What are you reading this week of January 17, 2016?

[hermetic]

(stumbles in) Hi, everyone. This old hermite got introduced to Long Island Ice Teas yesterday and found herself quite unable to manage a keyboard. Better now.

Finally finished Vol 3 and now reading the 4th Outlander, Drums of Autumn. Just when I thought it couldn't get any crazier...

Heard a great joke on Car Talk. They were giving alternate meanings for words. Macadam: first man on earth according to the Scottish Bible.

What you readin'?

[japple]

1. Thanks for the thread, hermetic.

Hope you're feeling better now (snort!) My own weakness is IPA and bourbon.

I'm still reading Jim Shepard's The Book of Aron. The writing is remarkable, but the story is grim.

This week should be a good one for staying inside curled up with a good book and a cat or two!

Happy reading everyone.

[Enthusiast]

2. Hello, everyone! Thank you for this thread, hermetic.

I don't remember my introduction to Long Island Ice Tea. It was many years ago and the night was foggy. I hope you're all better now. Forwarding healing vibes.

Earlier in the week I finished Far As The Eye Can See by Robert Bausch. I loved this book! Mrs. Enthusiast felt much the same. Thank you, japple.

After Far As The Eye Can See I read The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman. I can see the appeal in this Faye Kellerman series. I knew very little about the Jewish religion. Did I say that right? I found the book interesting and informative for the religious perspective alone. Additionally it was fast paced and captured my attention the whole way. I liked The Ritual Bath so much that I'm now reading Sacred and Profane by Faye Kellerman and enjoying it as much.

Mrs. Enthusiast finished Search the Dark by Charles Todd. This was her favorite of the Charles Todd books. After, or before Search the Dark she read Sacred and Profane by Faye Kellerman. Then she read The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman. This saddened her because it is the last of the Chee-Leaphorn series before the death of author Tony Hillerman.

She just now started English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. Somehow someone on DU called my attention to either Matthew Kneale or the book English Passengers.

[TexasProgresive]

3. We are all sad that Mr. Hillerman has gone on, but

tell Mrs. Enthusiast that Chee lives. Jim and Joe's continuing adventures brought to us by the pen of daughter Anne Hiilerman. I haven't read either yet but I saw Spider Woman's Daughter in a book store the other day. It's the first I know of Anne. The snip below is from her Amazon page.

http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Hillerman/e/B001JS4JQ8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1453127423&sr=1-1
Anne Hillerman, daughter of best-selling mystery writer Tony Hillerman, will continue her father's Navajo detective series with "Spider Woman's Daughter," due for publication Oct. 1, 2013 (HarperCollins.) The book follows the adventures of Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito as they track a would-be cop killer, travel to Chaco Canyon on the trail of a murderer, and discover intrigue in the world of ancient Indian art and artifacts.

She is the author eight non-fiction books including "Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn." She and photographer Don Strel made numerous road trips to photograph and write about the landscapes beloved by New Mexico's best known mystery writer. Working on that book inspired her novel.
"In the process of researching Tony Hillerman's Landscape, I re-read all of the Chee/Leaphorn mysteries, paying close attention to the settings. I ran into mud, dust storms, rez dogs, snow and those pricelessly beautiful days Tony Hillerman wrote about for more than 35 years," Anne said. "I loved nearly every minute of it. My personal highlights included New Mexico's Bisti badlands, the mysterious landscape near Ship Rock and vast, empty Chaco Canyon."

Anne, the eldest of Tony and Marie Hillerman's six children, came to New Mexico as a child and enjoys living in the Southwest. She is currently at work on the second book in the new mystery series.

[Enthusiast]

5. Thank you, TexasProgresive!

We have grown to love those characters. They seem like old friends. We are looking forward to the Anne Hillerman books.

[TexasProgresive]

4. Still reading "Stone 588" by Gerald A. Browne.

So far it is a good read. The characters are believable, some you would like to meet others not so much. I'm about 1/3 in, and the action is certain to get extreme.

[Zorro]

6. Just finished "The Quick Red Fox" by John D. MacDonald

I really enjoy reading the Travis McGee mysteries. They're quite literate and perceptive, even though they are close to 50 years old now.

[hermetic]

7. I prefer the older stuff myself

I am finding modern American Lit not at all enjoyable to read. Thanks for stopping in.

I used to watch Zorro way back when. Loved it. I can still sing the theme song.