What Fiction are you reading this week, October 9, 2022?
I'm reading The Funeral Boat by Kate Ellis. This is an action-packed Wesley Peterson crime novel. There's people missing, some turning up dead, and a series of attacks on farmhouses by...vikings? There is a viking reenactment troupe in town for a festival and maybe they are taking their roles a bit too seriously. Time will tell.
Listening to Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death by M.C. Beaton. In this 7th book in the series, the feisty sleuth stumbles upon the victim of an unnatural death in a famous natural spring. Between watery politicians and slippery entrepreneurs, Agatha finds herself up to her neck in a murky murder mystery.
What books will you be diving into this week?
Wishing everyone a happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
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Black River - S. M. Hulse
from LA Times Review:
For years, Wes earned his living as a correction officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the uprising shook Wes’s faith and robbed him of his music; now he must decide if his attacker should walk free.
With “lovely rhythms, spare language, tenderness, and flashes of rage,” S. M. Hulse shows us the heart and darkness of an American town, and one man’s struggle to find forgiveness in the wake of evil.
Thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. I love that shop in the OP--just my kind of place.
Excellent author!
Was reading "Think Fast, Mr. Peters, by Kaminsky
Pretty funny. Prolific author, with 60+ books to his credit.
Peter Lorre isn't exactly everybody's idea of a leading man. Tell that to one Mrs. Sheldon Minck, who, her distraught husband reports, has run off with the big screen's bantamweight heavy with the haunted eyes. And since this is Hollywood during the wartime madness of the forties, where nothing is exactly what it seems, it's the perfect case for Toby Peters. Martin's Press.
Above from my library's web site. This one is set in the 1940s, always fun to read about an era when my parents were young adults. 😉
Ty for this thread!
I'm with you in keeping things light while the world is in such turmoil! 
Hoping you'll post pix of Russo to the Pet group. Nudge, nudge.
Ty!
Congrats on his arrival! Can't wait to hear about his antics as he settles in!
That's quite a story. I think we could use a bit more of that paper magic these days.
Thanks for sharing. 
1. I picked up Hanif Kureishi's Love + Hate, a collection of essays and short fiction. Pieces that stood out in the collection: a) his piece of Kafka (titled "Kafka and His Father's Excrement" IIRC; the book is buried under a pile of clothes, and I'm too lazy to retrieve it, and b) his reflections on being conned by an accountant and losing nearly all his savings - the piece, like the other ones in this collection, focuses on the ways in which love and hate tend to affect our relation to the world. He posits several similarities between the two, and some of his insights are deeply thrilling. I also read his other collection of fiction and non-fiction called "Dreaming and Scheming" a while back and loved it too. Kureishi's shorter works actively aim to blur the assigned differences between fiction and non-fiction, so I have no qualms posting this in the fiction thread, as opposed to the non-fiction thread 
2. Other than that, I'm doing some ecology-related readings - now focusing on what they call a climax community: An interesting concept since it problematizes the common way of looking at human action as cultural as opposed to natural. Some discussions in this context regard human activity, too, as falling under the domain of the natural. The challenge then is to prevent us from absolving ourselves of the responsibility to consider the effects of our actions.
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