What are you reading this week of May 1, 2016?

[hermetic]

May Day! May Day! I just finished listening to Gideon's Corpse by Preston - Child. Intense stuff. Thought for sure we were all gonna die.

Reading my 3rd Elizabeth George novel, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner. I like this one much better than the last one. They had me the minute I saw a map with stone henges, ancient castles and the like. Good murder mystery.

I've also been watching The Twilight Zone (1985 - 89 TV series) which is not good as the original series, IMO, but still worth spending some time with for writers like Harlan Ellison and Rockne O'Bannon, director Wes Craven, and music by the Grateful Dead (that was a surprise). What I wanted to say, though, is there is one episode called The Examination that just really creeped me out. When the parents look out their window at the "government building" I could just imagine the words, "Trump Towers" at the top. I could really see that little tale becoming our reality in the future.

And, what may you be reading this week.

[shenmue]

1. "The Circle," Bernard Minier

Skeery.

[Enthusiast]

2. Hello everyone! Thank you for the thread hermetic!

I liked those Gideon books by Douglas Preston, hermetic.

I finished The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage. Wow! Some conclusion! This Thomas Savage is special. I read the Afterword by Annie Proulx. If you aren't going to read the Afterword don't even bother to read the book. Seriously, it is that significant. Now I want to try an Annie Proulx book. Thank you, japple!

Now I'm reading The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan. This has my attention. No drop off after The Power of the Dog!

Mrs. Enthusiast finished Day of Atonement by Faye Kellerman. She liked it. Then she read The Chessmen by Peter May. She felt like I did after The Chessmen. We found it hard to start a new book. Thank you for introducing us to Peter May, scarletwoman!

But she has managed to start a new book. Now she is reading False Prophet by Faye Kellerman.

[hermetic]

3. Thanks, Enthus

My day is coming soon for The Dog. I can hardly wait. When it arrives, I expect to drop everything and start reading it. I am so grateful to everyone here for all the excellent recs!

[CrispyQ]

4. This week in fiction.

I just finished Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling). It was the best of the three of his.

Today I started How to Marry a Ghost by Hope McIntyre. It's a mystery, although the main character isn't a PI or detective. So far it's pretty good.

[japple]

5. Remember Ben Clayton by Stephen Harrigan.

It is set in Texas after WWI and even after the awful events in the first 2 chapters, I think it will be a good book. I already like the main character, so it's off to a good start.

So happy that you liked The Power of the Dog, Enthusiast (and Mrs. E). It was one of the most satisfying books I've ever read and it was sort of surprising that it's never appeared on those selections of "books you might like..." that appear on amazon, B&N, overdrive, etc.