What are you reading this week of June 26, 2016?

[hermetic]

I'm halfway through Peter May's Entry Island and many of you already know what a terrific book that is. I love the Scottish history, suggesting perhaps at reincarnation, intermixed with a current mystery. I love that Entry Island is a real place and that's an actual photo of it on the book cover. A funny thing is that I've also been listening to Night and Day by Robert B. Parker and the stories are quite similar. A woman alone, a home invasion in a small seaside town, police trying to figure out who the intruder is. I kept getting them mixed up in my head but that wasn't an unpleasant experience. They are both quite intriguing stories.

Anything intriguing on your reading list this week?

[randr]

1. American Gods--Neil Gaiman

Truly artistic story telling in the footsteps of the masters.

[hermetic]

3. Isn't it wonderful?

Of course, I think everything by Gaiman is wonderful. Have you been in the House on the Rock yet? Even though I read it years ago, images from that are still in my mind. Extraordinary.

[scarletwoman]

13. Hi hermetic! You and randr simply MUST visit this website:

http://frowl.org/gods/index.html

Be forewarned, you may lose many hours delving into it.

[hermetic]

15. Hello scarlet!

Good to hear from you. Here I was, just getting over my addiction to Outlander internet sites and now it looks like I may get all wrapped up in a new one. Since it looks like my afternoons are going to be around 100 for the next few weeks, I can just sit in front of my fan and pass my time there. Screw chores!

Thanks for the tip.

[TexasProgresive]

2. Halfway through "Die Trying" by Lee Child

This book was published 18 years ago and it lays out a scenario that is perhaps more scary in today's political climate.

[hermetic]

4. Cool.

I will soon get into Lee Child's books, as they are definitely my kind of story, as soon as I get caught up with the pile of other stuff on my desk. A couple of months, I'm thinking.

[TexasProgresive]

5. Here's a short quote. Tell me if it sounds current and familiar.

"We have to take America back, piece by piece. We have to build a place where the white man can live free, unmolested, in peace, with proper freedoms and proper laws."

[hermetic]

6. Wow,

18 years ago, huh? I guess some things never change, no matter how much warning we get. When you finish it I'd like to hear your thoughts, without spoiler alerts, of course.

[TexasProgresive]

7. I'll do my best.

[hermetic]

8. Calling Enthusiast!!!

Last seen, June 6. He always seemed to enjoy posting about what he and his wife were reading so I most sincerely hope they are both okay. I realize many have gone on to other sites but I was hoping he might still peek in here now and then and see this. Let us know they are fine. Maybe on a cruise or something.

[japple]

9. I miss him and the Mrs., too, and hope he's doing something

fun wherever he is.

[hermetic]

16. Found him

Everything's okay. Sad to say, I don't think we'll be seeing him around here anymore. But who knows?

[japple]

19. Awwwwww. Wish he would just drop by for the Fiction group

but relieved to hear everything is okay.

[pscot]

10. Baudelaire's Revenge by Bob van Laerhoven

"The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les fleurs du mal on each corpse, written in the poet's exact handwriting."

I'm also deep in the weeds of the Poldark series; starting #5, The Black Moon

[hermetic]

17. How intriguing

I will add a bit more: "A vivid, intelligent, and intense historical crime novel that offers up some shocking revelations about sexual mores in 19th century France, this superb mystery illuminates the shadow life of one of the greatest names in poetry."

On my list, it is.

[japple]

11. Still reading and loving Julie Orringer's book

The Invisible Bridge. It will take me quite a while to finish this one.

[northoftheborder]

12. Finished "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf.

It was very tedious, in my opinion. Not a fan of Woolf, (hate to admit it, but had never read anything by her.)

Also just read "The Girl Who Wrote in Silk" by Kelli Estes. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Fairly new book. About contemporary Seattle and the Chinese immigrants of the late 1890's. I highly recommend it.

Currently listening to "The Firebird".

[hermetic]

18. Not a Woolf fan either.

Tried reading one long ago and decided I had better things to do with my time.

The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley? Just read a little review and it sounds good. Romance, time travel, and one reader said she bawled like a baby through the last 30 pages or so.

[northoftheborder]

20. Not really time travel (such as in "Highlander")....

....the narration skips between the current time, and the 1880's, telling the story of the contemporary family's ancestors - although it takes nearly all of the book for the threads to be linked..... Two love stories, one in each century! Good ending!

[SheilaT]

14. The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child.

After a weird and violent suicide, Jeremy Logan, a self described "enigmalogist" -- studies strange stuff -- is asked by the think tank were the suicide occurs, to investigate. He rather quickly discovers a room in the very center of an old wing of the building which is in the process of being remodeled, that has no apparent means of entry (he had to bread down part of a wall to get in) which seems have been an old laboratory of some kind. He investigates.

So far, so good.

[hermetic]

21. For awhile I was confused between

Lee Child and Lincoln Child. Think I've got it down, now. Both are terrific writers of intense stories but Lee tends towards reality-based thrillers while Lincoln explores the paranormal. Both of which are fine by me and my library has lots of both so I expect to be entertained for a long while.

[SheilaT]

22. You got it.

And while Lincoln Child often co-authors with Douglas Preston, Lee Child is totally stand alone. Plus, all of Lee Child's novels (at least so far) are about a man named Jack Reacher.

I totally love the Lee Child novels. He can't write them fast enough for me.

Lee Child and Douglas Preston, either singly or in combination, I like okay, but not more than okay.

[Citrus]

23. Summer popcorn reading...

- Margaret Coel, The Man Who Fell From the Sky

- Margaret Maron, Designated Daughters

- Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsey, The Third Rule of Ten
(They overuse adjectives and adverbs, but I know Gay and respect him and Katie, his wife, greatly. I like to read any of his work, fiction or nonfiction. The conceit of the series is a good one: former Buddhist monk moves to LA to become a cop and then becomes a private detective. Excellent stories, even with the excessive modifiers.)
dharmadetective.com

- Tried to read one of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher books. The TV show is a lot of fun and well-done, but I put the book down before the 20th page.