What Fiction are you reading this week, February 2, 2020?

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Happy February. Today marks the approximate midway point between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox.

I’m still reading The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. Wow, what a picture of despair in a sad land. It is a great book and there are amusing moments but it’s so heartbreaking at times. That good old American Dream thing doesn’t always work out. I’m having to intersperse it with the hilarious Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich. It’s a good balance. And they share a plot device: who is that strange person following me?

Just started listening to The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb so no opinions yet. Considering the author, though, I’m sure it’s going to be excellent.

I predict most of you will also be reading something excellent this week.

[Srkdqltr]

1. I'm waiting for the new J.D.Robb

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4. Golden in Death?

Sounds good. ".. a murder with a mysterious motive―and a terrifying weapon."

[Ohiogal]

2. Just started

Wolf Pack by C.J. Box

I’ve read every one of his Joe Pickett books and have enjoyed them.

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5. Oh yeah!

Wyoming game warden teams up with a female game warden (based on a real person, one of the few female game wardens at work in Wyoming today) to confront some assassins and finds himself in the most violent and dangerous predicament he's ever faced.

[TexasProgresive]

3. Finished "Wintersmith" and started "The Truth" by Terry Prachett as well

Wintersmith is a YA but was a delight. I cannot remember laughing out loud so many times while reading a novel and then there are Feegles. Who couldn't love a bunch of semiliterate blue six inch high kilt wearing, sword wielding, swearing, loyal friends and protectors of the big wee Hag, Tiffany? They speak a sort of Scots English, ya ken?

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6. Oh aye.

I deew. And :The Truth" does sound like an excellent choice now.

[The King of Prussia]

7. The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey

The first in his "Peter Diamond" series of mysteries.

I'm reading this series a bit out of order - so I've just finished the eighth book in the series - "House Sitter". Very good - as is the entire series. Peter Diamond is the head of the CID in Bath, and a bit of a maverick (aren't they always?). Well-written and well-plotted yarns - recommended.

We've got a number of books hanging round the house, which have gone unread because I'm not sure I fancy them. One such was "Daughter of Time" by Josephine Tey. She was a superb writer but I've always thought that this one sounded very unpromising - injured 1950s cop investigates the murder of the Princes in the Tower from his hospital bed. Read it on a train journey this week. Well... how wrong was I? It's stunningly good. The idea of a police procedural meeting a real 15th century crime works very well. But the book is more than that. It's also a reflection on which historical sources can be trusted (her answer: the ones that were never intended to be history) - which is relevant when we come to consider who will be writing the history of these horrible times.

Up next... not sure. We live in Bronte Country, and every time I cross the "wiley, windy moors" I think that I should actually get around to reading something by the sisters. So I might finally have a go at "Wuthering Heights".

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8. Interesting

The Last Detective was made into a TV series and they have it on YouTube. I will definitely be watching that as well as putting it on my reading list. I really enjoy Acorn mysteries.

Ah, good old Wuthering Heights. Opinions vary widely so I look forward to your thoughts. I read it as a young lass and it really instilled in me a fondness for the moors. Not that I’ve ever been on them, in this life anyway. I still love reading about them, and imagining…

[Polly Hennessey]

9. Two of my favorite books.

They are the ones to reread - Daughter of Time and Wuthering Heights.