What are you reading this week of November 6, 2016?

[hermetic]

Okay, this time I think I'm safe in saying that today we have an extra hour. I certainly do since nobody told my kitties. They woke me up at 4, as usual. Then I sat down at my computer and saw what time it actually was! I really dislike this entire concept and think it should end.

Meanwhile, I'm still feasting on A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George. It's a long one, 575 pages. I think it would benefit from some trimming but it's still a gripping portrait of a very twisted woman and her dysfunctional family. Good mystery. I thought for sure I knew whodunit, but then again, maybe not.

Any tasty morsels on your book table this week?

So, Tuesday, let's get out there and do what we need to do, unless you already have. This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no foolin' around. We ain't got time for that now!

[TexasProgresive]

1. "Bad Boy" by Peter Robinson

A CHief Inspector Banks mystery. Just starting.

Thanks for the thread.

[TexasProgresive]

2. I liked "A Banquet..." very much.

[hermetic]

3. Oh yeah...

That Caroline, she sure is something else. At first I couldn't understand why her kids and husband were always so fawning towards her, precious snowflake that she is. Now it's becoming more clear. Sheer terror! I've still got 200 pages yet to read.

I like Robinson's books. He's funny.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain - Bill Bryson

I LOVE Bill Bryson.

Amazon: Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.

Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today.

Nothing is more entertaining than Bill Bryson on the road—and on a tear. The Road to Little Dribbling reaffirms his stature as a master of the travel narrative—and a really, really funny guy.

[hermetic]

7. Sounds like fun!

The book I'm reading right now takes place in England and I'm loving the descriptions of the shore and the quaint little towns. I was just thinking last night about how lovely it would be to visit there. Not likely for me but I will have to try to find this book instead.

Thanks for your input.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. "Inferno".

[hermetic]

8. Dantes?

Or is that just an observation on the state of things right now?

Seriously, though, who's the author?

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Sorry, Dan Brown.

[northoftheborder]

6. "America's First Daughter" (historical fiction)

Tells the story of Thomas Jefferson' life from the viewpoint of his daughter, Patsy. Tells the domestic, human, private life of this great man in American history. Enjoying it very much so far. Begins with the end of the American Revolution, and continues with his appointment in Paris. (as far as I've gotten)

[hermetic]

9. Author?

Is that Stephanie Dray? Just read a short review that likens it to Gone With the Wind. That certainly sounds like a good read!

[northoftheborder]

10. Stephanie Dray and Laurie Kamoie

[japple]

12. Hi everyone. Thanks for the thread, hermetic. Hope you will

be sleeping better now that we are back on standard time. I always do.

Finished reading Paulette Jiles' News of the World. Awesome book with a perfect ending.

Starting on Alex Rosenberg's The Girl from Krakow tonight.

Looking forward to a victory celebration around here on Tuesday night.

[hermetic]

13. Let us know what you think

about The Girl from Krakow.

Sent off for The Color of Lightning. Might arrive today, which would be good as I intend to stay off the computer and radio until tomorrow. My poor old nerves can't take this stress. I'll celebrate on Wednesday.

Off to the polls, then!