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hermetic

(8,663 posts)
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 12:37 PM Jan 2022

What Fiction are you reading this week, January 9, 2022?

This is nice


I just read Falling by T.J. Newman. I had to set aside The Dark Hours, which I bought, because Falling is a library book that was suddenly due back tomorrow. Someone else must have requested it. I read it in 3 days because it is a real thriller, so intense. A 'can't put it down' book. Now I'm back to Connelly.

Listening to Best in Snow by David Rosenfelt. Great courtroom story and so funny. I love listening to Andy Carpenter, lawyer, stories and if you can do so, I highly recommend it.

What books can't you put down this week?

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What Fiction are you reading this week, January 9, 2022? (Original Post) hermetic Jan 2022 OP
Rereading Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie Mrs Murphy series SheltieLover Jan 2022 #1
Oh, lookie down below hermetic Jan 2022 #6
Looking! SheltieLover Jan 2022 #8
I love that series. Demsrule86 Jan 2022 #26
There is a new one! Reading it now! SheltieLover Jan 2022 #27
Just downloaded snowybirdie Jan 2022 #2
Neat hermetic Jan 2022 #4
Abrams, not Adams. Jeebo Jan 2022 #15
Sorry snowybirdie Jan 2022 #17
Well oops hermetic Jan 2022 #18
Aimee & David Thurlo, Ella Clah Mystery Novel, Navajo Detectives, Book 8 Magoo48 Jan 2022 #3
I'd never heard of those hermetic Jan 2022 #5
Sounds interesting! SheltieLover Jan 2022 #9
"Split" by Libby Creelman bif Jan 2022 #7
Sounds good hermetic Jan 2022 #10
Now that the holiday hubbub is mostly over with Diamond_Dog Jan 2022 #11
Ah, the lovely poetess hermetic Jan 2022 #12
"The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern" by Lilian Jackson Braun The King of Prussia Jan 2022 #13
Well, you picked hermetic Jan 2022 #14
I love The Cat Who series! SheltieLover Jan 2022 #24
I am enjoying very much The King of Prussia Jan 2022 #25
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jan 2022 #28
"The Companions" by Katie M. Flynn Jeebo Jan 2022 #16
Isn't retirement grand? I read SO much hermetic Jan 2022 #19
Golden Fool by Robin Hobbs captain queeg Jan 2022 #20
Oooh, Arthurian Legend hermetic Jan 2022 #21
Robin Hobbs is a great writer, and the world she has created is really cool yellowdogintexas Jan 2022 #30
Half-way through "A Mortal Terror" by James R. Benn Number9Dream Jan 2022 #22
Good reads hermetic Jan 2022 #23
Sisterhood #26 Point Blank yellowdogintexas Jan 2022 #29

SheltieLover

(60,250 posts)
1. Rereading Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie Mrs Murphy series
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 12:42 PM
Jan 2022

I love Mrs. Murphy (kitty).& Tee Tucker, Corgi. Co owners of Harry, the protagonist & postmistress.

Both animals talk but, of course, being merely human, Harry can't understand.

Thoroughly enjoyable series!

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
6. Oh, lookie down below
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 12:56 PM
Jan 2022

Magoo48 tells us about some mysteries, cozies. Authors Thurlo, Aimee and Thurlo, David.

SheltieLover

(60,250 posts)
27. There is a new one! Reading it now!
Mon Jan 10, 2022, 05:47 PM
Jan 2022

"Claws for Alarm." (2021)

It's one of those that bounces back & forth in time.

Have you readthe Joe Grey series by Shirley Rousseau Murphy?..All-time fav for me! Exceptional!

snowybirdie

(5,685 posts)
2. Just downloaded
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 12:45 PM
Jan 2022

a novel written by Stacey Adams of Georgia. Yes, that one. A thriller "While Justice Sleeps" Had good reviews, so we'll see..

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
4. Neat
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 12:49 PM
Jan 2022

I've been wanting to read her. Let us know what you think about it. I do suspect it will be quite good.

Jeebo

(2,315 posts)
15. Abrams, not Adams.
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 02:33 PM
Jan 2022

Her last name is Abrams. I read "While Justice Sleeps" a couple months ago. It's okay, but merely okay, in my humble opinion. However, I will vote for Stacey Abrams for anything she ever runs for.

-- Ron

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
18. Well oops
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 02:46 PM
Jan 2022

I saw "Abrams" The eyes can sure play tricks on you at times. Specially when they get older. And haven't had enough sleep.

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
5. I'd never heard of those
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 12:54 PM
Jan 2022

They sound really good. Cozies. 18 of them. Going back to the mid '90s. Will definitely be looking for these. Thanks.

bif

(24,246 posts)
7. "Split" by Libby Creelman
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 12:56 PM
Jan 2022

One of my "Grab five at a time" books from the library. Good, well-written novel.

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
10. Sounds good
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 01:02 PM
Jan 2022

In the aftermath of the 1960s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. Watergate and the war in Vietnam have shaken Americans' faith in their government while the energy crisis clouds the future...

Diamond_Dog

(35,162 posts)
11. Now that the holiday hubbub is mostly over with
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 01:21 PM
Jan 2022

I can finally start on a book I got as a Christmas gift and have been really wanting to read ….

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
12. Ah, the lovely poetess
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 01:32 PM
Jan 2022

This was previously called The Hill We Climb. I expect that will bring you much pleasure. She is amazing.

13. "The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern" by Lilian Jackson Braun
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 02:14 PM
Jan 2022

Previously this week I read "The Cat Who Could Read Backwards" by the same author. I feel the need for cozies.

Jeebo

(2,315 posts)
16. "The Companions" by Katie M. Flynn
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 02:38 PM
Jan 2022

Just started getting into it, so I can't pass any judgment on it one way or the other.

Just finished re-reading "Dragon's Egg" and sequel "Starquake" by Robert L. Forward. I read these two for the first time in the late 1980s, and they were the hardest-to-put-down novels I've ever read. I'm retired now, but of course was working then, and there were a couple days when I had to go to work with NO sleep.

-- Ron

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
19. Isn't retirement grand? I read SO much
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 03:01 PM
Jan 2022

Dragon's Egg- Award winner. 5 star reviews. ONCE IN A WHILE, A NOVEL APPEARS THAT HAS EVERYTHING UNIQUE TO SCIENCE FICTION -- A BRILLIANT NEW IDEA HONEST EXTRAPOLATION OF REAL SCIENCE, A GRIPPING STORY WITH FASCINATING ALIEN CHARACTERS, AND THE INDEFINABLE BUT ESSENTIAL SENSE OF WONDER. SUCH A NOVEL IS ROBERT L FORWARD'S STORY OF LIFE ON A NEUTRON STAR...
Along with a sequel, sound like must-reads.


The Companions
"Station Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this debut novel set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living."
That does sound intriguing.


captain queeg

(11,780 posts)
20. Golden Fool by Robin Hobbs
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 03:20 PM
Jan 2022

Got of to a slow start which seems to be typical for her. But about 2/3 thru now and couple chapters late last night seemed to pack a lot in.

yellowdogintexas

(22,813 posts)
30. Robin Hobbs is a great writer, and the world she has created is really cool
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 04:42 PM
Jan 2022

She has written several series: Farseer, Liveships, Fool and Rainwild are all in the same world. My favorite was Liveships. I have loved them all except the Soldier Son Trilogy. I hated it. I have the beginnings of a newer trilogy but am saving it to savor .

Number9Dream

(1,658 posts)
22. Half-way through "A Mortal Terror" by James R. Benn
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 03:43 PM
Jan 2022

It's book #6 of the Billy Boyle, WWII mysteries. Much of it is taking place during the Anzio battle in Italy. A good read so far.

hermetic

(8,663 posts)
23. Good reads
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 03:51 PM
Jan 2022

Billy Boyle encounters his first serial killer, one with a particularly frightening agenda.


yellowdogintexas

(22,813 posts)
29. Sisterhood #26 Point Blank
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 04:35 PM
Jan 2022

I just started this one Tuesday night.

A mysterious martial artist strikes at the heart of the Sisterhood in an action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

The women of Fern Michaels’ bestselling Sisterhood series are beloved for bringing justice to strangers in need. And when one of their own needs help, that loyalty and commitment goes double . . .

When Yoko Wong’s partner, Harry, receives a phone call from an old schoolmate in China, he finds out that his daughter, Lily, is missing from the Shaolin temple where she is now a student.

Finding Lily is a top priority, and the Sisterhood and their allies come up with a way for the group to travel to China. They’ll go to Macau, nicknamed “the Monte Carlo of the Orient,” on the pretext of opening a casino there. But what will they find once they reach their destination? Can they hope to rescue Lily when the enemy has the home advantage . . . and the will to kill? The odds are stacked against them, but when the Sisterhood is involved, you can always bet on the underdog . . .

#25 In Plain Sight One man is about to discover that the Sisterhood doesn’t come to play—they come to win. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eyes Only.

For years Myra Rutledge and Annie de Silva, founding members of the Sisterhood, have funded an underground network run by a former Supreme Court Justice to help women escape abusive relationships. When two clients fail to report for their weekly check-in, the Sisterhood and their allies begin a search for French model Amalie Laurent and her one-time maid. Amalie’s estranged husband, Lincoln Moss, is a distant cousin of the President of the United States and one of his closest advisers. Moss’s power is matched by the violent streak he hides from the world, and he beat Amalie viciously until she finally escaped with her maid’s help. Moss is accustomed to doing exactly what he wants without fear of consequence. But Moss has never faced an adversary like the Sisterhood . . . (this one has a particularly creative just dessert for Mr Moss)

#24 Eyes Only

An island paradise hides a hell that only the world’s most famous vigilantes can take down. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kiss and Tell.

Lush, exclusive Spyder Island is home to many of the world’s billionaires. Years ago, Gretchen Spyder, daughter of the island’s namesake, gave her twin babies up for legal adoption. Now Gretchen and her father are trying to get them back. The twins’ adoptive parents are a loving but poor couple, completely outgunned by the Spyders’ wealth. Their only hope lies with Myra Rutledge and her formidable Sisterhood, who are as ready as ever to fight the good fight. But nestled among the lavish mansions and immaculate landscaping of Spyder Island is a sinister enemy. And in a case that’s far more twisted than it first appears, the ingenuity, courage, and friendship of the Sisterhood will be tested as never before.

This catches y'all up on what I have finished since last Sunday. I have 27 through 32 and I am waiting for 33 to drop in price to grab it. With any luck that one will be available on Eloan and I won't have to buy it.


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