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hermetic

(8,663 posts)
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 12:44 PM Nov 2021

What Fiction are you reading this week, November 7, 2021?


Time is sure flying by.

Nice to be given an extra hour today.

I am reading Ash Wednesday by Ralph McInerny,. This is my first Father Dowling mystery although it's the 28th in the series. Seems like a series that doesn't need to be read in order. This story questions whether a conviction is always proof of guilt. Interesting so far. Some amusing characters.

I have First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones cued up to start listening to tonight. I've already heard two in this fun series and have been waiting for the first one to become available. Finally!

What books have you found time to enjoy this week?

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What Fiction are you reading this week, November 7, 2021? (Original Post) hermetic Nov 2021 OP
The House in the Cerulean Sea leftieNanner Nov 2021 #1
Looks like a fun fantasy hermetic Nov 2021 #4
Sounds like a fun read SheltieLover Nov 2021 #8
Currently finishinhg your last weeks offering: "Dirt on the 9th Grave" SheltieLover Nov 2021 #2
Aha hermetic Nov 2021 #5
They were great! SheltieLover Nov 2021 #7
Is this a series? leftieNanner Nov 2021 #10
I think so. SheltieLover Nov 2021 #13
It is a series hermetic Nov 2021 #14
"How to be Human" by Paula Cocozza bif Nov 2021 #3
Ah, the siren's call hermetic Nov 2021 #6
"Neptune" by Ben Bova Jeebo Nov 2021 #9
Wow, hermetic Nov 2021 #11
The Girls by Lori Lansens. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2021 #12
Seems likely she has been hermetic Nov 2021 #15
Oh, yes, I know her from some cons. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2021 #17
"Bats In The Belfry" by ECR Lorac The King of Prussia Nov 2021 #16
That is good news hermetic Nov 2021 #18
Finishing up Gertrude Beasley's My First Thirty Years and all I have to say is thank japple Nov 2021 #19
Aw, how cute hermetic Nov 2021 #20
Still romping through the Sisterhood series. yellowdogintexas Nov 2021 #21

leftieNanner

(15,748 posts)
1. The House in the Cerulean Sea
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 12:47 PM
Nov 2021

By TJ Kline. A delightful queer writer.

A magical love story.

Love is love.

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
4. Looks like a fun fantasy
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 12:53 PM
Nov 2021

A case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth is tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.

SheltieLover

(60,395 posts)
2. Currently finishinhg your last weeks offering: "Dirt on the 9th Grave"
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 12:51 PM
Nov 2021


Great read! Ty for the rec!

Read "The 4 Agreements," 2 Mrs. Pollifax adventures, & "The Easyway For Women to Stop Smoking."

Probably a few I've forgotten.

😱 The Father Dowling series is in book form? I loved that show! Ty!

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
5. Aha
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 12:56 PM
Nov 2021

As I was reading this Father Dowling I kept thinking that it sounded like it would be a great TV show. Now I'll have to look for that.

SheltieLover

(60,395 posts)
13. I think so.
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 02:49 PM
Nov 2021

Not sure if they are all the same characters.

I get all mine as e-books from the library, so not sure. I'd have a 2nd mortgage every month if I bought all the books I read.

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
14. It is a series
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 03:00 PM
Nov 2021

Charley Davidson, 17 books so far. Author Darynda Jones. I've read a few out of sequence so far and reading them in order does not seem to be really important. They are quite funny.

bif

(24,267 posts)
3. "How to be Human" by Paula Cocozza
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 12:52 PM
Nov 2021

Interesting read. It's about a woman who befriends a fox. It's not fantastic but I'm 2/3 of the way through so I might as well finish it. I have a whole stack from the library by my bedside I'm itching to get to!

Jeebo

(2,318 posts)
9. "Neptune" by Ben Bova
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 01:14 PM
Nov 2021

Ben Bova's last published novel, it hit the bookshelves almost a year after he died in November 2020 of Covid. It's much shorter than his novels typically are, and I wonder if it is the one he was working on when he died, and they just polished it up and published it even though it wasn't really finished? That would explain why it is so short as well as the timing of its publication. In any event, Bova wrote really good stuff, and when I saw this one on the shelf at Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago, I had to buy it, even though I thought I had already read his last novel. The parts that are in the planet-wide ocean on Neptune read a lot like a Jules Verne novel.

-- Ron

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
11. Wow,
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 01:31 PM
Nov 2021

author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, six-time winner of the Hugo Award, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, an editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,849 posts)
12. The Girls by Lori Lansens.
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 01:49 PM
Nov 2021

Rose and Ruby are craniopagus conjoined twins who are soon to be thirty, and are writing their life story. Really good.

Oh, and I happen to know Darynda Jones slightly, although I don't think I've read any of her books.

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
15. Seems likely she has been
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 03:10 PM
Nov 2021

at some of the conventions that you attend. She's got 27 books so far, 4 different series. She writes about the paranormal, fantasy, mystery, vampires, etc. She's quite entertaining.

Edited to add: Plus, she lives in NM, so there's that.

The Girls sounds pretty intense. "A breathtaking novel, one that no reader will soon forget, a heartrending story of love between sisters."

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,849 posts)
17. Oh, yes, I know her from some cons.
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 04:58 PM
Nov 2021

Sat next to her at lunch at a Jack Williamson Lectureship some years ago. She's great.

And yes, The Girls is intense and fascinating.

16. "Bats In The Belfry" by ECR Lorac
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 04:23 PM
Nov 2021

A whodunnit from the thirties. Enjoying it so far. Previously this week I read "The Cove" by LJ Ross. Very light reading, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Not sure what I'll be reading next.

And breaking news... my Covid booster jab is booked in for 6th December. And it's at the pharmacy in the village so I won't even have to drive anywhere.

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
18. That is good news
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 05:00 PM
Nov 2021

Get that over and done, and close by.

I was reading about one of the latest scandals going on over there and would say some pols seem to have bats in their belfry. Haven't heard that term in a long while.

I see that book was republished in 2018 as it was so popular way back when. "This intricate mystery from a classic writer is set in a superbly evoked London of the 1930s." Nice.

japple

(10,388 posts)
19. Finishing up Gertrude Beasley's My First Thirty Years and all I have to say is thank
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 05:13 PM
Nov 2021

god it's almost over. It is a depressing book, though I learned from the historical parts.

My sister recently read a YA book and recommended it to me, so I downloaded Michael Bornstein, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz.


In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother’s arms. Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father’s courageous wit, a mother’s fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved his life, and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at the hands of the Nazis time and again with incredible deftness. Working from his own recollections as well as extensive interviews with relatives and survivors who knew the family, Michael relates his inspirational Holocaust survival story with the help of his daughter, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat. Shocking, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, this narrative nonfiction offers an indelible depiction of what happened to one Polish village in the wake of the German invasion in 1939.


My 2 little foster kittens went to a rescue shelter for FIV+ cats last week and our house is too quiet. We miss them so much.

Thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. Hope everyone is in this frame of mind[img][/img]

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
20. Aw, how cute
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 05:29 PM
Nov 2021

Stocking up for winter. I expect to do a bit of that myself this week, while the weather is still tolderable.

I know how hard it can be to stay with a story that is so depressing. But, such is life.

I hope your kitties find a long and happy life. My "fosters" have definitely become permanent residents. The baby is one of the cutest kitties ever and she gets along with all the old timers here. Her mom, though, still spends a lot of time hiding and growling although she is always getting just a little better. She needs to have her baby here to show her that life can be good. I know this is going to take some time. Luckily, time is something I have a lot of. Right now, anyway.

yellowdogintexas

(22,819 posts)
21. Still romping through the Sisterhood series.
Mon Nov 8, 2021, 12:41 AM
Nov 2021

These women come up with some doozies in the revenge department.

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