers if they weren't pulling a few behind-the-scenes strings, and Abby's hopes of changing the fortunes of The Informer are still alive. Yet it'll take an assist from a source no one could have predicted, let alone see, to secure a story that will shake Tinseltown to its very core…

[TexLaProgressive]

11. A bit late to post, but here goes

I finished listing to C.S. Friedman’s “This Virtual Night” and got part way through a short prequel, “Dominion”. It is the backstory to one of the most despicable villains I have ever read. He is evil but instrumental in helping the protagonists. Any way I gave it a break. I than listened to a couple of other shorts, maybe novellas, “Emergency Skin” by N.K. Jemisin and “Mitosis” by Brandon Sanderson. Both were very good. Yesterday I finished reading “A Cast of Corbies” by Mercedes Lackey and Josepha Sherman. There is one more in this series, “Four and Twenty Blackbirds” not to be confused with the Agatha Christi by the same title. Titles cannot be copywrited.

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13. Hey, whenever...

After all, we never close. Always happy to hear from you.

I just snagged a Jemisin audio book: The Broken Kingdoms. From the reviews I'm guessing it's going to be quite enjoyable.

Sadly, we are all painfully aware of the copyright issue.