Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat Fiction are you reading this week, February 2, 2020?
Happy February. Today marks the approximate midway point between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox.
Im 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 its so heartbreaking at times. That good old American Dream thing doesnt always work out. Im having to intersperse it with the hilarious Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich. Its 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, Im sure its going to be excellent.
I predict most of you will also be reading something excellent this week.
Srkdqltr
(7,609 posts)hermetic
(8,604 posts)Sounds good. ".. a murder with a mysterious motive―and a terrifying weapon."
Ohiogal
(34,481 posts)Wolf Pack by C.J. Box
Ive read every one of his Joe Pickett books and have enjoyed them.
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
(12,275 posts)hermetic
(8,604 posts)I deew. And :The Truth" does sound like an excellent choice now.
The King of Prussia
(743 posts)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".
hermetic
(8,604 posts)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 Ive ever been on them, in this life anyway. I still love reading about them, and imagining
Polly Hennessey
(7,421 posts)They are the ones to reread - Daughter of Time and Wuthering Heights.