Louise Penny's latest.

Looking forward to reading it.

She is an engaging writer and I always want to see how it all ends up, so I am keeping at it.
So far so good.

I'd love to hang out at the Bistro.

I read the first of the trilogy, The Blackhouse. Guess I ought to find the other two. Thanks.

by Isabel Lawhon

Very new. Tons of 5-star reviews. "a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day."

hardback. Ariel Lawhon's historical book Code Name Helene is one of my favorites.

I’m reading The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. It’s about a women’s boarding house in D.C. during the McCarthy years. I can’t put it down, it’s oh so good.

As Edward R. Murrow would say “Good Night and Good Luck,” I’ll see you on the other side.

Finished, "Storm," a few days ago, and halfway through, "Dark Vector," now.

great writing...a true master....

Elyse Graham's book, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Very interesting and fascinating reading, and I'm just getting started.

At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts.

In Book and Dagger, Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, letters, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war.

Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis—a tale that reveals the indelible power of the humanities to change the world.

And important.

Thanks.

Barbara Kingsolver. An eye-opener about red state culture.

Great book.

Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors.

Welcome to DU and to this group!!!

Thanks for the thread, hermetic.

A very good action, page-turner that you don't want to put down. Don't want to say too much or spoilers aplenty.

There were an unanswered question or two at the end, but altogether excellent.

Glad you enjoyed it. Agree about the spoilers. As for the questions at the end: where did they go? Ha! I think the answer to that is pretty obvious. Politics.

Take care up there in that special state. Thanks for stopping by.

Read it for the first time when it first came out in paperback. When was that, about 34 or 35 years ago? That's the only time I've ever read it. I was looking for something to take with me to read Friday morning while I was standing in line to vote. I expected a long wait, and that was just the situation I encountered. The wait was about 40 minutes, and that was just after 8 a.m. The longest I've ever had to wait to vote. Well, there was a box of books from way back when that was in a spare bedroom in my house that I never use for anything other than as a place to store stuff, and "The Handmaid's Tale" was one of the paperbacks at the top of that box, and I decided that it would be very appropriate to start reading that novel now. It is so relevant to many things that are happening now. So I started reading that novel for the second time, standing there in line waiting to vote. Some of the best novels I've ever read are these speculative novels about a dystopian future. "1984", "The Road", "The Handmaid's Tale", "Station Eleven". Those are all GREAT novels.

-- Ron

The Pineapple Port Series: #3 (of 23)

The infamous Puzzle Killer stops by Pineapple Port in a mystery both hilarious and heart-stopping! Book THREE of the series that keeps readers (and their spouses) up at night with snorty laughter! Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author Amy Vansant provides the perfect blend of humor and thrills as amateur sleuth Charlotte Morgan tries to track down a notorious killer.

After years dormant, the infamous Puzzle Killer returns to Charity, Florida, in search of a rival murderer out to claim the all-time murder record. When two serial killers battle for the throne, Charlotte, her boyfriend Declan, and a naked cat find themselves on the chopping block!

Also : Casting Call for a Corpse The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries Book 7 (of 16) Heather Haven
A DETECTIVE AGENCY WITH HEART.AND A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!
Super sleuth, Lee Alvarez, finds a dead man wearing a tuxedo in a friend’s bathtub during a soiree for San Francisco’s VIPs. And not just any friend, but an internationally acclaimed actress who recently came to live in San Francisco. And not just any bathtub, but a bathtub residing inside one of Alamo Square’s famed Painted Ladies, recently bought by said actress.

The police believe it’s the actress friend who done the man in. After all, it’s her house and her tub. And another man died under suspicious circumstances around her recently. Both romantic encounters, doncha know. The actress must be guilty.
Fun read in a good series

Intertwining assassinations of previous presidents with current time and events (2013). Fiction

The 11th book of the 20 book Aubrey/Maturin series (Master and Commander)