What Fiction are you reading this week, Jan. 31, 2021?

[hermetic]

Hope all you storm-hit folks are doing okay. At least now we're all used to being stuck inside.

Reading Palm Beach, Finland, a darkly comic romp by the ‘King of Helsinki Noir,’ Antti Tuomainen. Welcome to Palm Beach, the hottest beach in Finland, where everything is bright neon colors. It’s cold, the beaches are mostly empty and the palm trees are made of plastic. Not exactly paradise but some people think they can turn it into one, if just a certain few things could happen. Putting those things in the hands of a couple of inept, wannabe criminals may not be the best idea, though, and the results are laughingly disastrous.

Still listening to Ruth Ware's The Lying Game. It's a good story for audio, holds your interest.

You reading any good books this week? Stay warm. Stay safe.

[rzemanfl]

1. I am somewhat embarrassed to say I am reading a Jack Reacher novel-

The Sentinel. I won't reveal the plot, but as usual, he turns up somewhere and kicks the crap out of numerous bad people.

[yellowdogintexas]

2. Don't be embarrassed to read a Jack Reacher novel!

Pure escapism is still a good way to deal with the world outside our homes!

I really enjoy those books!

[hermetic]

8. What yellowdog said

Those stories are entertaining. Read a few myself. Enjoy!

[SheltieLover]

10. I love Jack Reacher booos!

[Demsrule86]

28. I understand I read all of CJ Box's books about the Park Ranger- Joe Pickett...and they

are all about hunting (but there is always an underlying crime that needs to be solved) which I would never do and some tend to be a bit righty and some are not, but I love those books and wait for the next one to come out...as I have read all of them.

[cilla4progress]

3. Not fiction - which I pine for -

but, Braiding Sweetgrass. Beautiful!

Just started.

[hermetic]

11. That does sound like a lovely book

I should buy that...

[murielm99]

4. I am reading

A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin.

It is an Inspector Rebus book.

Rebus is retired. He has COPD. He is assisting his daughter after her partner disappears.

[hermetic]

9. I liked that one

But I DO love me some Ian Rankin so I am never disappointed by anything he writes.

[Demsrule86]

29. Oh no. He has COPD now! I am behind.

[broiles]

5. Asylum buy Patrick McGrath.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Not reading much currently. Mostly due to the healing cataracts.

I have to wear this ridiculous acrylic eye shield to keep me from sleeping directly on the eye and reading glasses just don't work with it .

I can watch TV though, and read when I don't have the shield on. I think I will get rid of the shield next follow up visit. Yay!

Prior to surgery I was in the middle of a fun light mystery series "Dead End Job Mysteries". I am looking forward to returning to it soon

[hermetic]

15. Yikes

Hope you are better soon. I fear I may be headed for that myself. Definitely something wrong with my right eye but I don't want to visit the eye doc until I've been vaccinated. Hopefully that just a few weeks off now.

I'm still planning to get the Dead End Job books, too. Library will be opening here Feb 8. Hope that's not a mistake on their part.

Take care. Rest that eye.

[japple]

25. Hope you heal quickly. As one who has had multiple eye surgeries (for retinal detachment

as well as cataract) I would recommend an eye patch with elastic headband. Available at Walgreens or most any drugstore, they will hold an eyepad (with or without tape) in place overnight. During the day, you shouldn't need anything more than a gauze/cotton pad, if that.

[broiles]

7. Asylum by Patrick McGrath.

[hermetic]

13. Ooops, I see what we did there

A nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. Sounds fantastic.

[SheltieLover]

14. Just finished Connelly's "The Law of Innocence' - excellent!

Really great book! Haller is at his finest & Bosch makes a few brief appearances!

Now reading Haiisen's "Double Whammy." Just started, so no opinion on this one yet, but he has only written a couple of books I didn't thoroughly enjoy.

Palm Beach, Finland made me think of Haiisen's work. Lol

I have this and "The Lying Game" on my list to check out.

Ty for sharing!

[hermetic]

17. The Palm Beach is

in many ways like a Hiaasen book, only darker. Has some rather graphic violence which I know is not necessarily your cup of tea.

[SheltieLover]

18. Ty!

I'll give it a try.

[rzemanfl]

20. "Double Whammy" is circa 1987. I'm not positive I read it.

At my age, I am not positive about a lot of stuff.

[SheltieLover]

22. My library ecopy says 2011

But could be just for the ecopy.

Lol - my brain is on overload, too!

[rzemanfl]

24. My library lets me read a sample of the digital copy.

I did and I'm sure I read that years ago. I had a digital book recently that was part of the long Doc Ford series by Randy Wayne White. I was disconcerted by the technology in it, which seemed archaic. It turned out, when I looked more closely, it was a 1991 book I had somehow missed. I was working on a thesis for my Masters degree (suitable for framing) that year and working full-time, so it got past me.

[The King of Prussia]

16. "Keep your friends close" by Paula Daly

Not an author I've read before, although I did watch an adaptation of one of her other books on the television and enjoyed it (and not just because it had Anna Friel in it).

Earlier in the week I finished "A Dark So Deadly" by Stuart MacBride, and "The Lantern Men" by Elly Griffiths. Both recommended.

The vaccination roll-out is going well, although I'm sure Johnson & his knuckle-scraping chums will find a way to screw it up.

Keep yourselves safe. It WILL end.

[hermetic]

19. Hopefully

We'll all be able to keep our friends close someday soon.

[The Blue Flower]

21. Rereading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy

Not my first time rereading it, and it still makes me laugh.

[hermetic]

23. One of my all-time favorites

Always makes me laugh, too.

[japple]

26. Still reading The Glass Hotel. Not sure if I like these people well enough to continue

reading. I'm 69% of the way thru the book, but I'll give it another day or two.

[hermetic]

27. Well then

Let me know what you decide. This book is in my recent pile to be read. I just read a bunch of reviews and several people said they found it made no sense and thought it was a waste of time. Of course others said it was glorious and transcendent. So I'm for sure going to read it, just to see what I think.

[Oldem]

30. Capriati's Blood by Lawrence De Maria

Back to detective fiction after several literary and historical novels. De Maria's Alton Rhode cracks wise in the old Raymond Chandler tradition. Good fun.