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hermetic

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Sun Aug 25, 2024, 10:25 AM Aug 2024

What Fiction are you reading this week, August 25, 2024? [View all]




There's a happy family!

Reading A Rule Against Murder // The Murder Stone by Louise Penny. After spending several days trying to escape an erupting volcano and an approaching sea of lava, it's refreshing to now be in the cool pines of Quebec with Inspector Gamache and his wife as they celebrate their anniversary. Though it sounds like things are going to heat up here, too, in a short time. Ah, well, it's good to be back in the company of my favorite characters in this book from 2008 which I somehow missed when reading all the others. And I am really looking forward to Penny's new one due out in November, The Grey Wolf.

Listening to Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Sci-fi. Another story set in Canada, but many years from now. Published last year so you know there's going to be Covid in the plot. And a cat.

This ISN'T fiction, fortunately: Harris/Walz YAY, Hallelujah, At Last!!. It was a pretty good week, eh?

So, what will you be reading this week?
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Two books Delphinus Aug 2024 #1
Both sound terrific hermetic Aug 2024 #3
I am mixing it up. Moostache Aug 2024 #2
Lotsa good stuff there hermetic Aug 2024 #4
2/3rds through "Lucifer's Hammer" TexLaProgressive Aug 2024 #5
A big, ol' comet would do that hermetic Aug 2024 #8
I heard that Raymonvillle, TX had to close some schools TexLaProgressive Aug 2024 #15
Niven and Pournelle wrote some great science fiction. Jeebo Aug 2024 #22
The 8th book in the Aubrey/Maturin series(Master and Commander series) Bristlecone Aug 2024 #6
Action adventures on the high seas hermetic Aug 2024 #9
Only one book this week Bayard Aug 2024 #7
Sure, and hermetic Aug 2024 #10
Very cute kitty family in the OP. Thanks, hermetic, for hosting this weekly japple Aug 2024 #11
Aww, that's great hermetic Aug 2024 #12
I'm working with a foster Jilly_in_VA Aug 2024 #14
That's wonderful! hermetic Aug 2024 #16
I read A Sea of Tranquility a couple of years ago iemanja Aug 2024 #13
Read both of those earlier this year Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #20
Still struggling through Jilly_in_VA Aug 2024 #17
I've been on a Bernard Cornwell kick this summer. rsdsharp Aug 2024 #18
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #19
"River God" by Wilbur Smith Jeebo Aug 2024 #21
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