What Fiction are you reading this week, July 22, 2018?

[hermetic]

Still enjoying The Missing and the Dead by Stuart MacBride. Two hundred more pages to go...

I'm listening to Michael Connelly's The Wrong Side of Good­bye, a Harry Bosch book, on OverDrive. Working now as a PI, Harry tracks down a missing heir and a dangerous serial rapist. Good story.

What good stories are you reading this week?

[dameatball]

1. Gone back to good ol Randy Wayne White......"Twelve Mile Limit."

I have been making an effort to go back and read his Doc Ford series in chronological order.

[hermetic]

3. Sounds good

"On a crisp November morning, four divers set off for an excursion fifty-six miles off the Florida coast. Two days later, only one is found alive, standing naked atop a light tower in the Gulf of Mexico." Sounds like an author I would enjoy.

With 25 novels, that should keep you busy for a while.

[dhill926]

12. great series....

a couple clunkers along the way which seems inevitable, but overall, wonderful reads with great characters...

[dameatball]

16. Indeed. Also I always learn something...boats, science, how things work. Author does his research

I found that I was reading some of his work already knowing that the character close to death I had already read about in a later publish date. So I am going back to fill in the spaces.

[Squinch]

2. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Eek!

Earlier this week I tried Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I love both authors on their own, but I just can't get through their joint efforts. Gave up after a couple hundred pages.

[hermetic]

6. I LOVE that book!

(Shirley Jackson) I'm surprised you can still find that one in print. Of course her The Haunting of Hill House is my favorite ghost story ever.

[riverbendviewgal]

4. Mistress

By James Patterson and David Ellis.

Different. I like the twists and turns.

Very much like what is happening now for real.

[hermetic]

7. Interesting

"In his most heart-pumping thriller yet, James Patterson plunges us into the depths of a mind tortured by paranoia and obsession, on an action-packed chase through a world of danger and deceit."

Thanks.

[Ohiogal]

5. "Ordinary Grace", by William Kent Krueger

This is a stand alone ... I have read and enjoyed his Cork O'Connor series as well.

[hermetic]

8. Ooooh,

Minnesota stories. I like reading about places I have lived. Somehow makes the story feel more personal. So now I will have to read all of these!

[Ohiogal]

13. I agree!

[MyOwnPeace]

9. It IS fiction!

but I'm not reading it!


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[northoftheborder]

10. Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair

Never read this book; saw the movie, and scarcely remember the plot; want to see it again if can find it; so far nothing in the book reminds me of the movie plot, except the character of Elmer Gantry, a Bible-spouting, lying cad!

[hermetic]

14. I saw it, too

Remember it vaguely. It is out on DVD and I think I'll get a copy for myself. It did win Academy Awards for best screenplay and actor. Seems like the movie might be a bit different from the book. We'll see, eh?

[hostalover]

24. Burt Lancaster was marvelous in that movie. One of my favorites!

[matt819]

11. Only a few

Listening to Christopher Moore’s The Lust Luzard of Melancholy Cove. Moore is a riot. Libidinous sea beast washes up in Pine Cove. Pot smoking cop. Rat researcher. Unethical shrink. Hot, wadhed-up b-movie actress. Crooked sheriff. What could go wrong?

Dead Girl Running by Nina Todd. Mystery/thriller at a resort in Washington. Dead bodies. False identities. Jealousy. Sort of spies. More of apage turner than I was expecting.

Still reading Dept of speculation by Jenny Offill.

Still couldn’t get going in The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason. Third time.

[hermetic]

15. Are you on Twitter?

If so you should follow Moore. He writes a daily motivational message which is usually a hoot.

Will check out Dead Girl Running. I do like page- turners. Author is Christina Dodd, in case anyone else wants to look for it.

[matt819]

18. Whoops.

I got the -ina part right. Guess I should have checked. This is the first book of hers that I’ve read.

[dameatball]

17. "lust Lizard" was recommended by my ex-boss, so that's on my list. I truly enjoyed "Noir"and "Lamb"

Christopher Moore is so good at creating impossible scenarios that make you laugh so hard you don't care.

[murielm99]

19. I just finished

The Book of M, by Peng Shepherd. I did not like it.

I am continuing my science fiction reading, with Blackout, by Connie Willis. It has a companion volume, a part 2, All Clear.

I like this author and hope I like these books better.

[pscot]

20. The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

I think this must be the first gay, swords and sorcerers science-fiction I've read. It's not bad. Lot's of action of various kinds. The movie will be a sensation.

[zanana1]

21. I'm reading World Without End by Ken Follet.

It's a great follow-up to Pillars of the Earth.

[Paladin]

22. "There There" by Tommy Orange

About the lives of a number of Native Americans in present-day Oakland, CA. Pretty good effort for a first novel, but as you might guess from the subject matter, very grim.

[PoorMonger]

23. The Lonely Witness by William Boyle

When a young woman with a sordid past witnesses a murder, she finds herself fascinated by the killer and decides to track him down herself.

Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. She stops in at one of the apartments on her route, where Mrs. Epifanio, the elderly woman who lives there, says she hasn’t seen her usual caretaker, Diane, in a few days. Supposedly, Diane has the flu―or so Diane’s son Vincent said when he first dropped by and vanished into Mrs. E’s bedroom to do no-one-knows-what.

Amy’s brief interaction with Vincent in the apartment that day sets off warning bells, so she assures Mrs. E that she’ll find out what’s really going on with both him and his mother. She tails Vincent through Brooklyn, eventually following him and a mysterious man out of a local dive bar. At first, the men are only talking as they walk, but then, almost before Amy can register what has happened, Vincent is dead.

For reasons she can’t quite understand, Amy finds herself captivated by both the crime she witnessed and the murderer himself. She doesn’t call the cops to report what she’s seen. Instead, she collects the murder weapon from the sidewalk and soon finds herself on the trail of a killer.

Character-driven and evocative, The Lonely Witness brings Brooklyn to life in a way only a native can, and opens readers’ eyes to the harsh realities of crime and punishment on the city streets.