What Fiction are you reading this week, Apr. 4, 2021?

[hermetic]

Good morning.
Happy Easter


Keeping it light this week.Reading Bending the Paw by Diane Kelly. This tale of a mysterious crime scene in Fort Worth switches each chapter's narrator from the perp to the investigating officer, then to her K-9 companion. The dog's point of view about things gives me many chuckles.

Listening to Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter. A hilarious portrait of life in Vermont as seen through the eyes of a Southern belle, by Lisa Patton. Evidently there's a truckload of things nobody tells you about Vermont until you live there. Good fun.

Hope you all have a lovely day. Keep it safe.

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[The King of Prussia]

1. "The Kill Call" by Stephen Booth

The "Cooper & Fry" mystery series- set in England's Peak District. I've been binging on these for over a week.

In the wider world: when Johnson re-opened the schools last September it was a catastrophe. They were opened again 4 weeks ago and... cases still going down, & hospitalisations & deaths. So just maybe the vaccines are leading us back to normality.

Keep safe. We're getting there.

[hermetic]

6. Stephen Booth

Has written lots of thrillers and mysteries. I can see how that would keep you busy for quite some time. I look forward to doing the same. Thanks.

I get my 2nd dose Friday. Good times ahead. (Just got 5 cases of the UK variant in my neighborhood somehow. And half the population around here refuses to get vaccinated.)

[SheltieLover]

2. Tear it down, by Nicholas Petrie

Much to my surprise, this is a story about Memphis. The horrible neighborhoods & crime.

I almost returned it to the library unread because living in this area is... um...unpleasant in large part.

But I stuck with it as I like Peter Ash (another form of Reacher).

Happy Easter, Passovet, Spring to All!

[hermetic]

7. How sad

I lived in Memphis for a couple of years. Early 70s. It wasn't so bad then. I'm starting to think there really isn't anywhere left in this country that hasn't turned into an "unpleasant" place to be.

[Srkdqltr]

3. I read the new J.DRobb

Same 'ole, same' ole. Although I ordered wrong and got the hard cover version instead of the kindle. Took some getting used to.

I was looking for something on DNA and race but I found A Breaf History of Everyone Who Has Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford. Very interesting and from a geneticist perspective but chatty and not too technical.

[hermetic]

10. Don't ya just hate

when that happens?

I recently read a Michael Connelly about DNA and crime tendencies but can't recall the title right now. My search tuned up this book, DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson that you might find helpful.

[lisa58]

4. Beverly Cleary....

Because I want to remember

[hermetic]

11. Yeah...

[Timewas]

5. Mark Greaney

Gray Man series, but read out of order. Number 3 first then went back and got 1 and 2, almost through 2 now..

[hermetic]

14. I like finding stories

that can be read out of sequence. Especially when I have to get my books from a rather small library.

[WCIL]

8. Hello, Everyone!

I was more active here several years ago, and decided to dive back in to DU again to be among more like-minded people. I love to read, and have been on a mystery kick lately. This weekend I finished Malice by Keigo Higashino. I found after I finished it that this is part of a popular series in Japan, but only 2 of the books have been translated into English. I also finished The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Four seniors in a retirement home in Kent who solve several killings. I loved it!

This week, for mystery I am choosing between No. 5 in the Phryne Fisher series, or a witchy cozy called One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon. I also feel like maybe a Western, so I have read the first chapter of The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, and it looks promising.

[hermetic]

12. Welcome back!

A lot of us here now are mystery lovers and boy will you ever find suggestions.

I'm on the library waiting list for The Thursday Murder Club. There are 21 people ahead of me!! I'll probably just buy the darned thing.

I adore Phryne Fisher. One of my favorite Western mystery series is Walt Longmire stories by Craig Johnson.

We gather here every Sunday. Hope to see you again.

[CrispyQ]

9. I tried reading "The Overstory" by Richard Powers.

Someone in this group said it was wonderful & it got great reviews at Amazon, but 50 pages in & I just couldn't get into it. Now I'm reading The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett & it's pretty good, so far. I'm only about 35 pages into it, but already more engaged than I was with The Overstory.

I love the idea of a dog's POV! I may check that out.

[hermetic]

13. The Vanishing Half

does sound good.

I am one of those who loved The Overstory but it did take a little time to get into it. Once I did, though, it was like being reunited with ancient family. YMMV, of course.

[japple]

15. Still reading Michael Christie's latest book, Greenwood. I'm about halfway through and

am so involved in this story. What a yarn! This is one good writer who has a real talent for character development and figuring out those tight plot lines. No matter how it ends, I am thoroughly enjoying the ride. I know I will miss this book when I'm finally done.Will have to check out anything else Michael Christie has written.

I was also one of the people who loved The Overstory and I think I listed it as one of the best books of 2020.

Happy Bunny Day, everyone. And many thanks, hermetic, for hosting this thread and bringing us together every week.

[SheltieLover]

16. Really enjoying Soldiers of Fortune by DeLeon

Heavy title, but hysterically funny, easy read. 👍