What are you reading this week of April 2, 2017?

[hermetic]

I've had a pretty wild week so have only been able to read maybe 30 more pages of A Gentleman In Moscow.
No time to listen to any books, either.

Hope you have had more opportunities to get in some reading and will tell us about it.

[hermetic]

2. Fields of Fire

"They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin, 1969. "

Kind of grim? Are you enjoying it?

[hermetic]

6. Sorry to hear that.

Goodness knows, so many were.

Welcome to DU, by the way. We do this post every Sunday, to see what people are reading and talk about books. Would be happy to have you join. us.

[TexasProgresive]

3. "They'll Never Catch You Now" by Ralph Hurne

This is a sequel to his The Yellow Jersey. Both books are center around an aging pro cyclist named Terry Davenport. He's not particularly likable to me, I've met his kind before. But likability of a protagonist is not a deal breaker for me - there are people in real life that I don't like, so this just makes Terry more believable. I'm not sure what anyone who is not a cyclist would get from these books. The Yellow Jersey has some great sections on racing that make you feel like you're in the saddle turning the cranks.

Last week I read Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It is very good and I couldn't put it down. I thought it was time to leave blood and guts for something else. I am looking for the sequel Reliquary as Preston and Child have left me up in the air.

[hermetic]

5. I really like RELIC

Sure gave me some chills.

I'm on the lookout for Reliquary, too.

I am aware that some cyclists can be real jerks. I'm so glad you aren't one.

[TexasProgresive]

7. You never can tell about your internet friends

I do try to be one of the good ones. Most credit goes to my wife. She doesn't suffer fools. Well the sky's clear after the storm so I'm off for a Sunday ride.

[sagesnow]

8. The Sister's Brothers

Set in the days of the California Gold rush, two brothers with the last name of Sisters, are forced to make a living as hired guns. Reviewers liken this novel to True Grit, but it seemed more melodramatic than that to me. Because of the graphic violence and dark humor, I would not have chosen this book, but I joined a book club so had to "get r done". Ended up liking it more than I thought because of the laconic fat brother, Eli and his sorry horse Tub. Eli still has a conscience but goes along with his older brother as a dutiful younger brother should. Hired to kill a man Hermann Kermit Warm, Eli and his conscienceless brother Charlie travel through a parade of Whores, Trappers, Dentists, Indians and Alchemists to find their target. Author DeWitt has done a great job of telling how greed and lassitude could drive a person to unintended actions.

[hermetic]

9. LOVE that book

Read it last year and it stayed with me a good long time. So funny. A few things made me say, "Yuck," but overall I found it terrific. Glad to hear you enjoyed it, as well.

[japple]

10. Hi everyone and thanks for the thread, hermetic.

I made myself finish Chasing the North Star by Robert Morgan just to see how the story ended, but can't say that I enjoyed it.

I just started Sebastian Barry's Days Without End but am very excited to have found this book and (for me) a new author.

Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars—against the Sioux and the Yurok—and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.

Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.

[hermetic]

12. Ooh

That sounds really good!

Thanks for providing the intriguing description.

[TEB]

11. Shame of man piers Anthony

It is the second book to isle of woman. To describe it follows a family from generations about 10.000 years to present am enjoying it , I plan on reading the whole series.

[hermetic]

13. I was looking

at the description of Isle of Woman and it sounds like a really fascinating story.