What Fiction are you reading this week, September 29, 2024?

[hermetic]

Not my cake

But it is my BD

Just finished The Evil Men Do by John McMahon. It's new and a good mystery, though it seemed unnecessarily long. This is going to be a series, Detective P.T. Marsh.

Next up for me: Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd.

Listening to Treasure State by C. J. Box. This is a pretty new one and although part of a series, works fine as a stand-alone. I'm quite enjoying it, despite some characters complaining about having to wear masks due to Covid. If you read reviews you'll find this was a big issue for some readers.

I'll be running off later in search of a margarita so let us know what you're reading, who wrote it, and whether or not you are liking it. And know I appreciate you.

[BOSSHOG]

1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND. Happy Reading

I’m plowing through John Grisham’s The Chamber. KKK member arrested for fire bomb killing two. Ends up in jail. Being defended by his grandson he hadn’t seen in 20 some odd years. Book from 1994. I like reading the old stuff. Grisham books are a pleasure to read except the last five pages usually. It seems his bad guys never get what I think they deserve.

[hermetic]

5. Thanks

I've read a few Grisham books but it's been a while. His latest, Camino Ghosts, sounds good.

[Arne]

2. The Amazon Kindle app.

allowed me to read a futuristic sci fi.
It was inexpensive and I make the print large.
This is the second time I've mentioned it because
I keep thinking about the story.

Title: Ekam The One, Author: John Ryan.

Starts with a quirk of time travel bringing you to a future world
after the climate catastrophe and after the first AI war.

[brer cat]

3. I'm reading Anthony Horowitz, With a Mind to Kill,

a James Bond novel. I have never been a Bond fan but was interested to see what Horowitz did with him. So far ok.

Next up, Greg Iles, Mississippi Blood, the conclusion of Natchez Burning Trilogy.

[mentalsolstice]

4. Happy birthday, enjoy that margarita!

I’m almost done with The Possible World by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz. It’s so good I may follow up with another of her books What Could Be Saved.

[Sequoia]

6. Perfect for Halloween or any day...

I don't usually read a book twice, but the Russian novel, "The Master and Margarita", by Mikhail Bulgakov, is the exception. The devil in disguise comes to Moscow with some of his pals which include a big black cat, and causes psychological hysteria among the people with all sorts of clever tricks. A woman in love enlists his help in securing the man she loves who is in the mental asylum, and the wild ride begins.

[Moostache]

7. Still chugging away...

100 Years of Solitude
Don Quixote
I have slogging through these 2 books for a hot minute now (into the third month).

Also starting The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher) and finishing off "Everything's Eventual" 14 short stories by Stephen King.

My goal was 100 books in 2024. I am at 76, so it might be close but I'm at max reading now...too many books, not enough time.

[LearnedHand]

12. I've read The Dresden Files at least 3 times

The premise is great, the writing is funny (especially the dialogue), and if you like audiobooks, James Marsters reads them.

[Moostache]

13. Thanks...

Finished the first book over the weekend. Fast paced, but I felt the story was a little thin. I'm hoping that it picks up as a series (I bought the first 4 volumes for $3 at a thrift store, so I'm in for at least those now!)...

I have a ton of audiobooks on my car's playlists, so if I come across these I may have to look into that as well!

[japple]

8. Just started the 2nd book of Attica Locke's Hwy 59 series

Heaven, My Home

In this "captivating" crime novel (People), Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child -- but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.
9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark.

Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage.

An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas - and some of the era's racial attitudes still thrive as well. Levi's disappearance has links to Darren's last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boy's grandmother, who seems more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her grandson.

Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, as he races to find the boy, and to save himself.

Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic. Hope your birthday is wonderful and includes cake and other good things

[cbabe]

10. This series looks good. Put several titles on library hold. Thanks for the tip.

[cbabe]

9. The Dark Wives/Ann Cleves

Just now picking up at the library.

[rsdsharp]

11. Now reading War of the Wolf, number 11 in Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Tales.

I think I spent all summer on this series. Only two more left after this one. There is another called Uhtred’s Feast which is primarily a cookbook, which I’ll probably skip. The descriptions of the food in 9th and 10th century Britain doesn’t tempt me much.